Re: client side windows - request for testing and reviewing

[Stefan Kost <ensonic hora-obscura de>]

Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen schrieb:
> 2009/6/17 Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>:
>> The client side window branch is now feature complete on X11, and
>> includes API to do offscreen window embedding (with patches for
>> clutter-gtk availible to test this). Today I merged the latest master
>> into the branch to make it easy for people to test it (its got the new
>> so version).
>>
>> I fixed the last known (to me) bug yesterday (an obscure WM interaction
>> issue on loading the saved session), and am running this as my default
>> Gtk+ without issues.
>>
>> The win32 branch is getting some work done by Cody Russell, and the
>> Quartz backend used to work fine but requires some minor API change
>> updates (hopefully Richard can do this soon, CC:ed).
>>
>> It would be very nice if we could merge this soon. However, to do that
>> we need more testing and people to look at the code. As things stand
>> right now I've gotten essentially zero feedback. I don't know of anyone
>> except the two backend porters who have built or looked at the code
>> really.
>>
>> So, please, please, please, test this code. We need people who run
>> "uncommon" apps to test it, and we need people to run it on apps they
>> know really well so we can find minor changes in behaviour.
>>
>> Also, anyone who knows gdk or have an interest in this, please take a
>> look at the code and give feedback.
> 
> I think I need some pointers to give some constructive feedback on
> this. I've now compiled the client-side-windows branch, but I am
> unsure where to start looking and what to try out.
> 
> I looked about the wiki page[1], but didn't find any hints. I found
> some undocumented signals on GdkWindow in the gtk-doc html that I
> couldn't figure out what was for; "get-parent",
> "get-off-screen-parent" et. al.
> 
> And also - is there an easy way to run my existing apps on top of the
> new libs I've installed in /opt? Like some LD_LIBRARY*-magic...
> 

I have glib/gtk in $HOME/debug and use:
export PATH="$HOME/debug/bin:$PATH"
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="$HOME/debug/lib/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH"
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$HOME/debug/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"
export GDK_PIXBUF_MODULE_FILE=/etc/gtk-2.0/gdk-pixbuf.loaders
export GTK_PATH=/usr/lib/gtk-2.0

Dunno if its complete.

Stefan