Re: [stellation-res] #34471 Comment HoverText: Input Requested

["Mark C. Chu-Carroll" <mcc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 16:54, Jim Wright - IBM Research wrote:
> 
> There are at least 4 options now.
> 
> 1. Upgrade to GTK 2.0.6 (or 2.2.1) and see if the bug is resolved.
> This is the most appealing option ("let's just hope it goes away..."), but
> may be difficult to do with my current distro (RedHat 7.3), at least without
> some help from Mark or another Linux guru, since upgrading GTK will require
> changing many other parts of my system; when I looked into it a few weeks
> ago, the interdependencies seemed pretty tangled.

I strongly recommend this route. The way to do it is to grab the gtk
sources and compile and install them. The version of gtk2 that came with
RedHat 7.3 has a bunch of bugs that got fixed in later versions. 

I've  been using the development versions of xfce-v4, and there were a
bunch of problems that turned out to be specific to gtk-2.0.2 and
before. I'm using 2.0.8. (2.2 causes frequent crashes with RC1 - I
haven't tried it with RC2 yet.)

Don't try to do an RPM upgrade - you'll see a huge number of bizzare
dependencies that need to be fixed in the "devel" versions of numerous
packages. But if you just compile (with --prefix=/usr) and install
it, everything works correctly. 

> 3. Change the Revision Selection dialog to use a separate label field for
> displaying the comment text for the current tree item.  I can easily make
> this field update dynamically (without clicking) as the cursor pauses over a
> given tree node.  The comment field would be placed above or below the Tree
> widget, creating a certain cognitive disconnect between the comment and the
> corresponding item.   In addition, the hovertext dynamically resizes per the
> length and linecount of the comment; this is not available with a separate
> label field (unless the dialog itself is resized dynamically, which is not
> an appealing solution).

To be honest, I'm not overjoyed with the hoverhelp way of handling 
comments. I'm not sure what the right solution is; but the version
comments are crucial data, and I expect that it will be a relatively
frequent process to browse through versions using the version comments.
The idea of going to each version and sitting the cursor over it and
waiting for the hoverhelp to come up just doesn't seem particularly
attractive.

	-Mark

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