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Re: Uploading GNOME 2.24 to sid



Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> writes:

> Le dimanche 15 février 2009 à 17:05 -0300, Otavio Salvador a écrit :
>> Your comment fears me even more since it does look that we can end up
>> without directfb support for long time... I think you agree with me that
>> Graphical Installer can't be droped from Debian without a lot of people
>> being unhappy and tagging it as a really serious regression for user POV
>> so having it in mind I believe we need to find an alternative for it.
>
> Unless you can find someone who is committed to make GTK+ work on the
> DirectFB backend, I strongly recommend that the installer considers
> using X11 instead. 
>
>> Who was last people that worked at those patches? Could them help us on
>> that?
>
> Attilio Fiandrotti did a great job with GTK+ 2.10, but didn’t give much
> news since. 

Hello Attilio,

We've having a bad time with GTK DirectFB support for lastest GTK
release; are you still interested to work on it with us?

TIA,

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