[vlc-devel] [PATCH] Libnotify depends on *a* GTK version (can be gtk-2.0 or gtk-3.0).

Rémi Denis-Courmont remi at remlab.net
Fri Aug 27 23:27:03 CEST 2010




On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 22:37:54 +0200, Dominique Leuenberger
<dominique at leuenberger.net> wrote:
> Libnotify depends on *a* GTK version (can be gtk-2.0 or gtk-3.0).
> 
> As both are possible, libnotify can not drag the dependency in
> automatically, and as such
> the applications being built have to decide upon it. At this time,
> gtk-2.0 is the logical choice.

/me thinks the libnotify plugin should be killed. One UI toolkit dependency
is more than enough. To make matters worse, libnotify depends on dbus-glib
which is an (unfinished) programmer's horror movie and not thread-safe.

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