fslint menu items still gone...

[Colin Law]

On 11 November 2016 at 01:50, rikona <rikona at sonic.net> wrote:

> 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...
>

It is more likely to be an incompatibility with Unity.  I think your only
possibility is to submit a bug.  If you do that and post the link here then
I will confirm it.

Colin
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