Usage of clutter in fotocx (Was: fotoxx: Insecure use of temporary files)

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Michael,

this is just a gentle ping whether you might have made up your mind
about a rewrite.  If so it would be really great if you could drop me a
note.

Happy new year
   Andreas.

Am Sat, Nov 22, 2025 at 03:28:32PM +0100 schrieb Andreas Tille:
> Hi Michael,
> 
> Am Sat, Nov 22, 2025 at 01:00:46PM +0100 schrieb Michael Cornelison:
> > Removing clutter would mean a rewrite of the code now using libchamplain. I
> > have not decided if I will do this or not. One option is to remove the map
> > features in Fotocx (zoomable world map, click on a map marker to show a
> > gallery of images geolocated at or near the marker).
> 
> That would be a shame since this is some unique feature of fotocx I've
> not seen in Free Software so far and actually my motivation to work on
> fotocx inside Debian.
> 
> > There is a replacement for libchamplain, but a rewrite of code to use this
> > is required, and there is no documentation other than reading the code.
> > This is all Gnome stuff.
> 
> Sounds pretty unfortunate.
>  
> > I am angry that Linux in general does not care about
> > backward-compatibility.  Linux deserves its 2% share of desktops. My 1990s
> > Windows NT program still runs on Windows 11. You cannot expect people to
> > favor a system where working programs suddenly stop working.
> 
> Perfectly understandable.
>  
> > What is the harm of retaining libclutter in Debian?
> 
> I need to admit I've just realised this in connection with the fotoxx
> removal.  It was not my decision and I can't comment on this.
> 
> Kind regards
>     Andreas.
> 
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