<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body><div>On Mint 20.1, the standard repo package was slow and buggy until I fixed the display drivers (proprietary). Now very fast and bug free. </div><div>Steve Roberts</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div id="composer_signature"><div style="font-size:85%;color:#575757" dir="auto">Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.</div></div><div><br></div><div style="font-size:100%;color:#000000"><!-- originalMessage --><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: garywk <garyk1953@charter.net> </div><div>Date: 5/24/21 4:08 PM (GMT-05:00) </div><div>To: Xiphos users <xiphos-users@crosswire.org> </div><div>Subject: Re: [xiphos-users] Which distro should I switch to </div><div><br></div></div><div>On Sun, 2021-05-23 at 19:33 -0400, Karl Kleinpaste wrote:</div><div><br></div><div>I don't run Ubuntu. I run Devuan. ppa packages would cause far more problems on my system than they would solve. I wouldn't consider Ubuntu anymore than I would consider going back to Debian, which I ran for about 20 years because of systemd. </div><div><br></div><div>I know why the editor was dropped. I just couldn't recall the name of the package off the top of my head that caused all the problems. I find it interesting that Fedora still packages the gtkhtml packages as i believe almost all other distros have dropped them. </div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for the info. I appreciate it.</div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 5/23/21 6:59 PM, garywk wrote:<br></div><pre>I just checked the Fedora package list and the</pre><pre>Xiphos version number in it is the same version number I have in Devuan</pre><pre>which is a descendant of Debian just like Ubuntu is. So it would be a</pre><pre>waste to switch distros because you're going to run into the same</pre><pre>issues.</pre><div> <br> <font face="FreeSerif">The reason the stock Ubuntu release lacks the editor is because Ubuntu has stopped shipping the gtkhtml packages, within which the editor is implemented.<br> <br> There is an <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://launchpad.net/~pkgcrosswire/+archive/ubuntu/ppa">Ubuntu PPA</a> in which gtkhtml is re-introduced and the studypad should be functional, essentially stepping sideways around Ubuntu's lack. You can see this in the <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://github.com/crosswire/xiphos/releases/">releases page</a>. Being a Fedora person, I don't experiment much in Ubuntu, and Fedora still ships gtkhtml.<br> <br> The editor has always been a major PITA and it has been alarmingly difficult for a long time to develop the motivation to re-implement it elsehow. We have had discussion now and again in the devel list about it, to no resolution so far. Regrets.<br></font></div><div>_______________________________________________<br></div><div>xiphos-users mailing list<br></div><div><a href="mailto:xiphos-users@crosswire.org">xiphos-users@crosswire.org</a><br></div><div><a href="http://crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/xiphos-users">http://crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/xiphos-users</a><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><span></span></div></body></html>