Bug 77073 – guifications-2.7 doesn't show text in notification buttons // all other ebuilds removed

• Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Sven 2005-01-07 14:07:00 UTC]

Hi

I switched from 2.6 to 2.7 while gaim had version 1.1.1
Now notifications showed no text anymore (e.g."user xyz messaged you","user foo is signed on")

Another problem is that downgrade was not directly possible because all older ebuilds have been removed.
Now i copied a backup of the 2.6 ebuild into portage overlay, downgraded, and it works again. 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. install gaim-1.1.1 and guifications-2.7 
2. put gaim in background
3. wait for an event causing a notification

Actual Results:  
notification only shows icons, no text

Expected Results:  
readable text

would say major priority cause no other ebuilds are directly available

[Comment 1 Don Seiler (RETIRED) 2005-01-07 18:38:51 UTC]

I've re-added 2.6 into portage.  My humblest apologies.

Working with the author right now on a patch for 2.7 for this and another big bug.

[Comment 2 Don Seiler (RETIRED) 2005-01-07 21:16:16 UTC]

Can you please try with 2.7-r1?

[Comment 3 Don Seiler (RETIRED) 2005-01-10 07:08:09 UTC]

Try 2.8 please.

[Comment 4 Don Seiler (RETIRED) 2005-01-14 11:30:09 UTC]

Resolving this, assuming it's working until you test and say otherwise.

[Comment 5 James Le Cuirot 2005-01-17 08:51:45 UTC]

It's still not working in 2.8.

[Comment 6 Don Seiler (RETIRED) 2005-01-17 12:01:14 UTC]

Reopening then.

[Comment 7 Don Seiler (RETIRED) 2005-01-17 12:02:57 UTC]

Can you provide some debug output that might pertain to guifcations?

[Comment 8 James Le Cuirot 2005-01-17 15:18:18 UTC]

Wait I just figured it out! The text is there but it's white!! I have a dark colour scheme so my GTK text colour is white. It should usually override the default because you obviously can't see white over light grey.

[Comment 9 James Le Cuirot 2005-01-17 15:20:03 UTC]

This was probably caused by the recent GTK+ upgrade?

[Comment 10 Don Seiler (RETIRED) 2005-01-21 06:29:00 UTC]

Can't say.  Resolving.

[Comment 11 James Le Cuirot 2005-01-21 12:58:03 UTC]

I've kinda fixed it. I've got to send a patch upstream. I checked the source and there was already a mechanism for specifying the text colour in the themes but it wasn't being used. Since it wasn't being used, the default GTK text colour was being used instead - in my case, this was white. I tried adding some colour properties to the themes but this caused Gaim to crash immediately. I tried tweaking the source and eventually casting the colour property to a char* fixed it. I'm not sure why but hey, it works.

[Comment 12 James Le Cuirot 2005-01-21 13:46:24 UTC]

Created attachment 49137 [details]
guifications-2.8-r1.ebuild

Since I don't know how long it will take for this to make it into the next
release, here's a new ebuild that uses the patch. Fortunately, the patch I made
against the CVS version also works with 2.8. The patch file is coming right
up...

[Comment 13 James Le Cuirot 2005-01-21 13:46:43 UTC]

Created attachment 49138 [details, diff]
textcolor.patch