[Pan-users] Gnome and Ubuntu foks, some good pan news =:^)

[Duncan]

For some years now, pan has been known not to get along well with the 
gnome accessibility daemon (IDR what it's called, exactly), and ever 
since we found out that was the problem, the recommendation has been to 
turn it off, at least when running pan.  But while that's the gnome 
accessibility app, it seems nearly all reported issues with it have been 
on ubuntu.  I could speculate that ubuntu activates accessibility by 
default, thus all the problem reports from there, but it's pure 
speculation.

Anyway, it seems someone finally traced down the root problem -- it has 
been a known issue with one of the gtk widgets (treeview), apparently, 
there's a non-pan (rythmbox) bug on it too -- and has devised a 
workaround patch for the problem.

The judgefudge/hmueller repo has the patch in it now, after pkovar ask 
him to test it, but I'm not sure whether it's in khaley or the official 
gnome repo (pkovar's bailiwick) yet, but as I said, pkovar's aware of it, 
so it should hopefully hit with the next official release. =:^)

Here's the judgefudge git commit header; the comment being just a link to 
the bug with the discussion and patch, which basically sets the treeview 
widget that's triggering the issue to null while updating, thus avoiding 
all that traffic over corba/dbus to the accessibility daemon (a11y, based 
on the bugs):

commit 8e092ff555a6a156534d151d3fc1fccd05fe66b1
Author: Heinrich Müller <address@hidden>
Date:   Mon Nov 28 12:43:05 2011 +0100

    * https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=660030 (Jindrich 
Makovicka)


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