From: msevior@physics.unimelb.edu.au
Date: Sun Jun 29 2003 - 09:29:17 EDT
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: Abiword1.99
From: <msevior@physics.unimelb.edu.au>
Date: Sun, June 29, 2003 8:56 pm
To: <keith@keithg4jvx.force9.co.uk>
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>
>> >> > The only problem which I have so-far found, is to do
>> >> > with copy/cut and paste.
>> >> > If I try to highlight some text, using either the
>> >> > mouse or the shift-arrow
>> >> > keys, ready for copying or cutting, the cursor
>> >> > disappears and the text isn't
>> >> > highlighted. So I don't know how much of the text I
>> >> > am marking.
>> >
>> > Then I updated with,
>> >
>> >> Running SuSE8.2, I have tried the GTK, Gnome, and SuSE versions
>> and
>> they are all the same. That is, if I use the GNOME desktop, the
>> highlighting works correctly. If I use the KDE desktop, then I have
>> the problem.
>> >>
>> >> Very odd, and I have no idea why this is happening. Previous
>> versions were OK with both desktops.
>> >
>> > A further update.
>> >
>> > I have installed 1.99 in Mandrake9.1, and highlighting works with
>> both GNOME and KDE desktops!
>> >
>> > So, could it be something wrong with the SuSE set-up? an
>> Incompatibility somewhere, perhaps?
>> >
>
> Martin replied
>
>> It's almost certainly that your were running a broken theme in SuSe
>> 8.2. AbiWord-2.0 picks up it's highlighting colour from the current
>> GTK 2.0 theme. If it's broken somehow (or it's a gtk-1.x theme) no
>> highting colour is fund and none is drawn.
>>
>> If you still have acccess to SUSE 8.2 try a different gtk-2 theme.
>>
>> There's a nice selection at:
>>
>> http://art.gnome.org/theme_list.php?category=gtk2
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Martin
>>
>
> Sorry, Martin, but I have tried several themes and get the same result
> - OK in Gnome, but not in KDE. Following your suggestion that it may
> be concerned with GTK2, I have installed the latest .rpm. Now neither
> Abiword or the Gnome desktop will run. They immediately crash out.
> Fortunately I am doing these 1.99 experiments on a spare harddrive.
>
Oh, now I am puzzled. Sounds like SUSE 8.2 has screwed up gtk 2.2
somehow.
> I have received an off-list message saying that I should not have
> posted this problem on the list (unless I have completely
> mis-understood the message). Apparently I should have sought help
> from elsewhere and only posted to the list when the problem was
> solved, saying what the problem was, and how it was solved. I thought
> that user lists were for asking for help with problems. Sorry if I
> have inadvertently cantravened the rules of the list.
>
Not at all. Please tell me who you that and I will tell his wrong. Feel
free to discuss any and all problems on the user list. That is what is
there for. We all learn from mistakes and abiword development and
debugging should be as transperent as possible. We have no secrets and
nothing to hide.
Do you mind if I CC this to the user list?
> My original posting was to ask for guidance as to whether this was a
> problem with my installation, or if it was an Abiword bug. That is
> why I sent the posting to the list.
>
> Because of this, I will bring this thread to a close and continue
> trying to sort the problem on my own. If I can't, then I will either
> abandon Abiword1.99 or change from the KDE desktop to Gnome.
>
Well, I would rather you don't. Keeping things in the open helps
everyone understand what is going wrong. If SUSE have a problem with
their GTK they should know about it.
Cheers
Martin
> Many thanks to all who have tried to help.
>
> Cheers
>
> Keith
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