mintMenu fails on load

[VitalD]

1) Linux Mint 16
2) When I add mintMenu on panel I see error window which contained following:
Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "/usr/lib/linuxmint/mintMenu/mintMenu.py", line 330, in PopulatePlugins
    MyPlugin.do_plugin()

  File "/usr/lib/linuxmint/mintMenu/plugins/applications.py", line 1334, in do_plugin
    self.Todos()

  File "/usr/lib/linuxmint/mintMenu/plugins/applications.py", line 583, in Todos
    self.buildButtonList()

  File "/usr/lib/linuxmint/mintMenu/plugins/applications.py", line 603, in buildButtonList
    self.updateBoxes(False)

  File "/usr/lib/linuxmint/mintMenu/plugins/applications.py", line 1740, in updateBoxes
    item["button"] = MenuApplicationLauncher( item["entry"].get_desktop_file_path(), self.iconSize, item["category"], self.showapplicationcomments, highlight=(True and menu_has_changed) )

  File "/usr/lib/linuxmint/mintMenu/plugins/easybuttons.py", line 481, in __init__
    ApplicationLauncher.__init__( self, desktopFile, iconSize )

  File "/usr/lib/linuxmint/mintMenu/plugins/easybuttons.py", line 281, in __init__
    c = c_char_p(iconName.encode('ascii', 'ignore'))

UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xd0 in position 13: ordinal not in range(128)

3) I click "OK" and there is no any application in mintMenu, just empty categories.
5) It happens always

I think that it because of localization (I use Russian language)

[Vlad Orlov (monsta)]

I recommend reporting it straight to https://github.com/linuxmint/mintmenu/issues

[philippe joyez (unbuntu-5-pjoyez)]

I've had that issue for sometime on a french system and have found a fix (in a russian forum, by coincidence!):

change line 281 of /usr/lib/linuxmint/mintMenu/plugins/easybuttons.py to read :

c = c_char_p(iconName.decode('utf-8', 'ignore').encode('ascii', 'ignore'))

That entirely solved the issue for me.

[VitalD (vkontakte-vit)]

Thanks for your comment, I hope maintainer will add some patch to solve
this problem and we'll can get update soon.

14.02.2014 20:43, philippe joyez пишет:
> I've had that issue for sometime on a french system and have found a fix
> (in a russian forum, by coincidence!):
>
> change line 281 of /usr/lib/linuxmint/mintMenu/plugins/easybuttons.py to
> read :
>
> c = c_char_p(iconName.decode('utf-8', 'ignore').encode('ascii',
> 'ignore'))
>
> That entirely solved the issue for me.
>

[chemicalfan (mike-lumsden)]

This patch should be added into the source on Github here - https://github.com/linuxmint/mintmenu/blob/master/usr/lib/linuxmint/mintMenu/plugins/easybuttons.py

[VitalD (vkontakte-vit)]

Ok, thanks, I did request on Github.