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Squashed controls in Ubuntu 19.04
Posted: Tue May 28, 2019 10:55 am
by Joel_graff
So has this issue been identified?
- Screenshot from 2019-05-28 05-53-00.png (14.04 KiB) Viewed 1888 times
I noticed it several months ago when I was running Pop OS, and assumed it was just that distro, but apparently, it's ubuntu as well...
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OS: Ubuntu 19.04
Word size of OS: 64-bit
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.18.16117 (Git) AppImage
Build type: Release
Branch: (HEAD detached at 0.18.2)
Hash: dbb4cc6415bac848a294f03b80f65e888d531742
Python version: 3.6.7
Qt version: 5.6.2
Coin version: 4.0.0a
OCC version: 7.3.0
Locale: English/UnitedStates (en_US)
Re: Squashed controls in Ubuntu 19.04
Posted: Tue May 28, 2019 11:20 am
by wmayer
OS: Ubuntu 19.04
Qt version: 5.6.2
I wonder whether using this quite old Qt version on the latest Ubuntu version might be a problem. According to
https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keyw ... ection=all the used default version is 5.11.
Re: Squashed controls in Ubuntu 19.04
Posted: Tue May 28, 2019 11:50 am
by Joel_graff
wmayer wrote: ↑Tue May 28, 2019 11:20 am
I wonder whether using this quite old Qt version on the latest Ubuntu version might be a problem. According to
https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keyw ... ection=all the used default version is 5.11.
That may be. I'm assuming I can't fix that without using a newer AppImage, right? If so, I'm out of luck, because I can't get 0.19 to run either as an AppImage or compile from source on my system. This appears my only option.
Re: Squashed controls in Ubuntu 19.04
Posted: Tue May 28, 2019 12:08 pm
by wmayer
You can tmp. install the official FreeCAD from the Ubuntu repository. Even if this might be an old version you can at least easily test if the same dialog is broken or not.
Re: Squashed controls in Ubuntu 19.04
Posted: Tue May 28, 2019 1:03 pm
by Joel_graff
wmayer wrote: ↑Tue May 28, 2019 12:08 pm
You can tmp. install the official FreeCAD from the Ubuntu repository. Even if this might be an old version you can at least easily test if the same dialog is broken or not.
Right. I'll take a look at that later today and confirm. I've gotten so used to working with dev, I completely forget about the repo version
Also, while I've got your attention, I don't suppose you'd mind giving your opinion on this issue? (I suppose I'm hijacking my own thread
)
https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic. ... 6&start=10
Re: Squashed controls in Ubuntu 19.04
Posted: Tue May 28, 2019 1:53 pm
by wmayer
Re: Squashed controls in Ubuntu 19.04
Posted: Tue May 28, 2019 5:22 pm
by Joel_graff
wmayer wrote: ↑Tue May 28, 2019 12:08 pm
You can tmp. install the official FreeCAD from the Ubuntu repository. Even if this might be an old version you can at least easily test if the same dialog is broken or not.
The freecad 0.18 snap doesn't have that issue. Too bad it runs Python 2.7
Re: Squashed controls in Ubuntu 19.04
Posted: Wed May 29, 2019 2:41 am
by Joel_graff
Ok, so I've learned the following about FreeCAD and my fresh install of Ubuntu 19.04
- v0.19 just doesn't work. It loads, but has (I'm guessing) a Py3 incompatibility issue. AppImage, FreeCAD-daily, and build from source all exhibit the same problem that prevents any workbench from loading. I've posted on this elsewhere...
- v0.18 AppImage works, but exhibits the squashed box issue
- v0.18 Snap works without issue. It's old. And ugly. But it works.
And with that, I have no other ideas.
Re: Squashed controls in Ubuntu 19.04
Posted: Wed May 29, 2019 8:04 am
by wmayer
When looking at
https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keyw ... ection=all then apparently in 19.04 the FreeCAD package is not offered at all. eoan will this be the upcoming Ubuntu 19.10? There FreeCAD v0.18 is back.
Re: Squashed controls in Ubuntu 19.04
Posted: Wed May 29, 2019 5:24 pm
by vocx
Yes, that seems to be the case. Kremitzki's response is basically that it was removed (due to some test error?) from 19.04. In order to include it again users would need to add the
ubuntu-backports repository. So he thinks that if users need to activate an additional repository, they should forgo the backports, and just add the
freecad-stable or
freecad-daily repositories, and get the latest FreeCAD that way.
In 19.10 a version of FreeCAD 0.18 (0.18.2 or 0.18.3, if any is released) will be included as long as no error is found again.
kkremitzki wrote: ↑Thu May 09, 2019 1:42 am
... Regardless, it isn't going to be available because it was removed and 19.04 is already released; it might be possible to get it in via disco-backports but not disco proper, so someone obtaining it that way would have to add the -backports repo anyway; they might as well just add our PPA.