Arch Linux

From the readme:
171 Note: GTK+3 is still somehow experimental. It is needed for some
172 features but we have several complains about the GTK+3 usability.
173
174 So if you need a stable version, you are advised to compile it
175 with GTK+2. If you want to play with the cool new features, use
176 GTK+3.

Before recommending we switch to an experimental interface, I would appreciate it if you could try the GTK3 version yourself and let us know if it works well enough for you. Cheers.

I have used the git version of geeqie which uses GTK+3 and had no problems.

i submitted a bug about the experimental status of GTK+3 and here is the discussion and possible decision: https://github.com/BestImageViewer/geeqie/issues/775

The Readme.MD is now changed and both GTK 2 and 3 are considered stable

Thanks! Let's switch.

Where has the README file been changed, though? I'm looking there:

https://github.com/BestImageViewer/geeqie

It says "GTK+3 is still somehow experimental. It is needed for some features but we have several complains about the GTK+3 usability. So if you need a stable version, you are advised to compile it with GTK+2. If you want to play with the cool new features, use GTK+3."

On the positive side, building with GTK+3 is the default.

> The project website is http://www.geeqie.org/ and you will find the latest sources in the Geeqie repository.

Links to http://geeqie.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=geeqie.git

It has this gem: http://geeqie.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=geeqie.git;a=commitdiff;h=4800e2c1ae84d618c19ab330d53e4c528a2a000f

+##PLEASE NOTE!
+The repository at GitHub is not the main repository, and is likely to be out-of-date.
+If you wish to clone the source code, please use the repository at [geeqie.org](http://geeqie.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=geeqie.git).
+Details are given in the [Downloading](#downloading) section below.

... but this warning is itself part of the out-of-dateness of the github mirror, it's not available on github.

The README change you're looking for is http://geeqie.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=geeqie.git;a=commitdiff;h=c3029a4db75fc2e647ef61149e24021db4a5c4ef

It's also immediately following the gtk3-specific fix for https://github.com/BestImageViewer/geeqie/issues/396
Note also the fixes for "GPU acceleration" are purported to fix https://github.com/BestImageViewer/geeqie/issues/602 (gtk3 issue) too.

Thanks Eli!

Also I've had no success building 1.5.1 with GTK+3 so we would likely have to switch to a more up-to-date git commit if we are to drop GTK+2...

I believe our official package should remain at 1.5.1 built with GTK+2 until upstream cuts a new release.

If you want a GTK+3 build today then the AUR package `geeqie-git` is probably your best bet.

Cheers.