Bug#1121458: cinnamon-desktop-environment: recommends gtk2 apps
Source: cinnamon-desktop-environment
Version: 6.4.1
Tags: forky sid
X-Debbugs-CC: itzswirlz2020@outlook.com
I noticed that cinnamon-desktop-environment recommends gtk2 apps. I
expect that the bugs for those apps will be raised to severity:
serious later this year and the apps eventually removed from Testing.
hexchat is unmaintained and archived upstream. https://bugs.debian.org/1120756
pidgin has a gtk4 version as a "pre-alpha" but it hasn't been packaged
even for Experimental yet. https://bugs.debian.org/883214 . My guess
is that Debian's pidgin could switch to this version in time for
Debian 14; whereas hexchat looks unlikely to be fixed.
I do not have a recommended alternative. Polari is a GNOME IRC app,
but it didn't work for me when I tried it this week. I assume that
Quassel works, but it's an app for KDE. (KDE also has Konversation for
IRC.) Empathy was a GNOME alternative to Pidgin but it was removed
from Debian years ago since it was abandoned and no longer worked.
Thank you,
Jeremy Bícha
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