Widgets from old gnome 2

Norbert_X · 27 July 2018 10:48

Thank you for your bug-report. Fixed in revision 71.
But the main problem is that we can not mix Gtk2 and Gtk3 on 18.04 LTS. I have the following errors on bionic VM (while trying to run mousetweaks_3.99.99-really3.0.0~71~ubuntu16.04.1_amd64.deb on it):

mate@bionic:~/Downloads$ dwell-click-applet 

(dwell-click-applet:22372): Gtk-ERROR **: 13:40:19.634: GTK+ 2.x symbols detected. Using GTK+ 2.x and GTK+ 3 in the same process is not supported
Trace/breakpoint trap (core dumped)
mate@bionic:~/Downloads$ pointer-capture-applet 

(pointer-capture-applet:22380): Gtk-ERROR **: 13:40:51.316: GTK+ 2.x symbols detected. Using GTK+ 2.x and GTK+ 3 in the same process is not supported
Trace/breakpoint trap (core dumped)

So here we need some non trivial (for me) patching from @vkareh

vkareh · 27 July 2018 11:56

@Norbert_X, heh - it would be my pleasure

I’ll try to take a stab at it today and report back

Norbert_X · 27 July 2018 16:46

Other interesting Gtk2 applets are:

TopShelf - current files applet for GNOME:

topshelf.png653×515 42 KB
link-monitor - GNOME Panel Applet with bar graph of round-trip times to hosts:

link-monitor.png614×577 54.2 KB
pomodo-applet - GNOME Panel applet for a time management technique:
gnome-swallow-applet - meta-applet to embed any application in the GNOME panel)

swallow.png565×526 43.5 KB

But they have very old dependencies such as Bonobo, so it is very hard to compile it on Gtk2-based Ubuntu MATE ...

johnf · 27 July 2018 21:14

There was so much variety in the old Ubu installs!