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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 4/26/20 9:49 AM, garrison21 wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:Gk6Iy7wSpwuWXpM4waFOZzKAJcqNoh7UgtlbqXKL7m34dvR0Lhl9to1ZMFr0F4OZZyW6-efSLaUJDWiaWEvXa4FVInH2xrWRjdYhbsx5FAs=@protonmail.com">Xiphos
is no longer available through apt, Synaptic, or Gnome
Software</blockquote>
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<font face="FreeSerif">Fundamental problem is that Xiphos still
relies on the gtkhtml-editor package for its editor. The gtkhtml
packages are in general very old and deprecated, yet the
replacement interfaces for GTK built-in editors are ... seriously
suboptimal, and that's being more than kind. Ubuntu in particular
removed gtkhtml packages some time ago, and consequently Xiphos
has not been (directly) buildable there since. I had understood
that someone had produced a nasty patch that essentially removed
the editor, just to keep it alive in Ubuntu, but I gather that
this is no longer available.<br>
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On the devel list, recently we have begun discussing editor </font><font
face="FreeSerif"><font face="FreeSerif">replacement</font>
strategies. It is very likely that something will be done about
this in the next month or two, if either I can do it directly or I
can convince a couple other well-minded folks to attack the
problem.<br>
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As things stand right now, we are about to release 4.2.0 this
weekend. The editor has not changed, so it will be no benefit in
Ubuntu but I believe we have new momentum toward improving Xiphos.<br>
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