Re: [Screem-devel] Anyone interested in trying out a few bug fixes

[David K. <da...@ri...>]

On 5 Nov 2009, at 05:53, Jim Hayward wrote:

> A few of the changes...
>
> Port the code to GtkSourceView2. This is not yet complete. You  
> currently
> cannot edit the default highlighting colors in preferences. Printing  
> is
> also disabled. The current code uses libgnomeprint. This still needs  
> to
> be ported to the Gtk print API.

The easiest thing here might be to do what I originally did pinch the  
code that gedit uses and adapt as necessary, not least because it will  
then act the same as gedit and fit in better with the desktop overall.

> The completely outdated internal GDL code is no longer used. The code
> now compiles against the system installed libgdl. One note, GDL is
> broken with Gtk 2.18 client-side windows. I filed an upstream bug  
> report
> with the GDL developers. You can work around the problem by starting
> screem with..
> env GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=1 path/to/screem

I've not followed GDL development, has it stopped being so  
fragmented?  Each project which used it seemed to have their own  
version, with various patches.
>
> The "document tree" is in pretty bad shape. It is totally broken for  
> CSS
> files. The tree is disabled for CSS files right now. I causes all  
> kinds
> of interesting segfaults. Closing the tree view and not using it at  
> all
> is recommended.

 From the (regular) crashes reported / seen the segfaults seemed to be  
more with libcroco getting upset at being fed incomplete css and  
getting stuck rather than the document tree.

Disabling the document tree will have a bad side effect in that it  
will cause the select context feature to stop working, so you won't be  
able to select the content of the current tag, select the current tag,  
or select the parent tag.  Off the top of my head this is the only  
thing I know will break.  The Dreamweaver/Golive template support  
might use the tree model, I can't recall.


I'll throw in something else that needs sorting, the document has  
changed warning when saving.  I could reproduce this with the ubuntu  
packaged version of screem, but whenever I tried to reproduce it with  
development versions I never could (including building from an ubuntu  
source package).



David