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From: "Jan D." <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Reproducible gtk crash
Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 14:37:16 +0100 (CET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200411211337.iALDbHCs032635@coolsville.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <iluy8gvtmnw.fsf@latte.josefsson.org> "from Simon Josefsson at Nov 21, 2004 01:24:35 pm"

> "Jan D." <jan.h.d@swipnet.se> writes:
> 
> > Ouch, this is nasty.  When running Gnome the new GTK file dialog uses 
> > gnome-vfs as a backend, and gnome-vfs creates some threads.  But malloc 
> > in Emacs can't handle different threads so we crash.  One workaround is 
> > to set the use-old-gtk-file-dialog variable to t (it looks quite nice on 
> > Debian testing).
> 
> I can confirm that the workaround works, thanks.  It bring back the
> old file selection dialog that I'm used to, which I even prefer.  Btw,
> shouldn't that variable be customizable?

I wasn't sure what to do as this variable only exists for some GTK versions.
For GTK 2.0 and 2.2 it doesn't make any sense (the new dialog does not
exist), and for non-GTK versions it is also without use.  I didn't want
the variable to exist if the GTK version didn't have two file dialogs,
as the old one will eventually go away.  Is there a policy for these
kind of variables (i.e. not only platform specific, but also toolkit version
dependent)?

	Jan D.

           reply	other threads:[~2004-11-21 13:37 UTC|newest]

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