[Roadster] Deprecated MemChunks, glade errors

[Casey Harkins]

Scott Bronson wrote:
> In addition to the 'sed -i "s/\-lmygcc//g" configure.ac' suggested by

I did that as well to compile on fc5 (forgot to mention it in my post to 
this list a few days ago).

> the Wiki, trying to compile Roadster on Ubuntu Dapper I found I also
> needed to:
> 
>     sed -i "s/\-DG_DISABLE_DEPRECATED//g" configure.ac
> 
> Otherwise it would complain about not being able to find GMemChunk or
> g_mem_chunk_new.

I sent a patch to this list a few days ago that replaces deprecated 
GMemChunk stuff with g_slice stuff (as suggested in the glib docs).

> 
> Now, Roadster runs but the UI is totally unresponsive.  Everything looks
> OK, menus pull down, items get checked, but nothing happens.  Not even
> when I select Quit or About.  I'm also getting a lot of glade warnings
> which is probably related.
> 
> Anyone have an idea on how to fix this?
> 

There's at least two of us who are seeing the same thing (view the list 
archives for this month if you're interested). I haven't had time to 
look any further into it. Please share if you have time to look into it.

-casey