Merge arrows invisible and unclickable

[Evan Prodromou]

Binary package hint: meld

Meld show three panes. There used to be (jaunty?) arrows at the differences that you could press to say, "copy from here to there".

They're invisible in my current (karmic) version of meld. There's just a tiny line instead. I'm not sure if this is a conscious change in UI, but the functionality doesn't seem to be replicated elsewhere, so I just don't know.

Attached screenshot.

[Evan Prodromou (evanp)]

There's an upstream bug that's almost identical:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=602871

[Adam Collard (adam-collard)]

Confirmed in Lucid (1.3.0-2)

[MattJ (mwild1)]

A fix was committed upstream (but has not been released yet): http://git.gnome.org/browse/meld/commit/?id=4e3a717a6c4f97a17b9bae03f7f0618a170ade3c

I tried backporting it to 1.3.0, but it depended on this commit: http://git.gnome.org/browse/meld/commit/?id=516cc2576abc49d32a7d1176467387e4ede7e714 (which also needed small modifications to apply cleanly)

There being no better way to spend a Saturday morning, a debdiff is attached, containing both patches - it works fine here on my Lucid.

I'd enjoy seeing this fixed for the release :)

Matthew

[Fabrice Coutadeur (fabricesp)]

Uploaded: thank you very much for your work. I just updated a bit the changelog to explain each patches.

Thanks,
Fabrice

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package meld - 1.3.0-2ubuntu1

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meld (1.3.0-2ubuntu1) lucid; urgency=low

  * Backport fix from upstream GIT for UI glitches (LP: #505285)
    - 01-invisible-merge-arrows-base.patch: changes required by next patch
    - 02-invisible-merge-arrows.patch: fix missing arrows in a 3 way comparison
 -- Matthew James Wild <email address hidden> Sat, 13 Mar 2010 15:53:05 +0000