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Frisbee alternatives in GTK3?

Postby simargl » 15 Feb 2014, 18:51

If someone finds alternative for frisbee network manager, please put links to it here. It needs to be based on GTK3 (or console only if that doesn't exist).

Reason: I want to start removing everything based on gtk2, will compile programs from lxde - lxtask, lxappearance, etc., (obconf from git), and gtkdialog with gtk3 enabled, instead of using those packages from Arch.

grub4dos-ui worked with this new gtkdialog from the start, frisbee also works with gtkdialog but it needs Xdialog which is based on gtk2 and I plan to remove that one too. Is it possible that wicd is only good network manager?

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Re: Frisbee alternatives in GTK3?

Postby simargl » 15 Feb 2014, 18:59

found this one:
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/wpa_auto/

description sounds promising:
"A script to automatically connect to wireless networks using wpa_supplicant"

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Re: Frisbee alternatives in GTK3?

Postby Scooby » 15 Feb 2014, 19:51

I think it would be nice to have a GUI for this

Waht about pwireless2?
Checked - also uses xdialog

Is it not possible to rewrite frisbee for gtk3?
or should I ask compile xdialog for gtk3?

Maybe change xdialog for som other dialog?
yad seems gtk3 compatible?

I'm probably gonna regret pointing this out since I hate gnome
but there is nm-applet frontend for networkmanager. It's supposed to be
gtk3? perhaps a lot of dependencies?

did makesb on it

> ls -l network-manager-applet.sb
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22M Feb 15 00:23 network-manager-applet.sb

seems a little big?

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Re: Frisbee alternatives in GTK3?

Postby simargl » 15 Feb 2014, 20:01

To free completely from gtk2, firefox also needs replacement. And I think this one looks good

http://www.slimboat.com/en/

All needed libraries are included except libpng12, it installs under /opt,
and package size is 21 MB, firefox is 28MB.

Good idea but I don't know will Xdialog compile with gtk3. It seems not maintained.

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Re: Frisbee alternatives in GTK3?

Postby Scooby » 15 Feb 2014, 20:05

yad seems gtk3 compatible?

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Yet-Another-Dialog-0-20-1-Is-GTK3-Compatible-339299.shtml

slim boat without alot of spying?

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FireFox alternatives in GTK3?

Postby efgee » 16 Feb 2014, 07:14

simargl wrote:To free completely from gtk2, firefox also needs replacement. And I think this one looks good

http://www.slimboat.com/en/

All needed libraries are included except libpng12, it installs under /opt,
and package size is 21 MB, firefox is 28MB.


It's a bummer it's not open source.

What about Midori for GTK3?

There is also dwb but it's mostly keyboard driven.
However it's probably possible to add a few buttons and a menu...
(...that use the same functions as the keyboard shortcuts)

Suppose there must be flash support for videos, flash ads blocker, youtube video downloader etc. to qualify as a decent web browser...
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Re: Frisbee alternatives in GTK3?

Postby rgb1 » 16 Feb 2014, 11:54

Performance wise Opera uses the least resources among Chromium and Firefox. Dwb and Surf use the least of all. The general user may not be familiar with the last two however.

For gtk-3 network manager, Connman has a gtk+ frontend. Look up Connman-UI. it is available in the AUR as connman-ui-git.

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Re: FireFox alternatives in GTK3?

Postby simargl » 16 Feb 2014, 12:39

GTK3 browsers (midori and epiphany) need webkitgtk which is 22 MB and it depends on 7 MB icu package, so that is not good solution.

Better is to use qtwebkit browsers, and after tried couple of them in my opinion best one is qupzilla. To have minimal size package I recompiled qupzilla with prefix=/opt/qupzilla, added all needed libs to /opt/qupzilla/lib made script to export LD_LIBRARY_PATH when program starts and here it is

qupzilla-1.6.3.tar.xz
http://sourceforge.net/projects/alphaos/files/sources/

Size is 18 MB, with dependencies included. You like QupZilla?

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Re: FireFox alternatives in GTK3?

Postby Scooby » 16 Feb 2014, 15:09

Tested qupzilla. Seems OK to me.

complained about missing icui18n but worked anyway.

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Re: FireFox alternatives in GTK3?

Postby Scooby » 16 Feb 2014, 19:00

It's kind of crashy :(

When having used it for a while I find my self not trusting it.
Its not fun to do things twice.


Anybody else experience crashes?


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