[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] status bar and threaded gtk

[From: Mario Ivankovits]

Hi!

I have written a program which spans a thread which might update gtk
widgets from the thread and thus needs to use things like

g_thread_init(NULL)
gdk_threads_init()
gdk_threads_enter()
...
gdk_flush()
gdk_threads_leave()

This program works fine from the commandline using the trick found in
bt-blugin to simulate a statusbar environment.

But as soon as I really load it to the statusbar using dbus-send from
the tutorial my device reboots.

I tracked down the problem to the commands above. When I remove them
(and also disable the program-code doing gtk things) it works. As soon
as I add the methods above again, the device reboots when sending the
dbus message to load the plugin.

Now my question, how to deal with multithreaded gtk application loaded
through the statusbar loading mechanism?

When I remove these methods the program seems still to work, so, is the
gdk_threads stuff is activated by default in the statusbar?

Thanks!
Ciao,
Mario