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Re: [UPDATED} Quick Clip, a statusbar plugin to save text

Quote:

Originally Posted by BrentDC (Post 292400)

Did you refresh your application manager? I just tried installing it from Chinook Extras, and it installed fine.

I found the reason I couldn't upgrade (weird): I had a previous 0.2 version installed, the last I could use with Chinook, and for some reason neither apt nor the application manager enlisted the 0.4.4 version for upgrade. So I had to uninstall the previous one and then the new version showed where it belonged.

Now: testing :cool:

Re: [UPDATED} Quick Clip, a statusbar plugin to save text

It works allright in Chinook. Having upgraded from 0.2, it took by default the .quickclip folder in home for storage. Only gtk was available as scrolling method: hildon and moko are greyed out and not selectable.
For the rest, nice and effective as usual :)

Re: [UPDATED} Quick Clip, a statusbar plugin to save text

FYI: I installed quickclip for the first time on Diablo and couldn't install 0.4.4-1 because there was no .quickclip directory in /home/user, see the log of "apt-get install quickclip":

Code:

[..]

Unpacking quickclip (from .../quickclip_0.4.4-1_all.deb) ...

data dir exists ...

/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/preinst: line 19: cannot create /home/user/.quickclip/parent_files.xml: nonexistent directory

chmod: /home/user/.quickclip/parent_files.xml: No such file or directory 

dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/quickclip_0.4.4-1_all.deb (--unpack):

 subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1

Errors were encountered while processing:

 /var/cache/apt/archives/quickclip_0.4.4-1_all.deb

[..]

But after creating the folder the install succeded.

Re: [UPDATED} Quick Clip, a statusbar plugin to save text

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nikem (Post 293065)

FYI: I installed quickclip for the first time on Diablo and couldn't install 0.4.4-1 because there was no .quickclip directory in /home/user, see the log of "apt-get install quickclip":

Code:

[..]

Unpacking quickclip (from .../quickclip_0.4.4-1_all.deb) ...

data dir exists ...

/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/preinst: line 19: cannot create /home/user/.quickclip/parent_files.xml: nonexistent directory

chmod: /home/user/.quickclip/parent_files.xml: No such file or directory 

dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/quickclip_0.4.4-1_all.deb (--unpack):

 subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1

Errors were encountered while processing:

 /var/cache/apt/archives/quickclip_0.4.4-1_all.deb

[..]

But after creating the folder the install succeded.

Ah, you found a bug in the packaging :)

I will upload a fixed version asap!

Thanks.

Re: [UPDATED] Quick Clip, a statusbar plugin to save text

Quote:

Originally Posted by BrentDC (Post 280493)

Today I'm pleased to announce the release of Quick Clip 0.4.1-1. What is Quick Clip? Quick Clip is the combination of a statusbar plug-in and text viewing application specifically designed for the Maemo platform. The statusbar plugin allows you to "clip" highlighted, or enter text directly, into a plain text file for later reference. While the text viewer easily allows you to read and/or access data you've already clipped.

http://static.maemo.org/style_maemo2...tton_small.png

New features in this release are:

* Added Clear submenu item
* Added Delete submenu item
* Switched to XML for target file list storage
* Switched storage location for user files
* Major code cleanup
* Fixed Open Bug
* Fixed preinst script
* Renamed Open Settings button to Browse
* QCV: Changed preference warning to bold
* QCV: Added application menu
* QCV: Fixed bug in scrolling choice
* QCV: Added Select All option
* QCV: Added Right/Left buttons for flipping through clippings
* QCV: Added Properties submenu item
* QCV: Added Help menu item
* QCV: Mapped the +/- keys to increase/decrease font size
* QCV: Mapped the Up/Down D-Pad keys to scrolling (only for GTK)
* QCV: Changed Title (more path visible)
* QCV: Major code cleanup

I earlier installed 0.31 which did not work, I upgraded to this version and it still does not work (after reboot), I see no icon in the top icon bar......
I tried again from the cmd line:

Code:

pocketpenguin:/home/user/MyDocs# apt-get install quickclip

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree

Reading state information... Done

The following NEW packages will be installed:

  quickclip

0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 38 not upgraded.

Need to get 0B/43.6kB of archives.

After unpacking 315kB of additional disk space will be used.

WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!

  quickclip

Install these packages without verification [y/N]? y

(Reading database ... 19023 files and directories currently installed.)

Unpacking quickclip (from .../quickclip_0.4.4-1_all.deb) ...

/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/preinst: line 19: cannot create /root/.quickclip/parent_files.xml: nonexistent directory

chmod: /root/.quickclip/parent_files.xml: No such file or directory

dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/quickclip_0.4.4-1_all.deb (--unpack):

 subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1

Errors were encountered while processing:

 /var/cache/apt/archives/quickclip_0.4.4-1_all.deb

E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

pocketpenguin:/home/user/MyDocs#

Re: [UPDATED] Quick Clip, a statusbar plugin to save text

Quote:

Originally Posted by skatebiker (Post 293081)

I earlier installed 0.31 which did not work, I upgraded to this version and it still does not work (after reboot), I see no icon in the top icon bar......

See this thread, post #16.

Re: [UPDATED} Quick Clip, a statusbar plugin to save text

Did you enable it in the Control Panel? If so, and it still doesn't work, try installing the latest 0.4.4; you can find it in the Extras-devel repository.

There were a few bugs in the previous versions that would cause this behavior (and in 0.4.4 I fixed them).

Please report back on any issues.

Re: [UPDATED] Quick Clip, a statusbar plugin to save text

Quote:

Originally Posted by skatebiker (Post 293081)

I earlier installed 0.31 which did not work, I upgraded to this version and it still does not work (after reboot), I see no icon in the top icon bar......
I tried again from the cmd line:

Code:

pocketpenguin:/home/user/MyDocs# apt-get install quickclip

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree

Reading state information... Done

The following NEW packages will be installed:

  quickclip

0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 38 not upgraded.

Need to get 0B/43.6kB of archives.

After unpacking 315kB of additional disk space will be used.

WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!

  quickclip

Install these packages without verification [y/N]? y

(Reading database ... 19023 files and directories currently installed.)

Unpacking quickclip (from .../quickclip_0.4.4-1_all.deb) ...

/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/preinst: line 19: cannot create /root/.quickclip/parent_files.xml: nonexistent directory

chmod: /root/.quickclip/parent_files.xml: No such file or directory

dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/quickclip_0.4.4-1_all.deb (--unpack):

 subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1

Errors were encountered while processing:

 /var/cache/apt/archives/quickclip_0.4.4-1_all.deb

E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

pocketpenguin:/home/user/MyDocs#

Whoa, $HOME is being interpreted as /root/ instead of /home/user/. I'm no bash expect, but something isn't right there...

I'll look into it.

Re: [UPDATED} Quick Clip, a statusbar plugin to save text

@skatebiker

Can you go to a Root prompt and type:

Code:

echo $HOME

And tell me the output?

Also, what do you use to gain root and do you use alternate bash interpreters?

Re: [UPDATED} Quick Clip, a statusbar plugin to save text

Quote:

Originally Posted by debernardis (Post 292873)

It works allright in Chinook. Having upgraded from 0.2, it took by default the .quickclip folder in home for storage.

In >= 0.4, Quick Clip wants you to store stuff in ~/MyDocs/Quick_Clip/ instead of ~/.quickclip/data/.

This is to be expected.

Quote:

Only gtk was available as scrolling method: hildon and moko are greyed out and not selectable.

This is also to be expected since Hildon scrolling is only for Fremantle and I couldn't get python-mokoui to build for Chinook.

Quote:

For the rest, nice and effective as usual :)

Great!

@everybody:

I just uploaded 0.4.4-2 which should (hopefully) fix the bug Nikem reported. This version is available from extras-devel on all OS's.