Re: gtk-engines photographed eating children

[Andrew Johnson <ajgenius ajgenius us>]

I am not sure what you are saying here, are you saying there is a
problem for distributing gtk-engines 2.6 when distributing GNOME 2.8? 

This is an obvious problem, and one I didn't expect to actually come up.
We released 2.6.x to coincide with gtk 2.6 so that gnome 2.10 could use
it. And since distros have been shipping 2.2 for awhile, I see no rush
or good reason for them to upgrade until they upgrade to gnome 2.10
anyway.

As for being stuck with two modules, all engines should be in
gtk-engines now. gnome-themes and gnome-themes-extras have them
disabled(and hopefully will be removed from them soon) and depend on it
now, so again, I don't see what the problem is unless you are trying to
use gtk-engines with gnome 2.8.

If you are trying to package the individual engines as for debian/ubuntu
for with gnome 2.10, use the ones in gtk-engines, in general they are
newer. Of course you should use any newer official versions of engines
still maintained elsewhere, aka Smooth or Industrial, if any, and
disable the gtk-engines versions, but otherwise.

Andrew

On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 02:12 +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> Hey dudes,
> 
> The mish-mash of merging between gtk-engines/gnome-themes has imposed
> unfortunate side effects on distribution package(r)s.
> 
>  * gnome-themes has shifted from 2.8.x to 2.9.x
>  
>  * gtk-engines has shifted from 2.2.x to 2.6.x
> 
>  * a bunch of themes have moved from gnome-themes to gtk-engines, or more
>    importantly, a number of unique file locations have moved
> 
>  * current gtk-engines < gnome-themes
> 
> Thus, any distribution packaging the themes individually will not be able to
> upgrade higher version gnome-themes packages to lower version gtk-engines
> packages.
> 
> I still don't understand why we're stuck with two modules here... Can't all
> of these move into one or the other of gtk-engines or gnome-themes, so we
> can deprecate one and move forward?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> - Jeff
> 
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Andrew Johnson <ajgenius ajgenius us>