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

[Patrick Welche <prlw1%cam.ac.uk@localhost>]

On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 08:56:14PM +0100, Geert Hendrickx wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 06:40:20PM +0000, Patrick Welche wrote:
> > 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.

I wrote that bug up in https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=607775
It now seems to be gtk version dependent, as a NetBSD/amd64 box with
gtk 2.16 (so older than 2.18), yet cairo 1.8.8 doesn't show the bug...

Cheers,

Patrick