Re: Weird focus problem with GNUstep applications in WindowMaker

[Richard Stonehouse]

On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 14:31:32 +0200, Eric Brunel <eric.brunel@pragmadev.com> 
wrote:

> Thanks for the info. It is more or less what I suspected. I chose  
> Debian because they seem to be the only ones who have GNUstep packages  
> in their standard distribution, but it seems they don't upgrade them  
> very often. I checked the testing and unstable releases for the  
> versions to come; There are a few improvements indeed, but they're  
> still not at the latest versions. And besides, I'd prefer using a  
> stable distribution.

You say you chose Debian: is openSUSE an option for you? I have
binary RPM packages for openSUSE 11.2 based on gnustep-make 2.2.0,
 -base 1.19.3, and -gui and -back 0.17.1. These were, at the time,
classed as 'unstable' versions, but were actually pretty stable.

If you are interested, they are at:
<http://www.rstonehouse.co.uk/extras/GNUstep-2.2.0/openSUSE-11.2/i586/>

Alternatively, if you can wait a couple of weeks or so, I am in the
process of building the latest stable versions (gnustep-make 2.4.0
etc) for the recent openSUSE 11.3 release, and intend to make binary
packages available online when ready.

> What are my options here? It seems the file organisation for GNUstep  
> in Debian is quite different from the standard one, so getting the  
> latest sources and compiling them myself is quite likely to mess  
> things up completely. Is there an unofficial repository somewhere that  
> would allow to upgrade to more recent versions without breaking  
> everything?

> On 22 juil. 10, at 12:14, Wolfgang Lux wrote:
> > Eric Brunel wrote:
> >
> >> Is there any workaround for this? [...]

> > These versions were released more than two years ago and there have  
> > been two major upgrades since then, which contain a substantial  
> > amount of bug fixes. In particular, the issue with the modifier keys  
> > you observed was fixed shortly before the release of GNUstep back  
> > version 0.16, so my recommendation is simply to upgrade to a more  
> > recent GNUstep version.

-- 
    Richard Stonehouse