Bug 148545 - gnome-extra/deskbar-applet-2.16.0 crashes using dev-lang/python-2.5-r1
Bug#: 148545 Product:  Gentoo Linux Version: unspecified Platform: All
OS/Version: Linux Status: RESOLVED Severity: normal Priority: P2
Resolution: FIXED Assigned To: gnome@gentoo.org Reported By: ikelos@gentoo.org
Component: GNOME
URL:  http://bugzilla.gnome.org/368576
Summary: gnome-extra/deskbar-applet-2.16.0 crashes using dev-lang/python-2.5-r1
Keywords:  
Status Whiteboard: 
Opened: 2006-09-21 10:10 0000
Description:   Opened: 2006-09-21 10:10 0000 
Deskbar-applet won't load correctly.  On running it from the console it shows
that the error is in:

/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/deskbar/ui/About.py

It turns out it's because the copyright symbol isn't in the standard encoding,
and the string has no encoding hints (that now seem to be mandatory) to tell it
otherwise.  Change the symbol to "(C)", causes it all to work fine.

I haven't looked at or told upstream yet...

------- Comment #1 From John N. Laliberte (RETIRED) 2006-10-31 14:06:57 0000 ------- 
thanks, i made a patch and sent it upstream.

------- Comment #2 From Luis Medinas (RETIRED) 2006-11-06 02:33:09 0000 ------- 
deskbar-applet bumped to 2.16.1 in cvs. I Added John patch to fix the bug. The
bug reported to upstream is http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=368576 so
i hope they add the patch soon.

Thanks