GUI applications writing garbage to stdout/stderr

[Bastien Nocera]

The warnings only happen when using development versions of GTK+. So it shouldn't happen in F21, or in the future in F22, just in rawhide.

----- Original Message -----
> > Thanks for the encouragement.  For the record, I filed
> > 
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1184038 (GTK apps)
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1184868 (evince)
> 
> I very much recommend you to report these issues (also) to GNOME Bugzilla.
> GNOME/GTK developers don't follow Red Hat Bugzilla as much as they follow
> their own.
> 
> I've never worked with Linux graphics toolkits, but would it make sense to
> request that GTK looks at some environment variable and prints all those
> warnings and obsolete usage notifications and other nonsense only when that
> variable is set to a concrete value? This way it would not be needed to deal
> with every warning and every app individually, but we could silence all apps
> at once, and developers could run them unmuted on their machines to see all
> the warnings. Does anyone care to report such an RFE, if it makes sense?
> 
> It would be nice if such a variable was honored by all different frameworks
> and libraries, not just GTK-specific, QT-specific, etc, but that's a bit
> harder to accomplish...
> --
> devel mailing list
> devel at lists.fedoraproject.org
> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
> Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct