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Textlaunch Plasmoid for KDE4
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Text Launch Cannot Create Python ScriptEngine #2

Closed trennor closed 12 years ago

trennor commented 12 years ago

I'm on PCLINUXOS, which recently had a huge mess up on a regular update: files were deleted, including pythyon support files for text launch, which is one of my favorite plasmoids (as much as I use plasmoids.) At any rate, in trying to re-establish my desktop after this major "crash" of the update, and trying to reinstall TextLaunch, I get the messsage: "Could not create a python ScriptEngine for the TextLaunch widget." Please understand, I'm not a geek: I know enough about linux to be dangerous to myself, but of all of the python routines available in my Synaptic software manager, I cannot deduce which of them I need to re-establish textlaunch. Hoping you can help, as I'm hoping you know the dependencies your plasmoid requites.

alandmoore commented 12 years ago

Hi trennor, sorry not to respond sooner; I was on a holiday when you posted, and forgot to look back into it after I got home.

Can you open a terminal and run "plasmoidviewer textlaunch", then post the output here? Also, do any other python-based plasmoids work on your system?

trennor commented 12 years ago

It's okay, I've been without this for some weeks now, so a few more days or so doesn't matter that much. Did as you requested, here's the output:

plasmoidviewer(3550)/libplasma Plasma::FrameSvg::resizeFrame: Invalid size QSizeF(0, 0) plasmoidviewer(3550)/libplasma Plasma::FrameSvg::resizeFrame: Invalid size QSizeF(0, 0)

I don't think any other python-based plasmoids do work as they'd likely get the same response. But as I say, I don't know which ones are written in python, tcl or any other language to be perfectly honest. Either they work, or they don't . . . and that's sorta how I view them. Sorry to be such a cynic, but that's how it is.

Thanks for getting back to me though, it's nice to see you haven't abandoned your creations, like so many others have. Looking forward to hearing from you again.

Tren

On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 10:49 PM, Alan D Moore < reply@reply.github.com

wrote:

Hi trennor, sorry not to respond sooner; I was on a holiday when you posted, and forgot to look back into it after I got home.

Can you open a terminal and run "plasmoidviewer textlaunch", then post the output here? Also, do any other python-based plasmoids work on your system?

Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub:

https://github.com/alandmoore/textlaunch-plasmoid/issues/2#issuecomment-3095655

alandmoore commented 12 years ago

Unfortunately that error doesn't really tell me much. Plasma is noisy and spits out a lot of non-errors.

This plasmoid doesn't require anything special, just PyQt and PyKDE, so probably you are missing some kind of python scriptengine package. Since I don't run PCLINUXOS, I don't know what package that would be. You'd be better off asking at their forum.

Occasionally developers will mention what language their plasmoids are written in, but here are a few that I know are written in python:

If none of those work, you're missing some basic python libraries.

trennor commented 12 years ago

Right! Got it!!

With you last response, I went looking in Synaptic for KDEPY: no joy. Same with PYQt; it didn't show up either. Looked for KDE4PY: bingo! It was missing. Reinstalled it, I now have my plasmoid back. Thank-you Alan!!! You were able to solve it and you didn't even know. Thank-you again for pointing the way.

Yours very gratefully,

Tren

On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Alan D Moore < reply@reply.github.com

wrote:

Unfortunately that error doesn't really tell me much. Plasma is noisy and spits out a lot of non-errors.

This plasmoid doesn't require anything special, just PyQt and PyKDE, so probably you are missing some kind of python scriptengine package. Since I don't run PCLINUXOS, I don't know what package that would be. You'd be better off asking at their forum.

Occasionally developers will mention what language their plasmoids are written in, but here are a few that I know are written in python:

  • Kliqtune (which I wrote)
  • panel dictionary (which I also wrote)
  • Veromix
  • Nixie Clock

If none of those work, you're missing some basic python libraries.

Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub:

https://github.com/alandmoore/textlaunch-plasmoid/issues/2#issuecomment-3098567

alandmoore commented 12 years ago

Good to hear; enjoy!