Re: [Pan-users] Pan 0.13.3 w/GTK 2.2 - WoW!

[Mark Smitka]

On Thursday 02 January 2003 9:08 am, Frank Van Damme wrote:

> On Tuesday 31 December 2002 01:15, Mark Smitka wrote:
> > I just finished building/installing GTK 2.2 on my Redhat 8.0 system, and
> > I am blown away!  Besides the great functionality of Pan, it looks
> > incredible with GTK 2.2!  I thought it looked pretty sharp w/2.0, but
> > whoa . . I'm almost speechless!  Yes, I know . . I need a life. :)
> >
> > Mark
>
> Question: is 2.2 binary compatible with 2.0? I mean: can I compile 2.2 and
> remove 2.0 without breaking anything?

It's quite a coincidence that you ask.  Below is a copy of a thread I started 
with respect to the 2.2 update. Basically, I use KDE and a few GTK2.x apps. I 
can certainly live with the issues I found, but using a Gnome desktop might 
be difficult after the upgrade. I didn't remove anything else (older 
version), so perhaps that's my problem.  In any case, . . use caution. :)

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Following GTK2.2, Gnome applets crash
From: Mark Smitka <address@hidden>
Reply-To: address@hidden
Date: Tuesday 31 December 2002 1:52:29 pm
Groups: comp.os.linux.misc
no references

I'm running RH 8.0, and use KDE 3.0.5-1 as my desktop. While I don't use the 
Gnome desktop at all, I do use a few Gnome apps, applets and GTK2 
programs.
Yesterday, I built and installed GTK2.2 with it's required dependencies. I 
took care to install it to the same directory hierarchy (in my case, under 
the /usr structure). I noticed no errors in any part of the process, and in 
fact, generally, it works well. Pan 0.13.3, for example, looks great with 
the GTK2.2 style applied. Unfortunately though, I'm finding that the gnome 
applets (for example: gnome-system-monitor) all crash with a segmentation 
fault, and this error:

GLib-GObject-WARNING **: cannot create instance of abstract 
(non-instantiatable) type `GtkWidget'

Any suggestions? Should I simply wait for Gnome 2.2 to be released and 
install it?  FWIW, I've tried grabbing the most recent src for 
gnome-system-monitor, but that doesn't work either.

Thanks!

Mark

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Re: Following GTK2.2, Gnome applets crash
From: Ken Bloom <address@hidden>
Date: Wednesday 01 January 2003 1:24:28 am
Groups: comp.os.linux.misc
References: 1

http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2002/51/
I just read this in Debian Weekly News, but it applies to Red Hat 
equally well. GTK 2.2 breaks GNOME 2.0, but GNOME 2.1 requires GTK 2.2.

Therefore, downgrade back to GTK 2.0 (GNOME is a development version for
odd numbers, the same way kernel versions work.)

Had you tried to install GTK+ 2.2 rpms, you would probably have gotten 
dependancy error warning you of this.

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