Re: GTK_MODULE (G)Option breakage & init ordering ...

2006-02-13 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 20:47 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote: > I thought the same, but failed to find any traces > of this discussion in ChangeLogs or mails. We discussed this in Kristiansand :) Federico ___ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@g

Re: GTK_MODULE (G)Option breakage & init ordering ...

2006-02-08 Thread michael meeks
On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 18:01 +0800, James Henstridge wrote: > > :-) Either way - there is a workaround now; and as Federico says prolly > >going via the environment is a more robust & cleaner solution. > > The only issue with using the environment is that it is inherited by > child processes.

Re: GTK_MODULE (G)Option breakage & init ordering ...

2006-02-08 Thread James Henstridge
michael meeks wrote: >On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 17:04 -0500, Owen Taylor wrote: > > >>I have vague memory that modules not getting arguments is intentional >>rather than an oversight ... that we discussed it at the point of the >>GOption switch and decided it was fundamentally busted and >>unsupport

Re: GTK_MODULE (G)Option breakage & init ordering ...

2006-02-08 Thread michael meeks
On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 17:04 -0500, Owen Taylor wrote: > I have vague memory that modules not getting arguments is intentional > rather than an oversight ... that we discussed it at the point of the > GOption switch and decided it was fundamentally busted and > unsupportable. > > I may just be inv

Re: GTK_MODULE (G)Option breakage & init ordering ...

2006-02-07 Thread Matthias Clasen
> > > > I have vague memory that modules not getting arguments is intentional > rather than an oversight ... that we discussed it at the point of the > GOption switch and decided it was fundamentally busted and > unsupportable. > > I may just be inventing that memory... > > Regards, >

Re: GTK_MODULE (G)Option breakage & init ordering ...

2006-02-07 Thread Owen Taylor
On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 16:42 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote: > On 2/7/06, michael meeks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 09:24 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote: > > > > Unfortunately - the introduction of GOption clobbered all > > > > GtkModule > > > > argument passing; an

Re: GTK_MODULE (G)Option breakage & init ordering ...

2006-02-07 Thread Matthias Clasen
On 2/7/06, michael meeks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 09:24 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote: > > > Unfortunately - the introduction of GOption clobbered all > > > GtkModule > > > argument passing; and ensures that no GtkModule gets anything but a > > > 0/NULL argc/argv

Re: GTK_MODULE (G)Option breakage & init ordering ...

2006-02-07 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 11:36 +, michael meeks wrote: > * we have to propagate the pipe name / argument to the > child process via a (presumably reliable) environment > variable instead of an argument. I'd favor this. We are trying to move away from having libraries which

Re: [g-a-devel] GTK_MODULE (G)Option breakage & init ordering ...

2006-02-07 Thread Bill Haneman
On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 11:36, michael meeks wrote: > Hi there,... Bill - I'm slightly amazed we havn't > seen this before - whatsup there ? :-) Well, I suspect that the Gnome HEAD a11y bits haven't gotten much exercise until lately. Fortunately that's changing, at least on the Sun end of things -

Re: GTK_MODULE (G)Option breakage & init ordering ...

2006-02-07 Thread michael meeks
On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 09:24 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote: > > Unfortunately - the introduction of GOption clobbered all GtkModule > > argument passing; and ensures that no GtkModule gets anything but a > > 0/NULL argc/argv cf. > > Looks like this is a bug that got introduced when we first

Re: GTK_MODULE (G)Option breakage & init ordering ...

2006-02-07 Thread Matthias Clasen
On 2/7/06, michael meeks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there, > > So - I've been chasing a rather interesting bug: > > "GNOME hangs on login with a11y enabled" > > Of course - clobbering the proximate cause: gnome-session activating > vino-server synchronously wor

GTK_MODULE (G)Option breakage & init ordering ...

2006-02-07 Thread michael meeks
Hi there, So - I've been chasing a rather interesting bug: "GNOME hangs on login with a11y enabled" Of course - clobbering the proximate cause: gnome-session activating vino-server synchronously works around this nicely; but there is a deeper problem: Wh