Re: GTK+ or GTK?

["Jose Hevia" <100026838 alumnos uc3m es>]

> On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 11:29:40PM +0100, yordy wrote:
> > GTK+ is GTK-2.x, they are the same?
> > I want to install XFCE desktop environment,
> 
> The package names seem to indicate you have Fedora Core 4.
> If it's so, please just install XFce with you favourite
> package manager and don't try to compile anything.  The
> distro comes with XFce 4.2.2.
> 
> > but the
> > installer say: Gtk+ >= 2.2.0... not found.
> > I have installed all this gtk packages:
> > 
> > gtk+-1.2.10-39
> > gtk-engines-0.12-7
> > gtk2-2.8.6-1.1.fc4.nr
> > gtk2-engines-2.6.5-1.1.fc4.nr
> 
> RedHat GTK+ package naming is
> 
> gtk+ == GTK+ 1.2.x
> gtk2 == GTK+ 2.x
> 
> They are practically two independent libraries and they can
> be installed both.

They are two independent libraries, with no backwards compatibility.

Programs that use gtk1.2: xmms(right click and see the fonts without 
antialising).
Programs that use gtk2.x: amule(recent), gimp, Inkscape, Beep Media 
Player(xmms fork), xmms2.