From lists at nabble.com Wed Feb 1 07:18:09 2006 From: lists at nabble.com (DaMutz (sent by Nabble.com)) Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 04:18:09 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Alexandria-list] alexandria core dumped Message-ID: <2699071.post@talk.nabble.com> Alexandria won't start. It crashed with: [quote] $ alexandria (eval):1: [BUG] rbgobj_define_class: Invalid gtype [CanvasPathDef] ruby 1.8.4 (2005-12-24) [i686-linux] zsh: 6655 abort (core dumped) alexandria [/quote] it's version 0.6.1 compiled with portage. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/alexandria-core-dumped-t1039553.html#a2699071 Sent from the Gnome - Alexandria forum at Nabble.com. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/alexandria-list/attachments/20060201/e71e25ff/attachment.htm From pterjan at linuxfr.org Wed Feb 1 07:50:34 2006 From: pterjan at linuxfr.org (Pascal Terjan) Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2006 13:50:34 +0100 Subject: [Alexandria-list] alexandria core dumped In-Reply-To: <2699071.post@talk.nabble.com> References: <2699071.post@talk.nabble.com> Message-ID: <1138798234.4362.2.camel@plop> Le mercredi 01 f?vrier 2006 ? 04:18 -0800, DaMutz (sent by Nabble.com) a ?crit : > Alexandria won't start. It crashed with: > [quote] > $ alexandria > (eval):1: [BUG] rbgobj_define_class: Invalid gtype [CanvasPathDef] It appears you are running a recent version of gnomecanvas (2.12) with an old version of ruby-gnome2. This was fixed 4 monthes ago in CVS so the fix is included in versions 0.14.0 and 0.14.1 of ruby-gnome2. From lists at nabble.com Wed Feb 1 09:29:26 2006 From: lists at nabble.com (DaMutz (sent by Nabble.com)) Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 06:29:26 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Alexandria-list] alexandria core dumped In-Reply-To: <1138798234.4362.2.camel@plop> References: <2699071.post@talk.nabble.com> <1138798234.4362.2.camel@plop> Message-ID: <2700876.post@talk.nabble.com> Thanks. Now, it works. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/alexandria-core-dumped-t1039553.html#a2700876 Sent from the Gnome - Alexandria forum at Nabble.com. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/alexandria-list/attachments/20060201/bc37cd83/attachment.htm From laurent.sansonetti at gmail.com Thu Feb 9 13:27:18 2006 From: laurent.sansonetti at gmail.com (Laurent Sansonetti) Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 10:27:18 -0800 Subject: [Alexandria-list] not dead, but... Message-ID: <1be7247c0602091027w7b77e68dg47dec8a2a7caceb1@mail.gmail.com> Hi all, Just a quick mail to tell you that I am not dead, but very very busy with my daily (and sometimes nightly) job. I hope to resume normal activities on Alexandria soon. In the meantime I am sorry to not be able to review stuff/answer questions/whatever. Sorry, Laurent From david.alston at gmail.com Wed Feb 15 19:16:17 2006 From: david.alston at gmail.com (David Alston) Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 18:16:17 -0600 Subject: [Alexandria-list] [alexandria-list] Paging Mr. Webmaster.. Message-ID: Greetings! Awhile ago a request for a new design for the website was sent out through this list... I'm a graphics design student and I thought I'd give it a whirl. I'm rather pleased with the results so far. I'd like to send the tarball to the email address from which the request came, but I'm afraid I lost it. If someone could let me know who to send the (potentially) new web page to I'd appreciate it! A student of life, David Alston -- "Without rules there is no game for it is by the rules the game is defined." --SOv -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/alexandria-list/attachments/20060215/d3b79593/attachment.htm From liam at liamjdavison.info Sat Feb 18 08:15:17 2006 From: liam at liamjdavison.info (Liam Davison) Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 13:15:17 +0000 Subject: [Alexandria-list] New pango requirements? In-Reply-To: <1138312638.20701.5.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <1138312638.20701.5.camel@localhost.localdomain> Message-ID: <1140268517.24441.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 21:57 +0000, Liam Davison wrote: > Hello Laurent et al > > I've upgraded ISPs recently, lost my rubyforge password (for now; i've > kept backups somewhere) and I've upgraded to a new machine. > > I'd like to document the latest changes to Alexandria - they sound > really useful. Unfortunately, I can't seem run the latest CVS > alexandria. What version of Gtk/Pango is required for Alexandria now? > > $alexandria > ----------------------- > Alexandria just crashed > ----------------------- > Timestamp: Thu Jan 26 21:50:55 GMT 2006 > Message: uninitialized constant Pango::ELLIPSIZE_END > Backtrace: > /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/alexandria/ui/main_app.rb:555:in > `setup_books_listv iew' > /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/alexandria/ui/main_app.rb:1560:in > `initialize_ui' > /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/alexandria/ui/main_app.rb:133:in > `initialize' > /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/alexandria/ui.rb:48:in `main' > /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/alexandria.rb:68:in `main' > /usr/bin/alexandria:10 > Release: CVS > Uname -a: Linux battlestar 2.6.12-10-amd64-k8-smp #1 SMP Mon Jan 16 > 17:30:09 UTC 2006 x86_64 GNU/Linux > > I've also noticed a bug in the Ubuntu packaging of libgettext-ruby1.8 on > AMD64 platforms, as gettext looks for a file > called /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/gettext/_locale.so , but it's stored > in /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/amd64-linux/_locale.so . A quick ln -s fixed that, > but I'm stuck with the Pango error. > Aha, fixed it. It was a problem with using an older version of Ruby-Gnome2; my mistake. Now I can look at documenting some of the recent changes to Alexandria. Liam From vanous at penguin.cz Sat Feb 18 10:35:32 2006 From: vanous at penguin.cz (Petr Vanek) Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 16:35:32 +0100 Subject: [Alexandria-list] alexandria - tunning requests Message-ID: <20060218163532.341add1b@raven> Dear developer(s), here is a couple of things that could be polished on Alexandria to change it's performance _significantly_: * add book dialog: please, make there a check-box for repeat action (so the dialog reappears after adding a book, so one doesn't have to click on add icon all the time, while adding tons of books). this would help a lot. * add icon for add new book manually please and change the shortcut - have you tried to press Ctrl+Shift+N with just one hand? (presuming you are holding a book in the other hand)... * allow to add new book source please, (i know the code is done, but strangely enough it doesn't show up in the dialog). Alexandria is a great program, thank you for all your work. -- bye Petr ------------------------- Petr Vanek mailto:vanous at penguin.cz http://vanous.penguin.cz http://biodynamika.cz ------------------------- From david.alston at gmail.com Sat Feb 18 23:00:47 2006 From: david.alston at gmail.com (David Alston) Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 22:00:47 -0600 Subject: [Alexandria-list] [alexandria-list][link] Proposal for new website Message-ID: Greetings! I'm having trouble getting a hold of Laurent, so I'll just put a link to what the direction I'm going with the alexandria website... I'm not interested in taking it over.. just redesigning the look. Please note, the CSS is designed for Firefox browsers.. it looks ghastly in IE, and I haven't checked it with Safari yet.. but those can be fixed with time.. I'm still getting feedback on it.. feel free to AIM me at w00dw04k5 if you're on that network. http://mysite.verizon.net/notslad/alexandria.html A student of life, David Alston ps. I already know it looks horrible in everything else.. only firefox testing, please :^) pps. Thanks Ben for digging up laurent's post for me :^) -- "Without rules there is no game for it is by the rules the game is defined." --SOv -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/alexandria-list/attachments/20060218/59114ad1/attachment.htm From rizlo at fastwebnet.it Sun Feb 19 10:15:01 2006 From: rizlo at fastwebnet.it (Dade) Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 16:15:01 +0100 Subject: [Alexandria-list] can't make cuecat work at all Message-ID: <43F88B75.2050204@fastwebnet.it> I purchased a cuecat PS/2 barcode scanner, I use it with the latest version of alexandria under ubuntu linux 5.10 with the latest pre-compiled kernel. In alexandria the reader doesn't write on screen any input! If I open gedit or other text input software it's the same no input at all but if I open the bash terminal, I get a "beep" sound when a barcode is read an on screen I can see input of numbers, every time I pass the same bardcode of a book the numbers are different and has nothing to do with the right ISBN number... Why this happen? Ubuntu is set to italian language and also the keyboard is QWERTY italian 105 keys, my thought is that this issue has to do with the keyboard layout/settings/language but I can't figure out what layout I have to set to make it work properly. I tried to change the keyboard layout randomly and I effectively realized that inputs in the terminal results different, but always not even close to the ISBN code and no input at all in alexandria or any other graphical software. Please help me because is very important for me to use the cuecat scanner on alexandria. From aymeric at nnx.com Wed Feb 22 18:26:36 2006 From: aymeric at nnx.com (Aymeric Nys) Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 17:26:36 -0600 Subject: [Alexandria-list] add an export to export_library.rb Message-ID: <1140650797.4551.3.camel@veckman> Hi, I add a very simple text filter to export_library.rb, my mom wanted to know what books are in my lib and text was the best way to send to her. I attach the diff. -- Aymeric Nys -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: export_library.rb.diff Type: text/x-patch Size: 928 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/alexandria-list/attachments/20060222/b55b5b78/export_library.rb.bin From laurent.sansonetti at gmail.com Sun Feb 26 11:29:43 2006 From: laurent.sansonetti at gmail.com (Laurent Sansonetti) Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 17:29:43 +0100 Subject: [Alexandria-list] cuecat readers and 2.6.x kernel In-Reply-To: <43C8DB3F.60105@fastwebnet.it> References: <43C8DB3F.60105@fastwebnet.it> Message-ID: <1be7247c0602260829l40e22357x222cdcaed837cfe3@mail.gmail.com> Hi, (Sorry for the late response.) On 1/14/06, Dade wrote: > Alexandria is very good. Now I want to purchase a cuecat barcode reader > just to use it with alexandria to read ISBN. I'm running alexandria on > Ubuntu, kernel il 2.6 series. I read somewhere that cuecat in alexandria > works only with kernel of 2.4 series... Is this true? Apparently (and unfortunately) yes. But we are working adding userland CueCat support in the next release, so that kernel modules won't be necessary anymore. Laurent From laurent.sansonetti at gmail.com Sun Feb 26 11:32:35 2006 From: laurent.sansonetti at gmail.com (Laurent Sansonetti) Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 17:32:35 +0100 Subject: [Alexandria-list] add/remove provider buttons not available In-Reply-To: <20060131211310.21b8e72c@raven> References: <20060131211310.21b8e72c@raven> Message-ID: <1be7247c0602260832nf185bceg355f477c17dd2c0d@mail.gmail.com> Hi, (Sorry for the late response.) On 1/31/06, Petr Vanek wrote: > Hello all, > > I have known of Alexandria for a while and I have even purchased a bar > code scanner for all my books. What a great program! > Thanks :-) > Soon I will be done with my english books collection, but then I would > like to add some books in the Czech language. I have found a Z39.50 > library settings I could hopefully use but I am not able to add a > provider - I simply don't have the "advanced settings" button to be able > to have the add/remove providers buttons. I use the debian packed > version of alexandria (0.6.1) and last night I have even overwritten it > with the code from CVS, but still nothing (I got the Smart Library > features, though, great!). If I only would know the format of saved > settings in the conf file, I could add it manually. > If you do not see the add/remove provider buttons in the Preferences window this means you do not have Ruby/ZOOM installed on your system. To install it: http://ruby-zoom.rubyforge.org If you still do not see the buttons after having installed it then this is a bug. Laurent From laurent.sansonetti at gmail.com Sun Feb 26 11:42:44 2006 From: laurent.sansonetti at gmail.com (Laurent Sansonetti) Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 17:42:44 +0100 Subject: [Alexandria-list] [alexandria-list][link] Proposal for new website In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1be7247c0602260842i584865f0ke4d8eea4491f3ea0@mail.gmail.com> Hi David, Sorry for the late response. I have been quite busy recently with my daily job :/ On 2/19/06, David Alston wrote: > Greetings! > > I'm having trouble getting a hold of Laurent, so I'll just put a link > to what the direction I'm going with the alexandria website... I'm not > interested in taking it over.. just redesigning the look. > > Please note, the CSS is designed for Firefox browsers.. it looks > ghastly in IE, and I haven't checked it with Safari yet.. but those can be > fixed with time.. > > I'm still getting feedback on it.. feel free to AIM me at w00dw04k5 if > you're on that network. > Thanks for your proposal, it looks pretty good (and BTW it seems to properly render in Safari). Just a though, I am not that in love with the woody theme, but this is a very big step from the current version :-) Also I would like to have one HTML page per 'section' (about, features, etc...). Would it be possible for you to create them? Also as the current About section is not that big I propose that we merge the features there. Can you create and send me your RubyForge account so I can add you in the project list? You will therefore be able to commit the new website on CVS and publish it via SSH (of course on a 'private' web directory, let's keep the big surprise for the next release :-)). Thanks Laurent From laurent.sansonetti at gmail.com Sun Feb 26 11:48:15 2006 From: laurent.sansonetti at gmail.com (Laurent Sansonetti) Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 17:48:15 +0100 Subject: [Alexandria-list] New pango requirements? In-Reply-To: <1140268517.24441.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <1138312638.20701.5.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1140268517.24441.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> Message-ID: <1be7247c0602260848v5ab1b96k8c6941cc17d674d5@mail.gmail.com> Hi Liam, (Sorry for the late response.) On 2/18/06, Liam Davison wrote: > On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 21:57 +0000, Liam Davison wrote: > > Hello Laurent et al > > > > I've upgraded ISPs recently, lost my rubyforge password (for now; i've > > kept backups somewhere) and I've upgraded to a new machine. > > > > I'd like to document the latest changes to Alexandria - they sound > > really useful. Unfortunately, I can't seem run the latest CVS > > alexandria. What version of Gtk/Pango is required for Alexandria now? > > > > $alexandria > > ----------------------- > > Alexandria just crashed > > ----------------------- > > Timestamp: Thu Jan 26 21:50:55 GMT 2006 > > Message: uninitialized constant Pango::ELLIPSIZE_END > > Backtrace: > > /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/alexandria/ui/main_app.rb:555:in > > `setup_books_listv iew' > > /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/alexandria/ui/main_app.rb:1560:in > > `initialize_ui' > > /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/alexandria/ui/main_app.rb:133:in > > `initialize' > > /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/alexandria/ui.rb:48:in `main' > > /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/alexandria.rb:68:in `main' > > /usr/bin/alexandria:10 > > Release: CVS > > Uname -a: Linux battlestar 2.6.12-10-amd64-k8-smp #1 SMP Mon Jan 16 > > 17:30:09 UTC 2006 x86_64 GNU/Linux > > > > I've also noticed a bug in the Ubuntu packaging of libgettext-ruby1.8 on > > AMD64 platforms, as gettext looks for a file > > called /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/gettext/_locale.so , but it's stored > > in /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/amd64-linux/_locale.so . A quick ln -s fixed that, > > but I'm stuck with the Pango error. > > > Aha, fixed it. It was a problem with using an older version of > Ruby-Gnome2; my mistake. Now I can look at documenting some of the > recent changes to Alexandria. > We are using Pango to draw the dragging count icon but also to ellipsize table columns, and the later requires a relatively recent version of Ruby/Pango. We can at runtime avoid ellipsizing table columns if the Ruby/Pango version if not recent, I will check in this fix. Laurent From laurent.sansonetti at gmail.com Sun Feb 26 11:55:14 2006 From: laurent.sansonetti at gmail.com (Laurent Sansonetti) Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 17:55:14 +0100 Subject: [Alexandria-list] alexandria - tunning requests In-Reply-To: <20060218163532.341add1b@raven> References: <20060218163532.341add1b@raven> Message-ID: <1be7247c0602260855k72d7fab4yb6733c710955835@mail.gmail.com> Hi, (Sorry for the late answer.) On 2/18/06, Petr Vanek wrote: > Dear developer(s), > > here is a couple of things that could be polished on Alexandria to > change it's performance _significantly_: > > * add book dialog: please, make there a check-box for repeat action (so > the dialog reappears after adding a book, so one doesn't have to click > on add icon all the time, while adding tons of books). this would help a > lot. > Sounds a good idea, I will think about it. > * add icon for add new book manually please and change the shortcut - > have you tried to press Ctrl+Shift+N with just one hand? (presuming you > are holding a book in the other hand)... > Mmh you're right, but I do not see any other meaningful shortcut. Ctrl+N is for the regular add book window, and holding the Shift modifier makes sense for the manual window. Any shortcut suggestion? > * allow to add new book source please, (i know the code is done, but > strangely enough it doesn't show up in the dialog). > If you don't see the add/remove providers buttons you are probably missing the Ruby/ZOOM library. See the README file for more information on how to install it. Also you should know that the Debian package has disabled this Z39.50 feature in the code, because Ruby/ZOOM is not yet packaged on Debian. > Alexandria is a great program, thank you for all your work. > Thanks you, glad you like the program. Laurent From laurent.sansonetti at gmail.com Sun Feb 26 11:59:06 2006 From: laurent.sansonetti at gmail.com (Laurent Sansonetti) Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 17:59:06 +0100 Subject: [Alexandria-list] can't make cuecat work at all In-Reply-To: <43F88B75.2050204@fastwebnet.it> References: <43F88B75.2050204@fastwebnet.it> Message-ID: <1be7247c0602260859o40773be2y520d5a87724553dd@mail.gmail.com> Hi, On 2/19/06, Dade wrote: > I purchased a cuecat PS/2 barcode scanner, I use it with the latest > version of alexandria under ubuntu linux 5.10 with the latest > pre-compiled kernel. In alexandria the reader doesn't write on screen > any input! > If I open gedit or other text input software it's the same no input at > all but if I open the bash terminal, I get a "beep" sound when a barcode > is read an on screen I can see input of numbers, every time I pass the > same bardcode of a book the numbers are different and has nothing to do > with the right ISBN number... > Why this happen? > Ubuntu is set to italian language and also the keyboard is QWERTY > italian 105 keys, my thought is that this issue has to do with the > keyboard layout/settings/language but I can't figure out what layout I > have to set to make it work properly. I tried to change the keyboard > layout randomly and I effectively realized that inputs in the terminal > results different, but always not even close to the ISBN code and no > input at all in alexandria or any other graphical software. > Please help me because is very important for me to use the cuecat > scanner on alexandria. I am not a CueCat expert, but someone [1] recently noticed similar problems with a French keyboard (AZERTY layout). Switching to QWERTY layout apparently fixed the problem. But as you said the Italian layout is already QWERTY-layouted. Did you try to switch to the US layout? Laurent [1]: http://www.fasmz.org/~pterjan/blog/?date=20060128#p01 From laurent.sansonetti at gmail.com Sun Feb 26 12:06:13 2006 From: laurent.sansonetti at gmail.com (Laurent Sansonetti) Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 18:06:13 +0100 Subject: [Alexandria-list] add an export to export_library.rb In-Reply-To: <1140650797.4551.3.camel@veckman> References: <1140650797.4551.3.camel@veckman> Message-ID: <1be7247c0602260906h27f1ca12la8326f3975779fc5@mail.gmail.com> Hi Aymeric, On 2/23/06, Aymeric Nys wrote: > Hi, > I add a very simple text filter to export_library.rb, my mom wanted to > know what books are in my lib and text was the best way to send to her. > I attach the diff. At a glance the output format looks like semicolon-separated CSV (except the beginning *). Why not extending the filter to real CSV? IIRC some people have been requesting this feature. Cheers Laurent From laurent.sansonetti at gmail.com Mon Feb 27 10:55:44 2006 From: laurent.sansonetti at gmail.com (Laurent Sansonetti) Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 16:55:44 +0100 Subject: [Alexandria-list] using evolution contacts for borrowers auto-completion Message-ID: <1be7247c0602270755i7569fde5v41bbe5e6faba7fb5@mail.gmail.com> Hi all, I just added a small but interesting feature in CVS (I know, I should fix bugs instead of adding new stuff, but well... :-)). Alexandria is now using the Evolution contacts database for borrowers auto-completion. Alexandria is doing this via the Revolution library, which is a Ruby binding to the Evolution C API. This library is packaged on Debian, and probably on other system. Also this library is optional, if Alexandria can not load it the feature is simply disabled. Enjoy Laurent From laurent.sansonetti at gmail.com Mon Feb 27 15:52:44 2006 From: laurent.sansonetti at gmail.com (Laurent Sansonetti) Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 21:52:44 +0100 Subject: [Alexandria-list] Fwd: csv export In-Reply-To: <1be7247c0602271252i4da62193m697c5a57382d486c@mail.gmail.com> References: <1140650797.4551.3.camel@veckman> <1be7247c0602260906h27f1ca12la8326f3975779fc5@mail.gmail.com> <1141069798.12197.18.camel@veckman> <1be7247c0602271252i4da62193m697c5a57382d486c@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <1be7247c0602271252w7ab4a1bel1c526d9b2b4df371@mail.gmail.com> (Forgot to CC the list.) On 2/27/06, Laurent Sansonetti wrote: > Hi Aymeric, > > On 2/27/06, Aymeric Nys wrote: > > Le dimanche 26 f?vrier 2006 ? 18:06 +0100, Laurent Sansonetti a ?crit : > > > Hi Aymeric, > > > > > > On 2/23/06, Aymeric Nys wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I add a very simple text filter to export_library.rb, my mom wanted to > > > > know what books are in my lib and text was the best way to send to her. > > > > I attach the diff. > > > > > > At a glance the output format looks like semicolon-separated CSV > > > (except the beginning *). Why not extending the filter to real CSV? > > > IIRC some people have been requesting this feature. > > > > > > Cheers > > > Laurent > > Well the * was for easily spot a new book on a new line. > > > > I made the modification to CSV with semi-column, like that I can use the > > comma to separate the authors. If I use the comma as record separator I > > loose the possibility to distinguish authors name and a lot of book have > > comma in the title or the comma is use to distinguish a volume in a > > collection. > > Also it is the easiest method to implement. > > > > OOo has no problem opening the file with the semi-column as separator, I > > do not know for excel. > > > > I attached the diff. > > Sounds great, now that you have CVS access please commit! :-) Also do > not forget to file a ChangeLog entry. > > Just one very small thing, apparently you are not using > 4-spaces-per-tab indentation, can you change this? > > Laurent >