Re: Whence 'gtk2' ?

["Henning Nielsen Lund" <hnl_dk stofanet dk>]

Henning Nielsen Lund wrote:
> chuck gelm wrote:
>> Henning Nielsen Lund wrote:
>> 
>>> What do you have on your computer?
>>> 
>> 
>> Thanks, Henning Nielsen Lund:
>> 
>> I have added 'gtk-list' back into the address.
> 
> Ups, always forget ;O)
> 
>> 
>> Slackware9.1 'everything' installed from packages
>> a, ap, d, n, f, g, k, x, and xap.
>> 
> 
> Slackware 9.1 does use GNOME 2.4.0 ... GNOME 2.4.0 does include
> GLib-2.2.3, Pango-1.2.5, ATK-1.4.0 and GTK+-2.2.4
> 
> So there should be no problem with GTK+
> 
>>> 
>>> what they mean with gtk2 is gtk+ >= gtk+-2.0.0
>>> 
>>> If you have GNOME2 installed you allready have it ...
>>> 
>> How can I tell?
>> 
>> My window manager is Gnome and when I right click on
>> a blank place on the title bar and select 'about Gnome',
>> it indicates version 2.4.0, but what does this have to do
>> with 'gtk2' or 'gtk+' ?  What is 'Pango' ?  What is 'Glib' ?
>> 
>> :-|  Chuck
>> 
> 
> Gnome uses GTK+ (Gimp Tool Kit), GTK+2 uses Pango (layout and
> rendering of internationalized text) and ATK (Accessibility Tool Kit)
> and Glib (the lowlevel core library).
> 
> You don't need to upgrade them, to use Bluefish. But what you need to
> install is libpcre, it should be on CD2 of Slackware 9.1

Made a little search ...  ./l/pcre-4.4-i486-1.tgz

> 
> Best regards,
> hnl_dk - Henning Nielsen Lund
> 
>>> 
>>> But you could upgrade to the newest version:
>>> 
>>> Glib-2.4.0 --> Pango-1.4.0 --> GTK+-2.4.0
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> chuck gelm wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> Howdy, Everyone:
>>>> 
>>>> I have found an application that I want to try; Bluefish.
>>>> http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/
>>>> 
>>>> The documentation for Bluefish says that it requires 'gtk2'.
>>>> "It requires gtk2 <http://www.gtk.org/>, libpcre
>>>> <http://www.pcre.org/> and (optional) libaspell
>>>> <http://aspell.sourceforge.net/> for spell checking and (also
>>>> optional) gnome-vfs <http://www.gnome.org/> for remote files."
>>>> 
>>>> I found this mail list at http://gtk.org, but there seems to
>>>> be references only to 'gtk+'.
>>>> 
>>>> How do I obtain 'gtk2' ?
>>>> 
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Chuck Gelm
>>>> 
>>>> 
>> 
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