On 2014-08-03 16:24:08, Christian Weisgerber <na...@mips.inka.de> wrote: > Why is GTK1 better than GTK2? > > Because I can run a GTK1 application, such as xmms, on my sparc64 > (with X11 forwarding to a remote display, although that shouldn't > matter). When I try the same with a GTK2 application like netsurf > or gpicview it crashes pretty quickly. > > I built netsurf with debugging symbols and the crash is deep in > cairo < pango-cairo. I haven't examined gpicview. > > Any other apps I should try? >
I wonder if this might be the exact same thing I reported in this email: http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=140295195921432&w=2 Briefly, I see crashes in pango/cairo in editors/leafpad and japanese/gwaei (both GTK2 applications) which seem to be extremely frequent when they are displaying Japanese text, and somewhat uncommon when they display only the English Latin alphabet. FWIW, I also noticed that xombrero (also a GTK2/GTK3 application) has a tendency to crash when I go to Japanese pages, to the point that I open Firefox when I know I need to go to a Japanese page, but that's also because I haven't been able to figure out how to get xombrero to accept input from a Japanese IME (inputmethods/uim and inputmethods/anthy) without changing any LC_* variables to Japanese, which has the side effect of changing its default fonts to ones that aren't very pretty when they're used to render the Latin alphabet. A release or two ago and I could input Japanese into xombrero with whatever defaults shipped with the OS, but after some locale commits it stopped working. I just assumed that it wasn't supposed to work that way before, and the way things are now are more technically correct WRT POSIX or something, even if I personally would rather it not be. :) Since pango and cairo are both used to render text, I assume there's something about non-English-Latin scripts that it doesn't like. I'm not sure how well it likes umlauts, Greek, or Cyrillic text though. Since I don't speak any of those languages, I seldom find myself reading text written in them. -- Bryan
