FS#80086 - [chromium] Please add gtk4 as optdepends

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Zylsjsp (Zentino) - Thursday, 26 October 2023, 07:20 GMT
Last edited by Toolybird (Toolybird) - Sunday, 29 October 2023, 19:38 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Evangelos Foutras (foutrelis)
Felix Yan (felixonmars)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
When I happen to remove gtk4 previosly installed as dependency for transmission-gtk, IME disfuctions in chromium under wayland due to the lack of gtk4 dependency.
With my config flags as: --ozone-platform-hint=auto --gtk-version=4, which is currently the only workaround for using ibus in chromium wayland.

Additional info:
* package version(s)
* config and/or log files etc. chromium-flags as: --ozone-platform-hint=auto --gtk-version=4

Steps to reproduce:
This task depends upon

Closed by  Toolybird (Toolybird)
Sunday, 29 October 2023, 19:38 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  Fixed in -git pending next release.
Comment by Toolybird (Toolybird) - Thursday, 26 October 2023, 07:46 GMT
The IME function issue is described in the Wiki [1]. But yes, I suppose the optdep could be justified:

$ strings /usr/lib/chromium/chromium | grep libgtk
libgtk-4.so.1
libgtk-3.so.0

[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Chromium#Native_Wayland_support
Comment by Zylsjsp (Zentino) - Thursday, 26 October 2023, 08:16 GMT
I've always been looking forward to a ultimate solution for IME under Wayland. I'm using plasma-wayland with ibus as IME, but suffer from some issues such as input window doesn't fix to input blank position, tray icon menu and S-space switching pop up due to noting pressed...However all these issues with Xwayland is endurable, but add the optdep is a simple task could be achieved easily, I believe, which will provide a better experience for package management.
Comment by Evangelos Foutras (foutrelis) - Sunday, 29 October 2023, 09:20 GMT
Added in Git, will be in the next Chromium release.

[1] https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/chromium/-/commit/abc2144bfe40

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