[Evolution-hackers] unix_getname buglet - 2.5.4(?)

2003-01-07 Thread Michael Meeks
chased this down to bitkeeper changeset 1.262.2.2. Sadly I didn't have time to read the rest of that changeset to see if the mistake pops up elsewhere as well. Please CC me with replies, not on linux-kernel. HTH, Michael Meeks. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] , Pseudo Engineer

[Evolution-hackers] Re: Composer failure ...

2003-01-06 Thread Michael Meeks
On Fri, 2002-10-18 at 10:48, Michael Meeks wrote: I'm still having repeated problems with Gconf / evolution, and it's interaction with Gconf 2.0. Essentially - after a time of quiescence I try to compose a message - and it fails to activate the composer. ... The reason

Re: [Evolution-hackers] Help on Using version 1.2

2002-12-02 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Hyo-Je, On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 10:51, Hyo-Je Choi wrote: The result is like below : GConf Error: Failed to contact configuration server (a likely cause of this is that you have an existing configuration server

Re: [Evolution-hackers] Strange bug?

2002-10-30 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Ronald, I'm dead confused now; it seems in the plain (default) state, without poking 'test' at runtime we have: On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 15:28, Ronald Kuetemeier wrote: int test = 0; ... if(!strcmp(sockpath, tmp-u.usock.sun_path)) { cnx = test ? tmp : NULL;

Re: [Evolution-hackers] Strange bug?

2002-10-28 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Ronald, Firstly - thanks for looking into this. On Fri, 2002-10-25 at 17:42, Ronald Kuetemeier wrote: Ok, let's see if I can explain this. Look at file ORBit-0.5.1[5,6]/src/IIOP/connection.c:(IIOPConnection * iiop_connection_unix_get:923) Ok. In 2.4 all test in the for

Re: [Evolution-hackers] Strange bug?

2002-10-25 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Ronald, I don't know quite what you're seeing, but AFAIR there should be a client and a server in each direction; so 2x fd's per bi-directional communication. Does that make sense ? there's really no firm concept of any application as 'server' in the CORBA model.

Re: [Evolution-hackers] Composer failure ...

2002-10-18 Thread Michael Meeks
On Fri, 2002-10-18 at 10:48, Michael Meeks wrote: I'm still having repeated problems with Gconf / evolution ... to no avail. Does anyone have any idea (short of strace 'world', wait for hours) that I could work out who / how that file gets unlinked ? Well - in the end I

Re: [Evolution-hackers] How to update GAL?

2002-10-03 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Ettore, On Wed, 2002-10-02 at 16:08, Ettore Perazzoli wrote: The right value for GNOME_PATH is something like /opt/evolution:/usr I don't remember if this ever got fixed; but as I recollect, the gnome-config script [ highly cunningly ], parsed the 'path' backwards last time

[Evolution-hackers] gtkhtml startup speed ...

2002-09-30 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi there, Just trying to work out exactly why my composer occasionaly decides it just won't launch [ in the past related to thinking it can't contact gconf ]. I did: export ORBIT2_DEBUG=traces:timings killall -9 gconfd-2 gconftool-2 --spawn To get gconfd-2 to run with the orbit

Re: [Evolution-hackers] Feedback Evolution 1.1.1

2002-09-23 Thread Michael Meeks
On Sun, 2002-09-22 at 22:22, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote: changed to mimic Outlook's functionality which uses alphebtic keys for searching which meant that we had to use ',' and '.' or '[' and ']' Does ',' '.' work again ? Last check only '' and '' worked, which I believe are also assigned

Re: [Evolution-hackers] Re: multihead support in evolution

2002-08-02 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Ettore, On Thu, 2002-08-01 at 23:42, Ettore Perazzoli wrote: On Wed, 2002-07-31 at 05:22, Michael Meeks wrote: CORBA_exception_init (ev); CORBA_Context_set_one_value ( context, display, DisplayString (gdk_display), ev

[Evolution-hackers] Re: multihead support in evolution

2002-07-31 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Shahms, On Tue, 2002-07-30 at 16:19, Shahms E. King wrote: I'd be happy to look into it if you could give me a jumping off point so to speak. Ok; there are 2 things you need to do: a) Ensure that the DISPLAY context parameter passed on each oaf request is

Re: [Evolution-hackers] The future of 2.5 kernels and Evolution

2002-06-25 Thread Michael Meeks
On Mon, 2002-06-24 at 00:57, Not Zed wrote: As Miles says, _if_ this is an ORBit bug, and while that wouldn't be that surprising, it is rather strange that ORBit now seems to be behaving relatively well on Solaris, and the aforementioned Linux versions. So you're saying its

[Evolution-hackers] GtkHtml (E-mail composer startup) failure #24829

2002-05-27 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi there, Having spent some considerable time debugging this, and being moderately plagued by it - I was hoping, that this bug would be dealt with promptly. Particularly since the patch attached is small, transparently correct, and the root cause of the problem. It would be

Re: [Evolution-hackers] gtkhtml - composer not starting ...

2002-05-24 Thread Michael Meeks
Hello Mark, On Thu, 2002-05-23 at 02:17, Mark McLoughlin wrote: I won't address the problem you're trying to solve, because I haven't had much experience of it, but the way you plan to implement the solution is just plain wrong. It's a real shame that you didn't understand

[Evolution-hackers] Re: gnome 1.x bonobo components in gnome 2.0

2002-05-20 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Jacob, On Fri, 2002-05-17 at 16:28, jacob berkman wrote: didn't the bonobo control interfaces change from gnome 1 - gnome 2? Yes, but that's only half of it we do embedding in a different way at the Gtk+ level with the arrival of the XEmbed protocol. and how do you get a reference

Re: [Evolution-hackers] gnome 1.x bonobo components in gnome 2.0

2002-05-20 Thread Michael Meeks
Michael, On Fri, 2002-05-17 at 16:19, Not Zed wrote: you mean like 'mail foo@blah text', right? Oh no, I guess you mean to execute a billion lines of mostly pointless code that does the same thing instead? But wait, I think you missed a billion lines in the above example,

[Evolution-hackers] still no snapshots ... (2+ weeks)

2002-05-20 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi guys, I'd really like to help testing HEAD evolution - indeed, some might say that without testing it's never going to stabilize. Problem is, the last snapshot I have is dated: evolution-1.1.0.99-snap.ximian.200205031001 And it's pretty hellishly

Re: [Evolution-hackers] gtkhtml - composer not starting ...

2002-05-16 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Havoc, On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 22:58, Havoc Pennington wrote: Of course the underengineered, simple solution that works fine most of the time would be a a cheesy explicitly-async message-passing API. Can be implemented in a week. And of course ORBit2 does asynchronous invocations

Re: [Evolution-hackers] gtkhtml - composer not starting ...

2002-05-16 Thread Michael Meeks
On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 14:17, Ettore Perazzoli wrote: Thus people can invoke methods, no re-entrancy will occur on that method invoke, and we can queue methods execution until idle. It's really quite easy to do in the ORB - but needs some IDL extensions / poking. Possibly some evil

Re: [Evolution-hackers] gtkhtml - composer not starting ...

2002-05-16 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Ettore, On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 18:48, Ettore Perazzoli wrote: BTW, if we want to add extensions to work around the lack of decent support for threaded apps, something that would be really useful is a general mechanism for doing async calls. Ok; this is in

Re: [Evolution-hackers] gtkhtml - composer not starting ...

2002-05-15 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Michael, On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 03:07, Not Zed wrote: It's not possible to attach gdb to a process that lives for only a few handfuls of milliseconds, and dies without giving a user visible message. Bug buddy would help to get this error handled, that is unless you know something I

Re: [Evolution-hackers] gtkhtml - composer not starting ...

2002-05-14 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Michael, On Tue, 2002-05-14 at 01:26, Not Zed wrote: They wont be able to do anythign about it anyway, so it doesn't matter. If they care enough they can use gdb manually. It's not possible to attach gdb to a process that lives for only a few handfuls of milliseconds, and dies

Re: [Evolution-hackers] Scripting in evolution

2002-05-13 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Michael, On Fri, 2002-05-10 at 01:16, Not Zed wrote: Despite what others are saying, you can't just use the corba interfaces for this. This is presumably, because these interfaces were not designed for scripting at all. Despite the fact the mailer just doens't have them, there

[Evolution-hackers] gtkhtml - composer not starting ...

2002-05-13 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi there, I just had another spate of this - and imagine my suprise to find that gtkhtml-1.1 seems to be using gconf [ and gconf for whatever reason was screwed ]: gtkhtml-ERROR **: gconf error: Configuration server couldn't be contacted: Adding client to server's list failed, CORBA

Re: [Evolution-hackers] GtkTree vs. ETable in the GNOME 2 port

2002-04-12 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Ettore, On Thu, 2002-04-11 at 17:52, Ettore Perazzoli wrote: Last time I looked the estimate was about two man-months. My feeling is that porting Evolution to use GtkTreeView would take less time, and is also a more easily parallelizable task. Two man months was to make all of

Re: [Evolution-hackers] GtkTree vs. ETable in the GNOME 2 port

2002-04-11 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Ettore / Jonathan, On Wed, 2002-04-10 at 22:37, Ettore Perazzoli wrote: * 100% accessible. (If we port Evolution to GNOME 2, we have to add accessibility support to all the widgets, and making ETree accessible is a very non-trivial task.) I don't

[Evolution-hackers] composer startup speed ...

2002-04-11 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Larry, Just chasing down the (evil) composer startup problem, and I notice that the gtkhtml component activates the spell component before returning it's factory: #6 0x40bad80c in oaf_activate_from_id (aid=0x806eea0 OAFIID:GNOME_Spell_Dictionary:0.1, flags=0, ret_aid=0x0,

[Evolution-hackers] strace of composer failure ...

2002-04-02 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Guys, I havn't had time to analyse what's going wrong; but an strace fragment of the composer creation problem is here: http://primates.ximian.com/~michael/evo-composer-issue.log HTH, Michael. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] , Pseudo Engineer, itinerant

Re: [Evolution-hackers] More on 2.5.5 kernel and calendar

2002-03-18 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Milan, On Fri, 2002-03-08 at 23:44, Milan Hodoscek wrote: The problem is a CORBA call to getType with a property of entry_changed. The final bit of the call (which the debug spits out as being Sending request getType id ... to ...) is different for this call only - it appears to be

Re: [Evolution-hackers] Mouse grabs ...

2002-03-08 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Jeff, On Thu, 2002-03-07 at 16:00, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote: Has anyone been able to reproduce with the current development branch? I've so far only tried it 4 or 5 times, but so far have not encountered this problem. I'm beggining to think it's a sawfish problem, inasmuch that

[Evolution-hackers] Re: Bonobo-moniker problem?

2002-03-04 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Jonas, On Sat, 2002-03-02 at 16:42, Jonas Aaberg wrote: Thanks alot for answering so quick! No problem. It's a general error - it's not necessarily the same sadly. Yeah, but the probability that it is the same, is quite high I guess. Nope; your error is unique

Re: [Evolution-hackers] Mouse grabs ...

2002-03-04 Thread Michael Meeks
On Fri, 2002-03-01 at 20:41, Ettore Perazzoli wrote: Hm, I don't know anything about this bug, but I don't think it's fixed in the snapshots. Fejj is the one to bug about it... I'm beggining to think it might be related to the mail being marked 'read' in mid DD, But that

[Evolution-hackers] Mouse grabs ...

2002-03-01 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Guys, A nasty moan - I have had to kill evolution 3 times today because of leaked mouse grabs DD mails from evolution-mail to the shell tree view. The leak appears to be in evolution-mail inasmuch that killing that process frees up the system. I'd love to fix it, but it's not