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[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

Quoting "George J. Sherwood" <george AT beernabeer.com>:
> The only spell that I can't get to build in chat-im is gnomeicu.  The build
> fails like this:
<snip>
> I found a fix on the net that works, but I don't know enough about gnome to
> know what else the fix will break.  Here is the fix:
>
> Edited /usr/include/libgnomeui-2.0/libgnomeui/libgnomeui.h
>
>     Added:
>     #undef GTK_DISABLE_DEPRECATED
>
>     Before:
>
>     #include <libgnomeui/gnome-entry.h>
>
> Comments?
>
> George Sherwood

I don't see it as breaking anything other than allowing old applications to 
use
deprecated GTK+ calls, which may or may not exist in the future. It sounds 
like
this patch will just extend the life of gnomeicu (and any other apps that 
could
benefit from it) until their functions are removed. Is gnomeicu still being
developed (so that they'll convert to non-deprecated GTK+ calls) or will it
break again (if we include this fix) once the deprecated APIs are removed?

If the former then I say we try the fix in devel (and possibly test if it's 
okay
with Robin) and make sure it doesn't break anything, but if it's the latter I
say we just remove gnomeicu (or possibly modify it to have a copy the fixed
libgnomeui.h and put that first in the includes?).

-sandalle

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