Arquivos Mensais: Junho 2008

Rank 2 Types

I’ve always seen the forall a types in some GHC messages or in other person’s code, but I couldn’t get the point of it until I needed to use it myself. I was writing a Gtk2hs application with some windows, and I noticed that for each created window, I was doing the same steps. [...]

Glade message dialog image …

In a message dialog, when I click in the … of the Image field, I get a tree of Objects. I don’t understand hat this means, and I don’t know where to get documentation from it. This is Glade 3.4.5-3 in Debian lenny.

Glade-3 comboBox Active Item

I don’t know if this is a known issue, but it seems strange to me that when I change the Active item value in the proprierties of a Combo Box in Glade 3, from -1 to any value, like 0 or 1, I have this message as soon as the glade file is loaded:
(test:5012): Gtk-CRITICAL [...]

Glade 3 with Message Dialog

When a Message Dialog is created in Glade 3.4.5-3 (Debian sid and lenny), saved and re-opened, it crashes. More details: Bug in debian .

libwnck package for sid

I’ve done a package for the correction of the libwnck bug to sid. It’s available at Debian Mentors and at my Home Page.

chroot locale

I’ve done a sid chroot in my lenny system, and to get UTF-8 working in it, I just had to install locales package and reconfigure it with dpkg-reconfigure.

libwnck

When XMonad was used with GNOME, through EwmhDesktops and the last window was destroyed, it would not be deleted from the window list and from the workspace switcher. This bug report explains the situation. To correct it, I’ve made a patch to libwnck’s screen.c, which was applied in the SVN version of this file. I’ve [...]