[Github-comments] [geany/geany-plugins] Port both webhelper and markdown to webkit2gtk (#677)

[Chow Loong Jin]

On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 09:28:48PM +0000, Colomban Wendling wrote:
> @hyperair I'd like to keep GTK2 support on WebHelper if possible, and I know
> I've started (but not finished) this somewhere, I'll try to find it, compare
> with your changes and see if I find it reasonable to have support for both, or
> if you're right and it would be too much of a hassle. Also, if Debian is also
> switching to GTK3 Geany, it might suggest no distro is still using the GTK2
> one and that it might be time to let go of the most complex GTK2
> compatibility. I'll see.

I've already switched the Geany package in Debian to gtk3. Unfortunately, the
new plugins package is still stuck in NEW. I'll update the PPA shortly after I
finish working on this port too.

If you want to keep gtk2 after all, elextr's suggestion of splitting the plugin
into separate gtk2 and gtk3 versions might make sense.

> And thanks for your work here, looks promising :)

:) Thanks, good to know.

> Anyway, it'd be nice to split this PR in 2, one for each plugin, especailly as
> it's 2 separate maintainers that might have different views on supporting GTK2
> or not :)

I thought about doing that at first, but I suspect that there may be symbol
clashes between webkitgtk-1.0 and webkit2gtk-4.0, so loading plugins using
different webkit libraries into the same instance of Geany may end badly.

-- 
Kind regards,
Loong Jin


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