On Friday, 17 Nov 2000, Garry R. Osgood wrote: [...] > In light of an (is it coming? Really?) 1.2 Release > The question I have for the group is: > > 1) Document, warn, but otherwise ignore the problem. > It affects users with a certain type of tablet hardware > and only when that hardware is being used as an explicit > XInput device. Wait for a GDK fix to remove its hidden policy? > > 2) Make a Gimp level hack in the much-abused event loop to > filter button presses that originate from devices when > a grab is in effect. (not pretty -- except for possibly > being pretty lame)? > > 3) Re-engineer select tool code to be more robust in button > press events (much work here)? > > Which of these is the best line of action? Do you have other > proposals? We would like a new GTK release for one other reason: the g_io_channel handlers needed an new error code, and we supplied TimJ with a patch to implement this. Having this in GTK would mean we can get rid of the mega-evil hack in the Gimp's g_io_channel use. Has that patch gone into GTK yet? With now two reasons for a new GTK release, would the GTK maintainers consider making it? Austin
