Re: Problem with gnome-shell-extension-prefs on GNOME 3.4.2

2012-09-02 Thread Craig Rob l300lvl
No problem at all there, your instructions were priceless material and helped me get something accomplished, plus I learned a little in the process, installing via the rpm command can be was faster than the way I was doing it, anyway moving on. Things built and installed great and I believe are ru

Re: Problem with gnome-shell-extension-prefs on GNOME 3.4.2

2012-09-02 Thread Norman L. Smith
On Sun, 2012-09-02 at 16:23 -0500, Craig Rob l300lvl wrote: > It would be ok to test it out I think, but I'm not very confident > patching and all that. When you say its at the top of the git-tree, > which version of gjs is that that it might be patched in and sent > upstream. > > Is that the vers

Re: Problem with gnome-shell-extension-prefs on GNOME 3.4.2

2012-09-02 Thread Craig Rob l300lvl
It would be ok to test it out I think, but I'm not very confident patching and all that. When you say its at the top of the git-tree, which version of gjs is that that it might be patched in and sent upstream. Is that the version of the rpms built that have to be forced? I'm sure theres not a whol

Re: Problem with gnome-shell-extension-prefs on GNOME 3.4.2

2012-09-02 Thread Norman L. Smith
On Sun, 2012-09-02 at 02:51 -0500, Craig Rob l300lvl wrote: > Thanks. > > I do believe I did everything correctly, but I'm missing something. I > downloaded gjs from > http://download.opensuse.org/factory-snapshot/repo/source/suse/src/gjs-1.32.0-2.2.2.src.rpm > extracted the source and applied th

Re: Problem with gnome-shell-extension-prefs on GNOME 3.4.2

2012-09-02 Thread Craig Rob l300lvl
Thanks. I do believe I did everything correctly, but I'm missing something. I downloaded gjs from http://download.opensuse.org/factory-snapshot/repo/source/suse/src/gjs-1.32.0-2.2.2.src.rpm extracted the source and applied the gobject patch and the other patch in that rpm, I tried buildrpm with

Re: Problem with gnome-shell-extension-prefs on GNOME 3.4.2

2012-09-01 Thread Jasper St. Pierre
On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 2:31 AM, Craig Rob l300lvl wrote: >> On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 2:10 AM, Craig Rob l300lvl wrote: >> > I went ahead and opened a bug report with suse, so maybe someone >> > upstream will notice it and realize what's going on? I don't plan to >> > switch distros any time soon so

Re: Problem with gnome-shell-extension-prefs on GNOME 3.4.2

2012-09-01 Thread Craig Rob l300lvl
> On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 2:10 AM, Craig Rob l300lvl wrote: > > I went ahead and opened a bug report with suse, so maybe someone > > upstream will notice it and realize what's going on? I don't plan to > > switch distros any time soon so I might attempt manually building > > gnome-shell. > > Simpl

Re: Problem with gnome-shell-extension-prefs on GNOME 3.4.2

2012-09-01 Thread Jasper St. Pierre
On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 2:10 AM, Craig Rob l300lvl wrote: > I went ahead and opened a bug report with suse, so maybe someone > upstream will notice it and realize what's going on? I don't plan to > switch distros any time soon so I might attempt manually building > gnome-shell. Simply applying tha

Re: Problem with gnome-shell-extension-prefs on GNOME 3.4.2

2012-09-01 Thread Craig Rob l300lvl
I went ahead and opened a bug report with suse, so maybe someone upstream will notice it and realize what's going on? I don't plan to switch distros any time soon so I might attempt manually building gnome-shell. https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=778436 Thanks for informing me about tha

Re: Problem with gnome-shell-extension-prefs on GNOME 3.4.2

2012-09-01 Thread Amy
On 2 September 2012 05:16, Jasper St. Pierre wrote: > On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 11:33 AM, Norman L. Smith wrote: >> On Sat, 2012-09-01 at 08:23 -0500, Craig Rob l300lvl wrote: >>> Just in case it helps others that *do* crash the prefs tool are: >>> >>> - status-area-horizontal-spacing also a fabulou

Re: Problem with gnome-shell-extension-prefs on GNOME 3.4.2

2012-09-01 Thread Jasper St. Pierre
On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 11:33 AM, Norman L. Smith wrote: > On Sat, 2012-09-01 at 08:23 -0500, Craig Rob l300lvl wrote: >> Just in case it helps others that *do* crash the prefs tool are: >> >> - status-area-horizontal-spacing also a fabulous extension by Amy >> - Window Buttons by Amy >> - Maximus

Re: Problem with gnome-shell-extension-prefs on GNOME 3.4.2

2012-09-01 Thread Norman L. Smith
On Sat, 2012-09-01 at 08:23 -0500, Craig Rob l300lvl wrote: > Just in case it helps others that *do* crash the prefs tool are: > > - status-area-horizontal-spacing also a fabulous extension by Amy > - Window Buttons by Amy > - Maximus by Amy, which is also throwing an error that holds the prefs >

Re: Problem with gnome-shell-extension-prefs on GNOME 3.4.2

2012-09-01 Thread Craig Rob l300lvl
Just in case it helps others that *do* crash the prefs tool are: - status-area-horizontal-spacing also a fabulous extension by Amy - Window Buttons by Amy - Maximus by Amy, which is also throwing an error that holds the prefs tool open now, under the latest 3.4.2-3.7.1 which I just updated to here

Re: Problem with gnome-shell-extension-prefs on GNOME 3.4.2

2012-09-01 Thread Norman L. Smith
>> On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 5:24 PM, Norman L. Smith wrote: >> > Jasper: >> > >> > As I understand the only thing that is crashing is >> > gnome-shell-extension-prefs as described in Amy's first post. The >> > crashes on OpenSuse are not random they occur any time an extension's >> > pref's widget

Re: Problem with gnome-shell-extension-prefs on GNOME 3.4.2

2012-09-01 Thread Norman L. Smith
stem that I will try to bring up to 3.4.2 and see what > >> >> > happens. It all depends on the dependencies. > >> >> > > >> >> > Norman > >> >> > > >> >> > > >> >> > > >> >> >

Re: Problem with gnome-shell-extension-prefs on GNOME 3.4.2

2012-08-31 Thread Jasper St. Pierre
gt; >> > >> >> > >> >> > On Thu, 2012-08-30 at 11:15 -0700, Craig Rob wrote: >> >> >> Yesterday I re-downloaded openSuse 12.2 and the newest rc2 build has >> >> >> 3.4.2 installed by default. The prefs panel is still crash

Re: Problem with gnome-shell-extension-prefs on GNOME 3.4.2

2012-08-31 Thread Norman L. Smith
day I re-downloaded openSuse 12.2 and the newest rc2 build has > >> >> 3.4.2 installed by default. The prefs panel is still crashing, so I > >> >> agree it is probably a distro problem. I can't currently downgrade to > >> >> 3.4.1. The only wa

Re: Problem with gnome-shell-extension-prefs on GNOME 3.4.2

2012-08-31 Thread Craig Rob l300lvl
As far as I can tell it is the same, but the backtrace doesn't give a lot of info, but I can run a couple more and find out. http://paste.opensuse.org/40827219 > With all this talk of random things crashing, have we actually checked > backtraces to see if they're the same? There could be multiple

Re: Problem with gnome-shell-extension-prefs on GNOME 3.4.2

2012-08-31 Thread Jasper St. Pierre
t;> >> __ >> From: Amy >> To: nls1...@gmail.com >> Cc: gnome-shell-list@gnome.org >> Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2012 7:56 AM >> Subject: Re: Problem with gnome-shell-extension-prefs on GNOME 3.4

Re: Problem with gnome-shell-extension-prefs on GNOME 3.4.2

2012-08-31 Thread Norman L. Smith
bugs and > mailing lists. > > > > __ > From: Amy > To: nls1...@gmail.com > Cc: gnome-shell-list@gnome.org > Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2012 7:56 AM > Subject: Re: Problem with gnome-shell-extension-prefs on GNOME 3.4.2 > > > Hi Norman, > > I insta

Re: Problem with gnome-shell-extension-prefs on GNOME 3.4.2

2012-08-30 Thread Craig Rob
pting to learn the ins and outs of filing bugs and mailing lists. From: Amy To: nls1...@gmail.com Cc: gnome-shell-list@gnome.org Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2012 7:56 AM Subject: Re: Problem with gnome-shell-extension-prefs on GNOME 3.4.2 Hi Norman, I inst

Re: Problem with gnome-shell-extension-prefs on GNOME 3.4.2

2012-08-30 Thread Amy
Hi Norman, I installed Arch Linux with GNOME shell 3.4.2 on a VM, and cannot reproduce the problem. However I have only just got everything up and running on Arch and the graphics are still eye-bleedingly bad, so perhaps as I install more packages something will break. On 30 August 2012 05:05, N

Re: Problem with gnome-shell-extension-prefs on GNOME 3.4.2

2012-08-29 Thread Norman L. Smith
Amy: Please disregard my two prior posts. For some unknown reason I thought I was running 3.4.2. I am not. I am on 3.4.1 on Fedora 17. The problem is not distro. It is apparently 3.4.2 which I am sure you already know. Norman ___ gnome-shell-lis

Re: Problem with gnome-shell-extension-prefs on GNOME 3.4.2

2012-08-29 Thread Norman L. Smith
Amy: I downloaded and installed openSuse 12.2 rc2. For extensions in question the prefs tool core dumps straight out of box exactly as the users of our extensions observed. The problem appears to be in the distro atleast in the case of my user. Suse is releasing 12.2 in six days. You many want

Re: Problem with gnome-shell-extension-prefs on GNOME 3.4.2

2012-08-29 Thread Norman L. Smith
28 Aug 2012 Amy C wrote: > Hi all, > I have a user who has reported that one of my extensions (along with > one other) work fine, but will crash the prefs widget on GNOME 3.4.2. Amy: I received a report from a user which appears to be the same problem. He is using openSuSe 12.2 x86_64 which is

Problem with gnome-shell-extension-prefs on GNOME 3.4.2

2012-08-27 Thread Amy C
Hi all, I have a user who has reported that one of my extensions (along with one other) work fine, but will crash the prefs widget on GNOME 3.4.2. Symptoms: - extension seems to work fine - go to terminal, type gnome-shell-extension-prefs - the prefs widget opens fine. - selecting other extension