On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 1:38 PM, Johan Engelen <jbc.engelen@...2592...> wrote:
On 19-12-2011 13:55, Martin Owens wrote:
On Sun, 2011-12-18 at 03:11 +0400, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
- Up to date GTK+2 is known to be broken beyond repair regarding
advanced input devices. And it's not going to be fixed.
Then why are you using it? Did it break on you? then set a maximum version in the packaging so we have to use a lower version to get a working Inkscape.
Inkscape (mostly) works fine, it's tablet support that doesn't. Last time I checked, distros didn't tend to ship older versions of libs than what they supply by default. What happens to users who like up-to-date distros? I just checked in Synaptic and I can't force an earlier version of GTK2 than what Ubuntu supplies. I'd rather have a mostly working Inkscape than no Inkscape at all personally.
Josh says that we upgraded our devlibs with a newer GTK to address a security issue. Perhaps there is a version that is new enough to not have the security issue, but old enough to have working tablets? (this is about Inkscape on Windows of course)
We can control it pretty easily on the win32 side only, and I think we should. This is just where we need a brave win32 developer to explore more deeply.
Cheers, Josh