Bug 427318

Can you please try the latest packaged version of gDesklets
(gdesklets-0.36-0.3.beta.fc8) which is in the stable updates.  If you do not see
it there, the koji page is here:
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=25330

I am unable to reproduce the issue on my system and I am using 0.36

Have installed latest version now.
It gives an opening message that it is an unstable version.
Still had crashes and more problems with the calendar before

However, have found that once I had restarted the calendar from the gdesklets 
shell it all works fine.

Seems to be it doesn't like the settings from the previous version?

Sorry - but further experimenting shows that it doesn't like some photos (size 
might be the issue) and behaviour again unstable.  Previous versions could 
choose any photo to go with it.

Hmm.. I am unable to replicate the issue.  Would it be possible to attach one of
the pics that is causing an issue to the ticket so that I could test that on my PC

I have just pushed gdesklets-calendar to the updates testing repo for F8.

Could you please test this version and see if it fixes your issue.

https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F8/pending/gdesklets-calendar-0.60-1.fc8

you should be able to install this package with:

yum --enablerepo=updates-testing gdesklets-calendar

I have installed the new test version and still crashed with the original image.

The original image was a jpeg - so have converted to png and reloaded it to 
gdesklets-calendar and works.

Seems to be the issue is with the picture format.  Earlier versions did accept 
jpeg.  I tested jpeg 2000 format and it crashed gdesklets immediately.

Sorry for not posting the picture early - life has been busy - it is summer 
holidays here in NZ.  Let me know if you still want it and I can load it to 
Flickr and post the link  (didn't work sending it as an attachment direct to 
bugzilla for some reason)

I am happy to try out the image if you like.  I think it might be time to open a
case with the upstream project (www.gdesklets.de).  If you would like I can do
this, but it might be more beneficial if you do since you have more details than
I do.

Just let me know how you would like to proceed.

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