Lifeograph

Preference dialog with no closing feature

Bug #1934388 reported by Georges Khaznadar on 2021-07-01

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Lifeograph	Incomplete	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Hello, when I compiled lifeograph 2.0.2, I got a well-behaving application, but the preference dialog, when it is activated, can be puzzling for many people: there is no widget to close it, neither in the window's decoration, nor in the bottom, where an empty Gtk Button Box is invisible.

Here is a patch to add dismiss/Apply buttons. Unfortunately I am not proficient in Gtk3 coding, so I do not know how to make such buttons active.

Indeed, it is possible to close this dialog, but one must know that a right-click on the top of this dialog provides that feature.

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Georges Khaznadar (georgesk) wrote on 2021-07-01:

preferences.patch Edit (2.4 KiB, text/plain)

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Ahmet Öztürk (dmxe) wrote on 2021-07-02:

Hello Georges,

Normally, the preferences dialog does show a close button in the title bar. Could you please specify the window manager you are using?

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Georges Khaznadar (georgesk) wrote on 2021-07-02:

Dear Ahmet,

thank you for your fast answer; I am using Cinnamon:

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$ ps ax | grep session| grep cinnamon
980120 ? Ssl 0:03 cinnamon-session --session cinnamon
980175 ? Ss 0:01 /usr/bin/ssh-agent cinnamon-session-cinnamon
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Kernel is 4.19:
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Linux georges 4.19.0-14-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.19.171-2 (2021-01-30) x86_64
+GNU/Linux
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My system is freshly synchronized with Debian/bullseye, and I just built
the package with a command `gbp buildpackage --git-pbuilder` which builds
it inside a fresh 'unstable' chroot.

You can access the complete build tree (including the build log) at
https://georges.khaznadar.fr/docs/lifeograph/ and try the recently built
package from
+https://georges.khaznadar.fr/docs/lifeograph/lifeograph_2.0.2-0.1_amd64.deb

Please notice that the debian/ directory was borrowed from the debian
package managed by Laszlo Boszormenyi.

Best regards, Georges.

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Ahmet Öztürk (dmxe) wrote on 2021-07-04:

Hello Georges,

I tried to replicate this problem by installing Lifeograph on a virtual Linux Mint system (to get Cinnamon). For some reason I failed to install the dependencies to build from source and I resorted to Flatpak. Nevertheless, the close button was present in the preferences dialog despite the fact that Cinnamon was being used.

So, it looks more like a special issue related to your setup rather than a general Cinnamon problem.

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Georges Khaznadar (georgesk) wrote on 2021-07-05: Re: [Bug 1934388] Re: Preference dialog with no closing feature

Dear Ahmet, thank you for your tests.

Please feel free to close the bug report, as non-reproducible.

Best regards, Georges.

Ahmet Öztürk a écrit :
> Hello Georges,
>
> I tried to replicate this problem by installing Lifeograph on a virtual
> Linux Mint system (to get Cinnamon). For some reason I failed to install
> the dependencies to build from source and I resorted to Flatpak.
> Nevertheless, the close button was present in the preferences dialog
> despite the fact that Cinnamon was being used.
>
> So, it looks more like a special issue related to your setup rather than
> a general Cinnamon problem.
>
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