Other/future projects • Re: GTK2 revival

Anyways, if you test this: please report any issues you encounter to me. If can make Pale Moon or Basilisk faster by optimising this toolkit then that would be awesome

I got it working and am responding to you from a Basilisk build that is using gtk2-ng right now. The performance is definitely closer to a GTK3 build. All I had to do is set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to the folder where I installed gtk2-ng and it just worked. I didn't modify the build system, it just linked against my system GTK2. So your goal of maintaining ABI compatibility definitely works.

I ran into the issue that gtk2-ng did not include all of the GTK2 theme engines so my OS theme did not work. I'm not sure what the original GTK2 behavior was in this regard. I had to add the directory where my OS package manager has the GTK2 theme engines installed for my theme to the LD_LIBRARY_PATH as well for the theme to work. I did verify that it was still using gtk2-ng after that path to the LD_LIBRARY_PATH to verify that adding that directory didn't break gtk2-ng or cause the build to revert to system GTK2.