[Natty] Problem with the Crop function: nothing happens

[Mauro D'Aloisio]

Binary package hint: shotwell

When I want to crop an image, click on "Crop", I resize the rectangle for clipping and nothing happens. By chance I saw that trying to change the desktop, the desktop will not be changed and appears the window for cropping the image.

I am using Shotwell 0.8.0-0ubuntu1 on Ubuntu Natty 11.04; I'm using the Classic Desktop session, not the Desktop session with Unity

[Adam Dingle (adam-yorba)]

I can't reproduce this in the trunk build of Shotwell on Natty. I'm not running Unity, however. Are you running Shotwell in Unity?

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

sounds like a bug in compiz, confirmed

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

the issue does not happen with metacity so the issue is indeed in compiz, and the workaround is to hold alt key and move the shotwell window just a little then the crop bar will appear

[Mauro D'Aloisio (maurodaloisio)]

Thank Omer, the workaround works fine for me

[Jim Nelson (yorba-jim)]

I can't reproduce this on Maverick, so I'm assuming this is a problem with compiz on Natty. I've ticketed it upstream here: http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/3064

[Adam Dingle (adam-yorba)]

I can't reproduce this with Natty Alpha 2 and the current Shotwell trunk.  I built Shotwell in Natty Alpha 2 and the crop tool seems to work normally.

[Sam Spilsbury (smspillaz)]

On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 10:06 AM, Adam Dingle <email address hidden> wrote:
> I can't reproduce this with Natty Alpha 2 and the current Shotwell
> trunk.  I built Shotwell in Natty Alpha 2 and the crop tool seems to
> work normally.

Indeed, it would probably be the same fix for why gtk links were not working.

In reality, this is a bug in every application which *does not* check
the xfocusevent.detail.mode property when they receive a FocusOut
event from the window manager grabbing the pointer on the frame window
(events propogate up the window tree since we are reparenting,
*cough*gtk+*cough*), and so they think they've lost focus when really,
they haven't the window manager is just doing click raise or click
focus.

Unfortunately as with most things, it is easier to work around these
issues from within the window manager, and here it makes sense anyways
since it cuts down on the number of necessary events we receive.

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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/697436
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> Title:
>  [Natty] Problem with the Crop function: nothing happens
>
> Status in Shotwell:
>  New
> Status in Unity:
>  Confirmed
> Status in “shotwell” package in Ubuntu:
>  Triaged
>
> Bug description:
>  Binary package hint: shotwell
>
>  When I want to crop an image, click on "Crop", I resize the rectangle
>  for clipping and nothing happens. By chance I saw that trying to
>  change the desktop, the desktop will not be changed and appears the
>  window for cropping the image.
>
>  I am using Shotwell 0.8.0-0ubuntu1 on Ubuntu Natty 11.04; I'm using
>  the Classic Desktop session, not the Desktop session with Unity
>
>
>

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Sam Spilsbury

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

WFM shotwell 0.8.1