Re: [GnomeMeeting-list] Ekiga 2.0 under RHEL 4 / GNOME 2.8?

[Jan Schampera <jan schampera web de>]

On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 07:50:04 -0800 (PST)
Daniel Qarras <dqarras yahoo com> wrote:

> 3) Ekiga does not compile under RHEL 4 because it ships with GTK 2.4
> and Ekiga uses the following three GTK 2.6 methods:
> 
> gtk_combo_box_get_active_text
> gtk_combo_box_set_focus_on_click
> gtk_file_chooser_button_new_with_backend
> 
> These are used only in few occasions in the files src/gui/druid.cpp
> and src/gui/preferences.cpp. When commented out, Ekiga compiles and
> links ok.
> 
> I fully understand if you do not want to create additional maintenance
> burden by supporting older GTK 2.4 based systems but since the changes
> required seem to be rather minimal and RHEL 4 will never get GTK 2.6
> it seems that those modifications would be the only way to use Ekiga
> on "enterprise" environment. I have never coded GTK code so of course
> changes might actually require a lot of work.

Some may be simulated, with a more or less big amount of
code-workarounds, some may not changable easily
(gtk_file_chooser_button_new_with_backend).

Jan

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