Michał Górny wrote: > # Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> (2023-01-27) > # GKrellM and a variety of plugins. It's unmaintained for some time. > # Upstream homepage is gone, and the whole suite is collecting dust > # and patches. > # Removal on 2023-02-26. Bug #892251. > > [also eclass/gkrellm-plugin.eclass] > > acct-group/gkrellmd > acct-user/gkrellmd > app-admin/gkrellm > app-laptop/ibam > media-plugins/gkrellmpc > x11-plugins/bfm > x11-plugins/gkrellaclock > x11-plugins/gkrellfire > x11-plugins/gkrellkam > x11-plugins/gkrellm-bgchanger > x11-plugins/gkrellm-bluez > x11-plugins/gkrellm-countdown > x11-plugins/gkrellm-cpupower > x11-plugins/gkrellm-imonc > x11-plugins/gkrellmlaunch > x11-plugins/gkrellm-leds > x11-plugins/gkrellm-mailwatch > x11-plugins/gkrellmoon > x11-plugins/gkrellm-plugins > x11-plugins/gkrellm-radio > x11-plugins/gkrellmss > x11-plugins/gkrellm-trayicons > x11-plugins/gkrellm-vaiobright > x11-plugins/gkrellm-volume > x11-plugins/gkrellmwireless > x11-plugins/gkrellm-xkb > x11-plugins/gkrellshoot > x11-plugins/gkrellstock > x11-plugins/gkrellsun > x11-plugins/gkrelltop > x11-plugins/gkrellweather > x11-plugins/gkwebmon > x11-plugins/i8krellm > x11-themes/gkrellm-themes >
I'm forwarding this from the gentoo-dev-announce mailing list. It's also on -dev as well. It seems the guy who originally came up with and maintained gkrellm sadly died a while back. From other replies I read on -dev, there is some changes coming that may make gkrellm no longer work. It has something to do with GTK-3 support. It's a bit over my head to be honest. :/ First, if someone can help keep this going, it seems to be available, if the license allows someone else to take it over or fork it maybe. I don't know code but I do use gkrellm and sure would miss it. I suspect even a proxy maintainer would keep this alive. I have no idea how complicated the code for this thing is. It may be easy, it may be really advanced. Second, if no one takes it over, what could be used in its place? I'll be honest, I don't know of anything that could replace it but I've never thought about looking either. I'm looking into app-admin category but don't see anything obvious to replace it. I've tried some KDE plasma stuff ages ago, I still prefer gkrellm. None of them I looked at comes even close. I'm sure I'm not the only one on this mailing list who uses gkrellm. This is sort of a heads up. Someone already a dev may take it up, they may not. Help may would save it. Either way, this is a notice of the current state and if needed, a discussion on what we can use in its place. Thanks. Dale :-) :-)
