[Geany-devel] Glade 2.12 won't build with recent GTK

[Nick Treleaven]

On Thu, 9 Sep 2010 22:09:18 +1000
Lex Trotman <elextr at gmail.com> wrote:

> >> [1] at least it wasn't possible without fixing an issue in GTK 2.20, see
> >> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=618639
> >
> > So part of GTK 2.x isn't usable? Why won't they fix the bug? Surely
> > deprecated stuff should be supported until 3.x.
> 
> With GTK, in general deprecated seems to mean unsupported, so unlikely :-(.

This seems bad for a toolkit as important as GTK.

> > I suppose the only workaround for Erik is to install an earlier GTK to
> > build Glade 2.12 with and regenerate the interface.c file.
> 
> Downgrading a GTK version can have major follow-on effects on all the
> things that depend on it, I for one won't be doing it.

I wasn't suggesting downgrading, that would be next to impossible on a
Gnome system. I meant having a parallel install of GTK. I haven't tried
it myself but have heard people say they do that.

> > Glade 2.12.2 is about 2.5 years old so I think it's not too old for GTK
> > to drop support for it.
> 
> Nobody is interested in it, its even hard to find a download of 2.12

Latest Fedora still seems to package it:
http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=glade2&system=fedora

> now.  In fact Geany probably should have a tarball on the hacking page
> with the GTK docs.

Good idea.

> Note that Glade 3.7 (current) claims to support GTK2.8

Interesting.

> but only via
> libglade loading XML, not code generation like interface.c.  That
> would entail a major change in Geany and another dependency
> (libglade).

I think the dependency issue isn't too important. We need to have a UI
designer IMO and glade2 needs replacing.

Maybe it's time to upgrade (after the next release?).

Regards,
Nick