xfce4-panel broken [WAS: Netk deprecation notice [WAS Re: [proposal] Modify the panel-plugin interface, add 'powersave-mode'.]]

[Stephan Arts]

On 7/19/07, Olivier Fourdan <fourdan at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Olivier Fourdan wrote:
> > Stephan Arts wrote:
> >> I have not patched the panel itself, so I assume these bugs already
> >> existed. (messages from plugins are prefixed by something else then
> >> xfce4-panel)
> >
> >> Another thing i noticed is that the default launcher configuration is
> >> not parsed here... (All launcher settings are empty), might be
> >> something with an incorrect search path.
> >
> > Well, upgrading libxfcegui4 does improve things. Makes me think that
> > someone changed the API or ABI without changing the version.
> >
> > But still, the panel is broken. No launcher work, it still fires up a
> > bunch of warnings like:
> >
> > At startup: GLib-CRITICAL **: g_string_insert_c: assertion `pos <=
> > string->len' failed
>
> The culprit is that function in
> xfce4-panel/trunk/plugins/launcher/launcher-exec.c:
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> static gchar ** launcher_exec_parse_argv ()
>
> It builds an all empty command line. Plus the glib critical message is from
>
>   g_string_append_c (command_line, *p);

Could you give me your launcher configuration? Because no matter how
hard i try... the launchers work for me :p.

I have glib 2.12.12 and gtk 2.10.13. (debian lenny)

>
> Cheers,
> Olivier.

Regards,
Stephan