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EasyOS built with gtk2-ng

June 08, 2026 — BarryK

Posted a couple of days ago, the next release of EasyOS will be built with Xlibre, replacing Devuan's X11 packages. GTK version 2 has also been revived, the project is named "gtk2-ng", here:

https://git.devuan.org/Daemonratte/gtk2-ng

I have compiled it in woofQ2; however had to configure with "--enable-introspection=no". Raised an issue:

https://git.devuan.org/Daemonratte/gtk2-ng/issues/21

...undefined symbols, looks like a header file is missing somewhere.

Anyway, going ahead with putting this into the next release of Easy, without the gobject introspection; currently no gtk2-based apps need it, none being builtin to Easy anyway. There are some python-based apps that need introspection, but they are using gtk3.   

Tags: easy