Neither Dropplet nor Inspect will accept images. No reaction what so ever

[Set Hallstrom]

Opening phatch image processor gives a floating droplet that will not react on any pictures dropped to it.
Starting phatch from terminal with verbose:

~$ phatch -v
| /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/wx-3.0-gtk2/wx/_core.py:8196: GtkWarning: gtk_disable_setlocale() must be called before gtk_init()
| return _core_.PyApp__BootstrapApp(*args, **kwargs)
| Traceback (most recent call last):
| File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/wx-3.0-gtk2/wx/_core.py", line 16765, in <lambda>
| lambda event: event.callable(*event.args, **event.kw) )
| File "/usr/share/phatch/phatch/pyWx/gui.py", line 1218, in show_frame
| frame = Frame(self.filename, None, -1, ct.TITLE)
| File "/usr/share/phatch/phatch/pyWx/gui.py", line 327, in __init__
| frame.Frame.__init__(self, *args, **keyw)
| File "/usr/share/phatch/phatch/pyWx/wxGlade/frame.py", line 141, in __init__
| self.tree = Tree(self, -1, style=wx.TR_HAS_BUTTONS|wx.TR_NO_LINES|wx.TR_FULL_ROW_HIGHLIGHT|wx.TR_HIDE_ROOT|wx.TR_DEFAULT_STYLE|wx.SUNKEN_BORDER)
| File "/usr/share/phatch/phatch/pyWx/wxGlade/frame.py", line 26, in __init__
| set_dirty = parent.set_dirty,
| File "/usr/share/phatch/phatch/lib/pyWx/treeEdit.py", line 96, in __init__
| self.CreateImageList(icon_size)
| File "/usr/share/phatch/phatch/lib/pyWx/treeEdit.py", line 111, in CreateImageList
| self._AddFormToImageList(form, icon_size, icon_disabled)
| File "/usr/share/phatch/phatch/lib/pyWx/treeEdit.py", line 120, in _AddFormToImageList
| wx_image = pil_wxImage(wxImage_pil(wx_image).resize(icon_size,\
| File "/usr/share/phatch/phatch/lib/pyWx/wxPil.py", line 46, in wxImage_pil
| image.fromstring(wx_image.GetData())
| File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/PIL/Image.py", line 737, in fromstring
| "Please call frombytes() instead.")
| Exception: fromstring() has been removed. Please call frombytes() instead.

Dropping images on it:

| Traceback (most recent call last):
| File "/usr/share/phatch/phatch/lib/pyWx/droplet.py", line 43, in OnDropFiles
| self.method(fix_paths(filenames), x, y)
| TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not callable

Opening phatch inspector with verbose:

| ~$ phatch -v --inspect
| /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/wx-3.0-gtk2/wx/_core.py:8196: GtkWarning: gtk_disable_setlocale() must be called before gtk_init()
| return _core_.PyApp__BootstrapApp(*args, **kwargs)
| /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/wx-3.0-gtk2/wx/_core.py:11496: GtkWarning: IA__gtk_widget_set_size_request: assertion 'width >= -1' failed
| return _core_.Window_Layout(*args, **kwargs)

Drag&dropping image on it:

| Traceback (most recent call last):
| File "/usr/share/phatch/phatch/lib/pyWx/droplet.py", line 43, in OnDropFiles
| self.method(fix_paths(filenames), x, y)
| File "/usr/share/phatch/phatch/lib/pyWx/imageInspector.py", line 421, in OnDrop
| self.OpenImages(filenames)
| File "/usr/share/phatch/phatch/lib/pyWx/imageInspector.py", line 820, in OpenImages
| super(OpenMixin, self).OpenImages(filenames)
| File "/usr/share/phatch/phatch/lib/pyWx/imageInspector.py", line 760, in OpenImages
| self.UpdateThumbs()
| File "/usr/share/phatch/phatch/lib/pyWx/imageInspector.py", line 339, in UpdateThumbs
| image.thumb_wx = wxPil.pil_wxBitmap(image.thumb)
| File "/usr/share/phatch/phatch/lib/pyWx/wxPil.py", line 40, in pil_wxBitmap
| return wx.BitmapFromImage(pil_wxImage(image))
| File "/usr/share/phatch/phatch/lib/pyWx/wxPil.py", line 34, in pil_wxImage
| data = new_image.tostring()
| File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/PIL/Image.py", line 686, in tostring
| "Please call tobytes() instead.")
| Exception: tostring() has been removed. Please call tobytes() instead.

[Set Hallstrom (sakrecoer)]

further tests have shown that the console version is functional, but needs "actions" written in python.

[Ubuntu QA Website (ubuntuqa)]

This bug has been reported on the Ubuntu ISO testing tracker.

A list of all reports related to this bug can be found here:
http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/reports/bugs/1527314

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Sergio Scabuzzo (earthshaper)]

The advice at the following link fixed it for me.
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=811184#12

Basically:

In the file usr/share/phatch/phatch/lib/pyWx/wxPil.py I changed the
words "fromstring" and "tostring" to "frombytes" and "tobytes". Now
Phatch seems to work with the latest python-imaging and python-pil
libraries in Sid.

[florin (florin-arjocu)]

Sergio Scabuzzo's solution seems to be working. Just tested and my batch processing worked. Please update in the repository for latest 16.04 Ubuntu.

[CANTE Pierre (pierrecante)]

Yes ! phatch is working now again. I changed the file usr/share/phatch/phatch/lib/pyWx/wxPil.py
like described by Magnus Berg in https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=811184#12

[florin (florin-arjocu)]

Just to make sure others make it, the link @Sergio Scabuzzo is a bit misspelled, there is a shash (/) before the path. Use this command to edit the file:
sudo gedit /usr/share/phatch/phatch/lib/pyWx/wxPil.py