Re: Summary: Latest GNUstep/Etoile on Solaris non-root user problem

[Yen-Ju Chen]

On 8/3/07, Andreas Höschler <ahoesch@smartsoft.de> wrote:
> Hi Fred,
>
> > A call to any gui method before the initialisation of the display
> > server
> > is rather daring. We never can be sure about the results. Perhaps these
> > bundles could be changed to skip this call during loading?
> > I understand that bundles want to get started as early as possible to
> > be
> > able to change even the most basic behaviour of their environment. But
> > then the have to stick to certain rules.
> >
> > What surprises me still is that you did not get any message from the
> > failed bundle loading. Some debug output here, could have speeded up
> > the
> > whole analysis process. Looking at your code shows that you have added
> > some exception handling there, which is not in the original GNUstep
> > code. Still there should have been some output.
>
> There was a warning of NSImageRep, something was initialized with nil
> data. I get loads of these kinds warnings and logs from GNUstep and
> Etoile so I didn't care in the first place. Nothing indicated (to me at
> least) that an exception in one of the bundles being loaded kept the
> display server from finishing its initialisation. :-(

  The first thought I have is that Camaelon may be the reason.
  Well, I guess it is still a hack in some sense
  until GNUstep has a theme support internally.

  Yen-Ju

>
> Anyway!
>
> - Andreas
>
>
>
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