Re: Project Center problems
Richard Frith-Macdonald
On 11 Oct 2009, at 16:04, Michael Thaler wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to create a GNUstep project using project center and
> have some
> trouble doing so. First, the Open Project dialog misses some icons
> (see
> pc1.jpeg).
I don't know why the icons are missing but ...
> Second, when I create a new project, nothing happens.
My guess is that, as you are using gui from svn you have encountered a
short-term problem ... a very recent change broke open panels so they
returned the wrong value, causing attempts to open and create files,
projects etc to fail. I just encountered the same problem when
playing with the theme editor, and I've committed a fix for that, so
updating from svn should fix that issue.
Your images look like there is some graphics problem as well, with
some images not rendering and it looks like stuff being clipped when
it shouldn't, but I don't know of any recent changes which might have
caused that (and I don't see it on my system) ... Fred might be able
to help there.
Richard Frith-Macdonald
On 11 Oct 2009, at 20:36, Michael Thaler wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> My guess is that, as you are using gui from svn you have
>> encountered a
>> short-term problem ... a very recent change broke open panels so they
>> returned the wrong value, causing attempts to open and create files,
>> projects etc to fail. I just encountered the same problem when
>> playing with the theme editor, and I've committed a fix for that, so
>> updating from svn should fix that issue.
>
> Thanks a lot. I now get the main window when I create a new project.
> However,
> the main window does not display any icons (see attached screen shot).
>
> To make sure there is nothing wrong with my installation i deleted
> the whole
> /opt/GNUstep directory and installed it again. I also moved ~/
> GNUstep out of
> the way.
>
> There is some output when I start Project Center:
>
> $ openapp ProjectCenter
> 2009-10-11 21:31:16.763 ProjectCenter[18264] Defaults path
> '/home/michi/GNUstep/Defaults' did not exist - created it
> 2009-10-11 21:31:16.783 ProjectCenter[18264] Creating empty user
> defaults
> database
> 2009-10-11 21:31:16.813 ProjectCenter[18264] Font not found Courier
> 2009-10-11 21:31:16.813 ProjectCenter[18264] The font specified for
> NSUserFixedPitchFont, Courier, can't be found.
> 2009-10-11 21:31:16.851 ProjectCenter[18264] Font not found Courier
> 2009-10-11 21:31:16.851 ProjectCenter[18264] The font specified for
> NSUserFixedPitchFont, Courier, can't be found.
> 2009-10-11 21:32:02.617 ProjectCenter[18264] Font not found Courier
> 2009-10-11 21:32:02.617 ProjectCenter[18264] The font specified for
> NSUserFixedPitchFont, Courier, can't be found.
> 2009-10-11 21:32:04.450 ProjectCenter[18264] windowDidBecomeKey:
> project
> Converter
> 2009-10-11 21:32:18.674 ProjectCenter[18264] windowDidBecomeKey:
> project
> Converter
> 2009-10-11 21:32:21.093 ProjectCenter[18264] windowDidBecomeKey:
> project
> Converter
>
> I don't think this has anything to do with the missing icons.
Me neither.
You are using svn trunk ... which will always get you the latest bugs
as well as the latest features, and while trunk is working fine for me
any apparently everyone else, it could easily have a system specific
problem with your setup (either because one of the libraries it
depends upon is buggy, or because there is a bug in the way gnustep
works with the library versions on your machine).
In that situation, the best thing to do is try reverting to an earlier
version ... I recently made major changes in the base library to
remove obsolete (but pervasive) code, and that is likely to have
broken a few bits and pieces, so I'd start by trying reverting base to
an earlier version.
I'd suggest trying a version of base from 1st Oct to see if that fixes
things.
If that doesn't work, you can try earlier gui and backend versions
too. You can then narrow things down to find out which change broke
things on your system, and we can then deduce what the problem is and
why it effects your system but not other peoples. Possibly it's best
to go right back to an official release though ... as a sanity check
to be sure that the problem is actually in gnustep rather than one of
the system libraries.
Richard Frith-Macdonald
On 13 Oct 2009, at 08:08, Fred Kiefer wrote:
> If the issue at hand is just the missing icons, there is another
> approach you could try. Switch to another backend, preferably cairo
> and
> see whether things work there. If not, it is most likely your libtiff
> that is broken. If cairo displays correctly but art doesn't, it may
> have
> to do with the display settings you are using.
It occurs to me that I've heard of litiff being broken before. If
it's a relatively common problem, then perhaps it might be worth
devising a test for the roken version?
Fred Kiefer
If the issue at hand is just the missing icons, there is another