With zenity >= 3.90.0 xxx is not responding window no longer shows

[bobby285271]

Expected behaviour

Support zenity >= 3.90.0

Actual behaviour

Not supporting zenity >= 3.90.0

Or e.g. when a program freeze the xxx is not responding window no longer shows, but I expect everything that uses zenity are probably affected but I haven't tried all of them.

Steps to reproduce the behaviour

1. Have zenity >= 3.90.0 in PATH - repology shows openSUSE Tumbleweed and Fedora 38 should have this
2. Build and run the following program:

#include <gtk/gtk.h>

static void on_activate (GtkApplication *app) {
  GtkWidget *window = gtk_application_window_new (app);
  GtkWidget *button = gtk_button_new_with_label ("Hello, World!");
  g_signal_connect_swapped (button, "clicked", G_CALLBACK (gtk_window_close), window);
  gtk_window_set_child (GTK_WINDOW (window), button);
  gtk_window_present (GTK_WINDOW (window));
  // Yeah we add an inf loop here
  while(1);
}

int main (int argc, char *argv[]) {
  GtkApplication *app = gtk_application_new ("com.example.GtkApplication",
                                             G_APPLICATION_FLAGS_NONE);
  g_signal_connect (app, "activate", G_CALLBACK (on_activate), NULL);
  return g_application_run (G_APPLICATION (app), argc, argv);
}

3. Keep trying to close the app by constantly clicking the close button in the headerbar, this app should freeze when closing, this is expected
4. Check journal journalctl -r and see This option is not available. Please see --help for all possible usages.

In zenity 3.44.x there should be a dialog like this but you don't see it with zenity >= 3.90.0:

MATE general version

1.26

Package version

1.26.2 but I guess this is not fixed on master also

Linux Distribution

NixOS unstable

Link to bugreport of your Distribution (requirement)

Hmmm, I package the recent zenity and mate updates in NixOS?

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Here are some copy paste from linuxmint/muffin#666:

In util.c we use zenity to show dialogs in command-line:

marco/src/core/util.c

Line 554 in 2bdba6c

argvl[i++] = "zenity";

With zenity >= 3.90.0 some of the options used are removed/deprecated, and we probably want to get rid of it.

Examples are:

marco/src/core/util.c

Line 558 in 2bdba6c

argvl[i++] = "--class";

--class no longer working: zenity --info --class "marco-dialog" shows This option is not available. Please see --help for all possible usages.

See also

• Mutter dropped zenity: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/2370
• Budgie fixing zenity issue: BuddiesOfBudgie/budgie-desktop@b4949df

User of meta_show_dialog: https://github.com/search?q=org%3Amate-desktop%20meta_show_dialog&type=code, e.g. the xxx is not responding window:

marco/src/core/delete.c

Line 109 in 2ee9005

meta_show_dialog ("--question",

Edit: ah also meta_show_entry_dialog: https://github.com/search?q=org%3Amate-desktop+meta_show_entry_dialog&type=code