@mate-user How about not editing the task? Especially for trivial stuff like changing usb to USB. Testing the actual software is more important.

Just fixed some spellings so it looks better. Also removed an extra m from communication. If you don't want me fixing spelling mistakes, you can change the edit policy to Triage Team only, for tasks like this.

@mate-user I shouldn't have to do that. You could just help test rather than changing frankly minor things to the task.

aegisub: bug tracker & forums are out of service, waiting for a reaction on IRC.

new ticket is a link to the issue that was reported by one of us upstream.

I tested VeraCrypt on a ThinkPad t420 (GPU: NVIDIA Quadro NVS 4200M) running Solus MATE (unstable). Overall, the program functioned as expected.

1. I opened the program from the Brisk Menu and the CLI without incident.
2. I created an encrypted volume, mounted the volume, and copied data to the volume, again without incident.
3. I unmounted then re-mounted the encrypted volume to ensure the integrity of the copied data. Again, everything functioned normally.

The graphical performance was largely unremarkable. I did notice an oddly placed checkbox in one of the dialog boxes, which I've reproduced at https://ibb.co/ipqxOS

youtube-dl-gui is working fine apart from a couple of items in the settings dialog being slightly oversized. Can't edit the task myself as i'm part of developers and not triage team.

@joebonrichie Changed. Should be able to do it now.

pgadmin3 works, but its tabs aren't themed properly: image.

I think wxMaxima's icons may be drawing as raster images rather than vectors. image. There's a couple of issues on their tracker that are similar, but they're all for Windows builds.

Divisors were missing in any program that I tried and used them (illustrated in the wxMaxima shot).

Also tried woeusb and PlayOnLinux, both were fine.

@Azphreal Thanks for helping test, really appreciated. I'll get the task updated and maybe @kyrios123 can see if there are patches for those software (not sure if pgadmin3 is gonna be dropped for 4.x or what, but may be worth patching in the meantime) or file issues upstream.

pgadmin3 Problem reported here, but I found a discussion from early 2016 on their mailing list which says that they don't really want to put efforts on wxGTK3 but rather focus on pgadmin4 which doesn't use wxWidgets anymore.

EDIT: Answer from upstream

pgAdmin 3 is no longer supported. It it recommended that you try pgAdmin 4.
Ref: https://www.pgadmin.org/download/

PlayonLinux has massive visual bugs, so far that I cannot install any new software because I do not see any fields for entering (last picture). Terminal output https://hastebin.com/zuyodicamu.vbs

It appears playonlinux already had bad visuals for some - see T4655, I never used it though so I can't confirm.

Just submitted patch D2432 for codelite 12.0 which looks better with wx-gtk3

@joebonrichie before the rebuild I had no issues

In T5974#107593, @Girtablulu wrote:

@joebonrichie before the rebuild I had no issues

Would be interesting to see if the same occurs for other users.

I just tried Dolphin-Emu and encountered several issues. I've created an album on imgur with screenshots and descriptions to show the problems:

https://imgur.com/a/24b0K

Note most of those windows also have at least minor issues on Solus Stable, but with the wxWidgets GTK3 upgrade they get worse in almost all cases. Here are screenshots (+descroptions) of the old version:

https://imgur.com/a/WIg52

So it seems that although everything runs and some proper tests haven't been performed for all the applications in the list, I see that

• There are some little visual issues with a few applications. Like theme not properly applied on all elements or toolbars that look ugly. Nothing too serious, but still it's a regression. Some of them will most likely never been fixed (pgadmin3 is an example)
• Some applications suffer from "performances" issues like eviacam or kicad
• Finally dolphin-emu and playonlinux GUI are quite broken

I haven't found fixes for these last issues. I did apply a few patches on wxPython to address gtk-3 related issues but it didn't help. I'd like to see some feedback on retroshare and pcsx2 (I have some visual glitches on retroshare, but I know these are caused by my VM because I had them already prior with older versions), but I think we'll have to rollback this before the sync.

Okay, I just tested pcsx2. I found one minor issue and one small improvement over the old version. So overall a neutral result ^^ (actually in this case I would favour the new version)

New version: https://imgur.com/a/sS2Zm

Old version: https://imgur.com/a/QsKJA

Thanks a lot @Staudey for your help with the tests, it's really appreciated !

No problem at all!

Just tested retroshare. There are icons missing all over the place now, but nothing too major in the end.

Gallery of old and new version: https://imgur.com/a/vil84

Voting to roll this back. Its a regression.

Has my vote as well.

I also agree. However, we've put most of the work into this, so let's keep working on the last remaining issues locally. Could be just an outdated library, missing configure option and/or we need to bug various upstreams to fix theming with the gtk3 build.

Ack. I'll start the rollback right now.

It would be nice if we can continue the work, however I did search for solutions for POL and dolphin-emu, but without success. I did also apply some more patches locally on wxPhython in order to try to solve some of the problems. I list them here as they might be needed.

• http://trac.wxwidgets.org/ticket/16767
• http://trac.wxwidgets.org/ticket/17160
• https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxPython/pull/23

I think for now, the most important is to report the remaining issues upstream.

You should also know that wxWidgets 3.1.1 was released a couple of weeks ago and I didn't succeed building the current wxPython against it. I guess it required wxPython "Phoenix" which is basically the version 4.x

EDIT: Argh, wxWidegets 3.0.4 was released 3 hours ago !!!

https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/blob/v3.0.4/docs/changes.txt#L583

From the changelog it looks like they fixed a fair few visual issues with GTK+3.

- Fix wxComboBox entry sizing with GTK+ >= 3.20.
- Fix drawing miniframe resize grip with GTK3.
- Fix wxButton::SetBitmapPosition() with GTK+ 3.
- Use CSS for window font and colors on GTK3.

Pretty bad timing tbh, but honestly I would wait until 3.0.5 or when 3.1 becomes stable before we attempt this again.

dolphin-emu dropped wxwidgets btw

Yeah, that is correct. They have dropped wxwidgets for a new and improved QT interface...

The only way to get rid of the issues in Dolphin, until a new version, would have to be updating to a developer snapshot or pulling in a lot of the patches for the QT gui. The first option in probably the easiest and it brings a huge amount of improvements overall to Dolphin.

They release very rarely, so nobody really knows when a new version will be available. The QT milestone is closed and they have, not to long ago, removed the old interface from the codebase. So the interface is in a really good state. Have tested it myself and it is a huge improvement.

Dolphin-emu can now be fully removed from this list, because their entire codebase is switched from wxwidgets gtk2 to QT5. This can now happen thanks to this commit:
https://dev.getsol.us/R654:2cc13aff5bc35b871d12ef4ba8d491a4b3137242

Do you need help to continue this?

Some words on depreciation and possible deprecation:

• pgadmin: Seems to not have any maintainers in Solus, but upstream is fine. Deprecation time?
• aegisusb: can be removed from the list, seem to have been deprecated
• youtube-dl-gui: Should probably be deprecated. the project is dead upstream and has no maintainer on our side.

I opened a PR to clean some of the above crust away to make this task easier: https://github.com/getsolus/solus-sc/pull/49

The PR has now been merged. Would anyone with the ability of editing this task please cross out pgadmin, aegisusb and youtube-dl-gui from the list?

The gradient on the notebook bar should've been fixed by this: https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/pull/1791
Let's see if I can backport the patch or if I just have to wait for a new (stable) release.

EDIT: OK it's a series of patches actually, but the whole story is the same.

3.1.5 soon to be released: https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/blob/39c02779423451f7938d36724807ed457b46d7d8/docs/publicity/announce.txt

hugin validated. Still unsure why frei0r is listed because it seems not to depend on wxwidgets.

This list doesn't look complete
Searching current active repos about what is using wxwidgets-devel, there are some packages missing from the list:

0ad (doesn't have wxwidgets as rundep)
aegisub (Reintroduced in the repo)
amule (wxwidgets2.8-devel)
cubicsdr (Added later)
dfarc (Added later)
erlang (wxwidgets-devel added later)
freefilesync (Added later)
perl-alien-wxwidgets (doesn't have wxwidgets as rundep)
prusa-slicer (Added later)
wxsvg (Added later)

Many packages were included in the repos after creation of this task.
About frei0r I didn't find any connection with wxwidgets

As for Prusa Slicer it should work just fine with GTK3 after adding -DSLIC3R_GTK=3. I could test it if needed.

I'm rewriting here because my message got lost on IRC somehow:

Too many packages require patches for wxWidgets 3.1.x compatibility. It's a massacre. For this reason, I'm proposing to enable GTK3 in our current wxWidgets package (3.0.x). This is at the cost of having the ugly tab bar, since its look and feel issue was fixed in 3.1.x. IMO it's not worth staying with GTK2 at the sole cost of an ugly bar. People with HiDPI screens are gonna complain more about scaling than a theme.