Re: [Gap-dev-discuss] Stop GNUMail from segfaulting on Quit

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi,

On 09/03/12 18:36, Sebastian Reitenbach wrote:
> Hi,
> On 2012-09-03 17:09:20 +0200 Riccardo Mottola 
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > On 09/03/12 14:31, Sebastian Reitenbach wrote:
> > > How is it for you on Linux or any other GNUstep based environment?
> > > Does GNUMail crash on you with some other View than the floating view,
> > > when you close it with not having the Mailboxes Window open?
> > > And does the patch then helps?
> > No, it doesn't crash for me. on Gnustep I tried the "drawer" view and 
> > we even have a surrogate drawer (so it is not using gnustep's drawers 
> > which are floating windows). Ialso thried the third option. which 
> > shows a floating window (which is better than Mac, where it doesn't 
> > work at all). I tried opening and closing the app with and without 
> > the floating pane and I got no crash. This is on netbsd.
>
> Sorry for those multiple mails sent here. I have some problems with my 
> web mailers,
> destroying the To: field. Now using GNUMail for the time being.
>
> For me the crasher only happens when I start up GNUMail, without the 
> Mailboxes
> window open. Only the Messages Viewer Window open. When I close GNUMail
> then, it segfaults. With an open Mailboxes window, it does not crash.
With the three-panes setup, the panel is made always visibleon startup. 
I have tried closing GNUMail with it open or closed, no segfault.

Thus I'd leave out your patch for now. Also thw whole view feature is 
clearly not fully implemented, so it does not make sense to fix 
somehting incomplete. The only views that work under gnustep right now 
are the floating and the drawer  view. And I am dubious about that 
drawer-view implementation, I think it is better to rip it out, I will 
do that when we standardize towards mac in the future version to 
minimize differencies. Using NSDrawer will end up being the same as 
floating on GS.

Riccardo