Re: [Pan-users] Actions not working in Pan built from git.

[Duncan]

Jim Henderson posted on Tue, 25 Mar 2014 02:55:07 +0000 as excerpted:

> On Mon, 24 Mar 2014 20:50:50 -0500, Christian Dysthe wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Actions are not working in Pan built from git (built with gtk3).
>> Articles are not made read or deleted according to the Action settings.
>> Works well in 0.139. There's also some resizing issues.
> 
> There are a few discussions here about the resizing issues - that seems 
> to be a gtk3 quirk of some sort.  General recommendation is to use 
gtk2, 
> from what I recall.
> 
> I think I also ran into the same action issues with a gtk3 build - gtk2 
> does seem to work in that regard as well.

Just seconding the gtk2 recommendation.  Pan's original support for gtk3 
was added some years ago, now, if I'm correct, back when Charles Kerr was 
still active as pan's lead dev (tho whether he created them or someone 
else did and he simply merged the patches I don't know), but the gtk2 
version has always been recommended, and I'm not sure the gtk3 version 
has even been kept current -- it may in fact be subject to some level of 
bitrot by now.

With distros now beginning to talk of deprecating gtk2, that may have to 
change at some point, but in practical terms I don't think we really need 
to worry until distro's firefox/iceweasel packages are no longer 
dependent on gtk2.  Once /that/ happens we better focus rather sharply on 
getting pan's gtk3 version back in shape, but until then, no immediate 
worries.

Talking about the firefox question... every once in awhile I check the 
firefox gtk3 status, and I guess firefox actually builds with gtk3 
without too many issues these days.  But I've no hint on when upstream 
mozilla will switch its binary firefox build to gtk3, nor have I the 
foggiest how close various distros are to doing so with their own builds, 
other than my own distro, gentoo, which seems to still be gtk2 based ATM, 
but the gentoo/gnome and gentoo/gtk project folks are starting to get 
serious about preferring gtk3 in general now, so it's probably a matter 
of time.  Anybody else have any idea about the other distros?  Any distro 
actually distributing a gtk3 version of firefox yet, or actively planning 
to do so in a concrete timeframe?  What about upstream mozilla-firefox 
binary builds?  Any concrete time frame for a switch there, yet?

Because here I have three big gtk2-based packages I'd be loath to try to 
do without, pan, firefox and claws-mail.  Firefox is obviously the big 
one on the block, so no big deal until it switches, and we're obviously 
discussing pan here, but that does leave claws-mail, and unlike the two, 
I've very little idea at all what their porting to other than gtk2 status 
is, or even whether they're considering going qt4/5 instead of gtk3, as a 
few projects are apparently doing.  I keep meaning to go check and see if 
it's covered in a claws-mail FAQ or if they have a list where it may have 
been discussed, and where I can post a question about it if I don't see 
it in the list archives, but there's apparently a shortage of rounded 
tuits at the moment, as I've not gotten mine with the claws-mail porting 
status check label yet. =:^\

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