[manjaro-dev] libxfce4ui gtk3

[Philip Müller]

Can you past me your output of pacman -Q so I can take a look at your 
installed packages.
You can also attach a file to this list or mail it me directly.

Am 29.12.2013 15:34, schrieb Rob McCathie:
> Considering that would have meant the 'Net' install would have
> required GTK3, I think it's a good change ;-)
>
> My repo just updated and i'm running your new packages now. So far
> everything seems fine, All Xfce components and software I have
> installed are working, gtk3 remains un-installed. (same for Qt4/5, and
> hence it also means no manjaro-settings-manager installed ;-\)
>
> My Laptop installed with Net edition with only SLiM, Xfce and wicd
> (with NetworkManager removed), logged into the desktop with all Xfce4
> components and wicd-gtk2 applet running has a memory footprint of only
> 106MB, and boots & launches all it's common apps insanely fast.
>
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 12:09 AM, Philip Müller <philm at manjaro.org> wrote:
>> Ok, on second thought, why not. I made it as opt. dependency now.
>> Will work on pacman-mirrors to make it opt as well ...
>>
>> Am 29.12.2013 14:06, schrieb Philip Müller:
>>
>>> Well, this won't happen. GTK3 is also a dependency now for pacman-mirrors
>>> package. So you'll have gtk3 installed anyway ...
>>>
>>> Am 29.12.2013 14:04, schrieb Rob McCathie:
>>>> I just tested having gtk3 support enabled and compiling with gtk3 as a
>>>> *makedepend*, then operating without GTK3 installed, and everything
>>>> seems to work fine.
>>>>
>>>> So how about shifting gtk3 to makedepends= array?
>>>>
>>>> I realise this is immaterial to Manjaro's central goals and that the
>>>> amount of Manjaro users who would care about being able to run Xfce
>>>> without GTK3 installed will be tiny (likely only myself, and it's only
>>>> for my laptop, and still just an experiment)... and I can easily just
>>>> roll my own modded package.
>>>>
>>>> So yeah, just a suggestion, but i don't see any reason not to, since
>>>> it still works fine without gtk3 present at runtime (from my tests
>>>> anyway).
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 8:58 PM, Philip Müller <philm at manjaro.org> wrote:
>>>>> Well, we have some XFCE 4.11 packages and enabling GTK3 in libxfce4ui
>>>>> let us
>>>>> theme GTK3 more easily.
>>>>>
>>>>> Read the announcement:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://mail.xfce.org/pipermail/xfce/2013-September/032495.html
>>>>>
>>>>> To quote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Highlight are a GTK+-3 version of the library for applications that use
>>>>> it and the improved version of the keyboard shortcut handling code.
>>>>>
>>>>> - Compile GTK+-3 version of libxfce4ui when possible.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Am 29.12.2013 03:47, schrieb Rob McCathie:
>>>>>> Hi Phil,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Just wondering, is there some particular reason you're passing
>>>>>> --enable-gtk3 for Manjaro's libxfce4ui? (and hence depending on gtk3)
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://git.manjaro.org/package-sources/extra/blob/master/libxfce4ui/PKGBUILD
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Does it actually do anything worthwhile for GTK3 apps on Xfce?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'd just started setting up a minimal Manjaro Xfce experiment on my
>>>>>> laptop and went to install xfce4 and noted it wanted to pull gtk3,
>>>>>> which I wasn't expecting because usually on Arch it wouldn't. It
>>>>>> doesn't cause me any problems since I'll just roll my own libxfce4ui
>>>>>> package, but i'm wondering if it actually needs to be that way for
>>>>>> Manjaro anyway?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>> Rob.
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