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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] New herd: ayatana
From: Samuli Suominen <ssuominen () gentoo ! org>
Date: 2011-11-24 20:14:48
Message-ID: 4ECEA5B8.1090500 () gentoo ! org
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On 11/24/2011 08:57 PM, Samuli Suominen wrote:
> we have a new herd called ayatana (i'm currently the only member, but
> anyone intrested is free to join)
>
> it's aimed at maintaining the ubuntu -invented libraries many apps tend
> to use thesedays:
>
> $ grep -r "herd.*ayatana" */*/metadata.xml
> dev-libs/libappindicator/metadata.xml: <herd>ayatana</herd>
> dev-libs/libdbusmenu/metadata.xml: <herd>ayatana</herd>
> dev-libs/libdbusmenu-qt/metadata.xml: <herd>ayatana</herd>
> dev-libs/libindicate/metadata.xml: <herd>ayatana</herd>
> dev-libs/libindicate-qt/metadata.xml: <herd>ayatana</herd>
> dev-libs/libindicator/metadata.xml: <herd>ayatana</herd>
> gnome-extra/indicator-applet/metadata.xml: <herd>ayatana</herd>
> net-im/indicator-messages/metadata.xml: <herd>ayatana</herd>
> x11-misc/notify-osd/metadata.xml: <herd>ayatana</herd>
> xfce-extra/xfce4-indicator-plugin/metadata.xml: <herd>ayatana</herd>
>
> and perhaps x11-misc/glipper
>
> summary:
>
> - keep all the libs and apps using them in sync, since upstream changes
> API so often, when you bump one library, you have to bump or patch them all
>
> - ditch gtk+-2.0 and move all libraries to gtk+-3.0, this will likely
> mean lastriting indicator-applet and glipper
>
> - add more of the project into portage after gtk+-3.0 migration is done:
>
> https://launchpad.net/ayatana
>
>
>
> note: i'm going to be superbusy with work up until x-mas so don't expect
> much to happen "too soon"
>
forgot to add the following disclaimer:
I don't want this to become an unmaintainable spagetti, so I prefer we
keep this as non invasive as possible. So if Ubuntu has patched GTK+ or
Qt toolkits with huge patch that upstream's don't want, then we don't
want it either.
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