Re: trying to disconnect signals from thumbnailsbox

[Amy <mathematical coffee gmail com>]

Why can't gnome-shell classes all store the IDs of the signals they connect to, just like extensions are required to :(

It is so annoying when you can't update your extension because a gnome-shell class is doing something that an extension would get flat-out rejected for (i.e., not storing signal connection IDs and disconnecting when appropriate) :(

Thanks for clarifying - I will try work out how to make a patch (I've been told before; just need to review the notes) and submit a patch/bug report when done.

On 17 May 2013 22:43, Florian Müllner <fmuellner gnome org> wrote:

On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 2:36 PM, Amy <mathematical coffee gmail com> wrote:
> I'm trying to replace the thumbnails box (Main.overview._thumbnailsBox) with
> my own.
>
> However, the thumbnails box connects to a few Main.overview signals (like
> showing/hidden) and even though I destroy the thumbnails box's actor, the
> thumbnails box still appears to respond to the signals (causing all sorts of
> segfaults due to the actor being destroyed...)

As the actor is not supposed to be destroyed normally, it's perfectly
possible that we miss disconnecting the signals. Please don't try to
workaround this, but file a bug against gnome-shell (of course
including a patch yourself would be very welcome!)

Thanks,
Florian