Dev1 Galaxy Forum / GTK2 Revival thread

Re: GTK2 Revival thread

dummy@example.com (brocashelm) — Thu, 21 May 2026 04:05:23 +0000

There are now efforts to improve the filepicker with things like thumbnailing without a file manager pointed to the directory already, tooltips, image previews, and basic UI context menu goodness.

As well on SteveM's git repository, the dependency conflict with gir1.2-gtk-2.0 to also keep stuff like Dia around has been fixed, and can be installed alongside gir1.2-dtk.

Get the Daedalus DEBs below:

amd64 | i386

Get the Excalibur DEBs below:

amd64

Re: GTK2 Revival thread

dummy@example.com (greenjeans) — Sat, 16 May 2026 16:20:20 +0000

Also a test iso available with it pre-installed and compiled, it's not installed system-wide as a replacement but as an alternate set of libraries you can run gtk2 apps against and be able to compare both side-by-side.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/vuu-do … g-testing/

Re: GTK2 Revival thread

dummy@example.com (brocashelm) — Sat, 16 May 2026 07:40:58 +0000

Thanks to SteveM, there are now unofficial packages for Daedalus and Excalibur users in this repository. Keep in mind that the naming decision is still in progress (i.e. we are not calling it the "Devuan ToolKit"), where you can vote in a poll for which one you like the most. It could still work out with DTK (if it comes down to that), with the D standing for something else other than Devuan out of careful consideration.

Re: GTK2 Revival thread

dummy@example.com (golinux) — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 14:59:54 +0000

blackhole: Yes. And in this case, that is not a bad thing.

Re: GTK2 Revival thread

dummy@example.com (blackhole) — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 07:32:39 +0000

Devuan Users Forum

So, history often repeats itself...

Re: GTK2 Revival thread

dummy@example.com (brocashelm) — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 23:51:18 +0000

Figured I'd bump this, what with lots of media outlets reporting on this new fork. Most of the discussions are taking place at the Devuan Users Forum (an unofficial community for Devuan and other non-Systemd GNU/Linux and *BSD users) here.

Phoronix and even DistroWatch.com have already reported on this. Bryan Lunduke has also posted his video on this.

Re: GTK2 Revival thread

dummy@example.com (zapper) — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 19:06:24 +0000

If I run into any when using it.

But I tend not to use gtk2 as much on my devuan install, except maybe for palemoon.

GTK2 Revival thread

dummy@example.com (Daemonratte) — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 17:13:27 +0000

Alright, I decided to pause the Seamless Devuan Project for a moment and fix gtk2.

Here is the repo:

https://git.devuan.org/Daemonratte/gtk2-ng

I added the two patches that the AUR maintainers apply to gtk2, implemented stefan11111's g_qsort_with_data to g_sort_array modernisation and fixed all the compiler warnings so you can compile it on a modern system.

Tested both gcc 14 and clang 21 (and leafpad)

Future plans:
Backport further improvements by stefan11111's (a famous Xlibre contributer)
Backport new features from Ardour's gtk2 fork ytk (without breaking ABI
Getting rid of errors and bugs
Test compiling with gcc 15
Find another name?
Change the license to gpl3 if possible (probably not)

Please test it and report any errors to me

Edit:
Here are build instructions (for installing it on the system:

touch README
autoreconf -fvi
./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var --with-xinput=yes
make -j"$(nproc)"
sudo make install

if you only want to test it, only use

./configure --prefix=/TESTDIR --with-xinput=yes
make -j"$(nproc)"
make install

and change TESTDIR to another location