Well, I'm getting old I guess,

tde-libksquirrel has xmedcon as an optional dependency that provides medical image handling and conversion. (CT, MRI, PET, etc..) I always build it because I use the functionality. My question was for these type of applications is whether there is any preference whether they are built against GTK2 or GTK3 if we have a choice.

The reason it matters to me is that if some apps are built with a gtk2 dependency, you pull in gtk2 as a build dependency, if against gtk3, then you pull in gtk3. (that looks like it will happen for the foreseeable future anyway). I didn't know if there had been any discussion about trying to minimize build dependencies such that if an option existed to use either gtk2 or 3, if there was a preference for one or the other.

Smacks self -- there I go thinking someone else will actually be building tde on arch except me -- never mind...

I think this still goes back to "Apps like xmedcon are outside the scope of Trinity. Distro packagers and maintainers ensure the dependencies are satisfied."

If xmedcon is not installed then ksquirrel does not build that support. If you are supporting Trinity packages for other users and they want xmedcon support, I'm sure they will let you know.

Whether gtk2 or gtk3 is preferred, I don't know of any distro maintainers dropping gtk2 support any time soon. Perhaps the question is moot for the next few years?

Darrell