FS#5708 - Peekaboo does not work

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Eugenia Loli-Queru (Eugenia) - Sunday, 29 October 2006, 21:01 GMT
Last edited by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Saturday, 28 April 2007, 15:50 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To arjan timmerman (blaasvis)
Architecture not specified
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.7.2 Gimmick
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

The peekaboo gnome applet after installing gossip, does not work.
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Closed by  Jan de Groot (JGC)
Saturday, 28 April 2007, 15:50 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Sunday, 29 October 2006, 22:37 GMT
It does work here, except that it doesn't allow me to set preferences.
Comment by Eugenia Loli-Queru (Eugenia) - Sunday, 29 October 2006, 22:45 GMT
Indeed, the prefs don't work. But also you can't send a message if gossip is not loaded. The "new instant message" should just load gossip and then give you the window. The way it is now is a usability problem.
Comment by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Tuesday, 06 February 2007, 12:03 GMT
Status of this BR?
Comment by Eugenia Loli-Queru (Eugenia) - Tuesday, 06 February 2007, 20:08 GMT
Please provide a newer Gossip package so I can retest. Currently, Arch provides a 2-versions old package only.
Comment by Eugenia Loli-Queru (Eugenia) - Saturday, 10 February 2007, 07:25 GMT
This is not fixed. Peekaboo MUST load Gossip when a "new message" is selected or "preferences" is clicked in its applet -- even if Gossip itself is not loaded at the time. Otherwise, this applet just doesn't make any sense to me.
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Friday, 27 April 2007, 23:04 GMT
Did some investigation, the applet talks to gossip via dbus. Adding a dbus .server file and activating it from the applet on mouseclick->new message or mouseclick->preferences would be sufficient, the user is responsible for logging in in that case. I'll hack up a patch somewhere this week and propose it upstream.
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Friday, 27 April 2007, 23:08 GMT
Ok, adding a dbus service file is enough:
[jan@laptop ~]$ cat /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.gnome.Gossip.service
[D-BUS Service]
Name=org.gnome.Gossip
Exec=/usr/bin/gossip

Only thing left is the preferences panel (I wonder if there's code for it inside the applet though)

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