SearchMonkey on Ubuntu is Deprecated too old

[juancarlospaco]

Searchmonkey packaged on Ubuntu, even on the development branch is too old and deprecated,
Their webpage got more up to date versions, and they switch from GTK to Qt, while Ubuntu keeps using the old GTK.
On the page they got packages and sources for 2.0 and Ubuntu ships 0.8

Quote from their web page:
" Earlier versions of Searchmonkey are still available - prior to version 2.0 Searchmonkey used the GTK toolkit, but development has switched to Qt for current releases. "

1)
juan@x:~$ lsb_release -a
Description: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
Release: 14.04
Codename: trusty

2)
juan@x:~$ apt-cache policy searchmonkey
searchmonkey:
  Installed: 0.8.1-9
  Candidate: 0.8.1-9
  Version table:
 *** 0.8.1-9 0
        500 http://ar.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

3) New modern Qt UI / UX.

4) Old Deprecated GTK UI / UX.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: searchmonkey 0.8.1-9
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-30.54-generic 3.13.11.2
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-30-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: KDE
Date: Tue Jul 8 22:25:34 2014
SourcePackage: searchmonkey
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Peter B (ueter)]

While version 2.0.0 can be built on linux, it does not work very well. Its nowhere near as good as 0.8.
See bug report 1071989

PB.