Bug 564106 – media-gfx/fr0st-1.4-r1 fails to start

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Pacho Ramos 2015-10-25 17:12:13 UTC]

When starting it I popup is opened forever (until gnome-shell hangs because of that) showing an error related with an "Attribute" called "Color" that is missing

[Comment 1 Pacho Ramos 2015-10-25 17:12:27 UTC]

It's the same with wxGTK-2.8 and 3.0

[Comment 2 Pacho Ramos 2015-11-03 15:52:07 UTC]

CCing treecleaners

[Comment 3 nope 2016-01-11 23:24:01 UTC]

I'm using awesome WM, fr0st works fine. No need to remove

[Comment 4 Yi Yang 2016-01-18 10:30:19 UTC]

Using KDE 5 (Kwin as window manager, Plasma as desktop environment). No hangs at all. Actually, it works perfectly. And we don't really have a usable alternative, besides running Apophysis under wine. 

Please do not remove since we have multiple anecdotes here that it's probably a bug in gnome-shell, or poor interaction between fr0st and gnome-shell.

I'm using gtk+ 2.24.28-r1 and 3.16.7 (but wxGTK uses gtk+ 2, right?).

[Comment 5 Yi Yang 2016-01-21 04:49:52 UTC]

By the way, if the whatever problem you are encountering is the same with wxGTK-2.8 and 3.0, it should not be blocking wxGTK-3.0 anyways, since it's not a regression of any kind.

[Comment 6 Pacho Ramos 2016-02-02 17:13:22 UTC]

I get exactly the same issue about that "Attribute" Color missing under icewm

[Comment 7 Malcolm Lashley 2016-02-16 02:36:43 UTC]

The somewhat trivial fix is to change this line

fr0stlib/gui/canvas.py:        c = wx.Color(r,g,b, self.Opacity)

To *Colour* - wxGTK removed the US-spelling some time ago...

Please don't tree-clean for that :)

Similar bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/whyteboard/+bug/1377762

[Comment 8 Pacho Ramos 2016-02-20 17:07:48 UTC]

Created attachment 425996 [details]
fr0st-1.4-r2.ebuild

It fails exactly in the same way (now failing about undefined "Color")

[Comment 9 Pacho Ramos 2016-02-20 17:08:08 UTC]

Created attachment 425998 [details, diff]
fr0st-1.4-color.patch

[Comment 10 Malcolm Lashley 2016-02-29 04:25:31 UTC]

Hey Pacho - sorry I don't think I explained the fix clearly (you seem to have dropped the wx part which was not what I was trying to describe)

To be clear - your patch should be:

--- fr0stlib/gui/canvas.py~	2011-05-14 19:58:25.000000000 +0200
+++ fr0stlib/gui/canvas.py	2016-02-20 17:47:25.853322560 +0100
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@
 
     def SetBrush(self, FillColor, FillStyle):
         r,g,b = FillColor
-        c = wx.Color(r,g,b, self.Opacity)
+        c = wx.Colour(r,g,b, self.Opacity)
         self.Brush = wx.Brush(c)

[Comment 11 Pacho Ramos 2016-02-29 19:19:14 UTC]

[master 52f1685] media-gfx/fr0st: Fix problems at runtime (#564106, thanks a lot to Malcolm Lashley for finding the fix), port to new python eclasses, use wxGTK3.
 2 files changed, 67 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 media-gfx/fr0st/files/fr0st-1.4-colour.patch
 create mode 100644 media-gfx/fr0st/fr0st-1.4-r2.ebuild