On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 11:22:22AM +0800, Chen Lei wrote: > 2010/5/10 Patrice Dumas <pertusus@xxxxxxx> > > > For the applications I know some comments > > * I am quite sure that gmanedit is not a manedit evolution. However, > > manedit > > is orphaned right now (though still not purged). > > * xdialog is build twice, once agains gtk+ and then against Gtk2. I think > > it would be nice to keep it that way, though you could also convince the > > current maintainer to keep only the Gtk2 stuff. also xdialog seems to be > > pretty dead upstream too, though I still haven't seen a perfect > > substitute (zenity is close, but not compatible). > > > > > > There are no open bugs against gtk+ which is, in my opinion in favor > > of keeping it. One point against gtk+ is the lack of utf8 support. I don't > > know if there are other noteworthy differences. > > > > In my point of view, the only convincing reason to keep gtk+ 1.2 in fedora > is if there are some widely-used gtk+ applications that don't have better > alternatives with modern toolkit. As you mentioned, gtk+ is the lack of utf8 > support, this is really bad for non-English users. Also, there may be > potential security problems exists in gtk+ with dead upstream for 9 years > which is really a long time. lack of support for utf-8 does not mean it can not be done. I am using a patched dillo version for years now with xft+utf8. Regarding security, I would not bet on the modern alternatives either although I have experienced myself how diddifcult it is to keep gtk-1.2 in shape. Richard -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
