On 14.09.19 21:31, Scott Talbert wrote: > On Sat, 14 Sep 2019, Gunter Königsmann wrote: > >> * Scroll Wheels and Two-Finger scroll are broken in this >> combination, if >> Wayland is used (934386) and > > Is two finger scrolling really a high priority issue? It seems like a > nice to have rather than a must-have IMHO. > >> * If a horizontal scrollbar is visible all custom controls (e.G. >> wxMaxima's worksheet) flicker badly (934386) > > On this issue, I'm not convinced that upstream can reproduce it, based > on the comments in the ticket. I don't think that I've reproduced it > either. Since you claim that it doesn't occur with wx 3.1, can you do > a bisection between wx 3.0 and 3.1 to determine which commit fixed > it? If we can figure that out, we can backport the patches. > Vadim (who is one of the maintainers) can reproduce it. I cannot guarantee, though, if the right graphics card/GTK version/something else needs to be used in order to trigger the bug. Or if this is one of the esoteric bugs that only affect a handful of users.
>> If wxMaxima otherwise would be dropped from debian I am willing to >> switch >> to a flickering version that uses GTK3. But if I don't occur this risk I >> would rather stay at GTK3 until wxGTK 3.2 is released - which will >> fix this >> issue. The wxWidgets maintainers told me that wxGTK 3.2 will be released >> "soon". But the same was true a year ago - which I normally would be >> fine >> with: wxGTK 3.1 works fine, the combination of wxGTK 3.0 and GTK2 works >> fine, too - and it is wise to release a library when it is ready, not >> according to an arbitrary schedule. > > Well, there is still time to fix the issues - Bullseye release is > still a long way off. > > And yes, upstream wx claims that wx 3.2 will be "soon" but we have > heard that for a long time. :) So I don't think we can depend on that. > That only partially answers my question. Currently I am playing with the thought if the right idea would be uploading a wxMaxima version that uses GTK3 to debian testing and looking if anyone except Vadim and me is affected by the bug. Kind regards, Gunter.
