#1706 TaskCoach does not launch on Linux Mint Cinnamon 19.1

[Manu]

Hello and thanks for your appfreciated work.

After a few tests of TaskCoach on Lubuntu 16, I decided to install on my main computer, which runs Linux Mint Cinnamon 19.1.
Installation was successfull but launching is not : simply nothing visible happens (no opening window). In the system monitor, I can see the process running, though.
If I launch TaskCoach using the command line, I get :

~$ taskcoach
/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py:40: Warning: g_boxed_type_register_static: assertion 'g_type_from_name (name) == 0' failed
  from gtk import _gtk
/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py:40: Warning: g_type_set_qdata: assertion 'node != NULL' failed
  from gtk import _gtk
/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py:40: Warning: cannot register existing type 'GtkWidget'
  from gtk import _gtk
/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py:40: Warning: g_type_add_interface_static: assertion 'G_TYPE_IS_INSTANTIATABLE (instance_type)' failed
  from gtk import _gtk
/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py:40: Warning: cannot register existing type 'GtkBuildable'
  from gtk import _gtk
/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py:40: Warning: g_type_interface_add_prerequisite: assertion 'G_TYPE_IS_INTERFACE (interface_type)' failed
  from gtk import _gtk
/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py:40: Warning: g_once_init_leave: assertion 'result != 0' failed
  from gtk import _gtk
/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py:40: Warning: g_type_register_static: assertion 'parent_type > 0' failed
  from gtk import _gtk

And it stays stuck there.

I tried updating to version 1.4.6 using the PPA, but for some reason, when running the command "sudo apt-get upgrade", it says that the TaskCoach package has"been kept back", due to dependencies, if I understand correctly.

[Aaron Wolf]

There are ways to get this to work, but it's pretty annoying. Discussion here https://answers.launchpad.net/taskcoach/+question/690591

I hope we can sometime move to some updated, reliable packaging