Bug 489974 – app-misc/gourmet-0.16.1 -- cannot add pictures

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description m0par 2013-10-31 14:34:13 UTC]

Created attachment 362362 [details, diff]
workaround for when USER_DIRECTORY_PICTURES == None

For whatever reason, get_user_special_dir(USER_DIRECTORY_PICTURES) returns None.

This results in being unable to add a picture, with the error:

self.fsd.set_current_folder(get_user_special_dir(USER_DIRECTORY_PICTURES))
TypeError: Gtk.FileChooser.set_current_folder() argument 1 must be string, not None

Possibly a bug elsewhere in glib or xdg. I don't know how to trace the problem further. It apparently also happens on Arch Linux as well.

Regardless, gourmet upstream worked around it with a small patch.
https://github.com/thinkle/gourmet/issues/725

With the historically slow release cycle from the gourmet developers, it would be nice if the patch could be included in an updated ebuild.

[Comment 1 m0par 2013-10-31 14:47:13 UTC]

BTW, this may only be an issue when running an oddball window manager without a gnome/kde desktop environment. e.g. I'm just running WindowMaker.

[Comment 2 Joe Sapp (RETIRED) 2014-01-03 03:01:02 UTC]

Is this still an issue with 0.16-r2?  I wouldn't be opposed to adding another patch to the ebuild.

[Comment 3 m0par 2014-01-03 03:28:26 UTC]

(In reply to Joe Sapp from comment #2)
> Is this still an issue with 0.16-r2?  I wouldn't be opposed to adding
> another patch to the ebuild.

It is still an issue here, and using the patch still fixes that error.

I'm getting a different error now: "No module named PngImagePlugin" (A PIL/pillow issue I suppose. No time to look into it right now--heading to work.) but adding a jpg in gourmet-0.16.1-r2 does work with the patch.

[Comment 4 Joe Sapp (RETIRED) 2014-01-29 21:49:55 UTC]

(In reply to m0par from comment #3)
> (In reply to Joe Sapp from comment #2)
> > Is this still an issue with 0.16-r2?  I wouldn't be opposed to adding
> > another patch to the ebuild.
> 
> It is still an issue here, and using the patch still fixes that error.
> 
> I'm getting a different error now: "No module named PngImagePlugin" (A
> PIL/pillow issue I suppose. No time to look into it right now--heading to
> work.) but adding a jpg in gourmet-0.16.1-r2 does work with the patch.

Ok, I'll be bumping the revision soon.  If there's another issue with with PngImagePlugin, please file another bug.  That issue should be taken care of with -r2, but maybe I messed up somewhere.

[Comment 5 Joe Sapp (RETIRED) 2014-02-09 17:29:55 UTC]

In CVS now.  Thanks for reporting.