[java-gnome-hackers] GApplication and GtkApplication coverage

[Guillaume M. <res...@gm...>]

Hi,

I'm currently working on the coverage of GApplication and GtkApplication
to fix one of the bug[1] in our Bugzilla.

You can find my work on a branch at
'hackers/guillaume/gtk-application/'.

Sadly, I'm hiting some problems:
  * Dbus error,
  * Command line handler,
  * Opened files handler.

Basically, it works (for now) only if we use the "NONE" ApplicationFlags
and if no arguments are passed when starting the application.

Moreover, everybody knows that in our lovely crafted bindings, we should
always call Gtk.init() first except for some rare cases (you know that
right?). But GtkApplication is supposed (and is calling it [the C
function]) automatically. Is it cool? I don't know, but it is a problem
for us because we cannot allow that. We must explictly call Gtk.init()
ourselves.

If anyone wants to give me a hand (by making some code, giving me more
details about how G[tk]Application works, etc..) I will thank you :)

And to finish this email, here is a quote from the IRC channels for
people who don't stay always on IRC or who are not using it (you
should!).

07:24 < AfC> Respawner: do you want me to hold off releasing 4.1.2?
07:24 < AfC> If you can figure it out it would give us a good feature to
include
07:26 < Respawner> AfC: hum I don't know it might take some time to me
to figure out the issues, and the issues make the application crash so...
07:27 < AfC> Respawner: Well, we can try and figure them out
07:27 < AfC> Respawner: there have been some threads & bugs about
GtkApplication lately, so perhaps that would help
07:27 < Respawner> AfC: hackers/guillaume/gtk-application/
07:28 < Respawner> AfC: some issues are commented in the code ;)
07:30 < Respawner> and there is a bug which appears when launching the
app with args like "java .... GtkApp blabla blibli blublu"
07:30 < Respawner> it says "this app cannot open files" then when you
start using the capp (eg clicking on a button) it crashes
07:31 < Respawner> I understand that I have to handle the "command-line"
and "open" signals from that error
07:33 < Respawner> the "command-line" signal is probably not a hard to
fix, but the "open" signal is a little more complex since it uses a
GFile array
07:34 < Respawner> but maybe we can use a String array containing the
path to each file instead?
07:35 < Respawner> I don't think that we need to cover GFile, the Java
API is capable enough to handle files :D

btw: It looks like some guys wants that we integrate the G[tk]Application
class before the GNOME 3.4 release.

[1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=658400

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Guillaume Mazoyer