[patch] more xfdesktop stuff - help wanted

[Jean-François Wauthy]

i've applied the lastest patch for icon in the menu and i haven't
default icon anymore. Is it normal ? or have i made a mistake ?

Le lun 09/02/2004 à 04:18, Brian J. Tarricone a écrit :
> here's a new xfdesktop patch.  the only new feature here from the last 
> patch is the ability to disable icons in the menus entirely (again see 
> the sample menu.xml for instructions).
> 
> the main reason i'm putting this out is because i need some help.  
> there's a nasty memleak i can't track down.  according to 
> gnome-system-monitor, it's causing memory usage to inflate by over a 
> megabyte every time the menus are regenerated (with icons).
> 
> i've been running xfdesktop through valgrind (--leak-check=yes 
> --show-reachable=yes --logfile=valgrind-xfd -v --num-callers=50 
> --leak-resolution=high), and the stack traces i get back from that do 
> point to icon creation, but the memory allocations seem to be buried 
> deeply in libxml2 and/or librsvg (obviously only when SVG icons are 
> being loaded).  while i won't rule out an external bug, it just seems a 
> bit unlikely to me that either of those two libraries could be leaking 
> so much memory.
> 
> there also seems to be some possibly-related leaks in the Netk stuff in 
> libxfcegui4, but that's not my major concern now.  i fixed a couple 
> leaks in libxfce4util that are now in cvs (as per my previous email).
> 
> i've posted the new patch, along with my latest valgrind log file, on my 
> webserver:
> http://kelnos.homelinux.org/xfce4/xfdesktop-menu-icons-20040208-2.diff.gz
> http://kelnos.homelinux.org/xfce4/xfdesktop-valgrind-20040208.gz
> the valgrind log is rather huge with the leak resolution set so high.  
> there are a lot of gdk_pixbuf-related calls in there, actually, but 
> anything with a g_module_* call in the trace can be safely ignored.
> 
> note: this trace was made with a small modification to xfdesktop so it 
> frees all data held for the menu right before it quits.  i did this so 
> valgrind wouldn't mark that memory as still reachable, but i didn't 
> include that modification in the patch.  if you want to use it, try this 
> patch (apply it after the other one):
> http://kelnos.homelinux.org/xfce4/xfdesktop-freemem-on-quit-20040208.diff
> 
> i'd really appreciate it if someone (or several someones) could take a 
> look at this, as i'm certainly not going to commit something that is 
> leaking so much memory.
> 
> just for the hell of it, i tossed up a new screenie too:
> http://kelnos.homelinux.org/xfce4/xfdesktop-menu-icons-20040208-2.png
> pictured is the new default menu with icons enabled.  everything below 
> the "About XFce" icon is autogenerated.
> 
> thanks,
> brian

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Jean-François Wauthy <pollux at castor.be>
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