Call for testers

Gaël Bonithon trash.paradise at protonmail.com
Sat Sep 12 16:50:36 CEST 2020


No specific list of things to be tested, but you can have a closer look at the menu bar, toolbar, status bar, and contextual menus.

Cheers,
Gaël

‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
On Saturday, September 12, 2020 11:45 AM, Nandakumar Edamana <nandakumar at nandakumar.co.in> wrote:

> Thanks for the instructions. I tried it on Ubuntu 18.04, but faced the following issue:
> xdt-autogen: This version of xdt-autogen (4.12.0) is too old.
> Version 4.14.0 or greater is required.
>
> I'll try on Ubuntu 20.04. BTW, is there a specific list of things to be tested? If not, I can do a casual testing. One problem is that I'm not a frequent Mousepad user, so I won't be noticing regressions unless they break the basic workflow.
>
> On 12/09/20 4:57 pm, Gaël Bonithon wrote:
>
>> Cool, thanks!
>>
>> Maybe the simplest way to build from source is to clone my repository:
>>
>> git clone https://gitlab.xfce.org/Tamaranch/mousepad.git
>> cd mousepad
>> git checkout avoid-deprecation-warnings-4
>> ./autogen.sh
>> make
>> sudo make install
>>
>> Then mousepad should be in /usr/local/bin and take precedence over the one in /usr/bin, so that you can just use it as usual, and check that there are no particular problems.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Gaël
>>
>> ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
>> On Saturday, September 12, 2020 9:25 AM, Nandakumar Edamana [<nandakumar at nandakumar.co.in>](mailto:nandakumar at nandakumar.co.in) wrote:
>>
>>> I'm ready to volunteer.
>>>
>>> On 12/09/20 12:48 pm, Gaël Bonithon wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> I made significant changes to Mousepad lately, to get rid of GtkUIManager and GtkAction (after a series of commits regarding other deprecations), and use GtkBuilder and GAction instead: see https://gitlab.xfce.org/apps/mousepad/-/merge_requests/25
>>>>
>>>> Could some of you carry out some tests in the coming days, in order to eliminate possible bugs or regressions before validating?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks!
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Gaël
>>>>
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