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Synaptic Buttons?

grantm on 2005-02-10T20:59:20

I run Debian (Sarge) and use Synaptic as a GUI package manager. If you haven't tried it, try it - Synaptic Rocks!

Strangely, a recent(ish) package upgrade has left me with no buttons on the Synaptic toolbar. I suspect it has something to do with GTK themes and possibly the root user's GTK theme (I run it via gnome-sudo). Has anyone else seen this? More to the point does anyone have a fix?

Me Too

Dom2 on 2005-02-10T21:26:44

I saw exactly the same thing a few weeks ago, under Debian testing. No idea what's caused it and I didn't bother to look into it long enough. I'll have t go back and see what I can see.

-Dom

glade2 bug

link on 2005-02-11T09:52:23

Its a glade 2 bug related to the toolbar api.
There is an updated version of synaptic at http://people.debian.org/user/mvo/synaptic/sarge/. Not sure when it is going to hit testing.
More info at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=288445

Re:glade2 bug

grantm on 2005-02-11T19:02:17

Thank you for that. This workaround was listed in the bug details:

As a workaround, you can install a glade-2 and open and save the file /usr/share/synaptic/glade/window_main.glade

This was quick and easy since I already had Glade2. It had the desired effect for me although strangely the 'text beside icons' toolbar option I had selected doesn't display the text - all the other text/icon combinations work fine.

Thanks very much for pointing me at the solution.

Re:glade2 bug

tinman on 2005-03-10T18:36:53

Cool. I just got this today when I updated my quasi Ubuntu/Debian unstable laptop. The toolbar stayed on, but it lost all the text under the toolbar icons.

Simple reset of the prefs worked for me though.