On 02/25/2015 04:33 PM, Pablo Lezaeta Reyes wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Version 2.0.0 of the LightDM GTK greeter was released about week ago. >> This release drops GTK2 support. >> > That's ironic, Xfce recommend lightdm as DM for the gtk2 theme, and the > upcomimng xfce-gtk-engine 3.1 drop gtk3 support. > From what I saw, it didn't drop it. It just disabled it by default, which makes sense given that the desktop is GTK+2 only and they don't want to unnecessary pull in the gtk+3 dep only for the engine. >> Therefore I propose to rename the current "lightdm-gtk3-greeter" into >> "lightdm-gtk-greeter" and drop the legacy "lightdm-gtk2-greeter" to AUR. > looking oxygen keep the gtk3 in AUR gtk3 only themes tend to use gtk3 and > gtk2 only thend to use gtk or gtk2, I will preffer keep the 3 in the name. >> I could keep "lightdm-gtk2-greeter" around for a while in [community] if >> some people want me to (I'm thinking people using MATE for example, >> but it's going towards GTK3 anyway), but keep in mind that you can use >> LXDM instead if you really need a GTK2 display manager. > Or Xfce4 users, the upcoming xfce4 release is gtk2, and only after that the > migration to gtk3 will start. > so a gtk2-greeter will be apreciated until xfce drop gtk2, and dont forget > that LXDM is now presumably unmaintained or in low maintainance since they > migrate to QT >> >> If there aren't any objections by the end of the week, I'll proceed with my >> proposal. >> > Me > >> Cheers, > -- Note: My last name is not Krejzi.
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