Ubuntu
ktoon package

Brush and selection menus not expanding

Bug #251234 reported by LCID Fire
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ktoon (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Undecided
StefanPotyra

Bug Description

Binary package hint: ktoon

ktoon uses a very strange way of handling data files. It presents the user with a chance to specify the installation directory (which is just /usr/share/ktoon), then needs to be restarted before really working.

The brushes are not packaged under /usr/share/ktoon since they're binary, and ktoon does not load them. As things are, the selection, brush, etc. menus are not expanding.

As a temporary fix, create a link to the plugins folder by the following command, and it seems that all of the functionality will be enabled.
 'sudo ln -s /usr/lib/ktoon/plugins /usr/share/ktoon'

See original description

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lp:ubuntu/lucid/ktoon
Dan Cecile (dancecile)
description: updated
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Miguelángel León (migueleonm) wrote :

Thanks for the temporary solution.

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jorge (xxopxe) wrote :

Yes, thanks, without that the application simply doesn't work: you actually can't draw anything!

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Daniel James (daniel-64studio) wrote :

Still present in Intrepid.

Changed in ktoon (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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riban (brian-riban) wrote :

Still present in Jaunty.

This appears to be an Ubuntu specific install issues as Ktoon expects the plugin directory under its configured "install" directory (/usr/share/ktoon) but Ubuntu installs the plugins under /usr/lib/ktoons.

This is a critical bug (for this application) as ktoon will is unusable without the workaround stated in the original bug report.

Mainainer is Ubuntu MOTU Developers.

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rschiwal (rschiwal) wrote :

Didn't fix it. Is there any way to reset symbolic link file? It only says "file exists" when I try to redo.

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rschiwal (rschiwal) wrote :

Fixed It. Deleted old symbolic link and reset correctly.

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Murz (murznn) wrote :

Thanks! The temporary fix helps me!

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Kevin Seifert (sevkeifert) wrote :

Present in Ubuntu 9.10 as well. The temporary fix worked for me as well.

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StefanPotyra (sistpoty) wrote :

Thanks for the bug report, a fix is underway and will be uploaded shortly.

Changed in ktoon (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → In Progress
assignee: nobody → StefanPotyra (sistpoty)
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package ktoon - 0.8.1-4ubuntu1

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ktoon (0.8.1-4ubuntu1) lucid; urgency=low

  * Fix build failure (DBTS: #527721, #559781).
  * Build-Depend on zlib1g-dev, thanks to Cyril Brulebois.
  * Add debian/patches/90-fix-ffmpeg-includes.dpatch, based on a patch from
    Christoph Egger.
  * Add libswscale-dev and libavutil-dev to build-depends.
  * Add debian/patches/95-ffmpeg-libs to also link against swscale and
    avutil.
  * Add debian/patches/92-fix-linking to link the ffmpeg exporter against
    src/store as well.
  * Fix plugin directory in debian/patches/31_dirs (LP: #251234,
    DBTS: #462013).
 -- Stefan Potyra <email address hidden> Sat, 23 Jan 2010 16:17:53 +0100

Changed in ktoon (Ubuntu):
status: In Progress → Fix Released
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Murz (murznn) wrote :

Problem is still here on Ubuntu 10.04 and ktoon 0.8.1-4
plugins is under /usr/lib/ktoons and /usr/share/ktoon has no plugin folder or symlink.

Purge and install ktoon package didn't help.

Creating the symlink manually fix the problem.

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