Critical warning [was Re: addresses from balsa-ab are not encoded properly]

[Peter Bloomfield <peterbloomfield bellsouth net>]

On 08/13/2009 06:46:06 AM Thu, Peter Bloomfield wrote:
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> > P.S. recent time balsa complains in the run-time:
> > > (balsa:9399): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_x11_atom_to_xatom_for_display:  
> > > assertion `atom != GDK_NONE' failed
> > > Cannot open: unable to open database file
> > Do you have a good explanation for this?
>
> Sadly, no!  The Gdk-CRITICAL warning occurs when Balsa (or any other  
> app) uses gtk_dialog_run() to present a modal dialog.   
> <URL:http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-list/2009-June/msg00017.html>  
> suggests that it should be fixed in some gtk update, but I'm still  
> seeing it in 2.16.5.

See <URL:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=508915>.  The warning  
was apparently inserted in the code tree for the f11 package--upstream  
shows no sign of it.  I interpret it as a misplaced fix for a minor bug in  
lookup_cached_xatom, which leads to a redundant but harmless entry in a  
pair of hash tables when gdk_x11_atom_to_xatom_for_display is passed  
GDK_NONE.  I posted a patch, if you're interested in a fix!

Best,

Peter