GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 163922
Error when adding applet to panel
Last modified: 2018-07-01 08:33:10 UTC
1. Add applet to panel The following error is received: The panel encountered a problem while loading "OAFIID:GNOME_BlogApplet". Details: Failed to resolve, or extend '!prefs_key=/apps/panel/profiles/default/applets/applet_13/prefs;background=none:;orient=down;size=x-small;locked_down=false
This appears to have sprung from the latest patch to gnome-blog-poster, based on a quick look at CVS.
Besides registering the schema that isn't done on postinstall (or you guys have made some wonderful code to detect that I'm a packager that should use --disable-schemas-install, but didn't do that ;)), there's also another problem: the path to the applet executable is hardcoded to /usr/libexec, while it should be $prefix/libexec.
Removing the GNOME_BlogApplet.server.in before running ./configure causes it to get regenerated. I think the file is left in the tarball by accident.
I have the same problem on my Fedora 9 box. Removing the GNOME_BlogApplet.server.in before running ./configure per Jan's comment 3 fixed the problem for me.
Jan de Groot, you seem to have good experience on packaging and installation. Would it be possible for you to supply a patch?
Removing the file from EXTRA_DIST in Makefile.am should remove the autogenerated file from released tarballs in the future. There's probably more autogenerated files that don't belong there, but so far I haven't noticed any problems.
gnome-blog is not under active development anymore and has not seen code changes for many years. Its codebase has been archived: https://gitlab.gnome.org/Archive/gnome-blog/commits/master Closing this report as WONTFIX as part of Bugzilla Housekeeping to reflect reality. Please feel free to reopen this ticket (or rather transfer the project to GNOME Gitlab, as GNOME Bugzilla is deprecated) if anyone takes the responsibility for active development again.