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

[Julien Cristau]

On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 09:59:56 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:

> Am 15.09.2016 um 07:29 schrieb 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.
> 
> ..
> 
> > ii  libgtk-3-0                                   3.21.5-3
> 
> Development versions of gtk, like 3.21.5 do have --enable-debug on by
> default. This will be switched off automatically for 3.22 builds.
> 
> That said, as Jason pointed out, please do file such issues upstream,
> unless they haven't been filed yet.
> 
Considering the amount of noise I'm seeing, I can imagine two options:
- the evince developers don't have these warnings enabled, so I probably
  don't need to care more than they do
- they have the warnings enabled, and they're either busy fixing them or
  don't care

Either way I don't think I need to see those warnings, which from what
you're saying needs to be fixed in debian's gtk package.

Cheers,
Julien