Call for Lucid testing: GTK enhancements

[Shane Fagan]

I upgraded to lucid again to get some tracebacks and logs for the errors
so if I have a few to show. Most programs are crashing with the same
error after installing the ppa with the UI enhancements. 

Gdk-ERROR **: The program 'totem' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)'.
  (Details: serial 1067 error_code 8 request_code 1 minor_code 0)
  (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
   that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
   To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
   option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
   backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error()
function.)
aborting...
Trace/breakpoint trap

Thats the main error im getting at the moment. If someone could tell me
what else to look for id be happy to give some more info. 


On Sat, 2009-12-12 at 01:18 +0100, Kenneth Wimer wrote:
> On Friday 11 December 2009 11:57:06 pm Adam Petaccia wrote:
> > On Tue, 2009-12-08 at 13:44 -0500, Ken VanDine wrote:
> > > Hello Desktoppers!
> > >
> > > The Ayatana team has been working on some GTK enhancements for Lucid.
> > > Adding support for Client Side window decorations and enabling RGBA
> > > color maps by default.  We have uploaded a patched version of gtk which
> > > adds these features to the ~ubuntu-desktop team PPA (along with a needed
> > > fix for nautilus to go along with it).
> > >
> > > The new decorations feature requires explicit support from a theme
> > > before it becomes active (it defaults to being disabled). However, RGBA
> > > support is enabled by default and there is a chance for some fallout
> > > from this being added.
> > 
> > Can you provide the names or links to these themes? I know murrine
> > (murrine-themes) provides some RGBA support, but I don't know which
> > which themes necessarily enable it by default. But I don't know anything
> > about this decorations feature.
> 
> We haven't gotten that far yet! The initial rgba code was for testing and I 
> think we've received a good response so far. The real changes are in gtk, not 
> in the theme engine itself (outside of the extra definitions which become 
> possible through these changes). The murrine rgba support is amazing, but 
> something completely different than what we are discussing here. This change 
> enables us to offer rgba support per widget class, something completely new and 
> different.
> 
> Understand that this effort is not about expanding a theme engine but about 
> changing gtk itself (which changes what theme engines can offer). It is a much 
> more substantial effort than one would assume.
> 
> I've been running this stuff on my laptop and have noticed problems with 
> nautilus but I don't think it is anything we cannot fix. Wide-spread testing 
> has identified some other issues which need to be fixed but all in all I think 
> that we are progressing well.
> 
> We need to make sure it works without the rgba bits turned on beforehand - so 
> far that testing is going well :) Consider this the pre-alpha release of some 
> code we really need to test quickly and thoroughly at a very pre-release 
> level.
> 
> Adding the important bits to the theme is simple, once we decide how :p
> 
> --
> Kenneth
>