Re: [platform-swt-dev] Any chances we can get #466499 in for Mars?

["Max Rydahl Andersen" <manderse@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2 Jun 2015, at 10:00, André Dietisheim wrote:

> Hi Marc-Andre
>
> On 06/01/2015 10:16 PM, Marc-André Laperle wrote:
> > Do you really need to run with GTK3 or would GTK2 be acceptable?
>
> Thanks for the pointer but yes, that's what we'd most likely tell 
> users if there's no solution for Mars Final.
> We're not a product, we're just a few plugins for the IDE, so there's 
> no product (at least for JBoss Tools) that we are in control of.

also GTK2 has issues using browsers when running on system where webkit 
is built against GTK3.

It is just rather frustrating having the exact same code work fine on OS 
X, Windows, GTK2 but then fail to be unusable on GTK3.

We are looking at trying to do a workaround for this bug in our code but 
its not going to be pretty ;/

/max

> > You can use this in your product's launch arguments:
> > --launcher.GTK_version 2
> > http://help.eclipse.org/luna/index.jsp?topic=%2Forg.eclipse.platform.doc.isv%2Freference%2Fmisc%2Fruntime-options.html
> > This is what we do in Trace Compass. I think we're almost at a point 
> > where we could switch to GTK3 though!
> >
> > Marc-Andre
> > ________________________________________
> > From: platform-swt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx 
> > [platform-swt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] on behalf of André Dietisheim 
> > [adietish@xxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Monday, 01 June 2015 3:53 PM
> > To: platform-swt-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [platform-swt-dev] Any  chances we can get #466499 in for 
> > Mars?
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > in JBoss Tools we're unfortunately hit by a serious bug in jface 
> > trees
> > for SWT/GTK3 (all elements get the same label):
> > https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-19853
> >
> > This bug unfortunately makes our tooling unusable with Eclipse/Mars 
> > for
> > Linux/GTK3.
> > Snjezana Peco made a patch in
> > https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=466499 but I was told 
> > that
> > this wont make it to Eclipse/Mars.
> > I already talked to Alexander Kurtakov which explained to me that the
> > patch is late and would need 2 committers and 2 platform leads to 
> > vote
> > for it.
> > I was hoping that we could get this approved since we would have no
> > other choice but to tell our users to painfully wait for another 6 
> > long
> > months before Mars SR1.
> >
> > Thanks
> > André
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