Bug#837762: evince: warnings about "Allocating size to GtkEntry 0x... without calling gtk_widget_get_preferred_width/height"

[Jason Crain]

On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 12:45:19PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
> I've started seeing these annoying warnings recently:
> 
> (evince:28346): Gtk-WARNING **: Allocating size to EvSidebar 0x55dcca0c2530 without calling gtk_widget_get_preferred_width/height(). How does the code know the size to allocate?
> 
> (evince:28346): Gtk-WARNING **: GtkIconView 0x55dcca12e680 is drawn without a current allocation. This should not happen.
> 
> These look like debugging messages to evince developers, not to me, I
> shouldn't have to see them.

Those messages probably point to real problems, and the EvSidebar
message has already been reported upstream at
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/767136.  Though if you really want to hide
the messages, the way to do that is to compile gtk with
--enable-debug=no.