client side windows testing?

[Jannis Pohlmann]

On Fri, 11 Sep 2009 01:41:37 +0200
Jannis Pohlmann <jannis at xfce.org> wrote:

> On Fri, 11 Sep 2009 01:04:06 +0200
> Jannis Pohlmann <jannis at xfce.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:06:53 +0200
> > Jannis Pohlmann <jannis at xfce.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Thu, 10 Sep 2009 10:34:36 -0700
> > > "Brian J. Tarricone" <brian at tarricone.org> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Has anyone tested Xfce with one of the recent gtk 2.17 releases
> > > > (or git master)?  It would be a good idea to figure out if
> > > > anything of ours breaks with the new client side windows code in
> > > > gtk.
> > > 
> > > I tried 2.17.5 which results in quite a few annoying rendering
> > > issues with the Thunar icon view. Haven't really looked into it
> > > though. I wouldn't even know where to start. Sometimes, I got the
> > > items placed all over each other and sometimes they started moving
> > > up a few pixels when I hovered them.
> > 
> > Here's a demo video showing one of these issues. If anyone has any
> > clue, please let me know. 
> 
> Ok, thanks to a few of ideas from Benny I'm now quite sure to have
> found the source of the bug. Thunar remembers the first visible file
> as the file to scroll to when entering a folder that was viewed
> before. If I turn that off, icons don't jump around anymore. So the
> bug is either in the exo_icon_view_scroll_to_path() or in the way it
> is called. Working on it.

Should be fixed in exo's master. After fighting with it for the entire
night and day and filing a bug against GDK [1], I finally managed to
fix it. The fix has a small downside but I'm not too concerned about
it. It's still open whether there will be a fix in GDK for this, in
which case we can revert this change.

[1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=594880 

  - Jannis
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