Atril since 1.27.1 depends on mate-desktop about atril HOT 4 CLOSED

Atril is designed for mate-desktop and it is valid to use mate-desktop libs. This was needed to fix deprecations.
See 5fbd44b
Bad times for xfce users :P

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Atril can still run standalone. Only the mate-desktop library (often named something like libmate-desktop by distros) is needed for it, not the whole MATE desktop environment. The functions added to the mate-desktop library re-implement deprecated GTK functions. Not enough of it to justify splitting it out into a separate library with a name like say, GTK3-extensions. The whole mate-desktop package is (in my last build) only 4.8 MB.

Some confusion comes from the name of the library. Back when we released 1.10, the first package out was mate-desktop. Someone at Phoronix thought that means the whole DE had been released due to the name.

from atril.

I see. Still a bummer though because it adds more complexity in the build process. :(

What I don't understand is the willing to do that when GTK3 is basically dead, receiving basically just critical updates in the last years. It seems nothing is going to be removed from it because GNOME is focused in GTK4 only.

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