First impression: libxfce4menu

[Harold Aling]

Jannis Pohlmann wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 15:44:27 +0200, Harold Aling wrote:
>
>   
>> Harold Aling wrote:
>>     
>>>>> - Some icons are larger than others
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>> Odd that that's new - icon loading is done exactly the same way as
>>>> it was before, and, indeed, all icons are loaded using
>>>> gdk_pixbuf_new_from_file_at_size() using a global size, so I don't
>>>> see how this is possible.
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> See http://sait.nl/menu2.png -> Screensavers icon (wasn't present
>>> in 4.4 menu)
>>>
>>>       
>>>>> - Icons are drawn after the text is drawn. This causes the text to
>>>>> shift x pixels to the right a fraction of a second later (probably
>>>>> more noticeable on slower pc's)
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>> This is not new either.  Icons have been lazy-loaded for a long
>>>> time now (4.4.0 does this as well; I don't recall if any releases
>>>> in the 4.2 series do too). The original intent was to improve
>>>> xfdesktop startup time by reducing the time needed to generate the
>>>> initial menu.  If menu popup speed is an issue for you due to the
>>>> lazy-loading, I'd suggest not using SVG icons on older hardware.
>>>> They take orders of magnitude longer to load and render than PNGs
>>>> take.
>>>>         
>>> I have a P4-3 GHz with 1,5 GB of RAM, which should be sufficient to
>>> render SVG icons. If I notice the delay and the expanding on such a
>>> machine, I'd reckon that it might be better to draw the menu with
>>> space already reserved for the icons. This will also prevent the
>>> overlapping of the menu as shown in http://sait.nl/menu.png ...
>>>
>>>       
>> How can I create useful backtraces for libxfce4menu of xfdesktop?
>> They tend to crash every time an item is added to the menu...
>>
>>
>> I recompiled them with --enable-debug=full, but I get these '??'s in
>> the backtrace...
>>     
>
> Make sure you have the latest libxfce4menu (0.1.0svn-r25280) and
> xfdesktop (r25325). There were some bugs in libxfce4menu related to
> monitoring. Please note that monitoring is still experimental
> (xfdesktop currently handles this on its own and it's not supported by
> libxfce4menu yet).
>
>   - Jannis
>   
Jannis,

I have these revisions and they seem to be the lastest ones:
[    R ] xfdesktop4-9999-r25317 [9999-r25317]
[    R ] libxfce4menu-9999-r25294 [9999-r25294]

How can I create a more valuable backtrace?

-H-
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