Xfce Diary

Friday, July 28, 2006

Trash, Bugs, Wasted Time

So, the trash framework finally made its way into Xfce SVN. Still a bit rough around the edges, but that's mostly cosmetic fixes.

In other news, I wasted four hours hunting down a bug/incompatible change in GTK+ 2.10, where the GtkTreeModelFilter doesn't behave properly anymore, which means that people using Thunar with GTK+ 2.10 and the tree pane will most probably not be able to run Thunar. The suggested solution for now is to switch to the shortcuts pane instead (or downgrade to GTK+ 2.8).

Update: According to the responsible GTK+ maintainer that was an intentional break in the expected behavior of a GtkTreeModel. Of course, in a perfect world, toolkit maintainers would let application developers know of such breakage instead of waiting for other applications to crash... Thunar is now switched to the new behavior and will therefore work with GTK+ 2.10 again. Now we'll wait for the next crash. Maybe its worth the time porting Xfce to Qt; not that Qt is perfect, but atleast (if you have commercial support) you get useful comments about breakage in Qt that may cause trouble in applications.

10 Comments:

  • You are the men.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 2/8/06 00:34  

  • Anon: I think you mean to say, "You are the man!!!"

    I've started testing the Trash plugin, and I am impressed! I'm about to start looking at setting up debuilds, and automating the building from svn (I already do this from Gajim), or at least building from svn at least once a week!

    A job nicely done! Thanks for your work!

    By Blogger Weirdo, at 3/8/06 09:39  

  • Excellently done, thanks very much.

    (As an aside, thanks for the compact list option)

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 3/8/06 18:03  

  • qt? what about FOX toolkit or FLTK?

    By Anonymous sas, at 6/8/06 12:19  

  • Qt? fox? What?
    Xfce is a gtk2 based desktop environment.
    What the heck are you talking about?

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 6/8/06 23:13  

  • etwas off-topic...
    in den beiden letzen xfce betas bringen
    zwei doppelte Anführungszeichen in den Starter Menüs unter -Befehl- eingetragen das xfce4-panel zum Absturz

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 7/8/06 23:39  

  • nachtrag:
    der Absturz erfolgt natürlich erst wenn auf den entsprechenden Starter geklickt wird.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 7/8/06 23:40  

  • If you will alter xfce on qt4 I shall be very happy.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 16/8/06 18:11  

  • "If you will alter xfce on qt4 I shall be very happy." <--- That was a nice joke :P

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 5/9/06 18:21  

  • Why?
    Qt - Better Then The Best (c) KMFDM ;)

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 22/10/06 15:00  

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