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

[Riccardo]

Hey,

On Friday, November 19, 2004, at 05:28 PM, Adrian Robert wrote:
> I've noticed this for a while (flashing titlebar) for just load and 
> save windows but not other GNUstep windows.  So I think it's a specific 
> bug in NSSave/NSOpenPanel and have been meaning to look at it but 
> haven't yet.
good that it is not only me.

> > 5. NSTabViews are broken. TabViews under GNUMail and wmaker 0.91 are 
> > totally unusable. In the preference panes not even the correct number 
> > of tabs is drawn and the titles are completely missing.
>
> Is this robustly reproducable for you?  And did you build GNUmail AFTER 
> building your Gorm and GNUstep libraries?
yestreday it was and yes I built GNUMail already with a recent CVS 
version, maybe 3 days older.

> > Restarting with mwm as windowmanager the tabs still look ugly and some 
> > without a readable title, but they are all there and I can switch 
> > among them.
>
> I'm surprised that changing window manager would affect anything that 
> NSTabView was doing.  Are you sure nothing else is different?
NOTHING else, same computer same way of starting things... I will try to 
reproduce once again, If I can I'll make screenshots. I will also see 
what happens when exporting display.

> > - preferences are not saved. Modifying the main interface file 
> > (xxx.gorm) in the project preference panel has no effect!  I need to 
> > edit manually the project file in an editor and change the plist value
>
> Make sure you hit 'return' after editing each field.  I think this is 
> in the process of being fixed but not yet..
I did so for sure, in fact reopening the panel still shows my value... 
But save doesn't work and it is also not used (besides being saved)


> > HOW can I specify the NSTypes for an application? This is very 
> > important or PRICE can't open a single file!!!
>
> I sent a patch to Serg a couple of months ago to enable this, but it 
> had to wait for a different patch to NSTabView to make it in.  This is 
> now in CVS (but not a released GUI), so hopefully Serg can release an 
> updated PC after the next GUI point release.

I really hope so! stimulate him :) I need to test more than a thing in 
PRICE now and opening files is necessary.

-R