769119 – app-i18n/fcitx: drop optional gtk2 support

Bug 769119 - app-i18n/fcitx: drop optional gtk2 support

Summary: app-i18n/fcitx: drop optional gtk2 support

Status:	CONFIRMED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis

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Blocks:	gtk2-removal
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Reported:	2021-02-06 20:45 UTC by Aisha Tammy
Modified:	2021-02-06 21:59 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Aisha Tammy 2021-02-06 20:45:34 UTC

GTK-2 has reached EOL, most applications should be now using GTK-3+.

Comment 1 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis 2021-02-06 21:59:47 UTC

Fcitx, IBus, SCIM and UIM, in relation to GTK(+) and Qt, provide primarily not applications using GTK(+) and Qt, but plugins internally loaded by GTK(+) and Qt which provide input methods support in all applications using GTK(+) and Qt.

Support for plugins for GTK+ 2 in Fcitx, IBus, SCIM and UIM should be package.use.masked at the same time as package.masking GTK+ 2 itself, not earlier.

However possibly existing GUI applications (usually for configuration, like fcitx(5)-config-*, fcitx(5)-configtool, ibus-setup, scim-setup) can unconditionally use newest/best version of GTK(+) / Qt.