Re: [Denemo-devel] New Binaries?

[Richard Shann]

On Sat, 2015-06-27 at 08:57 -0500, Jeremiah Benham wrote:
> 
> On Jun 25, 2015 3:04 PM, "Denemo DotOrg" <address@hidden>
> wrote:
> >
> > >Is it possible to use svg in the menu's and tooltips? I am also
> getting these warnings but not sure if this is the cause:
> > >GLib-GObject - WARNING : The property GtkSettings:gtk-menu-images
> is deprecated and shouldn't be used anymore. It will be removed in a
> future version.
> >
> > At the moment it is *possible* to use svgs in menus, and we have
> code that allows this, but the use is deprecated as the message says.
> > We couldn't use them in tooltips nor in labels, info dialogs etc as
> these are text - we would not want to have to create every such
> message in Inkscape anyway, and they couldn't be translated if we did.
> > And yet you are clearly just a tweak away from it working (unless it
> is a bug in gtk handling certain encodings). It looks like what is
> needed is something like the regfont.exe that you found for windows.
> >
> > To finally make sure we aren't up against a gtk bug when trying to
> display those glyphs from the musical symbols code page you could get
> up an application like Inkscape or Gimp or libreOffice that allows
> font selection and see it they can display those symbols from the
> denemo.ttf font.
> 
> 
> Ok. I have found out a little more. I launched inkskape that has been
> compiled against the same gtk version and other libs. Inkskape does
> display the denemo fonts but not the Musical Symbols. In fact when I
> tried to select a character from the we denemo font, Musical Symbols
> was not even on the list. I could use the few musical symbols that
> were in the Miscellaneous Symbols category. I have also learned that
> the glyphs that were working in denemo were the ones in the
> Miscellaneous Symbols category. In Inkskape if I tried to copy paste a
> Musical Symbol glyph from the denemo font I get the D384 (or whatever
> number) that I saw in denemo. 

Am I right in thinking that you did build for OSX before with these
glyphs displaying? Was that the very same Apple OSX version? If so then
we have narrowed it down to being a GTK bug. If not it could conceivably
be an Apple bug.
In either case, I think we can make it less conspicuous by using a
different set of palette labels on OSX (or dropping those ones
altogether). It won't fix the menus, but that would be too painful to
patch I think (you would be trying to replace the glyphs with ASCII like
"1/4" for the quarter note glyph etc, but they are embedded in the code
in some tricky fashion I think)

And wait for them to fix the bug ...

Richard