Why does GTK3 suck so much?

chaanakya · 2011-11-22 05:42:34

Hey guys! I have a quick question.

Quite a few of the gnome things are now GTK3-based. Is it just me, or are there random bugs with the toolkit itself? For example, take gedit. I click in the textarea. Now, no matter how much I try, I cannot click on anything outside of the textarea. The only way I know of so far is to press Alt-F which will put me in the menu. I then press Esc and can click on the random buttons that I wanted to click on in the first place. Is this just me or is this the norm?

- Chaanakya

psyco430404 · 2011-11-22 05:56:16

never had any issues like that when i ran gnome shell under fedora 15, may just be an issue specific to you.

chaanakya · 2011-11-22 06:39:09

Hmmm...interesting....does your gtk work okay? (I'm assuming you're running testing or unstable, which should contain the gtk3-version of gedit)

Awebb · 2011-11-22 07:04:34

Must be the debian package. All gtl3 stuff works fine on Arch, besides the know issues of course. Look for their bugtracker at the gnome 3 website and also for the debian bugtracker.

rstrcogburn · 2011-11-22 07:07:30

That's crazy dude. So the input area is borked.? Maybe report it to launchpad if upstream has a fix.

machinebacon · 2011-11-22 08:27:49

No idea if you use input methods (like ibus, SCIM), but I had this problem when ibus-gtk3 was not yet installed.

chaanakya · 2011-11-22 15:49:16

oh...maybe I should install that?? I do use ibus, but not on a large-enough basis...

chaanakya · 2011-11-22 15:54:50

That apparently does not help...when I start typing, I can no longer click on any of the toolbar buttons or menus. I must first right-click somewhere outside of the textarea and then I will be able to select the toolbar button/menu.

robkendrick · 2011-11-22 17:37:41

Chaanakya, do you get the same problem if you install gvim?

sudo apt-get install vim-gtk

I've experienced no issues with it. Scrot for you here.

chaanakya · 2011-11-22 19:16:53

gvim is gtk2 though, which I have no issues with.

dmhdlr · 2011-11-22 19:21:00

chaanakya wrote:

Hey guys! I have a quick question.
Quite a few of the gnome things are now GTK3-based. Is it just me, or are there random bugs with the toolkit itself? For example, take gedit. I click in the textarea. Now, no matter how much I try, I cannot click on anything outside of the textarea. The only way I know of so far is to press Alt-F which will put me in the menu. I then press Esc and can click on the random buttons that I wanted to click on in the first place. Is this just me or is this the norm?
- Chaanakya

Where did you get GTK3 from? Wheezy repo's? I find it to be pretty rough around the edges. Though I hear 3.2 is pretty good.

ivanovnegro · 2011-11-23 01:39:58

No problems with Gtk3 here, they only did not fit in my theme with the rest of Gtk2 but I ditched some Gtk3 apps originally from Gnome for lighter more native Xfce apps. That means that Gedit had to go but I cannot remember any problem with it under Wheezy.

chaanakya · 2011-11-23 01:51:30

Stranger and stranger...

ZAP · 2011-11-23 03:04:51

Have you tried launching gedit from a terminal so that you can see if it throws any warnings? I had some canberra errors in gedit at one point when I had some dependency issues (installed GNOME Shell from Experimental). Once I saw the warnings, I was able to track down the problematic packages and update them.

chaanakya · 2011-11-23 07:09:15

It doesn't come up with any warnings

orionthehunter · 2011-11-26 03:42:13

Gedit needs some work... It's blitzing like crazy for me in all sorts of weird ways. So I went on a hunt for a new editor, and having been inspired by Corenominals move to Geany in the new statler update I'm giving Geany a go as well... I mostly just wish I could get a dark grey background on it...

chaanakya · 2011-11-26 04:58:03

I use leafpad now. I'm just trying to figure out if they really bungled up this time or if it's just a config issue. Then again, this happened to me since day 0 with gtk3...

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