fixing nightly build of gwibber
Earlier today a new (trunk) build of Gwibber was released.
If, like me, you install unstable software and fiddle with it, you may run intio this problem. One of the menu items in the new build shows you can display single stream or multi stream.
As of this time (02/02/10 - 21:30) I do not advise changing to multi stream view.
As soon as I changed the view Gwibber crashed and would not restart. Running gwibber from a bash prompt showed:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/gwibber", line 62, in <module>
client.Client()
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/gwibber/client.py", line 392, in __init__
self.w = GwibberClient()
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/gwibber/client.py", line 46, in __init__
self.setup_ui()
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/gwibber/client.py", line 84, in setup_ui
self.stream_view.connect("search", self.on_perform_search)
TypeError: <MultiStreamUi object at 0x9dbc644 (gwibber+gwui+MultiStreamUi at 0x9c9f460)>: unknown signal name: search
I spent ages looking at the desktopcouch settings (the latest release of Gwibber seems to have moved all the config from .gconf to desktopcouch - but I could be wrong) and could not find the config data to reset the view anywhere.
Finally I decided to uninstall the nightly build and revert to the stable version. While making sure I knew where all the files were placed so I could confirm the full removal of the software I found......
gwibber-preferences
Run it from a bash prompt and it brings up the original settings window and you can reset the view to single stream.
* * UPDATE * *
Bug confirmed at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gwibber/+bug/515987
