[gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: app-admin/gkrellm & plugins

[gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: app-admin/gkrellm & plugins

[Philip Webb]

[ This has been posted on Gentoo User,
but in case it hasn't been seen by discussants at Gentoo Dev, here it is.
It seems clear upstream isn't dead, simply quiet ]

On 1/28/23 05:35, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> I'm actually the one who first heard that the original maintainer had died. 
> I had written to him about some support issue, and got a belated reply
> from his brother.  Upstream is not dead at all,
> the activity level is just fairly low.
> I tried to post to -dev, but my message never got through,
> not sure if it's because I'm not a dev or made some other error in sending.
> The homepage is at htttps://gkrellm.srcbox.net
> with source at https://git.srcbox.net/gkrellm/gkrellm.

> The main problem is that is still uses gtk+2.
> They do have an open issue about that,
> but most of the discussion has been on why it would be so hard to upgrade.
> There is apparently a lot of fairly low-level graphics stuff going on
> and Bill himself (the original maintainer)
> said something like the conversion to gkt+3 would be difficult,
> but to go to gtk+4 would essentially be a re-write.
> Jack

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[gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: app-admin/gkrellm & plugins

[Duncan]

Philip Webb posted on Fri, 27 Jan 2023 12:58:43 -0500 as excerpted:

> 230127 Michał Górny wrote:
>> # GKrellM and a variety of plugins. 

>> # Removal on 2023-02-26.  Bug #892251.
>> app-admin/gkrellm
[and plugins, etc.]

> Is there a recommended alternative ?

app-admin/conky

It's currently gtk3, but at least with lua-cairo enabled, X-only.  
However, upstream is alive and wayland-native support is apparently in the 
works (tho it has been some months since I last checked status), so 
doesn't appear to be death-bed either.

I use it here, altho I wasn't satisfied with built-in only so learned lua 
(designed for embedding, exactly what conky uses it for) and wrote my own 
conky lua themes.  Seems extensibility is mandatory for flexibility 
(handling decent detail at readable size without going fullscreen) for 
this sort of app, and I've learned the extensibility language of more than 
one such app (RIP superkaramba!) as they've gone dead over the years, but 
with conky alive and working on wayland-native support, hopefully it'll 
stick around for awhile.

Meanwhile, email me privately if you're interested in a lua-based conky 
theme that can handle for example per-thread user/nice/system/freq 
(extensible to steal... if you're doing VMs) at "readble but not entire 
screen" sizes with AMD's 64-core/128-thread threadripper in mind (tho I'm 
still on an old 6-thread ATM so expanding that big likely has bugs to work 
out), or just for general conky discussion/questions, if you want.

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