Re: [rox-devel] python dbus bindings on Ubuntu and configuration apps

[Ken H. <ke...@ha...>]

On Apr 30, 2006, at 2:39 PM, Christopher Arndt wrote:

> Hi,
>
> it's been a while since I used ROX, but today I decided to switch the
> desktop environment on my 1.2Ghz laptop to ROX (Nautilus is just  
> too too
> annoying and slow ;-)
>
> I run Ubuntu (Breezy) and I have put together some notes about the
> issues I encountered while setting up and configuring everything. I  
> will
> post a link to these later.
>
> I was able to solve almost every problem, except that I was unable to
> get the configuration apps (Keyboard, Mouse, Font, etc.) running. They
> all fail with the following Python exception:
>
...
>
> I had a functional ROX-Desktop on my desktop machine (also running
> Breezy), but when I tried to log in today, choosing the "ROX" from the
> login manager, my session failed, because ROX-Session could not find
> libdbus-glib-1.so.0.
>
> I assume, that Ubuntu updated dbus since I last used the ROX  
> desktop on
> my desktop machine, and now the Python bindings are messed up. They  
> must
> have supported the "get_service" method earlier, because I know that I
> used the configure apps on my desktop machine and the versions  
> there use
> this method too.
>
> I see on the software listing page for "Mouse", that at least one  
> other
> person has run into the same problem, though I could not find anything
> about this on the ROX or DBUS mailing lists. Does anybody have an  
> idea,
> how to fix this?
>
> Unfortunately, compiling & updating dbus to the latest version  
> seems not
> to be a viable option, because this would mean updating a lot of other
> packages too. I tried to install the Python bindings from dbus-0.60 on
> their own, but this does not seem to be supported by the Makefile :-(
>
> Is there an easy way to update these apps to use XXML-RPC?
>
> Any help greatly appreciated!
>
> Chris

a) I believe that Thomas' and Stephen's discussion about settings/ 
session.py earlier today relates to this.
b) Tony H. posted patched versions of all the configlets months ago.   
They work fine for me.
	http://www.realh.ukfsn.org/roxdbus.html