[Gaim-devel] Re: Bug#192214: gaim: Upgrading from 0.58-2.3 fscks custom font colors

[Robert M. <rob...@ha...>]

[Hey to the folks on the gaim-devel list. You are tuning in to a Debian
bug tracking system transmission. The full story is available at
http://bugs.debian.org/192214, but the summary is that between 0.59.x
and 0.60, the type we used to store colours changed somehow (maybe got
longer?), with the effect that importing old .gaimrcs makes all your
colours approximate black.]

On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 08:17, Mike Fedyk wrote:
> Ok I see.
> 
> But I can guarantee that you'll have many more people that will be
> complaining when sarge becomes the next stable release.

You are most likely correct. This would be nice to fix before 0.6x hits
a Debian stable release, and a few hundred or thousand people upgrade
and start bugging me with this problem.

> So, aren't there some fields that the old .58 used that the gtk2 releases
> before .65 didn't.  Some way to distinguish between the two in another
> field.  Maybe a gtk2 specific field?

That's entirely possible. Some prodding at ViewCVS gives these
differences between the gaimrc.c in the last 0.59.x release and 0.60,
the first Gtk2 release:
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/gaim/gaim/src/gaimrc.c.diff?r1=1.96.2.4&r2=1.149

Looking at gaimrc_write_options, it looks like we have a few possible
options. Something that looks like it's unequivocally added is the
conv_placement parameter.

> So, it has to convert the preferences to the xml format anyway, so once the
> gtk1 and gtk2 .gaimrc files can be identified we're set.

Yeah, gaimrc.c is officially deprecated code so we can make it as gross
as we want. It already has support for a few old .gaimrc formats, so why
not pad it out with support for subtle slews in format as well? :D

> Any chance there's something like I described above?  I know you don't want
> to do it, so I can talk to upstream if you'd like and file a bug with them,
> or just forward this one, or reference to it...

There's my suggestion. I'd like to see it done, like many things in
Gaim, but there are only so many hours in my day and so many things that
seem to need doing. I'd be very grateful if anyone on this list would
like to have a go. Although... that said... GdkColor in gdk 1.2 was made
of three gushorts... and in gtk 2.0 it's made of three guint16s. I'm now
officially severely confused, as to why it even messes up the magnitude
of the colours anyway. Help!

> Mike

Regards,
Rob