Bug 31521

Summary: Dasher does not create *words* from selected letters using Mate desktop
Product: Mageia Reporter: Ben McMonagle <westel>
Component: RPM PackagesAssignee: All Packagers <pkg-bugs>
Status: NEW --- QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: Normal CC: dan, geiger.david68210, marja11
Version: CauldronKeywords: NEEDINFO
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Source RPM: dasher-5.0.0-0.7.beta.mga9 CVE:
Status comment:
Attachments: no letters in space between icons and letters
correctly behaving Dasher with *Hello* from an Mga8 install

Description Ben McMonagle 2023-02-07 10:19:33 CET
Description of problem: when using Dasher to build words/ sentences, no letters are *selected*  and placed in the display window.

Mate DE

Mageia-9-beta1-x86_64.iso
DATE.txt: Mon Feb  6 06:56:08 PM CET 2023

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
dasher-5.0.0-07.beta.mga9.x86_64

How reproducible:always


Steps to Reproduce:
1.install mate DE from above .iso
2.reboot and launch Dasher
3.observe issue
Comment 1 Ben McMonagle 2023-02-07 10:28:11 CET
Created attachment 13684 [details]
no letters in space between icons and letters

in this image I tried to select an *m* and it should have appeared in the space above between the icons and the lower letters.
Comment 2 Ben McMonagle 2023-02-07 10:29:17 CET
Created attachment 13685 [details]
correctly behaving Dasher with *Hello* from an Mga8 install
Comment 3 Marja Van Waes 2023-02-07 22:09:05 CET
Assigning to all packagers collectively, because there is no registered maintainer for this package.

CC'ing the last packager who pushed it.

CC: (none) => dan, marja11
Source RPM: (none) => dasher-5.0.0-0.7.beta.mga9
Assignee: bugsquad => pkg-bugs

Comment 4 Marja Van Waes 2023-02-07 23:16:18 CET
Daviddavid just pushed dasher-5.0.0-0.8.beta.1.mga9, can you try whether it works better?

Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO

Comment 5 Ben McMonagle 2023-02-08 06:26:47 CET
installed dasher-5.0.0-0.8.beta.1.mga9.x86_64.rpm

no change

info: I also installed Cinnamon DE only from the same .iso and Dasher is ok there. seems to be DE specific
Comment 6 Marja Van Waes 2023-02-09 22:08:46 CET
(In reply to Ben McMonagle from comment #5)
> installed dasher-5.0.0-0.8.beta.1.mga9.x86_64.rpm
> 
> no change
> 
> info: I also installed Cinnamon DE only from the same .iso and Dasher is ok
> there. seems to be DE specific

And when you installed Mate, no other DEs were installed, right?

Sounds like a missing dependency.

Summary: Dasher does not create *words* from selected letters => Dasher does not create *words* from selected letters using Mate desktop
CC: (none) => geiger.david68210

Comment 7 Ben McMonagle 2023-02-09 22:13:45 CET
(In reply to Marja Van Waes from comment #6)
> (In reply to Ben McMonagle from comment #5)
> > installed dasher-5.0.0-0.8.beta.1.mga9.x86_64.rpm
> > 
> > no change
> > 
> > info: I also installed Cinnamon DE only from the same .iso and Dasher is ok
> > there. seems to be DE specific
> 
> And when you installed Mate, no other DEs were installed, right?

only mate DE
Comment 8 sturmvogel 2023-02-10 23:32:37 CET
Is Mate using wayland? If yes, it is the same problem as in bug 31351.

Dasher isn't working under wayland. It is an unfixed upstream problem:
https://github.com/dasher-project/dasher/issues/103
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=778151
https://lists.debian.org/debian-accessibility/2017/02/msg00010.html
Comment 9 Ben McMonagle 2023-02-10 23:43:38 CET
(In reply to sturmvogel from comment #8)
> Is Mate using wayland? If yes, it is the same problem as in bug 31351.
> 
> Dasher isn't working under wayland. It is an unfixed upstream problem:
> https://github.com/dasher-project/dasher/issues/103
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=778151
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-accessibility/2017/02/msg00010.html

Mate running on X11.
Comment 10 Ben McMonagle 2023-07-06 05:27:23 CEST
still valid: 

ISO Name: Mageia-9-rc1-i586.iso
DATE.txt: Mon Jul  3 06:29:42 PM CEST 2023.

things have improved:

it now takes about 30 seconds before the letters begin to be copied from the work area to the text window.
Comment 11 David GEIGER 2023-07-08 07:52:30 CEST
Could you report this issue upstream at https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/dasher/-/issues ?
Comment 12 Ben McMonagle 2023-07-08 09:31:05 CEST
best I can do:

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/dasher/-/issues/5