Re: Problem with gnome-shell-extension-prefs on GNOME 3.4.2

[Craig Rob l300lvl <atz3 yahoo ca>]

> On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 2:10 AM, Craig Rob l300lvl <atz3 yahoo ca> wrote:
> > I went ahead and opened a bug report with suse, so maybe someone
> > upstream will notice it and realize what's going on? I don't plan to
> > switch distros any time soon so I might attempt manually building
> > gnome-shell.
> 
> Simply applying that patch onto the gjs package should fix it. It's our bug.
> 

What patch is that, maybe I missed something. That sounds fairly simple,
and I could probably build gjs a lot easier than gnome-shell.
> > https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=778436
> >
> > Thanks for informing me about that bug, Amy. If you ever do write
> > anything up I'll be happy to test, even if you it's something small it
> > will be nice to get it fixed :D
> >> On 2 September 2012 05:16, Jasper St. Pierre <jstpierre mecheye net> wrote:
> >> > On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 11:33 AM, Norman L. Smith <nls1729 gmail com> wrote:
> >> >> On Sat, 2012-09-01 at 08:23 -0500, Craig Rob l300lvl wrote:
> >> >>> Just in case it helps others that *do* crash the prefs tool are:
> >> >>>
> >> >>> - status-area-horizontal-spacing also a fabulous extension by Amy
> >> >>> - Window Buttons by Amy
> >> >>> - Maximus by Amy, which is also throwing an error that holds the prefs
> >> >>> tool open now, under the latest 3.4.2-3.7.1 which I just updated to here
> >> >>> and it reoccurs any time I try to open the prefs tool for that
> >> >>> extension, in the last 3.4.2 it would just crash and disappear like the
> >> >>> others do: http://paste.opensuse.org/15445377
> >> >>>
> >> >>> - Dash to Dock
> >> >>> - Activities Configurator
> >> >>> - Multiple Monitor Panels
> >> >>>
> >> >>> Besides the one which still crashes it, the others all make the box
> >> >>> segfault and vanish with no stack trace, immediately.
> >> >>>
> >> >>
> >> >> Craig:
> >> >>
> >> >> I have tried more extensions and find that it "appears" extensions with
> >> >> prefs.js which create a new GObject.Class crash and others that just use
> >> >> widgits or prototypes in prefs.js don't.  I am testing on 12.2 rc2 with
> >> >> gnome-shell-3.4.2-3.7.1.x86_64.
> >>
> >> If that's a symptom of crashing prefs widgets (GObject.class vs
> >> __proto__) then just about all of my extensions would do so - I use
> >> the same basic code for them all.
> >>
> >> Craig - ignore the Maximus prefs widget for now, I uploaded a new
> >> version on Fri and no doubt that freezing bug you're seeing is a
> >> result of changes I introduced (possibly as well as the one we're
> >> trying to track).
> >>
> >> I guess in the meantime I can try install OpenSUSE on a VM and rewrite
> >> my prefs.js to not use GObject.class & test.
> >
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