GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 362991
stderr output generated for unhandled properties.
Last modified: 2012-03-31 19:00:49 UTC
The gtkhtml2 library generates messages on stderr for each unhandled property it encounters, out of control of the program using the library. These messages are undesired. This output pollutes the datastream that the program needs to use to communicate with the user, and pollute the terminal from which the program was launched. Here is an real life example resulting from the use of liferea, a Linux RSS/ATOM aggregator program. itUnhandled property: 12 border-collapseections. | | Unhandled property: 12 border-collapse | Unhandled property: 12 border-collapse The strange formattting is because this terminal was in use with another program when these messages appeared. I suggest gtkhtml2 should only print these messages to developers. Thus, developers should have a means of requesting this type of information, since this output is harmful to the end-user experience, and does not indicate a problem or situation that merits informing the user.
According to its developer, gtkhtml2 is not under active development anymore. It is unlikely that there will be any further active development. Closing this report as WONTFIX as part of Bugzilla Housekeeping - Please feel free to reopen this bug report in the future if anyone takes the responsibility for active development again.