Completely broken in 10.04 x64 Cannot edit subtitle text.

[Zoubidoo]

gnome-subtitles 0.9.1-2
libmono2.0-cil 2.4.4~svn15184
Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS x86_64

Completely broken:
Cannot edit subtitle text.
Create a few subtitles without text, save, then cannot load that srt file: "Unable to detect the subtitle format. Please check that the file type is supported."

To reproduce:
$ gnome-subtitles
click new (also saving the srt does not help)
click on text box to edit - nothing happens.

Not much use this program if you can't add subtitles ;-)
Not much use this program if you can't load the files it itself created.

Perhaps a mono upgrade broke everything?

[Pedro Castro (pedrocastro)]

Opening subtitles without text isn't currently supported in some subtitle formats, including SRT.
Regarding the text box issue, so you basically add a new subtitle, select it, put the cursor inside the text box, and are unable to insert text?

[Zoubidoo (zoubidoo)]

OK the problem opening an empty SRT file is now clear. It's a feature not a bug.

But I still can't enter text following the steps you describe.

[Pedro Castro (pedrocastro)]

Well actually it really is a bug: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=658765 .

Regarding the other problem, can you paste the text output when running GS from a terminal?

[Zoubidoo (zoubidoo)]

Doesn't look very helpful:
$ gnome-subtitles
Got 12 languages.

[Pedro Castro (pedrocastro)]

Yep it really doesn't... One question, do you need to use that specific mono version from SVN? I'm currently using Ubuntu 11.10 and all works fine (libmono2.0-cil 2.10.5-1 here).

[Zoubidoo (zoubidoo)]

Hum, I have a few PPA repositories but mono looks like a regular ubuntu package from main.

$ apt-cache policy libmono2.0-cil
libmono2.0-cil:
  Installed: 2.4.4~svn151842-1ubuntu4
  Candidate: 2.4.4~svn151842-1ubuntu4
  Version table:
 *** 2.4.4~svn151842-1ubuntu4 0
        500 http://be.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

$ apt-cache policy gnome-subtitles
gnome-subtitles:
  Installed: 0.9.1-2
  Candidate: 0.9.1-2
  Version table:
 *** 0.9.1-2 0
        500 http://be.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/universe Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Pedro Castro (pedrocastro)]

That's odd, the latest version seems to be 2.6.7-5ubuntu3 for your Ubuntu version:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/natty/libmono2.0-cil

[Zoubidoo (zoubidoo)]

Hi Pedro,
I am reporting this bug for an LTS setup (10.04 Lucid), not Natty.
http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/libmono2.0-cil

[Pedro Castro (pedrocastro)]

Sorry, confused the year part of the version number. Can you attach a screenshot? Also, do other mono-dependent application work (example: tomboy)?

[Zoubidoo (zoubidoo)]

Screenshot attached. When I click where the mouse is, nothing happens.

I tried tomboy and am able to add notes and text. I am not very familiar with this program so I only tried very basic functionality.

[Pedro Castro (pedrocastro)]

Zoubidoo, that's the expected behavior. The editing area is on the bottom of the window, next to the timings.

[Zoubidoo (zoubidoo)]

Ah! Indeed it works if enter text in the box below. It's not intuitive to me, but once you know it's very straightforward. Anyway, I guess it does make me look a little foolish!

Also, Gaupol subtitle editor works with editing in the corresponding row.

I think we can label this bug as invalid, and I sincerely apologise for wasting your time Pedro.

[Pedro Castro (pedrocastro)]

No problem. Actually I initially thought about doing in-place editing, but it has its limitations when you work with multiple lines and formatting. Hope you still find the application useful though!

Cheers