On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 01:43:10AM +0200, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote: > Hi > > I prepared a tarball [1] containing the DFB backend for GTK+, backported > from GTK's CVS HEAD to 2.8.x, and a patchfile to compile GTK 2.8.17 with > the DFB backend.
Hey, Attilio, this is great, thanks a lot for this work. > The patchfile has been tested with GTK 2.8.17 from CVS, DirectFB 0.9.24 > and and Cairo 1.1.6 built with DFB backend; produced GTK liraries were > succsfully tested with the GIMP. > This patch should allow the debian-gtk-gnome team to produce both the > X11 and DFB version (used in the debian-installer) of the GTK libraries > from the same source package. > This is a temporary solution, as when GTK 2.10 is released, this will be > possible without patches for upstream sources as it already contains the > DFB backend. > Having the debian-gtk-gnome team managing also the DFB version of GTK+ > libraries will also allow the d-i team to drop its own 2.0.9 source > packages. > Having GTKDFB 2.8.17, whose DFB backend is much more stable than the old > one found in GTKDFB 2.0.9, available as udeb may allow Etch to be > released with graphical frontend enabled by default ? I am not sure, i got the impression that the default choice was not due to this consideration, but more about the general maturity of it. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
