**Hacking gtk2-ng**

Note:
When this document was first created back in the day, "hacking" meant to 
modify code to do new and interesting things, not quite the same as the 
more sinister meaning it has taken on today. It is in the spirit of the 
original meaning that this newly revised document has been updated.

Full list of Daemonratte's projects:
https://git.devuan.org/Daemonratte

We welcome all contributions to the project! And the best way to make that
happen is to first clone the main gtk2-ng repo at :
https://git.devuan.org/Daemonratte/gtk2-ng

To make a pull request or report a bug, you'll need to register an account
at: https://git.devuan.org

Got some ideas or a feature request? You can also make an account at:
https://devuanusers.com and join in the discussions here:
https://devuanusers.com/forum-gtk2-revival-project--12

Cloning the git repo to your local computer is a great way to experiment
and test results, you'll need to be familiar with git commands and first
need to install the build dependencies:

#  yad build-essential git libcups2-dev gettext autopoint
#  autoconf automake libtool pkg-config gtk-doc-tools gobject-introspection
#  libglib2.0-dev libpango1.0-dev libatk1.0-dev libcairo2-dev libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-dev
#  libfontconfig1-dev libfreetype-dev libharfbuzz-dev libfribidi-dev libpng-dev
#  libx11-dev libxext-dev libxrender-dev libxrandr-dev libxcursor-dev
#  libxinerama-dev libxi-dev libxfixes-dev libxcomposite-dev libxdamage-dev

There are build scripts (Linux) to help automate the process and do local testing
side-by-side against current versions of gtk2, you can find them here:
https://git.devuan.org/greenjeans/gtk2-ng-test-scripts

And if you just want to do some simple testing there's an easy way to do
that without having to do a lot of building/installing, a special test-iso
with the above scripts already installed to automate everything, that you
can run in a live-session or a VM, or also install if you have a partition 
to spare:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/vuu-do/files/Vuu-do-5.03/5.03-gtk2ng-testing/

~greenjeans June 2026