Re: [gtk-osx-users] cut/copy/paste accelerators in GTK widgets (and some other issues)

[John Ralls <jralls ceridwen us>]

> On Dec 26, 2014, at 9:33 AM, Brecht Machiels <brecht__gmane mos6581 org> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to adapt Zim (Python + pygtk) [1] to make use of gtkosx-application, but I'm running into a 
> number of problems.
>
> The first two are related to building gtk-mac-integration (the 2.0.5 tar.xz) and are no show-stoppers.
> Some background info: I installed gtk+ (using --without-x11) and pygtk (from source) using Homebrew. I 
> configured gtk-mac-application with --with-gtk=gtk+-2.0.
>
> 1) The makefile doesn't build the python bindings, even though --enable-python=all is the default. I ended 
> up cd-ing into the bindings/python folder and running "make install" manually, which worked fine. Am I 
> wrong to expect the Python bindings to build automatically?

The python bindings require that configure finds the python headers. As always with autotools-based projects, 
study config.log to understand why configure doesn't do what you expect.

> 2) Building bindings/python/gtkmacintegration fails with error messages such as:
>       gtkmacintegration.override:25:5: error: unknown type name 'GtkMacMenuGroup'; did you mean 
> 'GtkAccelGroup'?
> I ignored this for now, as I understand gtkmacintegration is deprecated anyway.

That's probably because you're building on 64-bit, and the Carbon API isn't available on that architecture. 
You bypassed the configuration for Python and wound up trying to compile code that isn't supported by the C 
code you built. Fix your environment so that configure finds everything it needs for Python and build again. 
If you're building only for your own use, 

> With gtkosx-application installed, I have managed to move Zim menus to the OS X menu bar and 
> About/Preferences/Quit to the application menu without much trouble, but there are some problems remaining.
>
> 3) I changed all of Zim's keyboard accelerators to use <Primary> instead of <ctrl>. This works as expected 
> for all accelerators in the main Zim text editor widget. However, in other widgets (such as a search box), 
> the Cmd-x/c/v accelerators do not work. Ctrl-x/c/v do, however.
>
> I did come across the "modifyng Gtk-2 keybindings" thread on this mailing list, where it was recommended to 
> set
>       gtk-key-theme-name="Mac"
> in ~/.gtkrc-2.0
> While this doesn't work with the Homebrew GTK+, adding
>       include "/usr/local/Cellar/gtk+-quartz/2.24.11/share/themes/Mac/gtk-2.0-key/gtkrc" 
> should have the same effect, I think.
> Now, the search box in Zim's main window will work with Cmd-x/c/v, but text widgets in other windows 
> (dialogs) don't, and they won't react to Ctrl-x/c/v anymore either. Is there any way to make this work as 
> expected?

Possibly not. PyGtk hasn't been maintained for some time and may not have kept up with the changes to the key 
handling code in Gtk+-2.24. It has nothing to do with gtk-mac-integration, which only handles menus.

> 4) Finally, Zim's application name in the menu bar is "Python", for obvious reasons. Is it possible to 
> change this to Zim somehow? Similarly, would it be possible to replace the icon the in dock with Zim's icon?

Bundle Zim. See https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GTK%2B/OSX/Bundling.

Regards,
John Ralls