[Geany] When might Geany Portable be upgraded to 0.20?

[Lex Trotman]

2011/2/5 Enrico Tröger <enrico.troeger at uvena.de>:
> On Thu, 3 Feb 2011 14:11:56 +1100, Lex wrote:
>
>>On 3 February 2011 13:56, Oliver Krystal <mr.soup12 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I am using the GTK shipped with Geany now.  This is part of the
>>> reason for the change.
>>>
>>
>>Well since Geany still supports 2.8 I guess it won't need to be
>>upgraded for a "while" yet.
>
> Updates are always good to get such boring things like bugfixes :).
>
> Though, the Windows builds still ship with GTK 2.16 as newer versions
> had some problems when the client-side window stuff landed in GTK 2.18,
> IIRC. Maybe there were some other reasons for sticking with 2.16 I
> don't remember right now.
> Also not sure whether it'd be better with 2.22.
>
> http://www.gtk.org/download-windows.html still states:
> "GTK+ 2.16 is an old but in some sense more reliable branch. 2.22 is
> the current maintained version. Choose the one which works better for
> you."
>
> IIRC some time ago there was clear note to stick with 2.16 on Windows.
> Now it sounds more relaxed. So if I have time and playing with Windows
> next time, I might try updating to GTK 2.22.
>
> Also, if anyone else wants this do and report any feedback, feel
> welcome to do so!
>
> Regards,
> Enrico
>

Hey Enrico,

I don't have a windows dev system so I can't try it but I checked out
the (in)famous GTK windows theming bug discussion (with Tor having
hissy fits :-) and it looks like the problem was identified and fixed
for 2.22 so its worth a try.

Cheers
Lex

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