Re: [Synaptic-devel] Bugfix release 0.55.1

[Michael Vogt]

On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 10:00:34AM +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Nov 2004, Michael Vogt wrote:
> > I uploaded the bugfix release 0.55.1 of synaptic. It contains no
> > string changes from 0.55 and fix some small problem like a missing
> > glade file. It also has a updated japanese translation (thanks to
> > Daisuke SUZUKI).
> 
> Hmm, both 0.55 and 0.55.1 have problems on systems with GTK-2.2.x (RHEL 3
> for example): the toolbar fails to show up at all, no matter what toolbar
> mode is selected and rm -rf ~/.synaptic doesn't help either.

Yeah, sorry for not updating configure.in. The latest synaptic need
gtk-2.4 because of the new widgets used in the download dialog. It
also needs a updated libglade.

> There's quite a bit of libglade warnings and such on startup:
[..]

See above. 

Is RHEL3 the latest RHEL? And it ships with gtk2.2? 
 
> On FC2 (with GTK 2.4.13) the toolbar does show up but changing the various 
> modes has no effect except that "Hide" works, otherwise the toolbar 
> stays in "Text below icons" mode no matter what was selected. 

Yes, this is another incompatability between glade and gtk. I opened a
bugzilla.gnome.org bug about it (#157215). The bottom line is: "we
hope to fix it for gnome 2.10" (which will be released in ~5 months). 

The best thing to do right now is probably ship with synaptic 0.53.3
for gtk2.2 based distributions. It should be pretty solid too (it will
be shiped with debian/sarge).

0.55.x is more unstable as we moved to a new glade/libglade
version. I already put 0.55.3 online at:
http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/synaptic/synaptic-0.55.3.tar.gz

> Oh and the above assertion failure about gtk_widget_hide is present
> on FC2 as well, otherwise no warnings or such.

This should be trivial to fix once I get my hands on a RPM based
system again :)

thanks,
 Michael
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