Re: the gnustep wreckage. Part 1: windowmaker and user apps

[Riccardo]

Hello, enrico,.

Quick reply :)

On Friday, November 19, 2004, at 12:05 PM, Enrico Sersale wrote:

> On 2004-11-19 11:50:40 +0200 Riccardo <multix@ngi.it> wrote:
>
> > <snip>
> > GWorkspace is so buggy I hope that at some point Enrico wills top 
> > adding features, stabilize what it is, make configure work to disable 
> > ddb and make it build cleanly.
> > <snip>
>
> Which kind of problems are you encountering, exactly? Besides the ddbd 
> part - that must be considered only "work in progress" - the rest of 
> the app should be very stable (I mean the current CVS).

apart from ddb which I had to disable by commenting out code? :)

The problems are related to moving the files to teh trash and Operations.

The first attempt (I never run gworkspace on this box before) it 
complained that .Trash didn't exist. I needed to create manually the 
"Desktop" directory and .Trash was created. Intermediate directories in 
the path were not created. This may be a problem of gworkspace and how 
you handle this or maybe of the function call you use! I don't know. 
Once done this I experience that the Operations helper "freezes" or 
stops working when I give it to move stuff. It can lock up so much that 
it has a white menu (not refreshed, only the boundary box) and the icon 
in the dock becomes grey. Often manually killing and repeating the 
operation works... SO it is not easily repeatable..

Also I would prefer that at the closure of gworkspace all helpers were 
closed at the quitting of gworkspace (well, I would be happy if you 
would remove some of those helpers totally...)

for the rest as I told in IRC today I was pretty pleased by the total 
appearance of the desktop. This is the first time I have a fully working 
and 2d accelerated X on NetBSD with my Matrox card and once a few apps 
are launched and wmaker is set OK.. I can feel at home almost :)

So even if I complain about nasty bugs I take the moment to thank all 
who worked up to this point! I only think we should do a feature freeze 
and try to take out to stability what we have here now. And release it 
to the world.

-R