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25.0.50; Running dired changes frame width, gtk_distribute_natural_allocation throws assertion

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From: Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 22000 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, vivek <at> etla.org, deng <at> randomsample.de
Subject: Re: bug#22000: Patch addressing the menu-bar frame-resize interaction
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2018 11:25:05 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>
>> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>,  22000 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,  deng <at> randomsample.de
>> Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2018 09:26:28 +0200
>> 
>> In favour of putting it on emacs-26 is that it resolves the spewing of
>> 
>> Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_distribute_natural_allocation: assertion
>> 'extra_space >= 0' failed
>> 
>> when I run emacs with GDK scaling.
>
> Thanks.  I understand the advantages of the changeset, what I'm not
> sure about is whether these advantages outweigh the danger in putting
> such non-trivial changes on the release branch.  The glitches reported
> by you and others just in the last two days seem to indicate that we
> will be in for more surprises, don't you think?

Yes. From painful experience various versions of GTK have different
behaviours that aren't detected until the changes are more widely
deployed (but you know that :-) )

Robert

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