Bug#296846: glabels: Still experiencing this bug in 2.02

[Jim Evins]

It was not actually "fixed" in 2.0.2, just worked around by increasing
the height of the main window.  I believe the problem is in libbonnoboui
and have filed a bug upstream:
	http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=170031

-Jim

On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 18:47 +0100, Heidi Lichterman wrote:
> Package: glabels
> Version: 2.0.2-3
> Followup-For: Bug #296846
> 
>  I am experiencing the problem with the text object sidebar editor not
>  appearing except momentarily on two 'testing' machines here. I upgraded
>  both to the latest 2.0.2 which allegedly fixes the problem, but both
>  machines still suffer from it. It makes glabels nearly useless
>  (especially for mailmerging as there is no way to discover how to
>  insert a field with this bit of the UI missing), until you discover
>  that if you tear off this sidebar so it displays elsewhere on the
>  screen then it becomes properly visible again.
> 
>  So, it's not as simple as 'fixed in 2.0.2'. perhaps something else
>  needs to be upgraded too (gtk?). I am happy to help with debugging if
>  someone suggests what I should check.
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 3.1
>   APT prefers testing
>   APT policy: (990, 'testing')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
> Kernel: Linux 2.4.21-3-k7
> Locale: LANG=en_GB.ISO-8859-15, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.ISO-8859-15 (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
> 
> Versions of packages glabels depends on:
> ii  glabels-data                2.0.2-3      data files for gLabels
> ii  libart-2.0-2                2.3.17-1     Library of functions for 2D graphi
> ii  libbonobo2-0                2.8.1-2      Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
> ii  libbonoboui2-0              2.8.1-2      The Bonobo UI library
> ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
> ii  libgconf2-4                 2.8.1-5      GNOME configuration database syste
> ii  libglade2-0                 1:2.4.2-2    library to load .glade files at ru
> ii  libglib2.0-0                2.6.3-1      The GLib library of C routines
> ii  libgnome2-0                 2.8.1-2      The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
> ii  libgnomecanvas2-0           2.8.0-1      A powerful object-oriented display
> ii  libgnomeprint2.2-0          2.8.2-1      The GNOME 2.2 print architecture -
> ii  libgnomeprintui2.2-0        2.8.2-2      GNOME 2.2 print architecture User 
> ii  libgnomeui-0                2.8.1-3      The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
> ii  libgtk2.0-0                 2.6.2-4      The GTK+ graphical user interface 
> ii  libpopt0                    1.7-5        lib for parsing cmdline parameters
> ii  libxml2                     2.6.16-4     GNOME XML library
> ii  zlib1g                      1:1.2.2-3    compression library - runtime
> 
> -- no debconf information
> 
> 
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