Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1523 mails)

[Anton Aylward <anton.aylward@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Petr Uzel said the following on 03/18/2010 10:48 AM:

> On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 08:34:39AM -0400, Anton Aylward wrote:
> > Petr Uzel said the following on 03/18/2010 05:54 AM:
> >
> > > Yes, that's expected. Most likely I wasn't clear before.  You are
> > > right that in such case it is pinentry-gtk-2, what is 'selected' by
> > > /usr/bin/pinentry script. But since it figures out there is no
> > > $DISPLAY, it runs pinentry-curses-like interface which is embedded
> > > into pinentry-gtk-2 binary (as well as to other graphical pinentry's).
> >
> > If that's the case then the if/elsif tree is pointless.
> > First, because it will never get to pinentry-curses and secondly if the
> > -curses code is embedded in the GUI versions, why bother having a -cures
> > version anyway.
> >
> > There's something here that's either pretty dumb or doesn't make sense.
>
> Imagine minimal server installation - only pinentry-curses is
> installed there and in such case it is selected. gpg2 depends only on
> pinentry-curses. -qt and -gtk-2 are pulled by KDE4/GNOME patterns.
>
> [...]
> > > > The test for KDE only happens if DISPLAY is set.
> > >
> > > If DISPLAY is not set, why should we care about KDE/GNOME? It
> > > even does not make sense. Or am I missing something?
> > >
> > > > So what about other window managers?
> > > Sorry, I don't get this question.
> >
> > I phrased that badly.
> >
> > If DISPLAY is set then there is _some_ windows manager running.
> > How to choose between the one for Gnome and the one for KDE?
> > Or something else.?
> >
> > Oh, right. Gtk-2 is enough.
> > Which gets back to my original question, why have more than one if Gtk-2
> > can work for KDE (It does I just tested it) and has the -curses code in it.
>
> Yes, it works, but
> - to have consistent look and feel, KDE4 users prefer pinentry-qt4
> - why should KDE4 installation pull all gtk2 libraries just because
>   of pinentry-gtk-2 ?

So ...

* any one of the GUI pinentry packages is sufficient.
* if I have KDE I can drop -gtk-2 and install -qt4


> > Why have the shell script?  Why have -qt and -qt4 when just one package
> > will do the job?
>
> You're right that -qt likely could be dropped.

Done.



All this makes me think that here should be something like the NSSSwtich
but for the GUI.  One tool, this and others, that uses a 'standard' API
that goes to the right libraries.

I'd like that in Firefox and Thunderbird; I hate having to load all the
gtk2 libraries for them.  I want a PURE KDE system.
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