GoldenDict's main window does not get focus after activating by the indicator

[Dmitry Kann]

If I use the indicator icon's menu to "Show Main Window", the window is shown, but it only gets focus at first time.

After the first time the current (other) application keeps the focus, and you have to explicitly click GoldenDict's window to activate it.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: goldendict 1.0.2~git20110906-1.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-18.29-generic 3.5.7
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-18-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu6
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Oct 28 11:38:47 2012
InstallationDate: Installed on 2011-10-06 (387 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Beta i386 (20110921.2)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: goldendict
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-10-19 (8 days ago)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Tvangeste (i-4m-l33t)]

This has been fixed in the upstream version of GoldenDict already.

[Dmitry Kann (yktooo)]

Still there in 1.0.2~git20120929-3

[Tvangeste (i-4m-l33t)]

Dmitry, you could try to build GoldenDict from the upstream sources, it is as easy as invoking a couple of commands:
https://github.com/goldendict/goldendict#installing-external-deps-on-ubuntu-linux

The bug has been fixed some time this year, so it is not present in the quite outdated version 1.0.2~git20120929-3.

[Dmitry Kann (yktooo)]

Thank you Tvangeste. I successfully built GoldenDict from the GitHub repo (1.5.0-RC-74-ge79efbd), the bug seems to be fixed now. I only replaced the goldendict binary which was built (no "make install"), and everything was working smoothly.

By the way, the UI is much better and cleaner now, and a lot of other small things improved (eg. main window activation by a global hotkey works now).