Plotinus isn't going to die, is it?

[superdreamkilla]

Plotinus still works on Ubuntu 20.10 beta with Caja. Something that is crucial for my workflow as I search for the name of bookmarked folders to warp to them. Plotinus is very easy to build from source and I even made a .deb package of it myself.

The problem is in the world of Linux we do not have much backward compatibility like Windows and it's only a matter of time before some change to Vala libraries or Caja makes it shit the bed on me. Plotinus has not received any updates since late 2017. I hope someone is atleast maintaining it incase it breaks oneday. Yet so far it continues to work on newer programs like Drawing, The latest release Gthumb and even Inkscape's GTK3 port ect. I'm just worried because no one has an eye on it and the GTK4 days could cause trouble for it. I hope someone will step in and maintain.

Lastly, I think we should also consider kickstarting and promoting Plotinus to Inkscape users as it would benefit them greatly. I am not a Inkscape user myself but it's still worth a shot.

Sincerly -T. Plotinus fan

[p-e-w]

Plotinus isn't dead, it's done. It does what I created it to do and I'm not aware of any major bugs.

Unfortunately, GTK4 has dropped support for modules, which means Plotinus neither works nor can be made to work in its current form on GTK4. As you may imagine, this has somewhat curbed my enthusiasm for adding new features to Plotinus.

But Plotinus still works on GTK3 and should continue to do so, since the GTK3 API has been frozen for a long time. Vala likewise hasn't seen breaking changes in quite a while, so I don't expect any problems there either.

[stuaxo]

Gtk4 doesn't do modules, but either it should support something like plotinus or expose a mechanism to do the same (which is probably something more focused than modules).

I wonder what the best way forward for a native equivalent would be ?

[johnfactotum]

either it should support something like plotinus

It will probably be added to libadwaita at some point. See https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/Design/os-mockups/-/issues/35