Re: gfio and GTK-3

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On 7/26/23 2:47?AM, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> Hi Jens.
> 
> Jens Axboe - 20.08.20, 13:52:40 CEST:
>> On 8/20/20 1:43 AM, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
>>> Is gfio compatible with GTK-3?
>>>
>>> I am asking due to Debian wanting to get rid of GTK-2 at some time:
>>>
>>> fio: depends on deprecated GTK 2: https://bugs.debian.org/967339
>>>
>>> If not, are there plans to make it compatible? Or are there plans to
>>> drop it instead?
>>
>> I'm tempted to just drop it. gfio never really got what I consider
>> finished, and I don't think it's in widespread use.
>>
>> Maybe I'm wrong and there are in fact people out there using it. I
>> know someone had a patch at some point to convert it to gtk3, and
>> if that's still the case, I would not mind applying that and making
>> it continue to live in the repo.
> 
> Did anyone submit a patch for GTK-3 support in gfio?

Not too my knowledge.

> If not, I agree, probably best to just drop it. Especially after almost 
> 3 years and as GTK-4 is around the corner. In case anyone would like to 
> port it they can resurrect it from git history.

Yep, we probably should. Nobody has been working on it in many years. It
probably still works fine, but it's mostly just a GUI frontend and it's
still lacking features that you would want to consider it a good GUI
frontend.

-- 
Jens Axboe




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