Build lxterminal for gtk3
Bug #1740351 reported by
Jeremy Bícha
This bug affects 1 person
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| lxterminal (Debian) |
Fix Released
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Unknown
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| lxterminal (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Wishlist
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
lxterminal is the last major package to depend on the ancient vte.
There is a compile option to compile with gtk3 which means switching to the supported vte2.91 source. Please consider switching for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.
| Changed in lxterminal (Debian): | |
| status: | Unknown → New |
Revision history for this message
| Simon Quigley (tsimonq2) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in lxterminal (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Won't Fix |
| Changed in lxterminal (Ubuntu): | |
| importance: | High → Wishlist |
Revision history for this message
| Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in lxterminal (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | Won't Fix → Fix Released |
| Changed in lxterminal (Debian): | |
| status: | New → Fix Released |
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Since it seems the message from the Debian Maintainer was ignored:
"Thank you for a suggestion. While using new libs might be an advantage, libvte-2.91 uses GTK+ 3.0, while until now lxterminal package was using GTK+ 2.0 (as well as rest of LXDE components). Switch to GTK+ 3.0 is not much desirable since LXDE is positioned as a lightweight environment but GTK+ 3.0 uses much more resources and has more bugs, some of which are not easy to workaround. Overall, users are negative on switching over to GTK+ 3.0 after some experience. And even if other applications aren't taken into consideration (I mean mostly style difference), use just one application with GTK+ 3.0 while other ones are GTK+ 2.0 may be a waste (as both GTK+ 2.0 and GTK+ 3.0 will be loaded at the same time)."
Lubuntu intends to align with this until at minimum 18.04 is released to reduce our maintenance load. Regardless, this should be done in Debian, so please follow up there (because if there's a way to keep with GTK 2 and still switch to the new vte, I think they'd be inclined to do that too).