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Date:      Fri, 1 Feb 2019 15:50:33 +0100
From:      Torsten Zuehlsdorff <freebsd@toco-domains.de>
To:        Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@cschubert.com>, Adam Weinberger <adamw@freebsd.org>, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org>
Cc:        ports-committers@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r491810 - in head/editors/vim: . files
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On 01.02.19 15:47, Cy Schubert wrote:
> On February 1, 2019 6:02:44 AM PST, Adam Weinberger <adamw@freebsd.org> wrote:
>> On Fri, Feb 1, 2019 at 6:58 AM Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Fri, Feb 01, 2019 at 01:54:07PM +0000, Adam Weinberger wrote:
>>>> New Revision: 491810
>>>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/491810
>>>>
>>>> Log:
>>>>   Update vim to patchlevel 865
>>>>
>>>>   After discussion on freebsd-ports@, switch the default UI toolkit
>>>>   from GTK2 to GTK3. There isn't a huge visual difference, so it's
>>>>   more predicated on the idea that people are more likely to have
>>>>   GTK3 already installed for other things.
>>>
>>> Actually, I believe it's more likely that people have GTK+2
>> installed,
>>> not 3.  That said, however, perhaps the best way out would be
>> flavoring
>>> the port so it offers both packages.
>>
>> I'm not sure that there's a huge benefit to offering multiple UI
>> toolkit packages. There's not much difference between the GTK2 and the
>> GTK3 interface. Perhaps I mischaracterized the situation; it is
>> definitely correct to say that the discussion on freebsd-ports@
>> revealed nearly unanimous agreement that people would prefer GTK3 be
>> the default.
>>
>> # Adam
> 
> The big difference from a user's perspective is the scroll bar, specifically middle button behavior.  IMO a regression. 

After the switch to GTK-3 i have no scroll bar at all. "at all" means in
kate, libreoffice, dolphin and all other kde/gtk-3 - applications. :D

Greetings,
Torsten



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