Re: DLL Hell on Windows..

2012-08-04 Thread Robin Vossen
Hello, I have figured out I require 2.4.0 of libatk (by reading headers). Who can give me libatk 2.4.0 prebuild for Windows (x86)? Thanks -- Kind Regards, Robin Vossen Please avoid sending me Word, Excel or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html

GtkIMContext popup for on-screen-keyboard

2012-08-04 Thread Cedric Sodhi
Hello, I've tried everything I could but could not find any solution to this: I use a GtkIMContext to pop up a button to active the on-screen-keyboard via dbus (without any intention to actually do any IM communication). However, if that GtkIMContext gets activated, it subsequently renders the

Re: next steps for touch support in GTK+

2012-08-04 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
hi; once again, from the department of I didn't bother to ask, so I'll make stuff up... On 2 August 2012 13:52, Morten Welinder mort...@gnome.org wrote: === 4. Which GTK+ widgets break with touch === The SpinButton item from above is one example of those. I really hope the solution is

Re: next steps for touch support in GTK+

2012-08-04 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
hi; and yet another case of I don't know that, so I'll make stuff up. On 2 August 2012 14:11, Paul Davis p...@linuxaudiosystems.com wrote: === 3. SpinButton === [ ... ] Another option is introducing a complete new widget targeted at touch usage (similar to the one in iOS Garageband) [4]

Re: next steps for touch support in GTK+

2012-08-04 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
hi; On 4 August 2012 00:05, Michael Natterer mi...@gimp.org wrote: On Thu, 2012-08-02 at 08:52 -0400, Morten Welinder wrote: GtkSwitch bugs me. It really should just have been a styling of the toggle button since it performs the same function with a different look. But no, it is currently a

Re: deprecating gdk threads

2012-08-04 Thread Andy Wingo
On Fri 03 Aug 2012 16:24, Pavel Holejsovsky pavel.holejsov...@gmail.com writes: I'd like to bring up the issue of how language bindings should cope with this. It is indeed pretty nasty, especially if you got used to a solution like the java-gnome one. One way to solve this would be to put

Re: next steps for touch support in GTK+

2012-08-04 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
hi; On 4 August 2012 14:14, Paul Davis p...@linuxaudiosystems.com wrote: On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 3:50 AM, Emmanuele Bassi eba...@gmail.com wrote: [ ... ] and yet another case of i'm so nervous and irritated by criticism of our design decisions that i'll resort to calling people stupid ...

Re: deprecating gdk threads

2012-08-04 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
hi; On 3 August 2012 15:24, Pavel Holejsovsky pavel.holejsov...@gmail.com wrote: On 7/29/2012 12:09 PM, Matthias Clasen wrote: I've put patches for deprecating the gdk threading api at https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=680754 Review appreciated. I'd like to bring up the issue of

Re: next steps for touch support in GTK+

2012-08-04 Thread Morten Welinder
On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 3:44 AM, Emmanuele Bassi eba...@gmail.com wrote: GtkSwitch bugs me. It really should just have been a styling of the toggle button since it performs the same function with a different look. it does not perform the same action. That is a baseless assertion. Of course

Re: next steps for touch support in GTK+

2012-08-04 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
hi; On 4 August 2012 15:18, Morten Welinder mort...@gnome.org wrote: On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 3:44 AM, Emmanuele Bassi eba...@gmail.com wrote: GtkSwitch bugs me. It really should just have been a styling of the toggle button since it performs the same function with a different look. it does

Re: next steps for touch support in GTK+

2012-08-04 Thread David Nečas
On Sat, Aug 04, 2012 at 03:39:05PM +0100, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: one implies a soft action (GtkToggleButton), whereas the other implies something similar of a hardware switch (GtkSwitch). As every user knows, widgets relay wishes to magic pixies. I wonder if that is soft or hard action, maybe

Re: next steps for touch support in GTK+

2012-08-04 Thread Matthias Clasen
=== 6. OSK widget context provider (e.g. search vs open vs go...) === Matthias said there was a patch floating around for that. I looked in the bugs with patches attached in bugzilla but could not find it. If someone knows where it is would be great.

Re: Bug #679291 (please review)

2012-08-04 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
hi John; On 4 August 2012 21:43, John Lindgren john.lindg...@aol.com wrote: About a month ago I sent a patch to the bug tracker to fix a problem where GtkTreeView would emit signals, thereby executing user code, during its destroy cycle. This is a potentially serious problem as the state of

Re: Bug #679291 (please review)

2012-08-04 Thread John Lindgren
On 08/04/2012 04:58 PM, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: hi John; (snip) I left a comment in bug 671939, but I can also repeat it here. the patch in attachment 217892 looks okay - but what I'd like to see: a) bisecting to see what commit broke this; b) a test case for the TreeView test suite, to

Re: Bug #679291 (please review)

2012-08-04 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 4:58 PM, Emmanuele Bassi eba...@gmail.com wrote: the patch in attachment 217892 looks okay - but what I'd like to see: a) bisecting to see what commit broke this; b) a test case for the TreeView test suite, to ensure we don't regress again; c) a patch done using git

roadmap for 3.6

2012-08-04 Thread Matthias Clasen
Here are my thoughts about what we can achieve between now and 3.6: - Fix animations (make spinners spin again): Benjamin is working on this - Fix state propagation (the notorious grayed-out labels): Benjamin is working on this - Review and merge Owen's animation / paint clock work: Owen is going

Re: Bug #679291 (please review)

2012-08-04 Thread John Lindgren
On 08/04/2012 05:54 PM, Matthias Clasen wrote: On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 4:58 PM, Emmanuele Bassi eba...@gmail.com wrote: the patch in attachment 217892 looks okay - but what I'd like to see: a) bisecting to see what commit broke this; b) a test case for the TreeView test suite, to ensure we

Re: next steps for touch support in GTK+

2012-08-04 Thread Simon Feltman
Toggle buttons and the switch widget both suffer usability problems for me. The visual look of a button represents an action to be performed in my mind, perhaps why it was referred to it as a soft-action? So when a button is stateful it can create ambiguity depending on the text of the button. The

Re: roadmap for 3.6

2012-08-04 Thread Andy Tai
Maybe not directly related, but will gtjk+ gain the animation capabilities of Clutter (via merging with Clutter or layering on top of Clutter), such that gtk+ widgets can behave like Clutter actors? On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 3:13 PM, Matthias Clasen matthias.cla...@gmail.comwrote: Here are my