Re: Bug#158165: gaim_applet aborts on startup
(how boring, a post about the original #158165 bug which was caused by
Christian Marillat's png3 antics)
On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 06:23:18PM -0400, Eric Dorland wrote:
> Right, switching to a different theme worked, but why is the panel
> icon different?
Are you following #158165? Christian Marillat unilaterally decided to
break GNOME 1.4 in unstable by compiling against libpng3 instead of
libpng2. Other GNOME 1.4 library maintainers, such as Ryan Murray for
gdk-pixbuf are not playing ball because it's a ridiculous thing to do.
So the png versions are different in the panel applet (which links -3 at
build time because of a seperate bug, it doesn't need to) and
gdk-pixbuf, so gdk-pixbuf can't load libpng2 to load in the PNG icons
for the applet. So it falls back to the XPM. Blame Christian Marillat.
GNOME 1.4 libs should remain compiled against libpng2.
His main reason seems to be laziness (can't have libpng3-dev installed
at the same time as libpng2-dev). If that's the only reason, maybe he
should give GNOME 1.4 over to another maintainer who can maintain a
chroot too, perhaps, and isn't so hell bent on screwing up Debian
compared to the rest of the world and our existing *stable releases*.
Regards,
Rob
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