Re: Problems with installation of Gtk2 on SUSE 9.1

[Daniel Kasak <dkasak nusconsulting com au>]

Pih Lung Pang wrote:

> Where can I find the latest binary packages/rpm's(for SUSE)??
> I could only find the source code from www.gtk.org!
>  
I just found this article which talks a bit about it:
http://www.tuxme.com/node/7

This problem you're discovering ... not being able to keep your distro 
up-to-date ... is the main reason why I moved to Gentoo. Any other 
distro will become harder & harder to maintain & upgrade, until you 
finally break something in a major way. Gentoo gives you a smooth 
upgrade path for all your software, without having to reinstall.

> What benefits are there in upgrading to the latest versions of
> Gtk+-2.8.4?
>  
I'm a database developer, so that's my focus here ...

gtk-2.4 brought a decent combo box widget that allows you to store ID / 
value pairs in a model attached to the combo. This is essential to 
database work.

gtk-2.6 brought a GtkCellRendererCombo to treeviews. This is also pretty 
important for database work.
gtk-2.6 also has a GtkCellRendererProgress for cool little progress bars 
in a treeview.

gtk-2.8 was mainly a change to the Cairo rendering backend. This brings 
rendering improvements ( antialiased shapes, alpha blending, and other 
cool things ), but there wasn't a lot in 2.8 in the way of new features 
for developers. That's not to say that it's not worth upgrading for a 
desktop system, but developers can easily get away with running 2.6.

That's basically it. Check out 
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-app-devel-list/2004-March/msg00178.html 
and 
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-list/2004-December/msg00038.html 
for the 2.4 and 2.6 release announcements for full details.

> I continue with Glade-Perl and win32..
>  
I pitty you.
I don't suppose you've managed to build the Gtk2-Perl bindings against 
gtk-2.6 for Windows?

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