On 7/3/24 7:16 AM, Mart Raudsepp wrote:
> Please do see about approaching upstream about this in the context of
> GTK4 in a constructive friendly manner, perhaps from the angle of how
> to transition any distribution to a GTK that does not include X11
> support with less migrational pain - this should be of interest for
> more cases than Gentoo.
> 
> Maybe the idea about selecting backend stubs to include for their API
> functions, which would just end up returning what a fully enabled
> backend would return when the running environment is NOT that backend
> (e.g. when gdk-x11 functions are called in a wayland native app or gdk-
> wayland functions are called when X11 or Xwayland is in use).
> 
> If that gains some traction, maybe we could also do this for GTK3 as
> well.
> 
> Given how we'd have to end up maintaining this long term, such upstream
> discussions are sort of a soft blocker for proceeding with the
> patchset, as far as I'm concerned.


Filed as https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/6832, fingers crossed.


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Eli Schwartz