Re: Meld 1.7.2 released

[Kai Willadsen <kai willadsen gmail com>]

On 19 April 2013 10:33, Mark Mikofski <bwanamarko yahoo com> wrote:
> > <snip>
>
> > >  2. as I stated in #1, I _am_ using PyGTK/GTK+ all-in-one bundle, but I am
> > >  using the x64 versions - GTK+, version 2.22.1 is from gnome [1] and PyGTK,
> > >  same version, is from Christoph Gohlke [2].
> > <snip>
> >
> > I think this is the problem here. The PyGTK all-in-one installers
> > explicitly don't support x64 versions. In addition, you shouldn't
> > (AFAIK) be using the binaries from gtk.org. The PyGTK installers
> > theoretically come with everything you should need, and there may be
> > some weird issues arising from having both the GTK binaries and the
> > PyGTK installer binaries on the same system.
> >
> > cheers,
> > Kai
>
>
> I have been using this setup for a long time now, it is what Christoph explicitly
> recommends [1], "PyGTK [2] is a wrapper for the GTK+ [3] library. Requires
> the GTK+ 2.22 [4] runtime."

For the record, these are *not* the all-in-one installers. See here:
    http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/binaries/win32/pygtk/2.24/

> **And it works _fine_ with meld-1.6.1.** It also works fine with Geany. But the
> version of gtk is old, 2.22, and the corresponding gnome libraries are also
> old, so maybe that's the culprit?

Well... sort of. Reading your linked bug, it looks like this bug will
only (?) happen with GTK+ 2.22.x. Earlier versions have the stock icon
for missing, and later versions fixed the lookup crash.

>     Gtk:ERROR:gtkrecentmanager.c:1942:get_icon_fallback: assertion failed: (retval != NULL)

This looks like we can blame the recent files feature, probably due to
it not being able to find the icon-name "meld" when looking up
recently used files for menu construction. This may be bad mime XML
installation, or something else. However, I don't know what, if
anything, can sensibly be done about this on our end.

cheers,
Kai