Re: [Pan-users] [latest git] Assertions hit in header-pane.cc

[walt]

On Sun, 28 Oct 2012 00:40:41 +0000, Duncan wrote:

> walt posted on Sat, 27 Oct 2012 15:18:43 -0700 as excerpted:
> 
>> Hi Heinrich.  (I'm posting to user instead of devel to accommodate
>> Duncan, who seems to be having some trouble with usenet technology ;)
>> 
>> I just hit the following asserts in header-pane.cc:
>> 
>> (pan:30080): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_tree_path_compare:
>> assertion `a != NULL' failed (pan:30080): Gtk-CRITICAL **:
>> IA__gtk_tree_path_compare:
>> assertion `b != NULL' failed

> That message looks familiar, but I'm not sure from where.  I /might/
> have seen it in a bug report I checked when doing a git whatchanged a
> few weeks ago.  (There haven't been many commits recently.)
> 
> Are you sure you're on current git?  Because if I'm correct in the
> above,
> that was supposed to be fixed (perhaps not successfully, however).

Yes, I'm posting with pan now so you can check my headers.


> But wherever it was I read about it, yes, that assertion had been there
> for awhile.  AFAIK the discussion was that new gtk's doing something
> differently now, and I think the solution was to simply remove that

gtk3 is definitely doing things differently now, and I'm not loving it
(yet).  FWIW I compiled two versions of pan, one with gtk2 and one with
gtk3.

Both versions have issues with spontaneous changes in pan's window size,
but the gtk3 version is outrageous that way.

When I read your reply to me (gtk3) pan's window immediately widened to 
occupy the entire width of my 24" monitor, leaving the entire right half 
of the body pane blank.  And, the window refuses to let me shrink it back 
to normal size until I navigate away to some other pane.

I thought the spontaneous widening bug involved only displaying a pixbuf,
and with gtk2 I still think so, but with gtk3 even pure text posts behave
that way.  Awful :(


>> Oh, one other unrelated bug I see:  the 'dl-meter-show' setting seems
>> to be ignored when pan first starts, but if I set it to 'false' in the
>> settings dialog, the dl-meter disappears until the next time I start
>> pan.

> Your description doesn't seem to match the UI I see for the dl meter
> here.  Are you possibly running pan built against gtk3?

dl-meter behavior is the same with either version of gtk.


> I'm running pan built against gtk2, FWIW, and the only dl meter I see is
> a small segment of the status bar just to the right of the connections
> segment, but to the left of the tasks segment.
> 
> The only way I see to configure it is to click that status bar segment,
> which produces a small dialog, titled "Pan Download Meter Preferences".
> In it, there's a couple checkboxes (warn and disconnect from server), a
> textbox/spinner combo with the limit number, a dropdown MB/GB list, a
> reset button and the OK button.

Yes, same here.


> I don't see any way to turn off the dl-meter status bar segment,

The checkbox is in 'Panes' tab of Edit::Preferences (not Settings, sorry).
(Are you seeing eleven different tabs in the Preferences dialog?  'Panes'
is tab number two for me.)