Re: gtk on windows 10

2018-03-09 Thread Allin Cottrell
e, pretty-much-native appearance on Windows 10 out of the box when using gtk2 with the MS-Windows theme and the libwimp engine (which is the default on Windows). Latest version 2.24.32. If you're using features specific to gtk3, of course, that won't do it for y

Re: g_error_free() warning on null pointer

2015-08-15 Thread Allin Cottrell
of g_error_free() getting a NULL argument is a coder expecting NULL -> no-op semantics by analogy with C's free(). What sort of bug would you have in mind? @McConville: the standard most relevant to your argument is the ISO C standard, not

Re: Should we drop XP?

2015-03-31 Thread Allin Cottrell
On Tue, 31 Mar 2015, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: Hi; On 31 March 2015 at 21:58, Allin Cottrell wrote: so I was wondering if for 3.18/2.46 if we should drop XP. I think it would make our life easier and anyway why do we need to support something that microsoft is also not supporting? For 3.18

Re: Should we drop XP?

2015-03-31 Thread Allin Cottrell
, if gtk2 is itself considered "legacy" (though personally I stil like it fine), why drop XP support? -- Allin Cottrell Department of Economics Wake Forest University ___ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail

Re: GTK+, WM, desktops and CSD

2015-03-05 Thread Allin Cottrell
On Fri, 6 Mar 2015, Florian Müllner wrote: On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 12:44 AM Allin Cottrell wrote: Isn't there some dissonance here: "essential UI" embedded in "decorations"? How did we come to this? [...] why not fix the WM [...] rather than conflating UI with decora

Re: GTK+, WM, desktops and CSD

2015-03-05 Thread Allin Cottrell
On Thu, 5 Mar 2015, Paul Davis wrote: On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 5:44 PM, Allin Cottrell wrote: On Thu, 5 Mar 2015, Florian Müllner wrote: The worst thing that can happen when the toolkit forcefully rips CSD from applications is that there is no more UI to save, navigate, load or whatever

Re: GTK+, WM, desktops and CSD

2015-03-05 Thread Allin Cottrell
On Thu, 5 Mar 2015, Florian Müllner wrote: The worst thing that can happen when the toolkit forcefully rips CSD from applications is that there is no more UI to save, navigate, load or whatever essential UI the applications happens to put into its decorations. Isn't there some dissonance her

Re: GTK+, WM, desktops and CSD

2015-03-05 Thread Allin Cottrell
get the job done efficiently), who greatly appreciates gtk and codes using both gtk2 and gtk3, and occasionally submits patches for both, and who doesn't care for CSD: "Go, Olivier!" I hope your suggestions have an impact. -- Allin Cottrell Department of Economics Wake Fo

Re: Re-open closed bugreport

2014-02-13 Thread Allin Cottrell
On Thu, 13 Feb 2014, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: hi; On 13 February 2014 16:22, Allin Cottrell wrote: +1. I can confirm that this bug is present in GTK 3.10.6 on Fedora 20, and that's _with_ Adwaita. It only affects some dialogs. instead of saying this on the mailing list, could you pleas

Re: Re-open closed bugreport

2014-02-13 Thread Allin Cottrell
ike Xubuntu will look a little crappier with Gtk3.10. +1. I can confirm that this bug is present in GTK 3.10.6 on Fedora 20, and that's _with_ Adwaita. It only affects some dialogs. -- Allin Cottrell Department of Economics Wake Forest University

Re: Is this a cast?

2013-10-11 Thread Allin Cottrell
I suppose the parenthesis can actually go around the type or the variable, correct? No. In a regular C cast you can't put the parentheses around the variable name. Allin Cottrell ___ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org https://ma

Re: Removal of icons in buttons/menus

2013-10-10 Thread Allin Cottrell
ul unless I substantially rewrite my GTK code. Allin Cottrell ___ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list

Re: GTK+3 win32/64 build environment

2013-04-10 Thread Allin Cottrell
32api? That's right. And these days you don't need special versions of the gcc and binutils sources; the primary packages work fine so long as you pass the right magic to the configure script. Allin Cottrell ___ gtk-devel-list mailing list

Re: Is GTK+ a cross-platform toolkit ?

2013-03-06 Thread Allin Cottrell
tle before updating a binary release and keep an eye open for bug reports. Allin Cottrell ___ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list

Re: gtk-quartz status

2013-03-03 Thread Allin Cottrell
On Sat, 2 Mar 2013, Paul Davis wrote: On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 12:08 PM, Allin Cottrell wrote: I recently did a native quartz build of the GTK stack on OS X 10.6.8, using gtk+-2.24.16 along with latest-stable versions of GLib and all other dependencies (including FreeType 2.4.11 and fontconfig

gtk-quartz status

2013-03-02 Thread Allin Cottrell
uidance on getting a fully functional gtk-quartz setup. -- Allin Cottrell Department of Economics Wake Forest University, NC ___ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list

Re: building gtk+ 3 on rhel6

2013-01-13 Thread Allin Cottrell
ot;release candidate" versions of third party software. Right now, to build current pango you need an rc version of fontconfig. To avoid that, drop back to the previous pango release. (Pango's configure script is pretty tight-lipped about dependency problems, which is not v

Re: gtk+-2.20.10, gdk-pixbuf-2.24.1 OpenWrt install fail

2012-03-14 Thread Allin Cottrell
/ (I don't know about your other question.) Allin Cottrell ___ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list

Re: GMenuModel has landed

2011-12-08 Thread Allin Cottrell
one-trick ponies. Allin Cottrell ___ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list

Re: Severe treeview performance regression (Gtk2 -> gtk3)

2011-10-20 Thread Allin Cottrell
On Thu, 20 Oct 2011, Clemens Eisserer wrote: Hi Allin, (a) gtk-2.24.7 and friends (latest stable stack) (b) gtk-3.2.1  and friends (again, all latest stable) I can't detect any difference in the scrolling performance in the two cases; it seems quite acceptable in both. This is on Linux 3.0.7,

Re: Severe treeview performance regression (Gtk2 -> gtk3)

2011-10-20 Thread Allin Cottrell
pad with "wheel-type" scrolling via Trackpad. Allin Cottrell ___ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list

Re: GLib 2.31.0

2011-10-19 Thread Allin Cottrell
On Wed, 19 Oct 2011, Ryan Lortie wrote: At long last, GLib 2.31.0 has been released. Thanks, the change log is impressive! One question: should we consider this release "latest stable GLib" or is the odd minor version number a sign of work-in-progress? Alli

Re: circular dependency between glib and pkg-config

2011-09-28 Thread Allin Cottrell
he glib build (as in pkg-config --libs zlib, pkg-config --cflags zlib). The effect of the calls to pkg-config is to define ZLIB_LIBS and ZLIB_CFLAGS, but these could equally well be set manually. Allin Cottrell ___ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel

Re: GTK and OSX: a call to sanity

2011-09-09 Thread Allin Cottrell
, guys, and keep up the cooperation! Allin Cottrell ___ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list

Re: www.gtk.org now updated but no news!

2011-06-03 Thread Allin Cottrell
text concerning "older versions" dates back to the time when 2.N was current. That is, the only earlier version explicitly mentioned is 1.2: "Some applications still require GTK+ 1.2...". It should probably be mentioned that _most_ GTK applications stil

Re: Is there a way to send some user-defined value while creating a gtk-window??

2011-04-29 Thread Allin Cottrell
you can attach any data you like to a gtk widget using the function g_object_set_data() -- and can then retrieve it with g_object_get_data(). See the section "The Base Object Type" in the GObject Reference Manual. -- Allin Cottrell Department o

Re: New GTK+ website design

2011-04-19 Thread Allin Cottrell
+ Project"). The font itself is fine, but I'd drop the black shadows for a cleaner and non-pixelated look. Allin Cottrell ___ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list

Re: cross-compiling glib-1.2

2011-03-29 Thread Allin Cottrell
On Tue, 29 Mar 2011, joey kuo wrote: > while I run configure in glib-1.2.5, I got error message saying "checking > for extra flags to get ANSI library prototypes... configure: error: can not > run test program while cross compiling". google: cross-compiling g

bug in gtk_combo_box_text_get_active_text?

2011-02-14 Thread Allin Cottrell
ny drop-down strings, but it does have text in the entry: gtk_combo_box_text_get_active_text returns NULL but if I get hold of the entry with gtk_bin_get_child and do gtk_entry_get_text I can get the text OK. Under the same conditions, gtk_combo_box_get_active_text works to get the entry text in gtk

Re: GTK+ 2.24.0

2011-02-06 Thread Allin Cottrell
incoherent on the whole GTK stack. (E.g. "GLib 2.24.0 released, April 1, 2010: GLib 2.22 is a stable release..."). It's lame, and totally unnecessary, to have this sort of confusion on the primary gtk site. Allin Cottrell ___ gtk

Re: build failure pango 1.28.3

2011-01-29 Thread Allin Cottrell
/libffi-3.0.9/include > > > GISCAN PangoFT2-1.0.gir > In file included from > /TOOLCHAIN/src.pango.xfce.20110129.094436.1726.localhost/pango-1.28.3/pango/pango-ot.h:25:0, > from :4: > ../pango/pangofc-font.h:27:35: fatal error: fontconfig/fontconfig.h: >

Mersenne Twister in GLib

2010-12-17 Thread Allin Cottrell
http://www.math.sci.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/~m-mat/MT/emt.html Also, I'm wondering if the GLib implementation is up to date with the code on the Hiroshima site, and if not, whether there would be interest in updating it -- something that I could probably contribute to. -- Allin Cottrell Department of Economics W

Re: GTK3 breakage

2010-09-26 Thread Allin Cottrell
On Sun, 26 Sep 2010, Benjamin Otte wrote: > the GTK API docs have an ever-expanding migration guide... > > GtkObject is gone Is there any current documentation on how to use gtk_adjustment_new? The doc for GTK+ 2.90.7 still says it returns a pointer-to-GtkObject. Allin

Re: GTK+ 2.22.0 released

2010-09-23 Thread Allin Cottrell
On Thu, 23 Sep 2010, Matthias Clasen wrote: > I've released a stable gdk-pixbuf 2.22 a few days ago, and a stable > glib 2.26 should be out before the end of the week. > > On 9/23/10, Allin Cottrell wrote: > > > > If this is intended to be a "latest stable"

Re: GTK+ 2.22.0 released

2010-09-23 Thread Allin Cottrell
the errors I'm getting from pkg-config when I try configuring GTK+ 2.22.0: Requested 'glib-2.0 >= 2.25.10' but version of GLib is 2.24.2 Requested 'gdk-pixbuf-2.0 >= 2.21.0' but version of GdkPixbuf is 2.20.1 Allin Cottrell __

Re: Gtk-OSX

2010-09-01 Thread Allin Cottrell
we also should explain that the X11 version of GTK+ works fine. X11 != Linux && Linux != Gnome. Allin Cottrell ___ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list

Re: Gtk-OSX (was: Website proposal for usability)

2010-08-30 Thread Allin Cottrell
On Mon, 30 Aug 2010, Paul Davis wrote: > On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 9:47 AM, Allin Cottrell wrote: > > On Mon, 30 Aug 2010, Tor Lillqvist wrote: > > > >> > It has certainly been explained that that is the situation on > >> > Windows, and I fully accep

Re: Gtk-OSX (was: Website proposal for usability)

2010-08-30 Thread Allin Cottrell
#x27;m happy to select what I need from the run-time zip archives for Windows. You have done us a major service by making those archives available. I'd like to be able to do the same for OS X (if a common runtime package for users is deemed infeasible or undesirable). Allin Cottrell ___ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list

Re: Gtk-OSX (was: Website proposal for usability)

2010-08-30 Thread Allin Cottrell
On Sun, 29 Aug 2010, Paul Davis wrote: > On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 4:17 PM, Allin Cottrell wrote: > > On Fri, 27 Aug 2010, Kristian Rietveld wrote: > > > >> For a GTK+ runtime package ("GTK+ Framework"), I think you should > >> check out what has been d

Re: Gtk-OSX (was: Website proposal for usability)

2010-08-27 Thread Allin Cottrell
out an X11 build (taking at face value the statement on GTK-OSX that the Quartz port is still immature). Building GTK+ for Windows is not an easy task either, and it's _very_ helpful that app developers are able to download a well-built runtime. Allin Cottrell _

Re: Gtk-OSX (was: Website proposal for usability)

2010-08-27 Thread Allin Cottrell
y GTK statistical app with my students, both PC and Mac users, and the Mac users don't seem to have any special difficulty with using it. Allin Cottrell ___ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list

Re: Website proposal for usability

2010-08-26 Thread Allin Cottrell
R guys have some packages at http://r.research.att.com/libs/ and maybe one of them would be willing to do an "official" build. Allin Cottrell ___ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list

Re: gtk_widget_draw()

2010-08-16 Thread Allin Cottrell
eemed sensible, though not without problems for app developers. I've now "cleaned up" my app so that it does not use GdkGC if GTK is new enough. But my replacement code for GdkGC uses GdkPixmap -- and now we can't have that either?! I think you guys need to call a halt some

Re: rendering-cleanup

2010-08-08 Thread Allin Cottrell
On Sun, 8 Aug 2010, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: > On Sun, 2010-08-08 at 10:19 -0400, Allin Cottrell wrote: > > On Sat, 7 Aug 2010, Benjamin Otte wrote: > > > > > my rendering-cleanup work is pretty much done now... > > > > > > I'm still in the pr

Re: rendering-cleanup

2010-08-08 Thread Allin Cottrell
demo could be updated to use cairo rather than the old gdk drawing mechanism -- particularly for those of us who never truly understood the gdk mechanism but managed to get by via copy-paste-and-modify from known good sources! Allin Cottrell ___ gtk-devel-l

Re: glib-2.22.5, gtk-2.18.8 and firefox 3.6

2010-03-17 Thread Allin Cottrell
is conditional on priv->buffer not being NULL. If I conditionalize the second invocation in the same way firefox does not crash. Allin Cottrell ___ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list

Re: glib-2.22.5, gtk-2.18.8 and firefox 3.6

2010-03-16 Thread Allin Cottrell
On Tue, 16 Mar 2010, Allin Cottrell wrote: > I just built and installed the newly-announced glib-2.22.5 and > gtk-2.18.8, and restarted X. After doing so, firefox 3.6 will > not run; it reliably segfaults on startup. I then rebuilt > and reinstalled glib-2.22.4 and gtk-2.18.7 and

glib-2.22.5, gtk-2.18.8 and firefox 3.6

2010-03-16 Thread Allin Cottrell
1, timeout=-1) at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/poll.c:87 resultvar = #0 0xb7876424 in ?? () -- Allin Cottrell Department of Economics Wake Forest University ___ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list

Re: help on disabling file-chooser

2010-01-31 Thread Allin Cottrell
t one wants to produce a semi-disabled version of a GTK app, in the way that "free previews" of some commercial apps are shipped without the ability to save files. Allin Cottrell ___ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org http://ma

Re: gtk installation- help reqd

2009-12-26 Thread Allin Cottrell
tk-app-devel list. But... > checking for GLIB - version >= 2.21.3... *** 'pkg-config > --modversion glib-2.0' returned 2.22.0, but GLIB (2.20.1) *** > was found! You have multiple versions of glib on your system. Time to clean up. Allin Cottrell

Re: Why are no developers completing/maintaining native Gtk+ for OS X?

2009-11-10 Thread Allin Cottrell
On Tue, 10 Nov 2009, John Ralls wrote: > On Nov 10, 2009, at 7:50 AM, Allin Cottrell wrote: > > > > On Tue, 10 Nov 2009, Paul Davis wrote: > > > >> I do not believe that using a pre-built GTK OS X framework is > >> desirable for users or developers. Incl

Re: Why are no developers completing/maintaining native Gtk+ for OS X?

2009-11-10 Thread Allin Cottrell
gtk.org, one can select the pre-built package that works best (i.e. "complete control over GTK version"). It would be great to be able to do that with OS X too, though of course I understand that Kris Rietveld casn't be expected to do all the work this wou

RE: Why are no developers completing/maintaining native Gtk+ for OS X?

2009-11-09 Thread Allin Cottrell
I've tried what I think is the only downloadable native package (namely, the old Imendio one) but it's not good enough for production use. Allin Cottrell ___ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list

Re: Why are no developers completing/maintaining native Gtk+ for OS X?

2009-11-09 Thread Allin Cottrell
If there's any way to improve the web presence of GTK/OS X, and to provide a current pre-built GTK framework for downloading, that could make a big difference. Allin Cottrell ___ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list

Re: Are Out-of-Tree Widgets Second-Class Citizens?

2009-10-02 Thread Allin Cottrell
well. These two responses (Cody's and Brian's) don't jive. Any more clarification available? Thanks. Allin Cottrell ___ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list

Re: Are Out-of-Tree Widgets Second-Class Citizens?

2009-09-28 Thread Allin Cottrell
against (or possibly reconciled with) the desire of the toolkit developers to seal everything off and no longer be bothered by us pesky app developers. Allin Cottrell -- Allin Cottrell Department of Economics Wake Forest University ___ gtk-devel-list m

Re: Gtk+ Font Dialog improvements

2009-07-19 Thread Allin Cottrell
On Sun, 19 Jul 2009, Henrique Carvalho Alves wrote: > On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Allin Cottrell wrote: > > > On Sun, 19 Jul 2009, Henrique Carvalho Alves wrote: > > > > > There was discussion on this some time ago, and the discussion > > > got lost.

Re: Gtk+ Font Dialog improvements

2009-07-19 Thread Allin Cottrell
one additional beef with the existing selector, admittedly more of a app-developer thing than a UI matter: the lack of any means of asking for a subset of fonts to be displayed, e.g. monospaced, or Roman text. Allin Cottrell ___ gtk-devel-list maili

Re: GTK on Macintosh OSX

2009-07-13 Thread Allin Cottrell
> But the problem isn't with rpaths. The problem is with path strings > compiled into the library. Those can be adjusted via environment variables and by using relative paths in some of the config files. See http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/pub/gretl/osxbuild/build.pdf Allin Cottrell ___

Re: The GTK+ file chooser

2009-05-17 Thread Allin Cottrell
-gtk-file-chooser-dialog/ > http://blogs.gnome.org/mortenw/2009/02/23/the-gtk-file-chooser-dialog-take-ii/ Planet sane. I use a couple of Linux boxes, one running hand-rolled Linux and one running Ubuntu. I've never seen anything remotely resembli

Re: Native file chooser dialog on Windows

2009-05-15 Thread Allin Cottrell
hin the application is also desirable, and switching from GTK to native Windows widgets can be jarring. Allin Cottrell ___ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list

Re: GLib plans for the next cycle

2009-04-21 Thread Allin Cottrell
On Tue, 21 Apr 2009, Havoc Pennington wrote: > On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 10:31 PM, Allin Cottrell wrote: > > IANAL, but... Hypothesis: Monster Corp distributes D-BUS under > > AFL, while believing that DB in fact violates patents held by > > Monster Corp. �MC then sues us

Re: GLib plans for the next cycle

2009-04-20 Thread Allin Cottrell
given up the right to sue, making this scenario impossible. OK, maybe there's no Monster Corp associated with D-BUS right now, but we know there _are_ such monsters around. This seems to me a _major_ reason to see *GPL as superior to AFL from the p.o.v. of free software. Allin Cottrell __

Re: GLib plans for the next cycle

2009-04-20 Thread Allin Cottrell
w_uri which depends on a big stack of unspecified stuff? At least this should be mentioned in the documentation. As I said before, up till very recently one has been able to rely on GTK functions "just working" so long as the compile-time dependencies are satis

Re: GLib plans for the next cycle

2009-04-20 Thread Allin Cottrell
On Mon, 20 Apr 2009, Alexander Larsson wrote: > 00, Allin Cottrell wrote: > > On Mon, 20 Apr 2009, Alexander Larsson wrote: > > > > > On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 12:29 -0400, Allin Cottrell wrote: > > > > On Mon, 20 Apr 2009, Alexander Larsson wrote: > > >

Re: GLib plans for the next cycle

2009-04-20 Thread Allin Cottrell
On Mon, 20 Apr 2009, Alexander Larsson wrote: > On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 12:29 -0400, Allin Cottrell wrote: > > On Mon, 20 Apr 2009, Alexander Larsson wrote: > > > > > On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 10:43 -0400, Allin Cottrell wrote: > > > > As it's currently coded

Re: GLib plans for the next cycle

2009-04-20 Thread Allin Cottrell
On Mon, 20 Apr 2009, Alexander Larsson wrote: > On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 10:43 -0400, Allin Cottrell wrote: > > As it's currently coded gtk_show_uri is bound > > to fail if GVfs is not present. But more than that: it'll fail > > even if GVfs _is_ present (as i

Re: GLib plans for the next cycle

2009-04-20 Thread Allin Cottrell
On Sun, 19 Apr 2009, David Zeuthen wrote: > On Sun, 2009-04-19 at 20:05 -0400, Allin Cottrell wrote: > > I've recently been trying to purge my GTK app of "deprecated" > > stuff, and I tried replacing gnome_url_show() with > > gtk_show_uri(). No go; on invoking

Re: GLib plans for the next cycle

2009-04-19 Thread Allin Cottrell
ich were checked at compile time for GTK and friends. Now we have GTK functions that may or may not work depending on unspecified dependencies. Way NOT to go! Allin Cottrell ___ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list

Re: g_locale_from_utf8 and minus sign

2008-12-29 Thread Allin Cottrell
On Mon, 29 Dec 2008, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: > Matthias Clasen wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 2:57 PM, Allin Cottrell wrote: > > > >> I judged it a devel issue because it raised a question about > >> whether glib was doing the right thing in not conve

Re: g_locale_from_utf8 and minus sign

2008-12-29 Thread Allin Cottrell
On Mon, 29 Dec 2008, Bastien Nocera wrote: > On Sun, 2008-12-28 at 16:17 -0500, Allin Cottrell wrote: > > When my app displays numerical output, I've been using a "real" > > minus sign (U+2212) if the current font supports this (as checked > > by pango),

g_locale_from_utf8 and minus sign

2008-12-28 Thread Allin Cottrell
2 get successfully mapped onto character 45 (0x002D) in ISO-8859-1? -- Allin Cottrell Department of Economics Wake Forest University ___ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list

Re: another memory leak

2008-10-31 Thread Allin Cottrell
> I've tried this and I had the same results. "top" is not a leak detector. valgrind, which is what you should be using, shows no leak on GTK's part in this example. Allin Cottrell ___ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list

Re: Theme patriation

2008-10-28 Thread Allin Cottrell
On Tue, 28 Oct 2008, Thomas Thurman wrote: > Ysgrifennodd Allin Cottrell: > > "You are not running under a composited desktop-environment (e.g. > > compiz). cairo-clock cannot work properly without one." > > I think you have compositing turned off. Do this: &

Re: Theme patriation

2008-10-28 Thread Allin Cottrell
On Tue, 28 Oct 2008, Thomas Thurman wrote: > Ysgrifennodd Allin Cottrell: > > On Tue, 28 Oct 2008, Thomas Thurman wrote: > > > Who mentioned compiz? This was about reasons not to run metacity. > > > > Nobody explicitly mentioned compiz, but when I followed up the

Re: Theme patriation

2008-10-28 Thread Allin Cottrell
On Tue, 28 Oct 2008, Thomas Thurman wrote: > Ysgrifennodd Allin Cottrell: > > On Tue, 28 Oct 2008, Xavier Bestel wrote: > > > Did you try cairo-clock ? > > > http://macslow.thepimp.net/?page_id=23 > > > > Disclaimer: I'm an old fart and a grouch. But

Re: Theme patriation

2008-10-28 Thread Allin Cottrell
On Tue, 28 Oct 2008, Xavier Bestel wrote: > Hi Allin, > > On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 20:34 -0400, Allin Cottrell wrote: > > 1) I like to run an analog clock on my desktop... > > Did you try cairo-clock ? > http://macslow.thepimp.net/?page_id=23 Disclaimer: I'm an

Re: Theme patriation

2008-10-27 Thread Allin Cottrell
On Mon, 27 Oct 2008, Iain * wrote: > On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 1:12 PM, Rui Tiago Cação Matos > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 2008/10/27 Allin Cottrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >>> IMO decorating a window belongs in the WM, not all X applications use > >&g

Re: Theme patriation

2008-10-27 Thread Allin Cottrell
On Mon, 27 Oct 2008, Jacob Kroon wrote: > On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 10:46 AM, Rui Tiago Cação Matos > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 2008/10/26 Thomas Thurman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> 1. The window border theme parsing and displaying code should live in a > >> library. (It already does, but its A

Re: Windows dev-* environment

2008-10-06 Thread Allin Cottrell
en on app developers. In my experience, it's much easier (if, in the end, less satisfactory) to leave the auto* files with their *nix assumptions and write a separate makefile for Windows. Allin Cottrell ___ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-

Re: Moving useful stuff into the core toolkit (Was Re: Removing libgnome* from nautilus)

2008-10-02 Thread Allin Cottrell
me myself). For one thing, one very nice property of GTK from the point of view of an app developer is its cross-platform nature. Allin Cottrell ___ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list

Re: GtkFileChooserDialog: something funny?

2008-09-26 Thread Allin Cottrell
On Fri, 26 Sep 2008, Michael Natterer wrote: > On Fri, 2008-09-26 at 14:29 -0400, Allin Cottrell wrote: > > On Fri, 26 Sep 2008, Tor Lillqvist wrote: > > > > > > Any ideas on what's going on? > > > > > > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?i

Re: GtkFileChooserDialog: something funny?

2008-09-26 Thread Allin Cottrell
_system); needs to be deleted. -- Allin Cottrell Department of Economics Wake Forest University ___ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list

Re: Minutes of the GTK+ Team Meeting - 2008-09-23

2008-09-25 Thread Allin Cottrell
st everyone who maintains a GTK app (and wants it to build against the maximum range of GTK versions) has to write their own such functions, which is surely less efficient. Allin Cottrell ___ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gn

Re: GTK adjustement changes create incompatible behaviour between versions?

2008-09-20 Thread Allin Cottrell
, from a few days ago. A distro such as Ubuntu, if it offers my app as a package, is likely to offer a somewhat older version. And therefore it'll be broken, if linked against current GTK 2.14. And I suspect there are many others apps in a similar position. -- Allin Cottrell Departmen

GtkAssistant: feature request

2008-09-15 Thread Allin Cottrell
re" signal for the page in question being processed, yet the page comes up with no content). -- Allin Cottrell Department of Economics Wake Forest University, NC ___ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list

Re: About GTK+ 3.0 and deprecated things

2008-07-23 Thread Allin Cottrell
it introduced a large number of subtle bugs which I'm still working through. This is _not_ an easy transition for an app with a complex GUI, and that should count for something. -- Allin Cottrell Department of Economics Wake Forest University, NC _

Re: menubar alignment question

2008-06-23 Thread Allin Cottrell
On Mon, 23 Jun 2008, Christian Dywan wrote: > Am Mon, 23 Jun 2008 11:08:44 -0400 (EDT) > schrieb Allin Cottrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Using GtkItemFactory one could push a certain menu to the > > right-hand end of a menubar (i.e. right-justify it) using the &

menubar alignment question

2008-06-23 Thread Allin Cottrell
tting in a before the last item, but this didn't do anything useful (it inserted a minuscule horizontal line before the item). -- Allin Cottrell Department of Economics Wake Forest University, NC ___ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-

GTK 3.0: an app developer's view

2008-06-16 Thread Allin Cottrell
ssibility that GtkItemFactory will disappear: this API is not "evil voodoo", IMO, and I don't suppose that mine is the only GTK 2 app that uses it rather extensively. -- Allin Cottrell Department of Economics Wake Forest University, NC ___ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list

Re: Steps to get to GTK+ 3.0

2008-06-03 Thread Allin Cottrell
port c99. See http://gcc.gnu.org/c99status.html What many people really mean by "c99" these days is "the bits of c99 that you might reasonably expect a modern compiler to support, and never mind the other bits" (which, sadly, is a crap situation for a standard to be in, al

Re: GTK+ 2.12.9 released

2008-04-01 Thread Allin Cottrell
On Tue, 1 Apr 2008, Martyn Russell wrote: > Allin Cottrell wrote: > > The Windows download page is correct (pointing to gnome.org) but > > the Linux download page is not. > > Hmm, do you mean that the Windows page links directly to a file to > download, but the Linux

Re: GTK+ 2.12.9 released

2008-03-31 Thread Allin Cottrell
ok very nice now -- thanks to the people who worked on them! --but they're uneven. The Windows download page is correct (pointing to gnome.org) but the Linux download page is not. Also, it would be nice if the target platform for the respective d/l pages was stated prominently on the

Re: GTK+ 2.12.6 released

2008-01-29 Thread Allin Cottrell
893 > > This is a bug fix release in the 2.12 series. I don't see anything in this message that would explain why the 2.12.6 tarball is over twice the size of the three previous releases (31M for the tar.bz2). What's going on with that? Thanks Allin Cottrell _

Re: start-editing signal?

2007-09-24 Thread Allin Cottrell
On Mon, 24 Sep 2007, Kristian Rietveld wrote: > On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 06:05:15PM -0400, Allin Cottrell wrote: > > My expectation: the unfinished edit will still be in place. > > > > Actual behaviour: the "bottles of coke" cell is as it was before I > >

Re: scrolling big windows on win32, revisited

2007-06-27 Thread Allin Cottrell
On Wed, 27 Jun 2007, Jernej Simon+AQ0-i+AQ0- wrote: > On Wed, 27 Jun 2007 15:23:12 -0400 (EDT), Allin Cottrell wrote: > > > (BTW, I searched today, and couldn't find a GTK 2.6 win32 binary > > distribution anywhere. Tor has old stuff up to 2.4 archived, and > >

scrolling big windows on win32, revisited

2007-06-27 Thread Allin Cottrell
ave the 2.6 runtime package available somewhere.) -- Allin Cottrell Department of Economics Wake Forest University, NC ___ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list

Re: GTK+ 2.10.7 plans and Icon Theme crasher bug?

2007-03-07 Thread Allin Cottrell
On Wed, 7 Mar 2007, Christian Hammond wrote: > I'm curious what the plans are for a GTK+ 2.10.7 release. A bit late for that. See ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v2.10 GTK+ version 2.10.7 was released 2007/01/05. The current 2.10 release is 2.10.9 (2007/01/22). Allin Cottrell Wak

Re: What about official GTK+ installer for win32?

2006-10-31 Thread Allin Cottrell
cation supports 6 European languages, and I get by with a much-reduced pango/locale payload. Allin Cottrell ___ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list

Re: What about official GTK+ installer for win32?

2006-10-25 Thread Allin Cottrell
terms of API. If you're distributing a GTK program for Linux -- depending on a common, shared set of GTK libraries -- you have to program defensively, trying to ensure that your application will work correctly with the lowest common denominator of (acceptable) GTK installations. Allin Cot

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