[Nix-dev] glib-2.30 merge

[Yury G. Kudryashov]

Michael Raskin wrote:

>>> Does that branch imply a change of gtk to gtk3 too?
>>gtk-2.x and gtk-3.x can be installed side-by-side. I've started
>>gtk-3.x/gnome-3.x packaging, but this does not imply any changes for
>>gnome-2/gtk-2.
>>> And for webkit?
>>Michael?
> 
> WebKit is like FireFox a year ago: there is only latest and greatest.
> 
> Any update to WebKit requires Gail3, which is normally a part of GTK3.
> 
> Midori was easy to fix with WebKit-GTK3, Uzbl too; Vimperator seems to
> check for GTK2 in pkgconfig (didn't check if overriding this is enough).
> 
> There is also another problem with WebKit: they now rely on Gnome
> settings schemas being in standard locations or somewhere in a directory
> mentioned in XDG_DATA_DIRS. Wrapping the WebKit-using applications will
> likely work, but it is per-package solution. It does look like at least
> chromium understands that this is a bug and fixes it, so maybe there is
> a hope that future WebKits will be better.
What about adding "propagated-user-env-packages"?
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Yury G. Kudryashov,
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