[Gretl-devel] Re: no folder icon in new snapshot
On Fri, 13 Dec 2019, Sven Schreiber wrote:
Am 13.12.2019 um 19:34 schrieb Allin Cottrell:
> On Fri, 13 Dec 2019, Sven Schreiber wrote:
> I'm still not quite sure what "the described effect" is (or perhaps,
> what it is you were expecting). For comparison I've posted screenshots
> of what I see with both the clearlooks and windows-10 themes, using
> the December 9 snapshot. They look "normal" to me. Are you seeing
> something different, or expecting something different?
>
> http://users.wfu.edu/cottrell/gretl/clearlooks.png
Thanks for the screenshot. On the left next to "cottrell" or
"Desktop"
you can see folder icons. In contrast, in the main area next to "gretl"
and "R" there are just generic document icons for the directories. This
looks different in the previous November snapshot that I had; there were
folder icons everywhere.
Ha, turns out this was a GLib-on-Windows issue. In early December I
updated from GLib 2.36.4 to 2.40.2 in my Windows builds since I
wanted to try out a function that was new in the 2.40 series.
Reverting to 2.36.4, the correct icons are shown. (The new 2.40
function was not really necessary, since we had our own version of
what it does, which works fine, so that's reverted too.)
Here's an oddity: before reverting to GLib 2.36.4 I tried updating a
little further: 2.42.2. That was even worse: not only was the
generic document icon shown for directories in the main area of the
dialog, but also in the left-hand area!
(You may wonder, why not update a lot further? [Current GLib is
the 2.60 series.] Well, it has become increasingly difficult to
cross-compile GLib Linux -> Windows, particularly if one aims to
preserve compatibility with earlier Windows versions, and avoid
bloat of the gretl installer package.)
Allin
