Request for testing: LXDE and GTK3

oldcpu · July 19, 2011, 10:53pm

I saw this request for help on the openSUSE LXDE mailing list (and on lizards: openSUSE Lizards ) from the openSUSE community volunteer packager for the LXDE desktop :

Andrea Florio:

GTK3 will slowly replace the ‘old’ gtk2, and of course, if we don’t want to be left behind we have to move to gtk3 eventually.

Even if slowly (we need horse power! > yes we need you too!!) LXDE is being ported too. Nothing has been released yet, but a good deal of work is actually into git repositories.

X11:lxde:gtk3 project

Thanks to openSUSE Build Service (public instance of the Open Build Service) we are currently able to get git code and build it auto-magically (thanks god you created obs _services )

Right now, only five packages don?t want to build with gtk3 and they are: gpicview, libfm, lxmusic, lxpanel, pcmanfm. Everything else builds fine. As a side note, lxdm gtk greeter build but seems to crasch.

Please test those packages and report in our mailing list or even better upstream your issues.

To conclude, right now i don?t feel comfortable to push into factory gtk3 packages, so 12.1 most probably will stuck with the well know stable gtk2 packages.

Also, i’m actually working to use obs, to provide gtk3 enabled git nightly build not only to openSUSE (actually only >= 11.4) but also to Fedora 15 (already building with many successful packages) and
Ubuntu/Debian. So if you are .deb packagers, please let me know, i need your help. Contact me

Have a great day,

Andrea

Andrea Florio
QSI International School of Brindisi Sys Admin
CISCO CCNA Certified
openSUSE-Education Administrator
openSUSE-LXDE Administrator
openSUSE Official Member (anubisg1)
Email: andrea-at-opensuse.org
Packman Packaging Team
Email: andrea-at-links2linux.de

I modified the email address to avoid spam, but its easy to figure out what I changed.

Note also there is the openSUSE LXDE chat channel on IRC chat freenode #opensuse-lxde where one can contact our LXDE packager anubisg1.

robopensuse · July 20, 2011, 1:53pm

Looking around at what the GTK+2 -> GTK+3 transition involves, I found all the things marked “deprecated” in GTK+ API have been removed to clean it up; fine unless appliactions use the deprecated features. On the GNOME3 Developer site there’s some advice info on porting GTK+2 -> GTK+3 with links to portability guides - DevGnomeOrg/Gnome3PortingGuide - GNOME Live! eg) Migrating from GTK+ 2.x to GTK+ 3. Might help targetted testing or at least help explain issues.

oldcpu · July 30, 2011, 7:40pm

I finally got around to adding the 'factory repository for LXDE’s GTK3 to my openSUSE-12.1 M3 install.


http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/X11:/lxde:/gtk3/openSUSE_Factory/

I recommend, if one has nVidia hardware, to apply the ‘nouveau’ graphic driver fix first. GTK3, when it works, looks nicer on LXDE than the older GTK2 and having nouveau instead of nv or fbdev makes a difference. But LXDE w/GTK3 is still rough around the edges and the theme is not working yet on all nominal LXDE desktop apps.

I ended up also enabling the debug repos to help (I had to be prodded by anubsig1 to do so - I can be slow with adding new repos) in order to run a back trace … first time I’ve done so in years (again, anubsig1 had to walk me through it on the IRC chat channel freenode #opensuse-lxde.


gdb /usr/bin/lxdm-config
# then press "r"
r
# it then complained with "try with zypper in -c" bla bla bla"
# which I ended up installing in another terminal
quit

with


# zypper in -c "debuginfo(build-id)=2ba48e6db8a3b6f67cc29b8042e0a0daddc3e5ca" "debuginfo(build-id)=2ba48e6db8a3b6f67cc29b8042e0a0daddc3e5ca" "debuginfo(build-id)=2ba48e6db8a3b6f67cc29b8042e0a0daddc3e5ca" "debuginfo(build-id)=2ba48e6db8a3b6f67cc29b8042e0a0daddc3e5ca" ".... etc .... " ".... etc .... " ".... etc .... " ".... etc .... " ".... etc .... " ...

and then ran


gdb /usr/bin/lxdm-config
# then press "r"
r
# waited for crash
# copied back trace
quit

and passed the backtrace to anubsig1

Again, LXDE GTK3 testers are needed !