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bug#3145: 23.0.92; detaching GTK+ tool bar crashes emacs --daemon
From: |
Dan Nicolaescu |
Subject: |
bug#3145: 23.0.92; detaching GTK+ tool bar crashes emacs --daemon |
Date: |
Sun, 3 May 2009 11:24:57 -0700 (PDT) |
Jan Djärv <jan.h.d@swipnet.se> writes:
> Stephen Berman skrev:
>
> >
> > As long as this does not change in GTK+ and no workaround is possible in
> > Emacs, I (sadly) think you should seriously consider disabling detaching
> > the tool bar in the GTK+ build. When used in conjunction with --daemon
> > it is a ticking time bomb for data loss because of the crash it causes.
> > I don't make this suggestion lightly, since detaching the tool bar is to
> > me an acceptable workaround for the very annoying shrinking frame bug
> > (see bug#3195), but precluding a crash and possible data loss should
> > probably take precedence over avoiding annoyance.
> >
>
> I don't mind disabling detaching if it is OK in the current code freeze.
IMHO detaching the toolbar is a red herring here.
Yes, there on big valid reason to disable detaching the toolbar: it
seems that detaching the toolbar is disabled by default by (almost?) all
Gtk+ applications.
The ticking time bomb is actually using an emacs compiled with the Gtk+
support in conjunction with multi-tty. emacsclient + kill emacsclient +
emacsclient results in a crash.
IMO we need at least a big fat warning in NEWS (or some other very prominent
place) with a reference to the Gtk+ bug to make users aware of the
problem. We've had many bug reports about this, we'll only get more
after the release.