Bug 358171 – xfce-extra/xfce4-xfapplet-plugin not showing the applets provided by gnome-base/gnome-applets

• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description David 2011-03-10 07:23:04 UTC]

Attached screenshot shows that most of the applets are not available.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Add Xfapplet to an XFCE panel.
2.  Right-click on it, choose Properties, and try to add an applet
Actual Results:  
Only one applet is listed.  Another one ("Invest") showed up after I re-emerged xfce-extra/xfce4-xfapplet-plugin.

Expected Results:  
  Expecting to see others, including the weather applet  (which I started using after the XFCE weather applet stopped working in the XFCE 4.8 upgrade).

Emerging gnome-base/gnome-applets-2.32.1.1 with the -gnome USE flag produces the following lines, not sure if it is significant  (the lines do not appear when using +gnome for USE):


 * Messages for package gnome-base/gnome-applets-2.32.1.1:

 * python_mod_optimize(): 'invest' does not exist

[Comment 1 David 2011-03-10 07:23:41 UTC]

Created attachment 265405 [details]
output of emerge --info

[Comment 2 David 2011-03-10 07:25:32 UTC]

BTW, I ran into this issue on two different Gentoo machines.

[Comment 3 David 2011-03-10 07:26:48 UTC]

Created attachment 265407 [details]
Screenshot of Xfapplet selector

[Comment 4 Davide Rossi 2011-04-29 16:17:03 UTC]

Emerge of gnome-base/gnome-applets-2.32.1.1 with gnome USE flag, reports
  * python_mod_optimize(): 'invest' does not exist

[Comment 5 Davide Rossi 2011-04-29 16:22:48 UTC]

Created attachment 271569 [details]
output of `emerge --info'

[Comment 6 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2011-04-29 16:26:28 UTC]

(In reply to comment #4)
> Emerge of gnome-base/gnome-applets-2.32.1.1 with gnome USE flag, reports
>   * python_mod_optimize(): 'invest' does not exist

Then file a bug against gnome-applets, this one is for xfce4-xfapplet-plugin

[Comment 7 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2011-04-30 07:44:44 UTC]

Other Gentoo Xfce members:

Should we simply lastrite this package? GNOME 3 is flowing in to tree, and this isn't compatible with it anyway.   The package needs gnome-panel-2 with bonobo support which isn't supported in 3 anyway AFAIK.  No upstream for this plugin either.   And it has always been extremely unstable (once you add applets, you can't even remove them).   Futhermore, xfce4-xkb-plugin works again and recent GIT has a lot of fixes to it.   Futhermore xfce4-weather-plugin works now too.

So +1 from me to remove this plugin from tree

[Comment 8 Jeremy Olexa (darkside) (RETIRED) 2011-05-01 13:25:15 UTC]

(In reply to comment #7)
> Other Gentoo Xfce members:

No opinion from me (or neutral opinion anyway). I agree that you have highlighted a few problems that a distro cannot fix.

[Comment 9 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2011-11-04 23:45:56 UTC]

Removed from Portage -> Closing as WONTFIX