Other/future projects • GTK2 revival

Hey guys! I'm probably not the only one who hates forced deprecation. Be it with python2, gtk2 or XUL. For python2 and XUL there's still development going on (tauthon and of UXP), but not for gtk2. So I just decided that I'm going to do it, even if I'm not really a good or experienced coder.

repo: https://git.devuan.org/Daemonratte/gtk2-ng

I still managed to get rid of all the compilation errors when compiling with gcc14 and clang 21 (didn't test never versions yet) and I applied these three patches: https://gist.github.com/Dudemanguy/d70734d5bdf82e79cbfb22894fac8a1b https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/0001-Lower-severity-of-XID-collision-warnings.patch?h=gtk2 https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/0002-Stop-looking-for-modules-in-cwd.patch?h=gtk2

I also backported some fixes from Ardour's ytk (their gtk2 fork) and stefan11111's gtk2 fork

Current status:

• Making it Y2K38-safe

• Getting rid of all deprecation warnings

• Patching it for NetBSD and backporting NetBSD-specific patches

• Testing it on all kinds of hardware

• Further modernisation without breaking ABI

Future plans:

• Implement tough support and smooth scrolling from Ardour's ytk without breaking ABI, so Ardour can be compiled against gtk2 again

• Heavily lobby for it's adoption in the BSD and systemdfree Linux world

• Reimplement GtkMozEmbed for UXP, so this wonderful engine can be used in gtk2 projects

Here's how you can build it: Instructions for installing it on the system

CODE:

touch READMEautoreconf -fvi./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var --with-xinput=yesmake -j"$(nproc)"sudo make install

if you only want to test it, only use

CODE:

./configure --prefix=/TESTDIR --with-xinput=yesmake -j"$(nproc)"make install

and change TESTDIR to another location

Then just test an application with (in this case leafpad)

CODE:

env \LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/TESTDIR/lib \GTK_PATH=/TESTDIR/lib/gtk-2.0 \GTK_EXE_PREFIX=/TESTDIR \/usr/bin/leafpad

Please try and report any bugs to me