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e-mailing photos from shotwell not working

Asked by John Wilson

When I try to prepare a photo for e-mailing in shotwell I select the photo and then right click on it.
The Send to dialogue box opens but when I click OK the process dies.
Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong?

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Chris (fabricator4) said : 		#1

What release of Ubuntu are you running? There _was_ a Nautilus send-to bug that affected Shotwell, but it should have been fixed.

Chris

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John Wilson (jwilsondmartin) said : 		#2

Chris
Thank you for your reply.
I am using 11.10

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Chris (fabricator4) said : 		#3

The original bug I saw was in 11.04, and strictly speaking it was a Nautilus bug. It seems there is still a problem however, and you should file a launchpad bug for it.

Chris

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Adam Dingle (adam-yorba) said : 		#4

John,

which process dies? Shotwell? If Shotwell is crashing, could you try to reproduce this running Shotwell from the command line like this?

$ shotwell

When Shotwell crashes, do you see any output on the console?

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John Wilson (jwilsondmartin) said : 		#5

Hi Adam,
Thank you for your interest.
Shotwell does not crash totally. Only the bit bit where I am wanting to e-mail a picture.
There does seem to be a problem when I run Shotwell from a terminal.
Here is the output:
shotwell

(shotwell:5126): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "pixmap",

(shotwell:5126): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "pixmap",

(shotwell:5126): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "pixmap",

(shotwell:5126): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "pixmap",
Regards,
John

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Adam Dingle (adam-yorba) said : 		#6

John,

I think those warnings are probably benign and unrelated to the problem you're seeing.

What evidence do you have that any process is crashing? I don't understand what you mean by "Shotwell does not crash totally". Either the process has crashed, or it hasn't - there's no possibility in between. :)

Is it possible that you're seeing the following bug, which was present in Shotwell 0.11 (and has been fixed for 0.12)?

http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/4432

Because of that bug, when you try to send photos in Shotwell 0.11 sometimes the Send To dialog simply fails to appear. (There is no process crash, however.)

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John Wilson (jwilsondmartin) said : 		#7

Adam
Thank you for your quick reply.
I think I am seeing this bug.
The photos I have been trying to e-mail have not been edited.
Thank you for fixing it and I will try and download Shotwell 0.12
Regards,
John

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Adam Dingle (adam-yorba) said : 		#8

OK, great. Be aware that Shotwell 0.12 doesn't exist yet: it's in development, and will be released in February 2012. If you want, you can build the latest Shotwell sources from git master, which include the fix for the bug above:

http://yorba.org/shotwell/install/

The development build may not always be completely stable, but we appreciate any testing efforts and welcome feedback.

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John Wilson (jwilsondmartin) said : 		#9

Added Yorba's PPA to my repository.
It would seem I am running Shotwell 0.11.6 so I will just have to wait until 0.12 comes out
Thanks for your help
John