[Lazarus] Suggestion: Remove GTK1 support from IDE and LCL.

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:

> Last time (some months ago) when I tried to run Lazarus IDE via a
> remote X11 session, the IDE was totally unusable (extremely slow), yet
> other GTK2 applications ran fine. So I don't think it was a GTK2
> issue, but rather a LCL-GTK2 issue.

GTK v1 and v2 both looking OK now over X, although I usually use VNC for 
other reasons. I've checked x86, SPARC and PowerPC (Mac), in all cases 
running Linux.

There are peculiarities in control spacing between VNC and X (notebook 
tab height, spacing between items in a RadioGroup etc.) which I don't 
think are Lazarus's problem but instead are caused by VNC not reporting 
dpi accurately. If I can characterise this better I'll raise it in a 
separate thread, or a bug report if I'm really confident of my facts.

>> bottom of the list rather than junking it completely? That way it could
>> degrade gracefully but would still be visible to anybody who wanted it, and
> 
> I though it is already doing this?  :)

Everybody makes the point that it's degrading and deprecated, but (as of 
0.28.3) it still appears at the top of the list without a health 
warning, while v2 is marked beta. I get the impression that's not the 
message that the developers are trying to send to the user community :-)

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Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk

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