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[Seth Hillbrand <seth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Carsten-

Am 2018-10-19 05:53, schrieb Carsten Schoenert:
> 5.0.1 is almost unusable if build with libwxgtk3.0-gtk3-dev and right
> now the KiCad package in testing would become RC if the transition to
> libwxgtk3.0-gtk3-{0v5,dev} would start.

Right.  This was the (or one of the) motivation(s) behind the 5.1 
release.

> And applications which using libwxgtk3.0-gtk3-0v5 aren't usable under
> Wayland. It's all a mess.

Is there a workaround to this issue?  Or do we just wait for 
Wayland/GTK3/wx to be fixed?

> I haven't build a recent devel version of KiCad against this GTK3+ 
> based
> library of wxwidget3.0 so I can't say if the current HEAD would be
> better usable if linkend against libwxgtk3.0-gtk3-0v5.

This is what I am running now (Debian Stretch) to shake out gtk3 bugs.  
But I'll need to upgrade to Buster to test scripting. --Whoever decided 
on this packaging strategy was perhaps too cavalier--  The GTK3 build is 
stable and, apart from a few UI quirks and legacy pcbnew/modedit, fully 
operational

It would be good to get 5.1 nightlies for Ubuntu 18.04/Buster optionally 
built against gtk3 so that we could get a few more reports as I'm sure I 
don't touch everything.

Best-
Seth