Project Center problems

[Michael Thaler-2]

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). Second, when I create a new project, nothing happens. The tutorial
on

http://www.gnustep.it/pierre-yves/index.html

suggests, that some kind of main window for the project should open, but it
doesn't.

Also the layout of project center windows seems to be a bit messed up on my
system, see pc2.jpeg.

I use gnustep, project center and gorm compiled from svn trunk. I use Debian
SID with KDE 4.3.2. Is there anything I can do to get Project Center working?

Greetings,
Michael



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[Richard Frith-Macdonald-2]

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.



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[Michael Thaler-2]

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.

Greetings,
Michael


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[Richard Frith-Macdonald-2]

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.




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[Fred Kiefer]

Richard Frith-Macdonald schrieb:

>
> 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.

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.


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[Richard Frith-Macdonald-2]

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?


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