On first run of the app we will check to see if libvirt and qemu
are installed, and if not, offer to install them. In theory anyways.
In practice this stuff breaks repeatedly and is a pain to test because
every desktop has their own API provider with subtly different behavior.
My last round of testing about 12 months ago: apper on KDE was completely
busted and apparently unmaintained (although that may have changed lately),
gnome-software is the latest packagekit provider on gnome and completely
changes the semantics of the API compared to old style gnome-packagekit
that break a lot of virt-manager assumptions.
So I'm tired of it and want it all gone. Still use systemd to try and
check if libvirtd is running, and provide error messages at startup
to guide people.
Problem:
- GtkHBox and GtkVBox have been deprecated since version 3.2 and should not be used in newly-written code.
Solution: Replace GtkHBox and GtkVBox with GtkBox.
- I have used the find function in text-editor to find all occurances of "GtkVBox" and "GtkHBox" then replaced them with "GtkBox".
- Then append on a new line immediately after "<property name="orientation">...</property>" with value "horizontal" or "vertical" accordingly.
We need to bump the gtk dep to at least 3.10 for GtkRevealer usage,
and I want to bump the pygobject higher to drop some bug workarounds.
But since the oldest thing I have that meets those requirements is
RHEL/Centos 7.3 which is at 3.14 for both, set those as the minimum
versions since that's what I'll be testing against. They are still
1.5 years old and only a bit over a year newer than the previous
versions, so it's not a huge change.
Cole Robinson