Re: dasher (Re: Netbook support - status update?)

[Geert Hendrickx <ghen%telenet.be@localhost>]

On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 06:40:20PM +0000, Patrick Welche wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 02:01:54PM +0100, Geert Hendrickx wrote:
> > Apart from the whole discussion on how optional dependencies should be
> > tackled within pkgsrc, has anyone been able to build dasher without gnome?
> > I haven't so far.
> 
> I popped a snapshot of what is in git://git.gnome.org/dasher at:
> 
>  http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/prlw1/dasher/dasher-nls.tar.bz2
> 
> and I just managed
> 
>  ./configure --without-gnome --disable-a11y --disable-nls
> 
> on a NetBSD-current/amd64 system with gtk etc from pkgsrc.
> 
> BTW sometimes with cairo, on startup the canvas isn't drawn. I need to
> resize the window for it to appear. --without-cairo uses gdk, and that
> works, which suggests that the events in dasher are correct. The "sometimes"
> seems to be "on computers with new cairo", but given all the cairo
> dependencies amongst shared libraries, its hard to test against cairo
> version - have any of you seen a change of behaviour in cairo-using
> applications after a cairo (+ sadly gtk) upgrade?



Thanks, that works indeed (but I'm seeing the same odd bug that goes away
when resizing the window).  I have added a "gnome" option to the package,
but left it enabled by default.


        Geert


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