Fish (Wanda) no longer customizable

[komputes]

Can't apply custom animation to Fish applet (formerly called Wanda).

The description of the applet says "Fish: Display a swiming fish or another creature"

Not able to display another creature. Please bring back the ability for each user to customize Fish applet animations.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: gnome-applets 3.2.1-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-19.30-generic-pae 3.2.11
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-19-generic-pae i686
ApportVersion: 1.94.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Mar 18 17:04:22 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha i386 (20120210)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_CA:en
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-applets
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-03-17 (1 days ago)

[Dmitry Shachnev (mitya57)]

I see two problems here:

1) the initial fish_applet_settings_changed() is called *before* setup_fish_widget(fish), so the widget cannot be updated;

2) g_settings_get_string (settings, "image") always returns "wanda.fish", even after running "gsettings set org.gnome.gnome-panel.applet.fish:/ image monkey.fish". This probably has something to do with the scheme being relocatable.

[Alberts Muktupāvels (muktupavels)]

1) This can be fixed by moving fish_applet_settings_changed() after setup_fish_widget().

2) Correct command to change it is:
gsettings set org.gnome.gnome-panel.applet.fish:/org/gnome/gnome-panel/layout/objects/[fish-applet]/instance-config/ image monkey.fish

[fish-applet] - name of applet in dconf. It could be fish-applet, fish-applet-1, fish-applet-2, fish-applet-0-0...

Best fix for this would be to restore option to change this in preferences dialog.

[Dmitry Shachnev (mitya57)]

I am not going to restore the preferences dialog, but here are some commits that make customizing work again:

https://github.com/mitya57/gnome-panel/commits/master

[Alberts Muktupāvels (muktupavels)]

Here is patch that restores option to change animation from preferences dialog. Currently only builtin animations are supported, but in future I might improve it to support custom animations loaded for example from ~/.config/gnome-panel/applets/fish/.

[Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton)]

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[Alberts Muktupāvels (muktupavels)]

Fixed in gnome-panel 3.14.