arduino
GTK2 EOL
GTK2 has reached its end of life. Correct me if I am wrong, but the arduino ide still uses GTK2? That should be fixed now, almost every other application is GTK3 ready now.
Also see: https://archlinux.org/todo/gtk-2-eol/ https://blog.gtk.org/2020/12/16/gtk-4-0/
It does mean, however, that GTK 2 has reached the end of its life. We will do one final 2.x release in the coming days, and we encourage everybody to port their GTK 2 applications to GTK 3 or 4.
I ran pacman -Rdd gtk2 and your arduino package still works fine. So no GTK2 dependency?
Some recently opened another issue about arduino and gtk2 for archlinux. He pointed out, that there were some gtk2 related comments in the changelog: https://github.com/arduino/Arduino/blob/c33fb9fde3cdd6c5d6629fa2a672ef19c110902a/build/shared/revisions.txt#L176
So is gtk2 support now fully optional? Do we still need gtk3 then or even 4 or maybe none at all?
@NicoHood It doesn't look like much is happening on the upstream side with regards to upgrading Arduino from GTK+2. How do you feel about changing the arduino package to makedep on gtk2-compat and depend on gtk3?
@NicoHood gtk2-compat uses gtk3 but offers gtk2-like configuration files and header files. It does not work for every project, but it appears to work for arduino.