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Kanniball

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aMule compatilbe with GTK2
« on: February 25, 2004, 01:05:37 AM »
Hi! I think that aMule developers should take a look about the gtk2 compatibility.
Currently it's unstable, but what about the future? should we have wxGTK compiled against GTK only for aMule, without the possibily of running other software like Bittorrent wich needs wxGTK linked against GTK2?

Is it to difficult, make the necessary changes to get this compatibility?
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RE: aMule compatilbe with GTK2
« Reply #1 on: February 25, 2004, 01:45:38 AM »
i want to support this request.

currently i run amule with gtk 2 and it runs fine.

this would ease the situation a lot for new users as well.
most can .configure and make, but installing --force packages found on exotic webpages is beyond what most want (and are able) to do.

and
(heh.. your amule dont works? just link against gtk1 !! surely this will solve all issues)
most people dont even know what linking means.
they have a preinstalled wx, either gtk1 or mostly gtk2 which is integrated into the distribution.
this is fine and should not be touched is my opinion.

amule should work out of the box to become waidspread.

ofcourse gtk2 is another source of trouble for the developers, but i think we have to face it.

just my 2c

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Re: aMule compatilbe with GTK2
« Reply #2 on: February 25, 2004, 02:13:05 AM »
hey,

it's not amule problem.. it's wxGTK problem.. 2.4.2 isn't ready for gtk2 .. we r waiting for stable 2.5.x

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Re: aMule compatilbe with GTK2
« Reply #3 on: February 25, 2004, 06:02:28 AM »
While we do keep the aMule codebase compatible and working with GTK2, compiling against GTK2 is NOT RECOMMENDED because wxGTK support for GTK2 is
Quote from: wxWindows devs
EXPERIMENTAL
. It _may_ work, however, on most times, you'll encounter increased CPU usage, more frequent crashes, and more memory leaking.

Madcat.
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Re: aMule compatilbe with GTK2
« Reply #4 on: February 25, 2004, 10:29:18 AM »
Thanks! I will wait for the new wxWindows version and prey for GTK2 support :)
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Re: aMule compatilbe with GTK2
« Reply #5 on: February 25, 2004, 01:56:01 PM »
i've a wonderful gtk2 theme and engine...i use it with lots of apps such as evolution and so on...

but can't with amule.

this is due to wxwindows fault, not amule one.

in my experience cpu and ram usage is about 60-70% more...but looks nice.
it should be stable however.

but looking @ the code you can see that there are so few #ifdef GTK2
so this means amule is not optimized for that.

when wxwindows will have a good gtk2 support we'll study some tricks for it.
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