Comment 16 for bug 1567827

Well is this really useful?

Sure it would be nice if every bug in ever app was instantly fixed,
distributed and installed in a manner which involved no user skill.

However, the whole LINUX environment is not funded by some multi-billion
dollar corporation intent on taking control of the user computing
environment. If it were then who would control it? Who would fund it? What
is the business case? Good bye control, off to the cloud.

Finally, do we (LINUX users) really want a user base that can not use a
terminal and / or do simple edits on files?

The planet is littered with large scale corporate computing environments
where, near computer illiterate, users demand as some sort of right idiot
proof environments which somehow do everything they want regardless of how
ill-defined or stupid it is.

It takes about 1 minute to install this bug fix.

On Sat, Jan 7, 2017 at 8:09 AM, EDEMPCO <email address hidden> wrote:

> I'm offering this as a helpful comment:
>
> This problem with Phatch still not fixed in 16.04LTS as of 01/06/17.
> That's a problem for the majority of Ubuntu users, many of whom do not
> like code; do not like to use Terminal; and who want a stable, sound,
> and functioning OS that has been promised by the designation "LTS". For
> those of us who want an LTS like that AND run into problems like Phatch,
> it would be nice to have a single URL page for 16.04LTS FIXES. That page
> should provide us with the most correct and effective link to FIX
> problems with the OS and any sanctioned application. In this case the
> link should have gone to https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-
> bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=811184#12 and the credit given to Magnus Berg on
> Mon, 22 Feb 2016 18:50:26 +0100 who was the first to supply the FIX for
> Phatch.
>
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>
> Title:
> on ubuntu 16.04, phatch freezes at startup
>
> Status in phatch package in Ubuntu:
> Fix Released
> Status in phatch package in Debian:
> Fix Released
>
> Bug description:
> ~$ phatch
> /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 746, in
> fromstring
> "Please call frombytes() instead.")
> Exception: fromstring() has been removed. Please call frombytes()
> instead.
>
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