Re: [Gaim-devel] Move a tab, lose your gaim_gtk_conversation preferences

[Christian H. <ch...@gn...>]

On Sun, Apr 13, 2003 at 06:05:01PM -0400, David J. Brigada wrote:
> I've been working with some stuff in gtkconv.c to fix SF Bug #707077, and
> I've found that when one drags a tab off a Gaim conversation window, all
> the conversation's preferences are lost.  I wrote a patch to save the
> sound preference, but this happens for all preferences.  In order to fix
> this, I see three options.
>   1: Make a recursive deep copy of the struct gaim_gtk_conversation before
>      it's destroyed, and another deep copy after it's recreated.
>   2: Work with gtkconv.c to write in a fake destruction and a fake
>      recreation mechanism in this situation (around line 1669), taking
>      code from gaim_window_add_conversation and
>      gaim_window_remove_conversation.
>   3: Remove the parts that you actually need from those two functions,
>      create new functions for those parts, and have the ~1669 part call
>      the new functions, as well as g_w_a_c and g_w_r_c.
> All three of these are above my head, so maybe Chip or someone else should
> take a look at these.  Personally, I don't do much of this dragging
> conversations off windows, so I don't really care.  It's probably one of
> "those bugs" that are a real pain to actually truly fix.

Should be fixed now. See if it works.

Christian
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