Gem Cutter Saving Problem

[Adam Parkin]

Hello all, we're having a bit of a snag with the Gem Cutter in our lab
here at UVic.

In our software engineering lab, we have the Quark framework
installed, and the Gem Cutter runs fine with one exception -- you
cannot save gems. When you click the save button on the toolbar,
nothing happens.

It doesn't seem to be a permissions issue, as I've even tried
unzipping a local copy of Quark onto my desktop and still cannot save
anything I create.

Any ideas? If it helps the labs are Linux-based machines.

Thanks in advance,

Adam
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[jw]

Hi Adam,

Thanks for the bug report. The issue you are running into is specific
to having a Gnome desktop on Linux/Solaris (e.g. it does not affect
Windows or Mac platforms), and is related to the absence of some
system icons in the GTK look and feel. To work around the issue, you
can override the system look and feel by setting a system property, as
follows.

With Open Quark 1.5, add this declaration before the last line (which
starts with $QUARK_JAVACMD) in both javacp.sh and javacp-workspace.sh:

QUARK_VMARGS=-Dswing.systemlaf=javax.swing.plaf.metal.MetalLookAndFeel

With Open Quark 1.4, add this declaration before the last line (which
invokes java) in both javacp.sh and javacp-workspace.sh:

JAVACP_VMARGS=-
Dswing.systemlaf=javax.swing.plaf.metal.MetalLookAndFeel

We will include a fix for this in the next release of Open Quark.

Thanks,
Joseph