go-home-applet not accessable on armel images

[Tobin Davis]

Binary package hint: ubuntu-netbook-efl-default-settings

When running une-efl, the go-home-applet button in the upper left side of the screen should return the user to the launcher putting running apps in the background. Currently, it does nothing. Right clicking on it will bring up the about screen, but that is it.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: ubuntu-netbook-efl-default-settings 0.6
Uname: Linux 2.6.34-903-omap4 armv7l
Architecture: armel
Date: Wed Sep 1 09:33:36 2010
Dependencies:

PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SourcePackage: ubuntu-netbook-efl-default-settings

[Oliver Grawert (ogra)]

is its main purpose (adding favorites by drag/drop from the launcher) still functional at least ?

[Tobin Davis (gruemaster)]

Re comment #1: No, drag-n-drop doesn't work either.

[Oliver Grawert (ogra)]

this is actually two bugs. in go-home-applet there are the following shell calls in the code:

"netbook-launcher --show-favorites"

and

"netbook-launcher --add-favorite"

a) our binary is called netbook-launcher-efl, the netbook-launcher binary does not exist anymore, unity replaces it
b) the binary doesnt have either of the above functions

while --show-favorites is equivalent to just call netbook-launcher-efl without args (we can just change the line above to match the binary and drop the --show-favorites option from it in go.-home-applet), the --add-favorite function does not exist at all in the -efl version and needs to be ported from the netbook-launcher code.

[Christopher Michael (cpmichael1)]

Not sure of the proper procedure for things yet (fairly new to ubuntu development), but here are 2 patches for netbook-launcher-efl (patched against the bzr branch).

First patch adds the needed '--add-favorite' command line option (add-favorites.diff).

[Christopher Michael (cpmichael1)]

This patch fixes build issue(s) with the netbook-launcher-efl building against EFL SVN HEAD.

NB: The issue is that the current netbook-launcher-efl theme uses color3 for a RECT part. This is incorrect !! color3 is only used for TEXT or TEXTBLOCK parts.

[Christopher Michael (cpmichael1)]

Here is a patch that fixes the issue where font sizes do not change when a user configures the font in 'Appearance'. Reported to me by GrueMaster in irc (#ubuntu-arm). Tested in maverick only, but should also fix it for lucid too. (could not find a Bug number for this issue)

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

go-home-applet (0.2.8-0ubuntu3) maverick; urgency=low

  * we do not use netbook-launcher anymore, to make netbook-launcher-efl work,
    change the hardcoded shell calls to the netbook-launcher-efl binary (LP:
    #628204)

 -- Oliver Grawert <email address hidden> Wed, 15 Sep 2010 10:04:03 +0200

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

netbook-launcher-efl (0.3.2-0ubuntu4) maverick; urgency=low

  * fix favorites creation (LP: #628204), thanks to Christopher Michael
    <email address hidden> for the patch
  * fix themeing issue which incorrectly used color3 for a RECT part, color3
    is only used for TEXT or TEXTBLOCK parts, thanks to Christopher Michael
    <email address hidden>

 -- Oliver Grawert <email address hidden> Wed, 15 Sep 2010 11:12:33 +0200