Please include fedora patch gtkpod-0.99.12-tooltips.patch

[Joseph Smidt]

From Fedora bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=428940

When you hover your mouse over the buttons near the top of the window ("Load iPod", etc.), a tooltip window flashes on the screen then disappears perhaps a tenth of a second later. The tooltip window is not on the screen long enough to read its contents.

This is known upstream. It's an issue that affects building with gtk+ 2.12. The tooltip API in gtk+ was updated and the older API was deprecated.

This bug has been filed upstream:

https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1906016&group_id=67873&atid=519273

And has resulted in this patch from fedora: http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc//devel/gtkpod/gtkpod-0.99.12-tooltips.patch?view=markup

[Joe (joe-redhat-bugs)]

Description of problem:
When I hover my mouse over the buttons near the top of the window ("Load iPod",
etc.), a tooltip window flashes on the screen then disappears perhaps a tenth of
a second later. The tooltip window is not on the screen long enough to read its
contents.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gtkpod-0.99.12-1.fc8.x86_64

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Hover mouse over "Load iPod(s)" button.

Actual results:
Tooltip flashes on screen, too fast to read.

Expected results:
Tooltip remains on screen until I move the mouse.

[Todd (todd-redhat-bugs)]

Hi Joe,

This is known upstream. It's an issue that affects building with gtk+ 2.12.
The tooltip API in gtk+ was updated and the older API was deprecated. AFAIK,
the older API is supposed to still work, but in the case of gtkpod and some
other apps, it doesn't work so well, which results in the flashing tooltips.

The other improvements in gtkpod 0.99.12 seemed worthy enough to warrant the
update even with this known problem. I will endeavor to get this fixed up
sometime this week if possible. I know it's annoying.

[Todd (todd-redhat-bugs)]

I've had no luck in actually fixing this bug. I have asked for some help on the
gtkpod-devel list and no one there replied. :(

I have filed a bug in the upstream tracker in the hopes that it will get some
attention.

https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1906016&group_id=67873&atid=519273

I have seen a similar problem in a small pygtk app that I wrote, which makes me
think this might be a bug in gtk+ or glib. But that sadly has not gotten me any
closer to a solution.

[Joe (joe-redhat-bugs)]

Well, thanks for your effort. We out here in user-land appreciate it.

[Joe (joe-redhat-bugs)]

Bug is still present in Fedora 9, gtkpod-0.99.12-2.fc9.x86_64 .

[Todd (todd-redhat-bugs)]

Joe,

This problem seems to have been resolved with a recent update (I believe it was
glib2 or gtk2 that fixed it, but I have not tested to see exactly which update
corrected it).

Can you confirm or deny if the problem is still present in an up to date F9?

[Joe (joe-redhat-bugs)]

The problem is still present in my up-to-date F9.

gtkpod-0.99.12-2.fc9.x86_64
glib2-2.16.5-1.fc9.x86_64
gtk2-2.12.11-1.fc9.x86_64

[Todd (todd-redhat-bugs)]

Hey Joe,

Jorg believes he has found and fixed this problem upstream. It has not been reproducible for me for quite a while, but if it still occurs for you, perhaps you'd like to test some packages with the patch and let me know if it indeed fixes the problem?

I've built updated gtkpod packages for F9 and F10, x86_64 only, as that's what arch you had the problems on.

F-9: http://tmz.fedorapeople.org/tmp/gtkpod-0.99.12-2.fc9.1.x86_64/
F-10: http://tmz.fedorapeople.org/tmp/gtkpod-0.99.12-3.fc10.1.x86_64/

There are SHA1SUM files included. The SHA1SUM file and packages are signed with my gpg key, 0xBEAF0CE3: http://tmz.fedorapeople.org/repo/RPM-GPG-KEY-tmz

Upstream is set to release 0.99.14 in the next few days, but it might be a bit until we get that and the updated libgpod into the stable releases due to the libgpod changing the API since the last release. So if this patch does fix things, it'd be good to push it out in the interim.

Thanks, and sorry for the long delay. (Wow, it's been a year and a day since your initial report.)

[Joe (joe-redhat-bugs)]

Your updated packages fix the problem. Thanks!

[Fedora (fedora-redhat-bugs)]

gtkpod-0.99.12-4.fc10 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 10.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/gtkpod-0.99.12-4.fc10

[Fedora (fedora-redhat-bugs)]

gtkpod-0.99.12-3.fc9 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 9.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/gtkpod-0.99.12-3.fc9

[Todd (todd-redhat-bugs)]

Many thanks for testing and feedback Joe. I've got official updates on the way, for anyone else that's affected by this.

[Joseph Smidt (jsmidt)]

Here is the debdiff

[Connor Imes (ckimes)]

Triaged and added upstream bug to track. Thank you for reporting this.

[Fedora (fedora-redhat-bugs)]

gtkpod-0.99.12-4.fc10 has been pushed to the Fedora 10 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update gtkpod'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F10/FEDORA-2009-0708

[Fedora (fedora-redhat-bugs)]

gtkpod-0.99.12-3.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing-newkey update gtkpod'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F9/FEDORA-2009-0747

[Fedora (fedora-redhat-bugs)]

gtkpod-0.99.12-4.fc10 has been pushed to the Fedora 10 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

[Fedora (fedora-redhat-bugs)]

gtkpod-0.99.12-3.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

gtkpod is synced on debian currently, could somebody send the request to the debian bts? the package also uses a patch system could you use it rather than modify the source directly?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

there is also no need to change the standards version over debian, that's extra difference for no good reason

[Iain Lane (laney)]

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[Derek White (d-man97)]

Should the status on this be changed (across the board) to Fix Released? It is fixed on Ubuntu 9.04 and was fixed/closed in the main gtkpod src as of 1-17-09, refer to the SF bug link above.

[David Futcher (bobbo)]

This seems to have been fixed upstream a while ago and should have come down by now. If this is still causing problems for people, please set the bug back to "Confirmed".