Re: Project Center problems

[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.