Pyrenamer - a new problem

[Niles Rogoff]

You could try purging and reinstalling PyGTK


On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 7:48 PM, rikona <rikona at sonic.net> wrote:

> Hello Nils,
>
> Friday, March 21, 2014, 3:20:57 PM, Nils wrote:
>
> > rikona wrote:
> >> Running 12.04, recently updated, but the last update seemed to have
> >> ruined pyrenamer. The pyrenamer GUI normally has two boxes, the left
> >> showing the directory tree, and the right showing files in the
> >> selected directory. The current problem is the left side box now
> >> covers the entire width, and one has no way to see what files are in
> >> the directory. Thus, you can't indicate which files you would like to
> >> have renamed - the app is essentially useless.
> >>
> >> I tried an apt-get purge and new install, but it didn't change
> >> anything.
>
> > As usual with GUI applications reinstalling them doesn't help.
>
> Hmmm... not good news... :-)
>
> > Such applications create configuration files / directories in the
> > user's home directory and the installer may not touch these files.
>
> That was my thinking, but I was not sure.
>
> > For KDE applications you can usually find the config files in
> > "$HOME/.kde/share/config/" and for many other applications the
> > configuration is in "$HOME/.config".
>
> It's not a KDE pgm so nothing is there [I have a few KDE apps but not
> running KDE]. Nothing in "$HOME/.config".
>
> > In your case the configuration is probably in "$HOME/.pyrenamer/"
> > because that directory is created if you run pyrenamer the first
> > time.
>
> I do have that, backed it up, cleared it out, makes no difference. :-(
> locate gives me a LOT [100+] of files all over the place with
> pyrenamer in the file name. Do python pgms have a semi-standard place
> to write configs as does KDE? It's supposedly written in PyGTK - a
> different animal from plain python? - needs separate update? Would
> plain GTK updates screw this up?
>
> Thanks,
>
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