@Ruslan problem with popen: - it is defined on windows (with mingw at least) and works, but opens a terminal to execute a command. (not so nice). And I'm not sure _popen would fix this, would it ?
- on unix, it does not allow to easily redirect stderr, so you get an error message (for every application) when kde4-config is not installed. So that I had to add a 2> /dev/null (committed), to hide the (armless) error message, in current master, because users were already complaining. But this, in turn, is not portable to windows. All this is nicely handled in g_spawn, when it works ... popen being more likely to work on windows depends on MinGW (not even sure if it is implemented with VC ...). While g_spawn depends on glib. Which one is more error prone I do not know (I would assume glib, but ...) So bottomline: if we want to stick to popen (to be more glib-error safe), we'd likely need more code (and more #ifdef) than what we have now ... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to emacs23 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1142213 Title: emacs23/24 and other GTK applications do not start when run in Kubuntu 13.04 with oxygen-gtk theme enabled Status in easytag: New Status in GNU Emacs: Confirmed Status in “emacs23” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in “emacs24” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in “oxygen-gtk3” package in Ubuntu: In Progress Status in “emacs23” source package in Raring: Fix Committed Status in “emacs24” source package in Raring: Fix Committed Status in “oxygen-gtk3” source package in Raring: Fix Released Status in “gtk2-engines-oxygen” package in Debian: Fix Released Bug description: [Impact] * Emacs24 does not startup in KDE [Test Case] * Install emacs24 * Set gtk3 theme to oxygen-gtk via systemsettings > Application Appearence > GTK * Run emacs24 * Install update * Try and run emacs24 again [Regression Potential] * Minimal * Upstream release for oxygen-gtk3 is only a bug fix release If I try to run emacs23 in Kubuntu 13.04, (KDE 4.10.0) I am finding that the GUI starts only some of the time. If the GUI doesn't start then I will only see a process running in htop or similar. Starting emacs in a terminal window with the -nw argument or installing the Lucid interface shows that emacs does run each time it starts so the problem is either with the emacs GTK interface or the GTK libraries. Emacs24 exhibits the same problem. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04 Package: emacs23 (not installed) ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-9.18-generic 3.8.1 Uname: Linux 3.8.0-9-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.9-0ubuntu2 Architecture: amd64 Date: Sun Mar 3 14:19:01 2013 InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-01-05 (57 days ago) InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Alpha amd64 (20130104) MarkForUpload: True ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_GB:en TERM=screen-256color PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: emacs23 UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/easytag/+bug/1142213/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
