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

Rafaël Carré rafael.carre at gmail.com
Sat Aug 28 02:00:11 CEST 2010


On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 23:27:03 +0200
Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi at remlab.net> wrote:

> 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.

Fine with me

If xtophe (who I believe is the only other user of this plugin after
me) still wants to use it we could do our own
notification-daemon/notify-osd client with libdbus
-- 
✍ Rafaël Carré ☺
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