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Action Item #801

Updated by Hammel about 3 years ago

GTK2 is EOL, apparently.    GTK3 is overkill and now it's being replaced by GTK4. 

 I chose GTK2 because of it's simplicity and lightweight nature.    I don't need much in the way of UI toolkits.    It might be worth while to fork GTK2 so I always have it available. 
 The same may be true of Cairo, though that's less likely to go away. 

 If I'm going to fork, I should do it soon.    And it should include the entire GTK2 stack: gobject, glib, gdk, etc.    Plus I need to make sure I can generate the docs for all of them. 

 If I get to OpenGL with Cairo I may not need GTK2 as much but I'd still like it around as a lightweight toolkit with an API to using things like Cairo and/or OpenGL. 

 "omxplayer is being deprecated":https://github.com/popcornmix/omxplayer/blob/master/README.md in favor of vlc.    However, vlc is bloated and not very Unix-like (small programs piped together to get bigger things).    There are some deprecated dependencies for omxplayer too so if I fork omxplayer I may have to fork them too (unless I can always get them from Buildroot).

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