Re: gtk+2.8.x and cairo (Owen Taylor)

2005-12-19 Thread Bill Haneman
OK, I understand that nobody wants to spend time fixing code that's only exercised on obsolete hardware. But it's worth remembering that one of the key areas of interest/growth for Gnome is the low-cost and used hardware community in the developing world, etc. As long as we're still pitching

Re: gtk+2.8.x and cairo

2005-12-19 Thread Owen Taylor
On Mon, 2005-12-19 at 10:06 -0500, Kurt Miller wrote: > I understand that ancient hardware will not be supported forever. In my > particular case I'm seeing the problem on a < 1 year old PowerBook G4 > which is currenly stuck at Depth 8. Oh come on, that's just not plausible. It's no easier to

Re: gtk+2.8.x and cairo

2005-12-19 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Mon, 2005-12-19 at 10:15 -0500, Owen Taylor wrote: > On Mon, 2005-12-19 at 15:16 +0100, Kurt Miller wrote: > > > > I know this is a cairo bug, but it effects all gtk+2.8.x based > > > > applications when a machine happens to be configured such that the > > bug > > > > it hit. In some cases it

Re: gtk+2.8.x and cairo

2005-12-19 Thread Owen Taylor
On Mon, 2005-12-19 at 15:16 +0100, Kurt Miller wrote: > > > I know this is a cairo bug, but it effects all gtk+2.8.x based > > > applications when a machine happens to be configured such that the > bug > > > it hit. In some cases it is not possible to configure the X server > to > > > avoid th

Re: gtk+2.8.x and cairo

2005-12-19 Thread Kurt Miller
On Wednesday 14 December 2005 04:32 pm, Owen Taylor wrote: > On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 14:26 -0500, Kurt Miller wrote: > > Hi, > > > > There is a rather significant cairo bug that can cause all gtk+2 > > based apps to sefault upon startup in some X server setups. The > > problem can be seen across arch

Re: gtk+2.8.x and cairo

2005-12-19 Thread Kurt Miller
sent on behalf of Mark Kettenis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> who isn't subcribed to the list and his email wasn't accepted: > From: Owen Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 16:32:02 -0500 > On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 14:26 -0500, Kurt Miller wrote: > > Hi, > > > > There is a rather significant

Re: ABI and API for g_object_ref_sink() (Re: GTK_FLOATING broken in 2.9?)

2005-12-19 Thread Murray Cumming
On Sat, 2005-12-17 at 05:21 -0600, Yevgen Muntyan wrote: > Tim Janik wrote: > > > On Fri, 16 Dec 2005, Murray Cumming wrote: > > > >> Thanks. But this is not completely clear to me yet. > >> > >> Will applications built against gtk+ 2.6 work when gtk+ 2.10 is > >> installed, without rebuilding the