r21892 - gnucash/tags - Tagging the 2.4.10 release

[Phil Longstaff]

I'd report it against gtk and I'd mention it in our release notes.

Phil


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 From: Geert Janssens <janssens-geert at telenet.be>
To: John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> 
Cc: gnucash-devel at gnucash.org 
Sent: Saturday, February 4, 2012 11:38:10 AM
Subject: Re: r21892 - gnucash/tags - Tagging the 2.4.10 release
 
Op zaterdag 28 januari 2012 08:46:45 schreef John Ralls:
> 
> OK, if it's crashing for you on XP, maybe it will for me too. I'll have a
> look in a bit.
> 
> Regards,
> John Ralls

I finally got some more information on this problem. I found a relevant 
gnucash.trace. I don't know why I didn't find this before, but no matter.

It seems gtk 2.24.8 doesn't like a 16-bit display depth:

WARN <Gdk> gdk_win32_pixmap_new: depth = 16 not supported

This is then followed by a number of other gdk errors like
CRIT <Gdk> gdk_gc_new_with_values: assertion `drawable != NULL' failed
CRIT <Gdk> gdk_gc_set_colormap: assertion `GDK_IS_GC (gc)' failed
(repeat x times)

My Windows XP is installed in a xen VM, to which I normally connect via RDP, 
currently at 16-bit. I haven't found a way yet to set the bit depth to 24 via 
RDP.

Just to continue with the test, I have connected to the VM via the xen console 
and set the depth to 24-bit there. In this configuration GnuCash starts fine.
The trade-offs are that my screen is now only 1024x768 instead of 1280x1024, 
and the xen console is unworkably slow. I also used a VNC connection via 
TightVNC. This can be configured to use 24-bit at 1024x768 as well, but there 
I get horrible visual artifacts caused by the mouse movement. 

So I think we have found the cause and as far as I'm concerned this shouldn't 
be blocking the 2.4.10 release anymore.

I'm not sure if it's worth reporting a bug against gtk for this. It sure 
complicates my gnucash on Windows development work right now. But perhaps I 
can get rdp to work in 24-bit.

Should we mention it in the our release notes that from now on GnuCash on 
Windows requires at least a monitor setting of 24-bit depth ?

Geert
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