Re: [gedit-list] The issue of compiling and running gedit 3.7.1 within jhbuild.

[Paolo Borelli <pborelli katamail com>]

Hi,

   the warnings seem to come from different problems, but they all
seem related to missing optional libraries

On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 11:52 AM, Hongyi Zhao <hongyi zhao gmail com> wrote:
> Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module"
>

This one is harmless, it means no library for sounds. Try compiling libcanberra

> ** (gedit:2681): WARNING **: Error retrieving accessibility bus address:
> org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.a11y.Bus was not
> provided by any .service files

This seems to be due to missing accessibility support... maybe the
dbus interfaces on debian are older than expected?

> GLib-GIO-Message: Using the 'memory' GSettings backend.  Your settings
> will not be saved or shared with other applications.
>

Here you are missing dconf, so preferences are not saved to disc: jhbuild dconf

> ** (gedit:2681): WARNING **: Could not load theme icon user-bookmarks-
> symbolic: Icon 'user-bookmarks-symbolic' not present in theme
>

jhbuild gnome-icon-theme-symbolic

> Furthermore, in order to run the gedit, I must first running the jhbuild
> shell ,  I want to know how can I export the corresponding environment
> variables setted by  'jhbuild shell' so that I can use the latest version
> of gedit without running the " jhbuild shell"  first?
>

You could make a jhgedit wrapper script and .desktop file that does
"jhbuild run gedit"


Ciao
   Paolo