Gedit fails to insert time and date

Bug #327689 reported by John Vivirito
2
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
gedit
Fix Released
Medium
gedit (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Low
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Binary package hint: gedit

Gedit fails to insert date and time with the following error:

<span size="large" weight="bold">Unable to open ui file Failed to open file '/usr/share/gedit-2/plugins/time/time.ui': No such file or directory. Error: gedit_utils_get_ui_objects</span>

Please check your installation.

reproduce:
1. edit a text file
2. Click where you would like date and time to show up in text file
3. click on Edit> Insert Date and Time

expected results:
pop up the format dialog to choose format of date and time
Insert date and time

actual results:
the above error is shown

Gedit version:
gedit:
  Installed: 2.25.6-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 2.25.6-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 2.25.6-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

dpkg -l gedit*:
ii gedit 2.25.6-0ubuntu1 official text editor of the GNOME desktop envi
ii gedit-common 2.25.6-0ubuntu1 official text editor of the GNOME desktop envi
ii gedit-plugins 2.25.2-0ubuntu1 set of plugins for gedit

Revision history for this message
Lars Ljung (larslj) wrote :

The file time.ui is part of ubuntu-common 2.25.6-0ubuntu1 and is located in /usr/share/gedit-2/plugins/time.ui where Gedit obviously can't find it.

Changed in gedit:
status: New → Confirmed
Revision history for this message
Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thanks for your bug report. This bug has been reported to the developers of the software. You can track it and make comments here: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=571564

Changed in gedit:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
importance: Undecided → Low
status: Confirmed → Triaged
Revision history for this message
John Vivirito (gnomefreak) wrote :

Sebaastien thanks for opening upstream bug report.

Revision history for this message
Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

the bug has been fixed to svn now

Changed in gedit:
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
Revision history for this message
Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

the bug is fixed in gedit 2.25.7-0ubuntu1

Changed in gedit:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Changed in gedit:
status: Unknown → Fix Released
Changed in gedit:
importance: Unknown → Medium
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