Re: [Muine] sputnik 0.0.2 released

[Jorn Baayen <jorn openedhand com>]

Hi,

On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 19:16 +0200, Erik Grinaker wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 12:41 +0300, Jorn Baayen wrote:
> > - Crashiness during playback (looks like threading issue)
> > 
> >   Xlib: unexpected async reply (sequence 0x1dbd4)
> 
> Yeah, it does have some crashes, but I think most of them are because of
> bugs in gst-python and/or gstreamer itself. All the thread-sensitive
> parts of Sputnik uses the gstreamer pipeline bus to communicate with the
> rest of the application, which should automagically take care of any
> threading issues.
> 
> Many of the crashes I used to see were solved by upgrading gstreamer,
> and now I only have a couple of crashes a day with 10+ hours of
> playback. I'll get in touch with the gst-python and gstreamer guys and
> try to track them down.
> 
> 
> Likely suspects would be the iradio-handling in gnomevfssrc, try to
> comment out the iradio-stuff on line 152-156 of src/lib/media.py and see
> if it helps.

That does seem to fix the problem. 
Are you making sure that the callbacks from the gnomevfssrc (which
probably lives in a thread, right?) do not directly touch the UI?
Usually you would queue up events for processing by the main thread.

> > - if both python-gst and python-gst0.10 are installed, 
> >   startup will fail asking for >= 0.10. If one then removes
> >   python-gst it all works fine.
> 
> Yes, this has been fixed in version 0.0.3.

Cool :)

> 
> 
> > - also maybe use HIG spacing in the dialogs ?
> 
> Ah, indeed. Thought I had, but apparently not - should be fixed now.

Yay :)


Thanks,

Jorn

> 
> 
> > But once again, very cool! :D
> 
> Great :) Let me know if you have any suggestions for improvements.
> 
> 
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