Bug 690651

Summary: Cannot "Save As..." -- dialogue window is blank (on !=kde)
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Corey Welton <cwelton>
Component: maraveAssignee: Rex Dieter <rdieter>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Linux lajiao.wan 2.6.35.11-83.fc14.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Feb 7 07:06:44 UTC 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Fedora release 14 (Laughlin)
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Description Corey Welton 2011-03-24 23:15:57 UTC
Description of problem:
When user attempts to save a session, a blank window appears where one would expect the ability to save the file.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

marave-0.7-4.fc14.noarch

How reproducible:
Every time.

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Open Marave
2.  Enter some text into the edit window
3.  Follow either of the following paths to attempt a document save:
  * Keyboard: Ctrl-S 
  * UI: File  > Save  

Actual results:
Blank "Save as..." window appears

Expected results:
Some sort of file dialogue, etc.

Additional info:
There are (at least) 2 upstream bugs that may be related to this.  However, I'm noting it here for our own sake since a lot of the references upstream are Ubuntu-specific.  I'm also not sure how active the development is on it, given the last update to the bug.  That said, the inability to save pretty much makes using this application a non-starter, and we nonetheless have it packaged in Fedora.

http://code.google.com/p/marave/issues/detail?id=85&q=save
http://code.google.com/p/marave/issues/detail?id=91&q=save

Comment 1 Rex Dieter 2011-03-25 14:06:29 UTC
I cannot reproduce this on my f14/x86_64 box (using kde-4.6.1 from updates-testing).

What DE are you running on?  (if on kde, the dialogs are different, that's why I ask).

Comment 2 Corey Welton 2011-03-25 17:33:47 UTC
Sorry, I should've included this.  I am on XFCE.  I can't remember if I saw this happen in Gnome or not.

Comment 3 Rex Dieter 2011-03-25 17:45:00 UTC
OK, thanks for the clarification.  I'll try testing there, where the kde qt platform plugin is not present.

Comment 4 Corey Welton 2011-12-19 05:58:47 UTC
I just happened to find marave floating around my system and decided to prod at it again.  The same thing still occurs, not that I much expected it to change. There have been at least a few more comments in the upstream bug(s), but I'm not sure how useful these are.

I do wonder if the project has been abandoned or at least put on the back burner.

Comment 5 Rex Dieter 2011-12-19 14:06:41 UTC
I suspect it's more a problem of PyQt4 (qt python bindings which marave uses), esp when used on non-native qt/kde desktops.

I finally got around to testing this on xfce myself (on f16), and it kinda sorta works, but definitely has some sort of issue with pegging cpu/IO when triggering the file open/save menu now. ??

Comment 6 Rex Dieter 2011-12-19 14:08:49 UTC
OK, re-tested on kde, the disk churning begins shortly after app-launch, before doing anything (clicking or otherwise), so seems independent of DE or file menu.

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