Seperate GTK2/GTK3 Chromium build?
Posted: 2017-12-10 09:33
In a recent update in Unstable, Chromium now depends on GTK3, and not everyone wants that.I am one of them.
More importantly, Chromium was the last full-featured web browser that supported GTK2.
GTK3 is noticeably hard to theme without GNOME, breaks too often, and it depends on systemd.
Some "large" programs give you the choice, for example, LibreOffice, with packages "libreoffice-gtk2" and "libreoffice-gtk3".Why Chromium can't?
I do not think that is is a matter of codebase.The update does not even bump its minor version (63.0.3239.40-1 --> 63.0.3239.84-1)!
More importantly, Chromium was the last full-featured web browser that supported GTK2.
GTK3 is noticeably hard to theme without GNOME, breaks too often, and it depends on systemd.
Some "large" programs give you the choice, for example, LibreOffice, with packages "libreoffice-gtk2" and "libreoffice-gtk3".Why Chromium can't?
I do not think that is is a matter of codebase.The update does not even bump its minor version (63.0.3239.40-1 --> 63.0.3239.84-1)!