[Nix-dev] glib-2.30 merge

Michael Raskin 7c6f434c at mail.ru
Sun Mar 25 17:06:28 CEST 2012


>Michael Raskin wrote:
>
>>>> Does that branch imply a change of gtk to gtk3 too?
>>>gtk-2.x and gtk-3.x can be installed side-by-side. I've started
>>>gtk-3.x/gnome-3.x packaging, but this does not imply any changes for
>>>gnome-2/gtk-2.
>>>> And for webkit?
>>>Michael?
>> 
>> WebKit is like FireFox a year ago: there is only latest and greatest.
>> 
>> Any update to WebKit requires Gail3, which is normally a part of GTK3.
>> 
>> Midori was easy to fix with WebKit-GTK3, Uzbl too; Vimperator seems to
>> check for GTK2 in pkgconfig (didn't check if overriding this is enough).
>> 
>> There is also another problem with WebKit: they now rely on Gnome
>> settings schemas being in standard locations or somewhere in a directory
>> mentioned in XDG_DATA_DIRS. Wrapping the WebKit-using applications will
>> likely work, but it is per-package solution. It does look like at least
>> chromium understands that this is a bug and fixes it, so maybe there is
>> a hope that future WebKits will be better.
>What about adding "propagated-user-env-packages"?

Do we set XDG_DATA_DIR by default to anything?





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