Re: [Gaim-devel] Start gaim as docklet

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

On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 10:14:16AM -0500, John Palmieri wrote:
> I took a quick look at the code and tried to do a quick fix to no
> avail.  Seems like I can't even get the docklet plugin to show up in the
> plugins menu anymore.  This is even when I remove any changes I did. 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> --
> J5

What? It's called 'Tray Icon' now. And no, it's not a quick-fix-able
thing, otherwise I would've quick-fixed it already. If we're talking
about the login window, it's created at startup before the main loop is
started. This means the events which filter through and create the
docklet icon etc have not been processed, so it's like a race condition.
To fix we'd need to either make the decision as to whether to show the
login window some time later (in a timeout (hack) or a low-priority idle
handler (not so bad)), or (ugh) make the docklet hide a login window
when the icon is displayed (hack!).

For the blist it's not just a race. Except at auto-login time, we can
assume the docklet to be fully displayed when it comes to the blist
being created or not. The problem is that if we defer creation of the
blist window, lots of other code which refers to it (icon switching,
menu re-generation) fails horribly. And, because of the shonky blist gtk
code, we can't create it without showing it. Frankly, I'm surprised the
blist works at all. Try and change anything with regard to when the
blist is created etc, and watch Gaim crash. I'm not going to invest much
time in this until the blist has been rewritten. Hopefully in so doing
it will be made less crap too.

Regards,
Rob