From: Doug B. <dou...@gm...> - 2010-04-29 10:14:47
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On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 4:04 AM, doug <do...@o2...> wrote: > Doug, sorry I wasn't being clear. > See below: > <snip> >>> >>> All Loaded Plugins are marked OK and Visible. Info shows >>> some as being in /usr/local/share/gramps/plugins/gramplet, >>> others in ~/.gramps/gramps32/plugins >>> > <snip> >>> Trial 1: Try the ToDo gramplet: it appears. But I cannot >>> raise HelloWorld or anything else. >> What does "raise HelloWorld" mean? > > in Gramplet view, right click on the empty panel. A long > drop-down list of available gramplets appears. Left-click on > any of these. Nothing happens. > > What does the Plugin Manager -> >> Loaded Plugins say? Is there an error in the terminal when this >> happens? > There are no messages in the terminal from beginning to > end of the session (apart from the initial spell-checker > warning) > >>> Close and restart gramps >>> Trial 2: try HelloWorld - fails. Try ToDo - fails >> >> What do you mean it "fails"? Errors? Disappears? > Same as above. > > >>> Close and restart gramps >>> Trial 3: ToDo gramplet - appears. DeepConnections gramplet - >>> appears. Try HelloWorld - fails. > I.E. right-click on a clear area. Drop-down list appears. > Left-click on ToDo - gramplet appears. Leave ToDo open. > right-click on a clear area. Drop-down list appears. > Left-click on DeepConnections - gramplet appears. Leave > DeepConnections open. > right-click on a clear area. Drop-down list appears. > Left-click on HelloWorld - nothing happens > >>> Close and restart gramps >>> Trial 4: ToDo - appears. HelloWorld - fails. DeepConnections >>> - fails > failure of HelloWorld now prevents DeepConnections appearing. > > > >> It will be interesting to understand what you or Gramps is doing. > > You can say that again!! > > <snip> >>> Trial 6: ToDo already present. Close ToDo. DeepConnections - >>> fails > ToDo is already open after starting gramps. Close the gramplet. > Right-click on clear area displays the drop-down list; > left-click on DeepConnections: nothing happens. > > Closing the ToDo gramplet seems to prevent DeepConnections > appearing. >>> Close and restart gramps >>> Now completely screwed. Cannot get any gramplet to appear >>> even after shutdown and re-boot of the computer. >> >> What are you doing to try to get the "gramplet to appear"? > > Right-click on the clear area displays the drop-down > gramplet list, but now left-clicking on any member > whatsoever of the list does nothing. > Note that >> rebooting your computer will probably have no effect on Gramps. >> > I didn't seriously expect it to, but since I seemed to be > accumulating errors with every move I wondered if rebooting > might just take me back a step or so. > > >> (An aside: I have noticed on my 9.10 Ubuntu computer that I have to >> right-click in an open area on the Gramplet page, then left-click on >> the "Add Gramplet". If I don't left-click, then it won't actually add >> the gramplet.) >> >> -Doug B. > > What the hell is going on?? Doug, it doesn't sound like you did exactly what I suggest in the aside: I have found that I need to left-click on the pop-up menu "Add Gramplet" before left-clicking on the name of the gramplet. On my computer, it needs to be a literal left-click. I have no idea why... still looking into it... -Doug B. > Cheers, > > Doug > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Gramps-devel mailing list > Gra...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gramps-devel > |