On 01/04/17 17:41, Stefan Salewski wrote: > On Sat, 2017-04-01 at 16:53 +1000, Stuart Longland wrote: >> How, as a user, do I go about silencing these warnings? > > I don't think it is a good idea to ignore such warnings as a user in > general case. There may be very few warnings, for which it may be ok to > ignore it. But generally, there is a reason why warnings are shown. > Indicating that something is wrong, and the software may not work > properly. > > I would very strong try to avoid software which continuesly emit > warnings -- that may be an indication that the software is stale, > nobody cares about it, so it may have dangerous (security) bugs. > > One example was indeed gvim, I have stopped using it. Well, in my case it isn't `gvim` that's emitting the warnings, its GTK+. `gvim`'s (ab)use of the GTK+ library might be the underlying cause, but GTK+ is what's polluting stderr. > If you really need that software, you may contact its author or > maintainers of your OS distribution, maybe it is a problem of the > distribution, maybe they ship too old or incompatible libraries or are > doing something just wrong. Well as it happens, I do need GTK+, and hence, I believe this is the mailing list for the authors of GTK+. :-) > So we should be happy that these warnings are shown at all, it would be > much worse when they are invisible or do not exist at all and software > just malfunctions in rare cases. I'm not saying to get rid of the warnings, to a developer, they are very useful clues as to what might be wrong with an application. For me as a user, they are useless junk that is cluttering up my terminal session, pushing data I actually *do* care about off the scrollback buffer and making my life harder. In a perfect world, yes, code should not emit warnings. This goes equally for libraries like GTK+ as it does for gvim, gimp and anything else that uses GTK+. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.
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