Thanks, I will send an email in hope he reads it. So saddened by this. He replied from WWILSON53@austin.rr.com which was Bill's email. He
said he just monitors that mailbox periodically.
On 2022.03.15 17:53, Maher Awamy wrote:
> Oh my god, this is such sad news! RIP Bill, Jack, do you have Jesse's
> email
> so I can extend my condolences?
>
> :(
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 16, 2022, 00:33 Jack <ostroffjh@users.sourceforge.net>
> wrote:
>
> > On 2022.03.10 16:56, Jack wrote:
> > > On 2021.01.14 16:21, Bill Wilson wrote:
> > >> On Thu, 14 Jan 2021 18:15:12 +0100 Stefan Gehn
> > >> <stefan+gkrellm@srcbox.net> wrote:
> > > [snip....]
> > >>> One ticket I could immediately think of myself is the port to
> Gtk+
> > >>> 3/4 which will be inevitable at some point (hey, it survived the
> > >>> port from Gtk+ 1 to 2 too).
> > >>
> > >> It's OK with me. Gtk4 says it "deemphasizes" gdk-pixbuf. At the
> > >> point it becomes deprecated it will be an issue where "porting"
> > >> really means a major rewrite. I don't know what will happen
> then.
> > >
> > > Has there been any activity on this at all? Might it be worth
> > > porting to gtk3/4 without touching the gdk-pixbuf stuff. That
> would
> > > at lest change the dependency away from gtk2. Do I interpret the
> > > previous comment correctly that that should not be particularly
> > > difficult, or is that just overly simplistic/naive?
> > >
> > > Jack
> > I just received a response to my message from Jesse Wilson, Bill's
> > brother, informing me that Bill passed away last October 14th
> after a
> > short bout with cancer.
> >
> > Jack
> >
> >
>
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