Menu is missing (GNOME an XFCE)

[ntr0py]

Installing toxygen 0.2.6-12 on ubuntu xenial (16.04 LTS amd64). Trying to bootstrap new profile and add friends. Seems adding new friends is not obvious or even impossible.

How to reproduce:

Starting up from console (there is no .desktop launcher yet it seems).

Creating new profile, no password, dont store it in standard location produces first traceback (because it cant write in its program folder):

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/toxygen", line 9, in <module>
    load_entry_point('Toxygen==0.2.6.0', 'console_scripts', 'toxygen')()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/toxygen/main.py", line 486, in main
    toxygen.main()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/toxygen/main.py", line 141, in main
    ProfileHelper(path, name).save_profile(self.tox.get_savedata())
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/toxygen/settings.py", line 240, in __init__
    os.makedirs(directory)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/os.py", line 241, in makedirs
    mkdir(name, mode)
PermissionError: [Errno 13] Keine Berechtigung: '/usr/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/toxygenavatars'

Alright, restarting and selecting to create new (empty) profile in the standard location, seems to work.

Starting with a clean profile it seems to be impossible to add new contacts. I tried right clicking on roster and expected to get a dialogue for adding a contacts TOX-ID. Nothing happens when starting with a new (empty) tox profile, but in the parent console I get a traceback:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/toxygen/mainscreen.py", line 548, in friend_right_click
    friend = Profile.get_instance().get_friend(num)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/toxygen/profile.py", line 152, in get_friend
    return self._contacts[num]
IndexError: list index out of range

Hmm maybe this is a bug and I would need to have a pre-populated (utox) profile? Ok that loads, shows my contacts, but now how can I add another TOX-ID? Right clicking the roster is without any effect now, not even a traceback. Sorry if I miss something obvious here, how can I add a contact?

Keep up the good work, im curious to see some progress :)

[IngvarX]

Have you tried Profile => Add contact in menu? Btw, are you using packages from tox.chat? UPD: some profile creation bugs were fixed in 137195c

[ntr0py]

Thanks for your quick response. Yes im using the packages from "deb https://pkg.tox.chat/debian nightly xenial". There are no menus to click onto (I thought the picture in the wiki is a mockup and toxygen is still in progress to there). So i could not try "Profile => Add":

The traceback from the right click seems to be resolved with the new update, the one from trying to save in the program folder (which is not writeable) still happens.

[IngvarX]

Saving to program directory fails because Toxygen doesn't have permission to write in /usr/lib/python3.5/ without sudo. If you want to save profile in this folder try to run Toxygen with sudo or allow writing to this directory using sudo chown

About missing menu: I will try to fix it soon. Does Toxygen installed fom sources work in your case? Installation via package already installed all required deps, so you need just download code for test.

[ntr0py]

Yes I know that it can't write there, I just reported that because I thought it should not crash with a traceback: The user will not see that (if not started from terminal) and instead will get a report about toxygen crashed to submit to Canonical.

About the missing menu, I am not sure why it will not diplay for me, I am using ubuntu-gnome with gnome-shell (and it does not have those unity global menu mods installed), all other programs always show their menu properly (e.g. gajim).

A quick "git clone https://github.com/toxygen-project/toxygen.git" then "python3 toxygen/toxygen/main.py" does not display the menu for me (like in above picture from the .deb package). Clicking in the empty space where the menu in toxygen could be assumed to display is without any effect.

I would be glad to help getting this to run properly on Ubuntu, so if you need any additional information let me know :)

[IngvarX]

After 5477a7d Toxygen shows message box with info about error

About menu: can reproduce it on Ubuntu with GNOME (both PySide and PyQt4), seems to be one more bug in Qt on GNOME. I tried to fix it but without any success. Will try to fix it again later.

[IngvarX]

Fixed in e854516