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A recreation of the gnome-shell 'hamster project extension' for the xfce4 panel.
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Cannot update or edit existing time entries on Fedora 28 xfce #33

Closed geetotes closed 5 years ago

geetotes commented 5 years ago

I cannot update or edit existing time entries on Fedora 28 with xfce. When I click the edit icon, I expect my time entry to re-appear in the text field below "What goes on?", but nothing happens. When I got into "show overview" and try to edit entries from there, nothing happens either.

This it the traceback I found in /var/log/messages:

Nov  8 13:40:16 cuttlefish org.gnome.Hamster.WindowServer[1322]: Traceback (most recent call last):
Nov  8 13:40:16 cuttlefish org.gnome.Hamster.WindowServer[1322]:  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/hamster/overview.py", line 481, in on_row_activated
Nov  8 13:40:16 cuttlefish org.gnome.Hamster.WindowServer[1322]:    dialogs.edit.show(self, fact_date=fact.date, fact_id=fact.id)
Nov  8 13:40:16 cuttlefish org.gnome.Hamster.WindowServer[1322]:  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/hamster/lib/configuration.py", line 153, in show
Nov  8 13:40:16 cuttlefish org.gnome.Hamster.WindowServer[1322]:    dialog = self.get_dialog_class()(parent, **kwargs)
Nov  8 13:40:16 cuttlefish org.gnome.Hamster.WindowServer[1322]:  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/hamster/edit_activity.py", line 47, in __init__
Nov  8 13:40:16 cuttlefish org.gnome.Hamster.WindowServer[1322]:    self.activity = widgets.ActivityEntry()
Nov  8 13:40:16 cuttlefish org.gnome.Hamster.WindowServer[1322]:  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/hamster/widgets/activityentry.py", line 211, in __init__
Nov  8 13:40:16 cuttlefish org.gnome.Hamster.WindowServer[1322]:    self.load_suggestions()
Nov  8 13:40:16 cuttlefish org.gnome.Hamster.WindowServer[1322]:  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/hamster/widgets/activityentry.py", line 288, in load_suggestions
Nov  8 13:40:16 cuttlefish org.gnome.Hamster.WindowServer[1322]:    label += "@%s" % fact.category
Nov  8 13:40:16 cuttlefish org.gnome.Hamster.WindowServer[1322]: TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for +=: 'NoneType' and 'unicode'

Maybe Fedora28 runs some type of unicode for text encoding that is not recongized during the edit operation? This plugin has worked perfectly on older versions of Fedora, and I thank you very much for your hard work making it.

aquaherd commented 5 years ago

Sorry for the late response, I will look into it however I'll need to set up a Fedora 28 vm first. Do you or anybody know if this error also surfaces on ubuntu 18.10? I'm still on 18.04 but I could get a 18.10 up and running faster than any flavor of Fedora.

geetotes commented 5 years ago

How do I set up a development enviroment for this plugin? I know python and can probably do a fix, but I don't know anything about xfce plugins

aquaherd commented 5 years ago

The xfce plugin is written entirely in C, so you will need base-devel, gtk2, automake etc. in fedora. It uses the DBus-API to talk to the python-written hamster stuff. It has no dialogs of its own apart from the dropdown, so missing dialogs are the original hamster python dialogs, they are just remotely invoked.

I retired from this stuff about three years ago for lack of time. My progress on this matter will be very slow, sorry. But I will try to push this issue with 1-2 hours a week.

aquaherd commented 5 years ago

Strange. This absolutely works in F29.