Bug 1034854

I have found the same problem in a script I wrote that uses zenity. It appears to be a problem with gtk+/gtk3 combo boxes.

On looking through bugzilla it appears that bugs 1021509 and 1022060 are related. There appears to be a fix to gtk3 in the pipeline:

https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2013-22262/gtk3-3.10.5-1.fc20,control-center-3.10.2-3.fc20,gnome-settings-daemon-3.10.2-3.fc20

I have not tried this fix as I am not familiar with Bohdi and how to get the update.

I have not moved the bug to the gtk3 queue because it has been assigned and I am not too sure what to do when that is the case.

Created attachment 830277 [details]
Zenity Command Output

The 'fix' for bugs 1021509 and 1022060 has been applied to my system after a yum update. It does not fix the problem I am seeing.

Note the problem happens not only in gramps but also zenity. The zenity command that displays a menu:

ENTRY=`zenity --list --title='Tailored Backup' --width=500 --height=400 --column=Selected --column=Description --radiolist --print-column=ALL FALSE "Backup" FALSE "Continue Interrupted Backup" FALSE "Delete last backup" FALSE "Restore from backup" FALSE "Edit Configuration" FALSE "View Configuration" True "Help"`

shows just the "Backup" option as per attached file. Previously (Fedora 19) it showed all the options.

can you please run gramps from command line and send eventually traceback, while reproducing your problem?

Created attachment 830722 [details]
Screenshot from gramps adding a family - select father

Not too sure what you want. If I run gramps from the command line I get:

[p@a ~]$ gramps
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/gramps/gui/widgets/undoableentry.py:115: Warning: g_value_get_int: assertion 'G_VALUE_HOLDS_INT (value)' failed
  Gtk.Entry.set_text(self, text)
[p@a ~]$

I get this warning when I open any persons record. it is not associated with my problem.

If I use

[p@a ~]$ python -m trace -t /usr/bin/gramps >/home/p/gt.txt

the result is a 315MB file. Just checking before I send this. If you need something else let me know what you want.

I thought it may be best to let you see an example of what I am talking about on gramps. Screenshot attached. This is created by adding a family and selecting the father from the existing members of my tree. The shot shows a list of 70+ family names from which I can select. As you can see only one is visible and requires a lot of scrolling.

NB I do not think this is a gramps problem anymore! See the same problem in zenity!

(In reply to Paul Finnigan from comment #5)
> NB I do not think this is a gramps problem anymore! See the same problem in
> zenity!

ok than i'm switching to gtk3 :)

I use zenity in a number of bash and python system admin scripts. I have updated to python3 and GTK3 for all my scripts.  They all work on Fedora 18 and 19.  When I updated to Fedora 20 I noticed the same problem described above with dialogs displaying a single line. It makes the scripts difficult to use. Fedora 20 was released with zenity-3.8.0-3.

On the Gnome git site commit log for zenity the problem is described as:

2013-10-10	But #702535 - List box doesn't expand to fill window	Arx Cruz

I downlaoded the tar file for ZENITY_3_10_2 from the Gnome git respository and did a make and installed it.  The dialog (list box) problem in zenity 3.8 is fixed by zenity 3.10.2.  I checked my current Arch test system and it has zenity 3.10.2-1 installed.

Created attachment 870069 [details]
Upstream patch that fixes bug

The attached patch fixes this bug

Created attachment 870070 [details]
Updated spec file

This spec file, combined with the previously attached patch fixes this bug

SRPM:
http://lesloueizeh.com/jdieter/zenity-3.8.0-4.fc20.src.rpm

x86_64 RPM:
http://lesloueizeh.com/jdieter/zenity-3.8.0-4.fc20.x86_64.rpm

Jonathan

I have just tried the attached x86_64 RPM. It works fine, without any extensive testing. The problem of limited view of a selection list is certainly fixed.

IMHO once this fix is on its way the problem can be closed as fixed.

Thanks for your help.

Paul

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