Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 68738
Gdialog missing from gnome-utils again
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:44:08 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.5 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020625 Description of problem: Gdialog is very useful in nautilus scripts but is missing from gnome-utils-2.0.0-4. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. gdialog Actual Results: bash: gdialog: command not found Expected Results: Gdialog should run. Additional info: See also bug number 54415. A similar bug was submitted and fixed for a previous Red Hat Linux release.
This time the situation is a bit different, as gdialog is disabled upstream due to lack of maintenance. We could enable it but I don't know if it works. I'm assuming someone turned it off for a reason.
I just started using the gdialog included in GNOME's 2.0.0 gnome-utils distribution. In order to use it, one needs to configure gnome-utils with "./configure --enable-gdialog=yes." It has been working fine with what I use it for, but I plan on asking its developers why it is disabled by default. Nautilus scripts really need gdialog.
I asked the GNOME folks about this and they reponded by adding the following to gnome-utils' README file: [ Gdialog is ] not built by default as the Gtk+ port is incomplete and needs much attention. We would dearly love to bring this back building - please help us fix it. Hmm... Works fine for me. ldd `which gdialog`: [...] libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 (0x4019e000) [...] I suspect I am not exercising all of gdialog's features. I'll play around and see if I can flush out and fix its bugs.
Here's the gnome.org query for gdialog bugs, some may apply to gnome 1.x though: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?component=gdialog&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&email1=&emailtype1=substring&emailassigned_to1=1&email2=&emailtype2=substring&emailreporter2=1&changedin=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&chfieldvalue=&short_desc=&short_desc_type=substring&long_desc=&long_desc_type=substring&bug_file_loc=&bug_file_loc_type=substring&status_whiteboard=&status_whiteboard_type=substring&keywords=&keywords_type=anywords&op_sys_details=&op_sys_details_type=substring&version_details=&version_details_type=substring&cmdtype=doit&namedcmd=GConf+all+open+bugs&newqueryname=&order=Reuse+same+sort+as+last+time&form_name=query
The return value of gdialog --yesno seems to be incorrect. For example, if I select Yes, the exit value is 248. This is with the released version of redhat 8.0.
Yes, it's broken. That's why it was turned off. People begged to have it on, now it's there, it's broken. Amazing! ;-) It's fixed on the GNOME 2.2 branch I believe.
I guess this bug should have been closed, as we turned gdialog on.