Bug 1539816

Summary:	evince throws Gtk-WARNING **: Allocating size to EvSidebar 0x0 without calling gtk_widget_get_preferred_width/height()
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	Reporter:	Andreas Bleischwitz <ableisch>
Component:	gtk3	Assignee:	Benjamin Otte <otte>
Status:	CLOSED UPSTREAM	QA Contact:	Desktop QE <desktop-qa-list>
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Version:	7.4	CC:	cww, lemenkov, mclasen, otte
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Description Andreas Bleischwitz 2018-01-29 16:43:05 UTC

Description of problem:
Evince started from console (not ssh) will throw the following warnings to the user:

$ evince /usr/share/doc/libtasn1-4.10/libtasn1.pdf

(evince:2013): Gtk-WARNING **: Allocating size to EvSidebar 0x27c14e0 without calling gtk_widget_get_preferred_width/height(). How does the code know the size to allocate?

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
$ rpm -q evince
evince-3.22.1-5.2.el7_4.x86_64

How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1. start evince with any pdf 
2. see the Gtk-WARNING message
3.

Actual results:
Gtk-WARNING **: Allocating size to EvSidebar shown

Expected results:
No warning shown

Additional info:
Still valid on FC-27's version of evince:

$ evince /usr/share/doc/libsrtp/libsrtp.pdf

(evince:13531): Gtk-WARNING **: Allocating size to EvSidebar 0x5611d0afa710 without calling gtk_widget_get_preferred_width/height(). How does the code know the size to allocate?

$ rpm -q evince
evince-3.26.0-1.fc27.x86_64

Comment 6 Peter Lemenkov 2018-04-04 15:41:27 UTC

(In reply to Andreas Bleischwitz from comment #0)
> Description of problem:
> Evince started from console (not ssh) will throw the following warnings to
> the user:
> 
> $ evince /usr/share/doc/libtasn1-4.10/libtasn1.pdf
> 
> (evince:2013): Gtk-WARNING **: Allocating size to EvSidebar 0x27c14e0
> without calling gtk_widget_get_preferred_width/height(). How does the code
> know the size to allocate?

This is an issue in GTK. See bug 1488249 for further details.

Comment 7 Andreas Bleischwitz 2018-06-14 08:53:47 UTC

Hi Benjamin,

couldn't we include that patch in the gtk3 version so that the messages would only be seen if G_ENABLE_CONSISTENCY_CHECKS is enabled?