Re: [Denemo-devel] Building for Windows

[Richard Shann]

On Sun, 2015-12-20 at 08:04 -0600, Jeremiah Benham wrote:
> 
> 
> On Sat, Dec 19, 2015 at 5:14 AM, Richard Shann
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>         The last build (19th Dec) was against Gtk 3.16.7
>         I tested the zip version, and running it under GDB I can see a
>         whole new
>         raft of failures which look like further developments in the
>         Gtk3
>         program. (I am building against Gtk 3.14.5 on Debian Jessie
>         and I get a
>         whole slew of deprecations, but the program is reasonably
>         functional).
>         Two of the failures with the current zip code are that the
>         Denemo
>         Display fails to draw anything past the background color,
>         (which seems
>         to be due to a failure to create a pixbuf), and the menus are
>         all drawn
>         with pale grey lettering on a pale grey background (ie
>         invisible) until
>         a menu item is selected (which I guess is due to the adwaita
>         theme
>         shipped with this Gtk).
>         
>         I think the way forward is to build against Gtk2. The only (*)
>         functionality we will lose is being able to make palettes that
>         have more
>         than one row/column. That's not essential, and could be worked
>         around if
>         we were going to stick with Gtk2. I can't see how we can
>         continue to
>         follow Gtk3 without dropping Gtk2 as they are now getting too
>         different.
>         If someone would like to develop a Gtk3 branch that would be
>         good, it
>         will involve a lot of change in the code structure, a lot of
>         it to the
>         good - getting rid of ancient stuff which has its origins in
>         Gtk1).
>         
> 
> 
> As you discovered, evince (the gtk2 version), is not in debian based
> distros.

So Johann's email helps here - libatrilview.dev *is* in the Debian
Jessie repository (if I have got things quite right, I have added to my
sources.list and I have heard that MATE have started on GTK3 so I can't
be exactly sure). So could we go to GTK2 with libatrilview? 

Richard