[Perlpanel-devel] Switching through windows

[Jason Brian Friedrich]

Hi together,

after a few months of using Mac OS X i returned to Gentoo Linux (but on 
a PPC machine) and tried to use PerlPanel as well. I assumed no problems 
beacuse it worked a few months ago.

I tried the release tarball and tried to built it from CVS, but with 
both versions i receive the same errors. When i try to use the window 
list applet, try to switch/select another windows, this error occurs 
(openbox and metacity):

*** unhandled exception in callback:
***   Usage: Gnome2::Wnck::Window::activate(window, timestamp) at 
/usr/local/lib/perlpanel/PerlPanel/Applet/WindowMenu.pm line 82.
***  ignoring at /usr/local/lib/perlpanel/PerlPanel.pm line 184.

The selected windows will not be activated and pulled to the foreground.

Also the gnome menu applet does not work anymore. When added to the 
panel, i receive this message when perlpanel is started:

Error loading 'applications:': error-not-supported

It seems that it can not communicate with the vfs, but everything seems 
to be installed correctly. I also encountered an error when i try to use 
the panel in German language. After i configured the panel, an error 
message shows up:

***   Can't use string ("Panel-Position 'unten' is invalid") as a 
subroutine ref while "strict refs" in use at 
/usr/local/lib/perlpanel/PerlPanel.pm line 920.***  ignoring at 
/usr/local/lib/perlpanel/PerlPanel.pm line 184.

The word 'unten' is German for 'bottom'. It seems that perlpanel writes 
'unten' in the config file, instead of 'bottom' and this word is of 
course not a valid configuration option. I could image that this affects 
other languages too.

Anyone also experienced these errors? I have added an excerpt of my 
installed perl modules. I use GNOME 2.8.1, installed via portage tree. 
If any other information or version number is needed, please let me know.

Best regards,
Jason

-- Perl modules installed (excerpt) --

Glib -- 1.100
Gnome2 -- 1.023
Gnome2::Canvas -- 1.002
Gnome2::GConf -- 1.000
Gnome2::Print -- 0.94
Gnome2::VFS -- 1.041
Gnome2::Vte -- 0.04
Gnome2::Wnck -- 0.11
Gtk2 -- 1.100
Gtk2::Ex::Carp -- 0.01
Gtk2::Ex::ComboBox -- 0.05
Gtk2::Ex::DBI -- 1.3
Gtk2::Ex::DBITableFilter -- 0.03
Gtk2::Ex::Datasheet::DBI -- 0.9
Gtk2::Ex::Dialogs -- 0.09
Gtk2::Ex::FormFactory -- 0.57
Gtk2::Ex::ICal::Recur -- 0.05
Gtk2::Ex::PopupWindow -- 0.02
Gtk2::Ex::RecordsFilter -- 0.03
Gtk2::Ex::Simple::List -- 0.50
Gtk2::Ex::Simple::Menu -- 0.7
Gtk2::Ex::Simple::Tree -- 0.50
Gtk2::Ex::TreeMaker -- 0.10
Gtk2::Ex::TreeMap -- 0.02
Gtk2::Ex::Utils -- 0.09
Gtk2::Ex::VolumeButton -- 0.07
Gtk2::GladeXML -- 1.005
Gtk2::GladeXML::Simple -- 0.32
Gtk2::MozEmbed -- 0.04
Gtk2::SourceView -- 1.000
Gtk2::TrayIcon -- 0.03
Gtk2::TrayManager -- 0.05
Gtk2Fu -- 0.10
X11::FreeDesktop::DesktopEntry -- 0.04
XML::Simple -- 2.14