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Use gtk3-classic on Devuan Ceres for type-to-navigate in file dialog

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Gtk3-classic-build-deb is builder utility for gtk3-classic for Devuan Ceres. Check out the final assets at my OBS sub- project.

Overview

Notable improvements over stock gtk3 include

  • Regular type-to-navigate-to-filename in the file dialog instead of the "typeahead" behavior
  • CSDs are removed, which actually could deprecate gtk3-nocsd (official upstream Debian package)

Notable weaknesses include:

Using

The gtk3-classic-build-deb.sh script and Makefile can be used to generate the build assets that can be used to build the binary dpkgs of gtk3 with the gtk3-classic patches. The shell script finds the available gtk3 versions in debian, and gtk3-classic releases, and then finds the highest version that matches between the two. This highest version then gets downloaded, given the patches in debian/patches/series, and then the .dsc and .debian.tar.xz file are generated!

Upstreams

Build script

The build script is loosely inspired by luigifab/deb.sh (gist.github.com), but is maintained separately.

gtk3-classic

The gtk3-classic patch set is one of the main inputs to this process.

gtk3

The debian orig tarball is used for the build process.

Alternatives

gtk3-stackrpms suite which suits my needs almost exactly, minus the file dialog type-to-find functionality.

Dependencies

To run the build script you need:

  • rmadison
  • git
  • tar

To build gtk3, you need the standard set which is available in the debian/control file.

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