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

[Christian Dysthe]

On Tue, 2014-03-25 at 12:31 +0000, Duncan wrote:
> 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.

I rebuilt with gtk2 but still the same problem with actions: I would
like articles with score -9999 to be deleted and made read. They are
deleted but there's still a new unread article indication there that I
can't get rid of. 
> 
> 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. =:^\
> 

-- 
//Christian
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