Re: Abysmal state of GTK build

[Richard Stallman]

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  > > Is using Mate running with GTK 3 tantamount to using GNOME 3?
  > > Or is it still like  GNOME 2?

  > It is still like GNOME 2.

THat's good.  I think that Mate is still a solution to consider.

  > > Another question: do programs that use GTK 2 work well with Mate
  > > if Mate uses GTK 3?

  > Yes, as long as GTK+ 2.x is installed.  Those programs generally work
  > well everywhere.

  > > Another question: do Mate programs ever get screwed by surprise calls
  > > to _exit inside GTK 3?

  > Yes, they do.

Maybe the Mate developers would be interested in the idea of making
a modified version of GTK 3 to fix this.

It might be easy to do by compiling GTK 3 with a macro definition
to define _exit to call some function we would define.


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