On 09/25/2011 07:33 PM, Lex Trotman wrote:
On 26 September 2011 01:26, Dimitar Zhekov<dimitar.zhe...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, 25 Sep 2011 01:53:38 -0700
Matthew Brush<mbr...@codebrainz.ca> wrote:
I've also taken the liberty of porting the Terminal/VTE preferences UI
to the new Glade 3 format rather than being hard-coded. IIUC if the
VTE/terminal is not enabled for whatever reason, the "Terminal" tab in
the preferences dialog just won't be shown.
When we upgrade (someday) to 2.16, why not make VTE a compile time
option only? I can understand why somebody would like to compile Geany
without vte support, but since all novadays gtk+ terminal emulators are
based on vte, making it a run-time option seems like overkill to me. It
was a good thing, several years ago...
Hey Dimitar,
The problem with this is that means that all binary packages now
depend on vte. If you might want to compile it out, then you might
not want to install it.
Or there would need to be several binary packages, with and without
VTE compiled in which is more maintenance.
With the runtime check VTE does not need to be installed.
One thing that would be cool with the runtime loading of VTE is if it
could gracefully handle missing symbols in libvte. I don't know if this
is possible with GModule/dlopen, but if it is, it would be great to
implement this.
For example, I'm testing Geany with GTK+ 2.16 and when it goes to load
the VTE, it loads the system one that was compiled against GTK+ 2.24 and
Geany crashes with the output:
/opt/geany-2.16/bin/geany: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libvte.so.9:
undefined symbol: gtk_widget_set_can_focus
To make Geany run, you have to use the `-t` option to disable the
terminal or install a libvte compiled against the same GTK+ version as
Geany and specify its path with the `--vte-lib` option. It would be
nice to be able to handle such a case of missing symbols and just
disable the VTE automatically, even though it might not be experienced
too frequently on a typical system.
Cheers,
Matthew Brush
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