Re: Bug#183839: ITP: gtk2-ssh-askpass -- A small ssh-askpass replacement written with gtk2
On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 14:52, Colin Watson wrote:
> That's GNOME2, not plain GTK2. Some people don't want all the
> dependencies, some do.
Ok, right. Well, honestly, I can't think of a good reason for
ssh-askpass to depend on GNOME. It doesn't need session management, it
doesn't need a virtual file system, it's small enough that using glade
would be overkill, etc.
[...time passes...]
I just looked at the source for gnome-ssh-askpass2.c. It doesn't
actually use GNOME. This is all that it #includes:
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <X11/Xlib.h>
#include <gtk/gtk.h>
#include <gdk/gdkx.h>
So the author of gtk2-ssh-askpass should get talking with the OpenSSH
people about including the improvements he's made (if any) in his
version in OpenSSH. Having two floating around is silly.
If his only objection is that it's called "gnome-ssh-askpass", well it
seems to me that a symlink is a much better solution than rewriting it
with a whole new package.
> As I said to this bug report (although not copied to -devel), the change
> is sitting in my home directory ready for my next upload.
That's great news!
Incidentally, I don't see where you say this in the bug report logs.
But no big deal.
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