Comment 66 for bug 954352

Hey,

On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 06:17:37PM -0000, Darxus wrote:
> Fred: I think you misunderstand.
>
> I don't think Iain is saying this can't be fixed. Somebody please
> correct me if I'm wrong, but it sounds to me like the solution which
> would make Iain happy, and not cause any problems for anybody else,
> would be if GTK+ built its Wayland backend into a separate dynamically
> loadable library, and loaded it at run time. So that a GTK+ package
> could be installed and run (at all, under X), without the absolute
> necessity of installing a Wayland package just to get GTK+ to run (at
> all, under X).
>
> Iain, can you confirm I understand this, so I can at least open a bug
> against GTK+ requesting it? Is there anything else that would be
> needed? This has been a pretty frustrating process. Thanks for trying.

That is right. I'm sorry that I didn't know the architecture of the
backends in advance so that I could have told you sooner. You could open
a bug requesting this, but I'm not sure how fundamental the
architectural decisions go — it might be best to ask on gtk-devel-list.
The problem is that GTK+ is such a core library that it really is out of
the question to have it pull in wayland when we're not using it by
default. I hope you understand this. I looked into it today in good
faith attempting to see if it would be possible to enable it per this
request.

Cheers,

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