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I got rid of dbus in GTK3 by patching the code so that the "accessibility bridge" (to ATK) can be disabled. GTK4 is beneath contempt and will not be supported.

I got rid of dbus in GTK3 by patching the code so that the "accessibility bridge" (to ATK) can be disabled. GTK4 is beneath contempt and will not be supported. The system uses GTK2 wherever possible, or GTK3 when not. I will either port everything to GTK2 later or create some kind of shim library. Help wanted here. Porting back to GTK2 isn't hard, I just don't have time to work on any of that at the moment.

M95D 8mo ago
I'm running Gentoo without dbus and I'm stuck at gtk 3.24.34. I would love to see those patches. Your site appears to be down.
- its_magic 8mo ago
  It's just HTTP only (no SSL) and there's nothing there. ... until now! Here's some nice GTK3 patches for you: http://killthe.net/patches/gtk-3.24.43-allow-disabling-atk-bridge.patch http://killthe.net/patches/gtk-3.24.43-allow-disabling-atk-b... http://killthe.net/patches/gtk-3.24.43-allow-transparent-windows.patch http://killthe.net/patches/gtk-3.24.43-allow-transparent-win... http://killthe.net/patches/gtk-3.24.43-allow-wheel-scrolling-in-notebook.patch http://killthe.net/patches/gtk-3.24.43-allow-wheel-scrolling... http://killthe.net/patches/gtk-3.24.43-appearance-tweaks-and-fixes.patch http://killthe.net/patches/gtk-3.24.43-appearance-tweaks-and... http://killthe.net/patches/gtk-3.24.43-disable-mnemonics-delay.patch http://killthe.net/patches/gtk-3.24.43-disable-mnemonics-del... http://killthe.net/patches/gtk-3.24.43-file-chooser-tweaks.patch http://killthe.net/patches/gtk-3.24.43-file-chooser-tweaks.p... http://killthe.net/patches/gtk-3.24.43-remove-dead-key-underline.patch http://killthe.net/patches/gtk-3.24.43-remove-dead-key-under... http://killthe.net/patches/gtk-3.24.43-restore-old-context-menu.patch http://killthe.net/patches/gtk-3.24.43-restore-old-context-m... http://killthe.net/patches/gtk-3.24.43-set-default-settings.patch http://killthe.net/patches/gtk-3.24.43-set-default-settings.... http://killthe.net/patches/gtk-3.24.43-show-alternating-row-colors.patch http://killthe.net/patches/gtk-3.24.43-show-alternating-row-... Note that GTK 3.24.43 is the last version of GTK3. My system is full of patches like this to tweak, improve, and adjust things. The point is to get off the "upgrade" treadmill and focus on making things work right.
  - its_magic 8mo ago
    Who's the guy with Firefox 147 32-bit x86 who downloaded a patch? Nice to see there's still at least a few 32-bit users left out there. My system cross compiles to i686, and builds as multilib (both 32-bit and 64-bit libraries) for x86-64 as well, FYI. Some of these User Agents have to be fake. Android 6.0.1 with Chrome 144, really? lol
    - its_magic 8mo ago
      Some wise guy has a "Linux/SystemD" user agent. lol This fella would like to have a word with you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfELJU1mRMg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfELJU1mRMg
      - yehoshuapw 8mo ago
        https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=atcqMWqB3hw https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=atcqMWqB3hw
  - fouc 8mo ago
    Thanks for your work! Getting off the "upgrade" treadmill really resonates with me.
    - its_magic 8mo ago
      Just to be clear, I did not write these patches, but have collected many like this via scouring the net. I think I did make the ATK one though. If you'd like to be an alpha/beta/release tester of this system, hit me up via email please. I'll start with an initial closed alpha release here in a month or so, if there's interest. Now for the donation drive: I have plenty of time and a stable situation to work on this system, but the one drawback is I have little funds--and unfortunately my workstation is getting pretty long in the tooth. (AMD FX. It's been a good system, but I'm getting Left Behind here.) The main thing holding me back is compile speed, especially doing work on Chromium and WebKit. It's 12+ hour compile times for either of those, with the latest C++ standards they're using. The system as a whole builds in about 48 hours on my computer. So I'm hoping to bump into an "angel investor" who either has some old Xeon (Broadwell or newer?) hardware laying around they would donate, something with lots of cores and memory, or who can make a cash donation for me to buy the gear I'm looking at on Ebay. $400-500 is enough for a nice 5x upgrade. It amazes me how cheap this stuff is. We're talking $5000+ hardware when it was new, for peanuts. Still quite powerful. (A better video card would be great too, if you're feeling generous. Mine is a GTX570. I'd love to have a GTX7xx or newer, or equivalent AMD. That's more of a want than a need however.) I'm very interested in ppc64 gear too. I want this system to have first-class PPC support. Anyone got an old POWER8 or POWER9 system laying around, or 32-bit stuff? I've got this system building OK in Qemu for ppc64le but it is SLOW, as you can imagine. Like 5 seconds per line in configure scripts, lol. If anyone out there is in a position where they can help this project in some way, email me please! Thank you.

M95D 8mo ago

I'm running Gentoo without dbus and I'm stuck at gtk 3.24.34. I would love to see those patches. Your site appears to be down.

its_magic 8mo ago
It's just HTTP only (no SSL) and there's nothing there. ... until now! Here's some nice GTK3 patches for you: http://killthe.net/patches/gtk-3.24.43-allow-disabling-atk-bridge.patch http://killthe.net/patches/gtk-3.24.43-allow-disabling-atk-b... http://killthe.net/patches/gtk-3.24.43-allow-transparent-windows.patch http://killthe.net/patches/gtk-3.24.43-allow-transparent-win... http://killthe.net/patches/gtk-3.24.43-allow-wheel-scrolling-in-notebook.patch http://killthe.net/patches/gtk-3.24.43-allow-wheel-scrolling... http://killthe.net/patches/gtk-3.24.43-appearance-tweaks-and-fixes.patch http://killthe.net/patches/gtk-3.24.43-appearance-tweaks-and... http://killthe.net/patches/gtk-3.24.43-disable-mnemonics-delay.patch http://killthe.net/patches/gtk-3.24.43-disable-mnemonics-del... http://killthe.net/patches/gtk-3.24.43-file-chooser-tweaks.patch http://killthe.net/patches/gtk-3.24.43-file-chooser-tweaks.p... http://killthe.net/patches/gtk-3.24.43-remove-dead-key-underline.patch http://killthe.net/patches/gtk-3.24.43-remove-dead-key-under... http://killthe.net/patches/gtk-3.24.43-restore-old-context-menu.patch http://killthe.net/patches/gtk-3.24.43-restore-old-context-m... http://killthe.net/patches/gtk-3.24.43-set-default-settings.patch http://killthe.net/patches/gtk-3.24.43-set-default-settings.... http://killthe.net/patches/gtk-3.24.43-show-alternating-row-colors.patch http://killthe.net/patches/gtk-3.24.43-show-alternating-row-... Note that GTK 3.24.43 is the last version of GTK3. My system is full of patches like this to tweak, improve, and adjust things. The point is to get off the "upgrade" treadmill and focus on making things work right.
- its_magic 8mo ago
  Who's the guy with Firefox 147 32-bit x86 who downloaded a patch? Nice to see there's still at least a few 32-bit users left out there. My system cross compiles to i686, and builds as multilib (both 32-bit and 64-bit libraries) for x86-64 as well, FYI. Some of these User Agents have to be fake. Android 6.0.1 with Chrome 144, really? lol
  - its_magic 8mo ago
    Some wise guy has a "Linux/SystemD" user agent. lol This fella would like to have a word with you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfELJU1mRMg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfELJU1mRMg
    - yehoshuapw 8mo ago
      https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=atcqMWqB3hw https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=atcqMWqB3hw
- fouc 8mo ago
  Thanks for your work! Getting off the "upgrade" treadmill really resonates with me.
  - its_magic 8mo ago
    Just to be clear, I did not write these patches, but have collected many like this via scouring the net. I think I did make the ATK one though. If you'd like to be an alpha/beta/release tester of this system, hit me up via email please. I'll start with an initial closed alpha release here in a month or so, if there's interest. Now for the donation drive: I have plenty of time and a stable situation to work on this system, but the one drawback is I have little funds--and unfortunately my workstation is getting pretty long in the tooth. (AMD FX. It's been a good system, but I'm getting Left Behind here.) The main thing holding me back is compile speed, especially doing work on Chromium and WebKit. It's 12+ hour compile times for either of those, with the latest C++ standards they're using. The system as a whole builds in about 48 hours on my computer. So I'm hoping to bump into an "angel investor" who either has some old Xeon (Broadwell or newer?) hardware laying around they would donate, something with lots of cores and memory, or who can make a cash donation for me to buy the gear I'm looking at on Ebay. $400-500 is enough for a nice 5x upgrade. It amazes me how cheap this stuff is. We're talking $5000+ hardware when it was new, for peanuts. Still quite powerful. (A better video card would be great too, if you're feeling generous. Mine is a GTX570. I'd love to have a GTX7xx or newer, or equivalent AMD. That's more of a want than a need however.) I'm very interested in ppc64 gear too. I want this system to have first-class PPC support. Anyone got an old POWER8 or POWER9 system laying around, or 32-bit stuff? I've got this system building OK in Qemu for ppc64le but it is SLOW, as you can imagine. Like 5 seconds per line in configure scripts, lol. If anyone out there is in a position where they can help this project in some way, email me please! Thank you.