adding of conections not possible

[Rene E. Kohlhauser]

adding of conections not possible, button pressed but no reaction

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: gtkvncviewer 0.4-2.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Nov 21 22:39:41 2011
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=hu_HU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gtkvncviewer
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-11-20 (1 days ago)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Martin Weis (martin-weis-newsadress)]

Entries seem to be added to gconf, I see them appearing while pressing "add", so it might be a problem of displaying them in the GUI.

gconf-editor lists connections in
/apps/gtkvncviewer/

and there is a corresponding file with the entries updated:
~/.gconf/apps/gtkvncviewer/%gconf.xml
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<gconf>
        <entry name="vncserver.local" mtime="1336039195" type="int" value="6"/>
</gconf>

[frankster (wtfrank)]

I can confirm that entries are added to gconf in my installation, so I concur that it sounds like a display issue.

[frankster (wtfrank)]

Also it seems like gtkvncviewer hasn't really changed between 11.10 and 12.04 so perhaps its an underlying library that has changed.

[frankster (wtfrank)]

OK I have found a semi-solution. I opened up /usr/share/gtkvncviewer/data/gtkvncviewer.glade in glade-gtk2 and I removed the viewport around the iconview and this gave somewhat better results. To do this:
* navigate to connectDialog->vbox1->frame1->vbox6->scrolledWindow2->viewports->iconview1
* right click on iconview1 and select remove parent
* save

This may also be relevant http://askubuntu.com/questions/124654/gtkiconview-doesnt-automatically-fill-the-space-with-icon-when-user-resizes-the

[frankster (wtfrank)]

Clement, I wonder if you have any views on the solution I have found? Did the viewport have a useful function?

[frankster (wtfrank)]

Actually it was a combination of losing the viewport and adding the following line to gtkvncviewer.py

78d77
< self.iconview.set_size_request(-1, 200)

This line hardcodes the iconview to a certain size which is undesirable. Hence a semi-solution.