Gwibber fails to start when GNOME has a floating point font set

[Krzysztof Klinikowski]

Hello. When you set font size on your gnome font settings like 8.5 then Gwibber getting error, because its float http://paste.jabbim.cz/3572 to resolve that you need to change self.settings.set_property("default-font-size", (int(fsize) + 2)) to self.settings.set_property("default-font-size", (eval(fsize) + 2)) and thats all ;)

[Giorgio (uastasi)]

I had the same problem too.
Switching from int to eval makes gwibber work.

[Chris Jones (cmsj)]

fwiw, without the patch, Gwibber fails to start with the traceback:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./bin/gwibber", line 57, in <module>
    client.Client()
  File "/home/cmsj/code/scratch/gwibber/gwibber/client.py", line 106, in __init__
    self.w = GwibberClient()
  File "/home/cmsj/code/scratch/gwibber/gwibber/client.py", line 186, in __init__
    self.setup_ui()
  File "/home/cmsj/code/scratch/gwibber/gwibber/client.py", line 250, in setup_ui
    self.content_view = gwui.MessageStreamView(self.preferences["theme"], self)
  File "/home/cmsj/code/scratch/gwibber/gwibber/gwui.py", line 259, in __init__
    self.load_fonts(resources.get_font())
  File "/home/cmsj/code/scratch/gwibber/gwibber/gwui.py", line 270, in load_fonts
    self.settings.set_property("default-font-size", (int(fsize) + 2))
ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: '6.5'

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

gwibber not starting is high importance. fix committed to trunk (rev 472)

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

It has been a while since its fixed.

[Chow Loong Jin (hyperair)]

The fix isn't in trunk.

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

a new bug report maybe would be better?

[Caracuri (caracuri)]

for me this bug is not fixed

[Caracuri (caracuri)]

Also self.web_settings.set_property("default-font-size", int(font_size)) has to be converted in eval :D

[Mikel Pérez (mikelpr)]

Was this fix really released?
Still not working, not in the default installation of Lucid, not even in the gwibber-dialy PPA!!!

[mrgorefest (mrgorefest)]

I have the same problem!

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~gwibber-committers/gwibber/trunk/revision/766

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

assigned Ken as he is the one who fixed it.

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

this bug is fixed in gwibber 2.31.3 in Maverick. the problem will also be fixed in Lucid when gwibber 2.30.2 will be released