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Date:      Wed, 2 Jan 2019 10:42:12 +0100
From:      Lars Engels <lars.engels@0x20.net>
To:        Adam Weinberger <adamw@adamw.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD Ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: vim - GTK2 or GTK3?
Message-ID:  <20190102094212.GC40894@e.0x20.net>
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On Tue, Jan 01, 2019 at 01:07:24PM -0700, Adam Weinberger wrote:
> I'm curious whether the default Vim port should use GTK2 or GTK3 as
> its UI toolkit, but I use neither so I need input from people here.
> 
> Right now it defaults to GTK2, but I'm suspecting that more people use
> GTK3 these days. I haven't run X in about 10 years, so I don't really
> know one way or the other. If anybody on this list has thoughts about
> GTK2 vs GTK3 (or something else!) as the default, I'd love to hear it.
> 
> The Vim choices are currently a mess, but it'll get better once
> subpackages land.

Firefox and Chromium both depend on GTK3, so it's highly likely that a
typical desktop user has GTK3 installed.



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