Re: [Gramps-devel] [Bug 735189] Autorepeat for Scroll-Arrows is too slow / not configurable

[John R. <jr...@ce...>]

> On Mar 1, 2015, at 8:59 AM, Enno Borgsteede <enn...@gm...> wrote:
> 
> Op 28-02-15 om 05:03 schreef John Ralls:
>>> On Feb 27, 2015, at 3:21 PM, Josip <jo...@pi...> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 27.2.2015. u 23:06, Enno Borgsteede je napisao/la:
>>>> Devs,
>>>> 
>>>> Nice, I got a reaction, but it raises a new problem for me, because I've
>>>> never tried building/running 4.1 or anything against a gtk+ built from
>>>> source. Anyone else like to try? Any hints for building/testing this here?
>>>> 
>>>> thanks,
>>>> 
>>>> Enno
>>>> -------- Doorgestuurd bericht --------
>>>> Onderwerp: 	[Bug 735189] Autorepeat for Scroll-Arrows is too slow / not
>>>> configurable
>>>> Datum: 	Fri, 27 Feb 2015 21:25:21 +0000
>>>> Van: 	gtk+ (GNOME Bugzilla) <bug...@gn...>
>>>> Aan: 	enn...@gm...
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> *Comment # 2 <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=735189#c2> on
>>>> bug 735189 <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=735189> from
>>>> Matthias Clasen
>>>> <page.cgi?id=describeuser.html&login=mclasen%40redhat.com> *
>>>> 
>>>> I've just made a change to the way steppers work in 3.15.
>>>> Would be good to know if that helps
>>>> 
>>> What ever it is that are available only in unstable version which will
>>> be ready at the end of March.
>> Or now from git. It's not necessary to wait for a tarball, and in fact it would be better to test ASAP while you have Matthias's attention. That way if further tweaks are required it will have a chance of getting into the next release.
> Sounds nice, but not for me. Building the latest gtk+ depends on 5 other 
> packages that I would also need to build here, because the versions 
> provided with Mint 17.1 (Ubuntu 14.10) are too old. And who knows what 
> these 5 depend on themselves.
> 
> Note that my complaint is not about steppers. If it were, I could simply 
> adapt the stepper settings in the gtk-3 INI file, as advised by Benny, 
> and Josip, since these have not been deprecated. Steppers handle arrows, 
> and the mouse wheel, I think, not the paging that I'm interested in.
> 
> I don't want to risk my production PC to anything that goes further than 
> installing Gramps 3.4, or a hacked gtk+ 3.10.8, because that's what I 
> have now. I already checked out the gth-3-10 branch, and found the 
> TIMEOUT constants that were increased by a factor of 2.5. And I can 
> build that too, but still need to find out where it's installed, since 
> it doesn't seem to overwrite the factory gtk 3.10.8. That one is still 
> shown in synaptic and gramps -v.

jhbuild takes care of the dependencies for you and you can easily set it up to install everything safely away from /usr. Then you just need to set up an environment to find the new libraries when you run Gramps. https://developer.gnome.org/jhbuild/stable/

With a little work you can have test versions of Gramps installed, too. Each minor version gets its own subdirectory in ~/.gramps for settings and what-have-you; only the grampsdb and mru list are shared, and the path to grampsdb is a preference and can be set per-minor-version to keep the test installations away from your actual genealogy work.

Regards,
John Ralls