Re: Gwenview does not display the "plugins" menu

Aurélien Gâteau <[email protected]> Sat, 15 Mar 2008 19:17:21 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.kde.gwenview
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Patrick Keogh a écrit :
> Aurélien Gâteau wrote:
>> Patrick Keogh a écrit :
>>   
>>> I am running Gwenview 1.4.2 on Asus Eee. It appeared to install OK, but 
>>> when I run it the Plugins menu is missing. However if I go to "Settings 
>>> -> Configure Photo Manager" the  Kipi plugins are there and mostly checked.
>>>
>>> When I start Gwenview in a terminal window it says:
>>>
>>> "QObject::connect: Cannot connect (null)::aboutToShow() to 
>>> Gwenview::MainWindow::loadPlugins()"
>>>
>>> I think I recently saw a comment somewhere on the net about this being
>>> caused by some file being in the wrong location, but I have Googled it
>>> in vain today.
>>>
>>> Can someone help me with this please?
>>>     
>>
>> Looks like you are using a crippled gwenviewui.rc which is missing the 
>> "Plugins" menu.
>>
>> Quit Gwenview, then remove ~/.kde/share/apps/gwenview/gwenviewui.rc if 
>> it exists. If it does not, download the original Gwenview archive from 
>> [1] and replace the system gwenviewui.rc file (probably found in 
>> /usr/share/apps/gwenview/gwenviewui.rc) with the one from the archive.
>>   
> That fixed it! Thanks Aurélien! For thebenefit of others it appears that 
> the Asus Eee repository has a broken version.
> I removed Gwenview and reinstalled and still it didn't work. Fetching 
> and replacing gwenviewui.rc from Sourceforge fixed it.

Great! I can't understand why Xandros cripple Gwenview like that :(

Aurélien

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