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alacarte package

Can't edit anything in alacarte

Bug #88874 reported by Anders Olsson
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
alacarte (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Medium
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Binary package hint: alacarte

I can't seem to edit anything in alacarte any more. There's no crashing or freezing, no output in the console except

/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/gtk-2.0/bonobo/__init__.py: inconsistent use of tabs and spaces in indentation

If I try to tick one of the items nothing happens, if I press an arrow to reorder nothing happens. If I try to create a new item the dialog pops and I can enter all values and press ok but there's no change. I used to be able use alacarte, don't know what's changed.

The symptoms are similar to bug 66705 but the cause is not the same, my ~/.locals is owned by me.

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Daniel Holbach (dholbach) wrote :

Thanks for your bug report. Which version of Ubuntu and alacarte do you use?

Changed in alacarte:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: Unconfirmed → Needs Info
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Daniel Holbach (dholbach) wrote :

I just checked the python files of 0.11.3 (in Feisty) and python -tt <file> does not complain about them - must be an earlier version then.

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Anders Olsson (anders-anderso) wrote :

I can't reproduce that message, maybe because that module is already loaded somewhere when I start alacarte again? Anyway, this is what I get when checking that file:

~$ python -tt /var/lib/python-support/python2.4/gtk-2.0/bonobo/__init__.py
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/gtk-2.0/bonobo/__init__.py", line 17
    self.__bobj.connect("destroy", self.__destroy)
                                                 ^
TabError: inconsistent use of tabs and spaces in indentation

I use alacarte 0.10.1 and Edgy. I don't know what package this file is part of? I have version 0.5.3ubuntu1 of python-support.

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Anders Olsson (anders-anderso) wrote : Update

After reboot it seems that all changes I made in alacarte was applied to the menu. So although the alacarte UI and the menu itself didn't display any changes, they would appear after a reboot, and I could also use alacarte properly after the reboot.

Now I'm back to square one again however, I can't edit anything. I'll try to investigate this further and get back with an update later.

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Anders Olsson (anders-anderso) wrote :

I haven't yet figured out the cause of this. I'm seeing various other strange behavior also, such as nautilus windows needs to be refreshed manually in order to see changes.

On rare occasions all my menu entries are be duplicated, not the categories them selves but for example in Internet I have two entries for Evolution, two for Firefox and so on.

Anyway I'm going to wipe this installation and install Feisty soon so I won't bother investigating this further. I haven't seen anyone else with similar problems so I would vote for closing it altogether.

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Travis Watkins (amaranth) wrote :

Based on the reporter's last message I'm assuming this was a more general problem with their system. Rejecting per their recommendation.

Changed in alacarte:
status: Needs Info → Rejected
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