orage and icon too small and wrong zoneinfo

juha kautto.juha at kolumbus.fi
Tue Oct 7 07:58:30 CEST 2008


Yves-Alexis Perez kirjoitti:
> On lun, 2008-10-06 at 20:35 -0500, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
>   
>> I was using a clock plugin, but needed a calendar so I installed 
>> orage-4.4.2. I have a few problems.
>>
>> The properties for timezone is empty. When clicking on it, it has error 
>> message pop-up about missing /usr/local/share/zoneinfo/ -- in my system it 
>> is at /usr/share/zoneinfo/.
>>
>> I see that orage-4.4.2/libical/src/libical/icaltimezone.c has
>> #define ZONEINFO_DIRECTORY  PACKAGE_DATA_DIR "/zoneinfo"
>> but orage-4.4.2/panel-plugin/oc_config.c has paths hardcoded.
>>     
>
> This is fixed in 4.5.14.
>   
>> My second problem is the orage window is so small it is unusable. I can 
>> only get "resizing" pointers when I select it, but it can't be resized. It 
>> is only a few pixels in size.
>>
>> When orage is started manually I see:
>>
>>  ** Message: Orage **: Too small icon size, using static icon
>>     
>
> This is ok. It's only for the tray icon, which I guess you see? I think
> you have another problem here, with the main window, but can't help you
> on it. I never reproduced such a bug (on 4.4 or 4.5)
>   
I have seen that main window issue and it usually is caused by running
Orage against wrong version of xfce-mcs-manager.
Try logging out and in (=or restarting mcs)
>   
>> Also I don't know what version of orage to use. I am running the official 
>> stable xfce which is 4.4.2 which has orage from 2007.
>>
>> I see snapshot download, but no reference to an official release on the 
>> http://www.kolumbus.fi/~w408237/orage/ webpage. I don't even know if that 
>> works with official release.
>>     
>
> http://www.kolumbus.fi/~w408237/orage/download.html sure shows 4.5.14
>
>   
Yes, use that. it works against official 4.4 (and 4.6) Xfce.

/Juha




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