Peter Onion ponion@alien.bt.co.uk wrote:

Is there any reason why someone with ubuntu 5.04 installed on a machine would use "--enable-gtk1" as an option to "./configure" ?

Hatred of gtk2's oddities (^A is not "select all" damnit!), or maybe something that doesn't compile with the version of gtk2 on the system and the user did the simplest thing that could possibly work. Most likely, following old instructions.