Re: gnome-canvas-pixbuf: lack of #:parent considered harmful!

[Andy Wingo]

Hi Greg,

On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 19:14 -0500, Greg Troxel wrote:
>          (cpixbuf (make <gnome-canvas-pixbuf>))
> 
> And then it blew up with a segfault in the gnome canvas code.
> 
> Adding "#:parent canvas-root" to the initializer made everthing work fine.

Hm. Well, all of the (make <foo>) constructs use g_object_new() to
create the object; the #:bar keyword args set gobject properties on the
object. In this case, it means that <gnome-canvas-pixbuf> is buggy. Not
surprising -- gnome-canvas is in a bit of an orphaned state right now
(upstream).

So for now, you did the right thing. If you still want to get this fixed
so it doesn't crash, you'll need to send a patch to gnome-canvas
upstream.

Cheers,
-- 
Andy Wingo
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