Re: GTK_MODULES removal and the future of existing modules

2018-02-28 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Sun, Feb 25, 2018 at 4:11 AM, Philipp Emanuel Weidmann < p...@worldwidemann.com> wrote: > Greetings, > > I am the author of Plotinus[1], a GTK+ module that provides a > searchable command palette to GTK+ applications. Recently, it was > brought to my attention[2] that module loading has been re

Re: GTK_MODULES removal and the future of existing modules

2018-02-28 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
On 26 February 2018 at 13:17, Philipp Emanuel Weidmann wrote: > Thank you for the quick response! > > I'm not sure anything short of direct access to the widget tree would > suffice for a GTK4 version of Plotinus to provide the functionality it > does today on GTK3. Which is kind of why we don't

Re: GTK_MODULES removal and the future of existing modules

2018-02-25 Thread Philipp Emanuel Weidmann
Thank you for the quick response! I'm not sure anything short of direct access to the widget tree would suffice for a GTK4 version of Plotinus to provide the functionality it does today on GTK3. The problem is that in practice, some of the most important applications use GTK in an "incomplete" ma

Re: GTK_MODULES removal and the future of existing modules

2018-02-25 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
Hi; On Sun, 25 Feb 2018 at 09:18, Philipp Emanuel Weidmann < p...@worldwidemann.com> wrote: > Greetings, > > I am the author of Plotinus[1], a GTK+ module that provides a > searchable command palette to GTK+ applications. Recently, it was > brought to my attention[2] that module loading has been

GTK_MODULES removal and the future of existing modules

2018-02-25 Thread Philipp Emanuel Weidmann
Greetings, I am the author of Plotinus[1], a GTK+ module that provides a searchable command palette to GTK+ applications. Recently, it was brought to my attention[2] that module loading has been removed[3] on GTK+ master. It appears that this change could mean the end for Plotinus and other modul