Re: About Re: Denemo icon missing in application menu. was Re: Can not tweak objects in Debian's Version 2.5.0

[Robert Lewis]

On Thursday, November 25, 2021 8:34:15 A.M. AST Richard Shann wrote:
> On Sun, 2021-10-31 at 15:20 -0300, Robert Lewis wrote:
> > On Sunday, October 31, 2021 2:14:20 P.M. ADT Richard Shann wrote:
> > > On Sun, 2021-10-31 at 16:49 +0000, Richard Shann wrote:
> > > > Well my upgrade to Debian stable has worked, and I have built
> > > > Denemo
> > > > from sources using the atril.patch and without installing the
> > > > libevince-dev package, installing instead libatrilview-dev and
> > > > libatrildocument-dev (I don't know if this last one was required,
> > > > I
> > > > didn't try without).
> > > > The good(ish) news is that the following of links from the Print
> > > > View
> > > > back to the Denemo Display works, so re-positioning things like
> > > > trill
> > > > signs can be done via dragging in the Print View.
> > > > My next experiment (after checking more things with this atril
> > > > build)
> > > > is to install from the Debian repository see if the tweaking
> > > > fails
> > > > and
> > > > also see if the Icon appears in the Applications menu - in this
> > > > respect
> > > > I can mention that installing the evolution package failed to put
> > > > an
> > > > icon in the application menu, which is pretty extraordinary.
> > > > Then I'll at last be able to test if the inability to tweak
> > > > objects
> > > > is
> > > > due to libevince changes...
> > > 
> > > So I have tested the 2.5.4 built with atril and everything is
> > > working.
> > > I've installed the Debian package, it has placed the icon in the
> > > applications directory (MATE desktop) and I can confirm that the
> > > links
> > > from Print View are not working (strangely links from source pdfs
> > > are
> > > working).
> 
> this was a spurious observation on my part - the links from source pdfs
> do not involved libevince handling a signal, unlike those from Print
> View.
> 
> > >  So the finger of suspicion still points to libevince. I'll
> > > 
> > > build against that next.
> > > 
> > > Richard
> > 
> > Thanks for the update.  I'll be happy to test whenever you're ready.
> 
> I've just noticed that this thread has been left hanging, sorry. I
> installed libevince-dev and the links from Print View were broken.
> So the fix at the moment is to build against libatril-dev.
> Unfortunately Denemo's configure file doesn't give an option to force
> the build to use libatril, it will only use it if libevince is absent,
> so that has to be uninstalled before building.
> 
> Richard

Using the 25 November version 2.5.7, I did as you recommended; I uninstalled  
libevince-dev and installed  libatril-dev.  I can confirm that the links are 
showing in the Print View window and that the items in the right-click context 
menu work on an object. 

Thanks, Richard.

Robert