On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 08:12:18PM +0100, Sven Neumann wrote: > > Mitch, me and probably others already have some changes pending that > would introduce a dependency on gtk+-2.6. So far we have usually > waited until a package reaches debian testing before depending on it. > Since gtk+-2.6 only just yesterday appeared in debian unstable, this > would mean waiting at least another nine days. Now I wonder if that's > worth it. I'd rather ask you to speak up if you want to hack on GIMP > CVS and a dependency on gtk+-2.6 would cause you serious problems. If > noone objects, we will bump the minimum required gtk+ version this > weekend. > i am curious to see what changes having gtk+-2.6 bring to poor gimp. many of the problems with the 2.4 fileselector get shoved off because of this great thing called gtk+-2.6. can we see a screen shot or even several of the new things? about the dependency, i just spent the better part of a day wrestling to get it installed on debian. upgrading to sid seemed to be the solution but even then, you have to use the right sources as this newer gtk+ is not making it to all of them. before i upgraded to sid, i tried to build it and its dependencies from the tarball. this attempt was abandoned when the pango tarball install broke after running "make install". i have yet to fix a build problem that occurs during installation on my own. i guess that i am of average abilities for installing software; an average that is slightly better (usually) because i am building on debian. if i had problems building pango, i think that several others (especially those using other distributions) will have many more problems building the new gtk and its dependents. on the other hand, it will slow down things in bugzilla (maybe) if not so many people are using the cvs gimp and the developers will have more time to get ahead with whatever those great and wonderful things are. btw, i had to use gimp-1.2 the other day (the broken color tools which were fixed right away, thanks) and let me tell you this, totally from a user perspective. looks and thumbnails are one thing -- a tool that works, this is a far better thing. it was a pure joy to have a file selector that worked with you and was smart. sure, i missed the thumbnail but i actually accomplished the work i needed to do much more quickly and efficiently. and got to where i needed to go on my computer much more quickly without the easy to become stale bookmarks. meanwhile, gimp is compiling now with gtk+-2.6 -- i am curious to see what i get from all the initial trouble of installing it. thanks for your work, everyone. carol
