[crossfire] gcfclient info window text trimming crash.

[Brendan Lally]

On 2/4/06, Mark Wedel <mwedel at sonic.net> wrote:
>   Does this mean that info trimming is completely disabled with version 1 of
> gtk?  If so, I'd sort of say, what is the point - that is why there is a config
> option.

Yes, but the config option causes crashes, and if that is the case, it
shouldn't be an option when that will occur.

>   Are you sure version 2.0+ of GTK fixes the problem?  IIRC when doing the gtk2
> client, there is a new widget for text stuff for gtk2, and the gtk2 docs
> specifically say don't use the old widget if at all possibly because it is
> severely broken.

Trimming works when the client is compiled against gtk2 using
maligor's patch found at:
http://bluemist.ath.cx/~maligor/cf-gtk2.patch

>   That said, it could be that that option get removed from the config page - if
> people want to muck with their config file, fair enough, but they are doing that
> at their own risk.  IIRC, the config page specifically says it may cause crashes
> if you use that option.

This approach will show the option if it is safe to use, and remove it
if it isn't.