ABSTRACT Separate USE flags for gtk and gtk2 have been confusing users for such a long time; when the practical solution is so close: virtual/gtk+! MOTIVATION First off, full credit should go to gentoo's Motif team, without their valuable inspiration I would have never been able to come up with this excellent idea! Up until January 2005 Motif was just as confusing as gtk+; there was a motif USE flag which enabled optional motif support in applications; and an additional lesstif flag if said application also supports lesstif. Confusing! RATIONALE With current ~ebuilds, all lesstif/motif ebuilds PROVIDE virtual/motif; and all applications and libraries using it will just have to depend on virtual/motif. This EIS (experimental improvement suggenstion) suggests to do the same thing for all gtk+ applications. IMPLEMENTATION 1. Drop gtk/gtk2 madness! All gtk+ ebuilds, version1, version2, and all future versions, PROVIDE virtual/gtk+. Don't worry about missing binary compatibility; users are always free to use revdep-rebuild! virtual/motif is currently PROVIDEd by FOUR binary incompatible implementations, and the motif folks have absolutely convinced me that's the way to go! 2. All gtk+ clients will just have to depend on virtual/gtk+. 3. Create a x11-libs/gtk-config package that installs /usr/bin/gtk-config, so users can set their preference on what gtk+ toolkit to use when emerging. Don't worry if not all apps/libs will work with gtk1/2/3; motif doesn't either! gtk-config already provided by gtk1? doesn't matter, lesstif also comes with motif-config. Just delete it in src_install()! User preferences? Nothing to worry about, Motif folks have promised to think about a solution once x11-libs/motif-config has gone stable. But curent progress has convinced me the same solution will work in gtk-config as well! Files not present in all virtuals? Nothing to worry about either; rm -f is your friend. 4. Once virtual/gtk+ becomes a SUCCESS, those virtuall/motif doubters will finally shut up! FUTURE 5. Think about a new USE flag: nogtk! Qite a silimiar thing (nomotif) is already in use in app-text/xpdf; and all the arguments for it are sooooooooo convincing; I liked it AT ONCE! 6. Just as motif-config, gtk-config -s should also switch window managers. With Kind Regards, Yours reporter
This is so groundbreaking mr.Wurst should probably have bodyguards around him 24/7 to protect him from evil multi-billion dollar global corporations who might not want the population to know about this radical new approach. To protect mr.Wurst from his own incredible genius, the right thing to do is to send this bug as soon to the provided URL as possible.
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