Removal of GTK2 from forky (Debian 14)
12 points by raymii
12 points by raymii
Note the relatively large thread that follows this original post (disclaimer: I’m in it)
Edit to add: theres some good coverage on LWN. Here’s a subscriber link: https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1051006/cca40e623d86fa72/
besides being unmaintained for years, GTK 2 does not support either HiDPI or native Wayland.
Isn't the whole point of Xwayland to allow you to use things that can't/won't be updated to native Wayland? (And doesn't it allow mutter or KDE's compositor to scale those, even if they're not natively resolution independent?)
If these are good enough reasons to get rid of packages, why bother with Xwayland at all?
yeah that feels pretty weak...
They mention Arch "dealing with it" but Arch stuck it into AUR... if someone stood up a PPA for gtk2 for the time being then this would feel like less of an issue to me though.
One blocker towards finishing this transition is that the graphical Debian Installer still uses gtk2.
No comment on the removal but I really appreciate Debian's "if it ain't broken don't fix it" disposition that leads to this situation.