Re: Perl bindings and the newest gtk+

[Chris Debenham <chris adebenham com>]

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> --- On Thu, 11/19/09, Chris Debenham <chris adebenham com> wrote:
>
> > From: Chris Debenham <chris adebenham com>
> > Subject: Re: Perl bindings and the newest gtk+
> > To: "Sergei Steshenko" <sergstesh yahoo com>
> > Cc: gtk-perl-list gnome org
> > Date: Thursday, November 19, 2009, 12:21 PM
> > They are working fine for me with gtk
> > 2.18.3
> >
> > 2009/11/20 Sergei Steshenko <sergstesh yahoo com>:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > are Perl bindings supposed to work with the newest
> > gtk+, e.g. gtk+-2.18.* ?
> > > I haven't tried yet, just want to know about gtk+
> > changes which could break
> > > the bindings, etc.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > ÂSergei.
> > >
> > >
> > >
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>
> Thanks for the update.
>
> My situation is like this:
>
> 1) there is system gtk+, and it's 2.14.*;
>
> 2) there is self-built gtk+ and all its dependencies - of course, in
> separate from system directories.
>
> I can build any version of anything in these separate directories, but
> desktop theme remains common for system applications (e.g. 'firefox' which
> I don't build) and for my applications based on "my" gtk+.
>
> So, will the desktop theme compatible with gtk+-2.14.7 stay compatible with, say, gtk+-2.18.3 ?
>
> When I upgraded to SUSE-11.1 with its gtk+-2.14.*, my then gtk+2.12.12
> became incompatible with 'qtcurve' desktop theme which came with the
> distro, that's why I upgraded my gtk+ to gtk+-2.14.7.
>
> If I upgrade "my" gtk+ to gtk+-2.18.3, the situation with versions will
> become the opposite - "my" gtk+ will be newer than the system one.
>
> Well, the question, strictly saying, applies to gtk list, not to
> gtk-perl-list :).
>
>
> Thanks,
> ÂSergei.

At its' basic level gtk is backward compatible - so stuff made for
2.14 will work fine in 2.18 (as long as it doesn't use any depreciated
functions from 2.14 which were removed by 2.18, but that is unlikely
in general)
Themes don't generally have any problems - but 'qtcurve' is not just a
theme, it is a theme-engine as well and it is the theme-engine part
which failed as it required some features that were only added in
2.14.  It should continue to work in 2.16 and 2.18 though.
>



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