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23.1; GTK menu contents don't change

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Message #5 received at submit <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Robin Green <greenrd <at> greenrd.org>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 23.1; GTK menu contents don't change
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:31:57 +0100

After opening a file, the contents of the Buffer menu do not change - the menu still begins with *scratch* and *messages*. However, if you actually click with the mouse on the *messages* menu item, you do NOT get sent to the *messages* buffer - you get sent to some other buffer. Likewise, in a new major mode, each menu displays either the old contents of the menu that was in that position in the menubar in the previous major mode, or nothing (an empty menu). Likewise, if you select some text with the mouse, the "Cut" and "Copy" items in the Edit menu do not become enabled, as they should.

All of this evidence suggests that, after the original menubar is created, new menus can be added or removed, but any alterations to menus do not take effect on the display. However, as shown by the example of clicking on the *messages* menu item in the Buffers menu, emacs appears to be reacting AS IF the altered version of the menu was being displayed, even though it isn't.

I am running on Fedora Linux rawhide (i.e. the development version, pre-Fedora-12), with the following gtk2 package:
gtk2-2.17.6-4.fc12.i686


In GNU Emacs 23.1.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.17.6)
 of 2009-08-11 on fedora
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.10402000
configured using `configure  '--with-x-toolkit=gtk' '--without-makeinfo' '--with-x''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Fundamental

Minor modes in effect:
  tooltip-mode: t
  tool-bar-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  global-auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> C-x C-f <backspace> 
<backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> 
<backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> 
<backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> 
<backspace> <backspace> m i <tab> <return> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <menu-bar> <help-menu> <about-emacs> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <menu-bar> <help-menu> 
<send-emacs-bug-report>

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Message #14 received at 4122 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Robin Green <greenrd <at> greenrd.org>
To: 4122 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Workaround
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2009 21:07:52 +0100

A workaround to force the menubar to update is: M-x accelerate-menu

However, this has to be done every time you want the menubar to be
updated.

Message #19 received at 4122 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Robin Green <greenrd <at> greenrd.org>
To: 4122 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Quick fix
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 01:28:51 +0100

[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]

The attached patch against Emacs 23.1.1 fixes this bug for me. The
patch can be used by emacs users and Linux distributors - who might
need to lower the required GTK version. However, the patch would
probably need to be modified before being checked in to emacs CVS,
because it specifies a dependency on a very recent version of GTK - a
more suitable patch for emacs CVS would use the C preprocessor to
perform the old behaviour for old GTK versions, and the new behaviour
for new GTK versions.

[emacs-gtk.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]

Message #24 received at 4122 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: "era eriksson" <era <at> iki.fi>
To: 4122 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: control <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Link to corresponding Ubuntu bug
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2009 10:11:25 +0300

tags 4122 +patch
thanks

Just a quick note that https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/415101 is the
corresponding Ubuntu bug.  It occurs in the GTK version of Emacs 22 as
well.  The Launchpad bug report has some workarounds and other triage
notes.  Good to see a patch so quickly -- thanks!

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Message #31 received at 4122 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: "Jan D." <jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se>
To: Robin Green <greenrd <at> greenrd.org>,
        "4122 <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <4122 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Cc: "4122 <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <4122 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#4122: Quick fix
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2009 12:43:03 +0200

The patch makes Gtk+ 2.17 mandatory for Emacs. This is obviously not  
acceptable. A better patch will be installed soon. Be patient.

      Jan D.

31 aug 2009 kl. 02.28 skrev Robin Green <greenrd <at> greenrd.org>:

> The attached patch against Emacs 23.1.1 fixes this bug for me. The
> patch can be used by emacs users and Linux distributors - who might
> need to lower the required GTK version. However, the patch would
> probably need to be modified before being checked in to emacs CVS,
> because it specifies a dependency on a very recent version of GTK - a
> more suitable patch for emacs CVS would use the C preprocessor to
> perform the old behaviour for old GTK versions, and the new behaviour
> for new GTK versions.
> <emacs-gtk.patch>

Message #36 received at 4122 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: "era eriksson" <era <at> iki.fi>
To: 4122 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Link to corresponding Gnome bug
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2009 23:50:36 +0300

See also http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=593249 which has some
advice from the GTK+ folks on how to tackle this.

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Message #45 received at 4122 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Jan Djärv <jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se>
To: era eriksson <era <at> iki.fi>, 4122 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: 4122-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#4122
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 2009 19:04:46 +0200

Fix checked in.

	Jan D.

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