Integration issues with GNAT GPS in Ubuntu

Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)

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Apr 11, 2012, 12:31:14 PM4/11/12

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Hi,

Just installed GPS in Ubuntu, late, as I usually use something else.

I encountered an integration issue, and seems the bug
http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-b...@lists.debian.org/msg774486.html
is still there

I had to manually create the desktop file. And by the way, there seems to
be no file type for GPR files neither.

How to solve, locally (not system wide):

In “~/.local/mime/packages” create a file named “gnat-project.xml”, edit
to give it this content:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<mime-info
xmlns="http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/shared-mime-info">
<mime-type type="application/x-gnat-project">
<sub-class-of type="text/plain"/>
<comment xml:lang="en">GNAT Project</comment>
<comment xml:lang="fr">Projet GNAT</comment>
<icon name="gnat-gps"/>
<glob pattern="*.gpr"/>
</mime-type>
</mime-info>

That's the file type definition for GNAT project files.

Copy “/usr/share/gps/icons/48px/gps_48.png” to
“~/.local/share/icons/xxx/gnat-gps.png” where “xxx” is your active local
icon set subdirectory (if you have one).

In “~/.local/share/applications”, create a file “gnat-gps.desktop”, whose
content is similar to the one suggested in the above ling, with tiny
variations:

[Desktop Entry]
Name=GNAT GPS
Comment=The GNAT Programming System
Comment[ca]=Sistema de programació de GNAT
Comment[fr]=Environnement de Programmation GNAT
Exec=/usr/bin/gnat-gps
Icon=gnat-gps
MimeType=application/x-gnat-project;
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=Development;
StartupNotify=true

That's the menu entry definition and MIME‑type application association.

From a console, run the following commands:

update-mime-database ~/.local/share/mime
update-menus

That will update your environment.

GNAT GPR files should display with the GNAT GPS icons, should run GPS when
you click on, and a menu entry for GPS should have appeared in your
Applications menu.

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Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)

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Apr 11, 2012, 12:49:34 PM4/11/12

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Le Wed, 11 Apr 2012 18:31:14 +0200, Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
<yannick...@yahoo.fr> a écrit:

> From a console, run the following commands:
>
> update-mime-database ~/.local/share/mime
> update-menus

Sorry, one was missing:

update-desktop-database ~/.local

Without this one, GPS won't be invoked when you click on a project file.

Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)

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Apr 25, 2012, 4:14:48 AM4/25/12

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Le Wed, 11 Apr 2012 18:49:34 +0200, Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)

<yannick...@yahoo.fr> a écrit:

> Le Wed, 11 Apr 2012 18:31:14 +0200, Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
> <yannick...@yahoo.fr> a écrit:
>
>> From a console, run the following commands:
>>
>> update-mime-database ~/.local/share/mime
>> update-menus
>
> Sorry, one was missing:
>
> update-desktop-database ~/.local
>
> Without this one, GPS won't be invoked when you click on a project file.

Still not perfect, as you may have noticed.

Create a file named “open-gnat-project”, and give it this content:

#!/bin/sh
gnat-gps "-P$1" &

move it in you “~/bin” directory and give it the executable attribute.

In the previously suggested “gnat-gps.desktop” file, change

Exec=/usr/bin/gnat-gps

into

Exec=open-gnat-project

Then run again from a terminal

update-desktop-database ~/.local
update-menus

Now GPS will open on you project when you click on a project file, instead
of opening with a dialog requesting you to browse for a project file. More
handy.

Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)

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Apr 26, 2012, 7:09:35 AM4/26/12

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Le Wed, 11 Apr 2012 18:31:14 +0200, Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
<yannick...@yahoo.fr> a écrit:

> Hi,
>
> Just installed GPS in Ubuntu, late, as I usually use something else.
>
> I encountered an integration issue, and seems the bug

A more severe bug seems to be with the outline view. Whatever I click on
the outline view, GPS crashes and I get this on the terminal (need to
start GPS from a terminal to get the message):

raised STORAGE_ERROR : s-intman.adb:139 explicit raise

Do you get the same? That's for Ubuntu Maverick. Not tested on Windows.

Álex R.

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May 4, 2012, 10:34:23 AM5/4/12

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Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57) wrote:

> Le Wed, 11 Apr 2012 18:31:14 +0200, Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
> <yannick...@yahoo.fr> a écrit:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Just installed GPS in Ubuntu, late, as I usually use something else.
>>
>> I encountered an integration issue, and seems the bug
>
> A more severe bug seems to be with the outline view. Whatever I click on
> the outline view, GPS crashes and I get this on the terminal (need to
> start GPS from a terminal to get the message):
>
> raised STORAGE_ERROR : s-intman.adb:139 explicit raise
>
> Do you get the same? That's for Ubuntu Maverick. Not tested on Windows.
>

I have seen this in the past, In some of my installations it happened and in
others not. Which meant that somehow it could be fixed, but I didn't narrow
it down. Sorry to be of so little help.

IIRC that in these cases I settled on using the packaged gnat-gps.