Bug#885143: libreoffice-gtk2: Drop gtk2 support

[Jean-Philippe Memgual <mengualjeanphi@free.fr>]

hi

things may have changee but iirc gtk3 release of lo had many display issues. The support of this toolkit release has been in dev and more or less experimental and not stable enough. Hence gtk2 in debin. Even upstream seem to recommend gtk2 if one has display bugs.

merry christmas 




Jean-Philippe MENGUALLe 24 déc. 2017 4:13 PM, Jeremy Bicha <jbicha@debian.org> a écrit :
>
> Package: libreoffice-gtk2 
> Version: 1:6.0.0~rc1-1 
> Tags: buster sid 
>
> Please consider dropping gtk2 support even if upstream continues to 
> provide a gtk2 compile option. 
>
> While it's impractical in 2018 to have a Debian desktop without gtk3 
> installed (unless you want an obscure web browser), it will be 
> possible to have a desktop without gtk2 installed. And if gtk3 is 
> required anyway, why try to use gtk2? 
>
> libreoffice-gtk2 is currently used by default in the Debian Tasks for 
> Xfce, LXQt and LXDE. That may have made sense for Stretch because 
> Stretch shipped LibreOffice 5.2 (the first version where the gtk3 
> version was ready) but I don't think it makes sense for Buster. 
>
> There's a support burden to provide the gtk2 version that may be 
> unjustified if nearly everyone is using the gtk3 version. 
>
> Thanks, 
> Jeremy Bicha 
>