Re: rpms/gtk2/devel tooltip-compat.patch, NONE, 1.1 gtk2.spec, 1.249, 1.250

[Michael Schwendt <mschwendt tmp0701 nospam arcor de>]

On Wed, 08 Aug 2007 18:33:28 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:

> 
> On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 17:21 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > On Wed, 8 Aug 2007 10:57:32 -0400, Matthias Clasen (mclasen) wrote:
> > 
> > > Author: mclasen
> > > 
> > > Update of /cvs/extras/rpms/gtk2/devel
> > 
> > > Log Message:
> > > improve tooltip compatibility
> > 
> > > +# fixed in upstream svn
> > > +Patch6: tooltip-compat.patch
> > 
> > > +* Wed Aug  8 2007 Matthias Clasen <mclasen redhat com> - 2.11.6-6
> > > +- Improve tooltip compatibility to make acroread work again
> > 
> > How are these comments to be understood?
> > 
> > The GtkTooltip changes in 2.11.6 also break wxGTK. The changelog and
> > headers say the old tooltip API is deprecated. wxGTK uses the private
> > tip_window member which became NULL in gtk 2.11.6. When will this
> > compatibility patch be dropped from gtk2 again?
> > 
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/250936 (Audacity segfault in wxGTK 2.6)
> 
> They will not be dropped again.
> It is a backport from upstream svn, as the comment in the spec file
> clearly indicates. 
> 
> I'd be interested to know if this helps for wxGTK, too.

Yes, it does (gtk2-2.11.6-6.fc8 compat-wxGTK26-2.6.3-4).

Now what remains a mystery is why in rawhide all Gtk related tooltips
are coloured in gray compared with yellow in F7. Changing themes
doesn't change them.