vim - GTK2 or GTK3?

[Alexandre C. Guimarães]

On Thu, Jan 03, 2019 at 06:08:43PM +0100, Miroslav Lachman wrote:
> Adriaan de Groot wrote on 2019/01/03 14:28:
> > Niclas wrote:
> > 
> > On Thursday, 3 January 2019 13:00:02 CET freebsd-ports-request at freebsd.org
> > wrote:
> > > > Firefox and Chromium both depend on GTK3, so it's highly likely that a
> > > > typical desktop user has GTK3 installed.
> > > 
> > > +1, GTK3 is probably the best choice.
> > > 
> > > As a side note, it looks like libreoffice defaults to GTK2 as well,
> > > perhaps it should be switched to GTK3 also?
> > 
> > As a not-really-GTK-using person, I still have both GTK2 and GTK3 installed on
> > my system running KDE Plasma. Not for vim though:
> > 
> > Installed packages to be REMOVED:
> >          gtk2-2.24.32
> >          fontforge-20170731
> >          mftrace-1.2.18_1
> > 
> > Installed packages to be REMOVED:
> >          gtk3-3.22.30_4
> >          gpsd-3.17
> > 
> > I'm a fan of pushing for toolkit migration, so reducing the number of things
> > that pull in GTK2 is a good thing.
> > 
> > 
> > So if we're expressing hopes that ports might be made GTK2-free (by porting to
> > GTK3 for instance) then I'd hope that fontforge gets that treatment, too. From
> > looking at the source repo, I don't think the GTK2 option actually works (and
> > the comments suggest it's not all that good anyway). In the configure.ac it
> > looks like there are spelling-inconsistencies between
> > 	fontforge_can_use_gtk=yes
> > and, e.g,,
> > 	FONTFORGE_ARG_ENABLE_GDK
> > 
> > (mtrace depends on fontforge, so fixing fontforge would clean GTK2 off my
> > system)
> 
> It is not so simple. What works for you doesn't work for somebody else. I am
> running KDE4 with QT4 but some applications use GTK2 as the only option or I
> set them to use GTK2 because GTK2 has better theme integration to KDE4 / QT
> style than GTK3 (in my personal case).
> And, for example, Total Commander has two choices - QT or GTK2. I tried it
> to build with QT but it failed so I switched to GTK2 and it builds fine.
> So in my current situation I am glad we have GTK2 and GTK3 and all my
> applications are working (better with GTK2 than GTK3). And having both GTK
> versions installed is not a big problem. Their size is relatively small
> compared to apps like browsers, libreoffice etc.

KDE4 is not in the ports tree anymore (since January 01), and Qt4 is marked 
to go at 2019-03-15.

> Miroslav Lachman
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Best Regards,
Alexandre C. Guimarães.
https://bitbucket.org/rigoletto-freebsd/
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