I recently wanted to run tegaki, and my experience is pretty much summed up by the meme. I consider myself fairly tech-savvy, but I just couldn’t figure out how to compile it. So I just gave up, downloaded the .exe and put it into a fresh wine prefix. After installing CJK fonts, everything ran fine. Now I’m trying to get gpaint to work. My distro recently dropped support for [[[ EDIT: gtk2 is alive and well. I was just being and idiot and searching for gtk+2 (which I am fairly pissed about, since it’s the last good version of GTK+), so I have to set that up manually as well.gtk2, when the package is actually called gtk+2. ]]] I installed all of the dependencies that ./configure told me to, but I still kept getting obscure errors when running make.
So, here’s my question: what tools make the process of running abandonware easier? Docker containers? Also, what can I use to package abandonware in order to make it easy for other people to run? Flatpak? Appimages? Any advice is appreciated!
Also, inb4 “just find a modern alternative”. That would be a reasonable solution. I don’t want reasonable solutions!
False alarm! I’m on Void Linux too, gtk2 is alive and well! I was just being an idiot and searching for
gtk2while the real package is calledgtk+2. I absolutely agree about gtk3 and gtk4. With gtk4 its like they didn’t even bother. Client-side window shadows?!? seriously???. I personally prefer CLI and TUI for my apps, but gtk2 would be my second pick if I ever need to develop a GUI app. Partly because if my app ever gets popular, it would piss off a lot of those updooter types. I would love to use something even more minimalist like nuklear but sadly that’s missing a lot of actually useful desktop integration like IME support (as far as I understand).kek I’ll be stealing this one
Glad you found a fix :)
FWIW I was running “xbps-query -s gtk2” out of curoisity last night and only saw “gtk2-engines”, which I thought was odd.