fslint menu items still gone...

[rikona]

Hello Colin,

Thursday, November 10, 2016, 12:52:37 AM, Colin wrote:

> On 9 November 2016 at 22:57, rikona <rikona at sonic.net> wrote:

>>
>> Can someone please check to see if fslint has an active menu bar, with
>> items listed, in 16.04? Perhaps the available build of fslint is too
>> old to run properly in 16.04?
>>
>>
> I see the same situation in both Ubuntu 16.04 and 16.10. However I
> have never used fslint so don't know whether there should be a menu.
> If you are confident that there should be then I suggest reporting a
> bug 

> ubuntu-bug fslint

THANKS for checking! I will do that, but it might be nice to provide a
solution instead of just filing a bug. Would it still be good to file
a bug so it gets fixed in the distribution?

I fired up the old 12.04 box to check, and the menu items DO appear in
the top menu bar. Everything works great in 12.04. In 12.04 I can't
switch to the window bar so didn't do that.

In trying to see if I could get a hint re why the problem, I looked at
gtk and python in the 12.04 and 16.04 boxes. NOTE - my 12.04 had huge
amounts of software installed - much more than is, so far, in my
16.04. But, here's how they compare:

12.04:
GTK1: LOTS; NO python re gtk1; LOTS webkitgtk1
GTK2: lots; NO webkitgtk2; some python 2.7 re gtk2
GTK3: LOTS!; NO python re gtk3; LOTS webkitgtk3

16.04:
small generic  webkitgtk [no#] for python3 under  /orca/scripts
GTK1: modest; NO python re gtk1 except above; some webkitgtk1
GTK2: lots; NO webkitgtk2 - messages only; modest python 2.7 re gtk2
GTK3: HUGE!; NO python re gtk3; NO webkitgtk3

I don't know what the current version of fslint uses [not a software
person :-( ] but it would seem that the necessary components are in
12.04, and perhaps not in 16.04. If someone can tell if a needed part
is missing from 16.04, it might be a clue.

Also, if an additional component is installed, can the different
versions coexist with no problems? It seems as though most components
of the versions are numbered well so perhaps that is possible. I'd
appreciate your comments on this...

Thanks for the suggestion.

-- 

 rikona