Re: How to detect a gtk desktop programmatically

I'm asking how to detect a Gtk desktop.  An answer that says "always' isn't
really correct.  The use-cases for this -- as indicated by the Debian
search results in the commit that removed this flag -- were in the hundreds.

The ability to detect a Gtk-based desktop seems like a perfectly valid
question.

-Tres


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On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 3:47 PM Ray Strode <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> > So, with the removal of this GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID variable, how
> should OpenJDK -- moving forward -- detect a Gtk-based desktop?
>
> So as I understand it, the choices for look and feel are:
>
>  WindowsLookAndFeel, GTKLookAndFeel, AquaLookAndFeel,
> MotifLookAndFeel, and MetalLookAndFeel
>
> Of those choices, GTKLookAndFeel is the best answer for any linux
> desktop I think.  KDE configures gtk to look nice on KDE, and the rest
> of the
> desktops use GTK or at least look good with GTK.  Defaulting to Metal
> means looking bad on almost every desktop.
>
> Or can you think of a common desktop choice where GTK look and feel
> isn't the best option of the available ones?
>
> I think the logic should just be "if running linux, pick gtk".  You
> shouldn't need to check any environment variables, imo.
>
> --Ray
>

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