feisty - installed applets (invest, weather) on panel; they don't respond, and I can't remove them

Thanks for your bug report. Do you still have the problem?

For me the Invest applet does not respond at all, and I can't remove it from the panel. The weather applet seems to work fine, at least for me.

Sorry to replay again so soon. The invest applet finally started to respond. However, when I clicked "Add", it would just keep adding Google's stock. No options or choices at all it seems.

We are closing this bug report as it lacks the information, described in the previous comments, we need to investigate the problem further. However, please reopen it if you can give us the missing information and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future.

I have the exact same problem with my installation.

I am using 7.04 fiesty on a 100% default installation. This was the first thing i tried after installing ubuntu.

- Right click panel
- "Add to panel"
- Select Invest
- After added to panel, try to use the invest applet.

Result: The applet does not respond at all. I cannot right or left click it and therefore i cannot (via the gui) remove it.

I have the same problem with Feisty 7.04 x86_64.

I have the same problem with Ubuntu 7.10 Alpha 5 (invest). Weather works fine.

This is directed at Sebastien Bacher, hoping that this adds some more info. I'm not clear on what was needed for the bug report, but I'll try to be responsive if asked a direct question.

I can't comment on 7.10 Alpha 5, but with 7.04, the invest applet "doesn't work". I'm not sure to what degree it doesn't work, because it /is/ responsive for me, but not at all useful as I understand how to use it:

* I can add it to the top panel with right-click -> Add to Panel. Doing that places an the Invest purple and white graph icon on top panel, with an associated darker gray area to it's right.

* The only mouse action to which it seems to respond is a right-click on the darker gray area on the right. Doing that brings up a menu with Refresh, Preferences, About, and the three Move/Lock/Remove items.

* Refresh appears to do nothing.

* About brings up dialog box. Only thing of note here is that the link "Invest Website" points to http://raphael.slinckx.net/invest which gives a 404 error currently. Also, it's linked to the Preferences dialog such that if I open the About first, then Preferences, I have to close Preferences before I can interact with the About box again. Weird.

* The Preferences Dialog is responsive for me. Clicking the "Add" button adds a new symbol with GOOG as the default. I can click on the newly added GOOG text and it allows me to change the symbol. The problem is that the data for each symbol is a flat-zero. Just clicking around now . . . it appears that I can edit all the datum points. Hrm. Perhaps a help dialog explaining what's going on would be helpful. If I knew what was going on, I'd offer to write the text for you . . .

With my current guess as to what is supposed to happen and what the Invest applet is supposed to do, the problem seems to me to be that the applet is not collecting any data from the web.

Perhaps relevant info:

Ubuntu Feisty, Up-to-date

$ ps waux | grep invest
kevin 30389 0.0 3.8 77960 19960 ? S Sep14 0:05 python /usr/lib/gnome-applets/invest-applet --oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:Invest_Applet_Factory --oaf-ior-fd=33

$ ping www.google.com
PING www.l.google.com (64.233.161.103) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from od-in-f103.google.com (64.233.161.103): icmp_seq=1 ttl=240 time=45.1 ms

$ uname -a
Linux lina 2.6.20-16-generic #2 SMP Fri Aug 31 00:55:27 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

Anything else I should add?

Kevin

Does anybody get the issue in gutsy? Right clicking on the grey square and selecting the remove label works correctly there

Feisty: I can remove the applet from the panel or edit the data as described above, but the applet does not do what it is supposed to do: display stock quotes; the appearance of the applet when the menu is closed (and/or when I left-click) does not change from the default installation images. I also found an rpm for 2.20, but alien reports reverse-byte order and truncated files, so I didn't try the deb it created.

Gutsy : I can add the app but cannot remove it or access it by right / left clicking
has anyone come up with a solution, all post about this in the forums are left unanswered...

[gutsy] hope this is good enough to confirm.
"I can add the app but cannot remove it or access it by right / left clicking"
This happened with the Invtest applet. I solved removing it by making a new panel and moving everything over to it.

Also - should be able to kick /usr/lib/gnome-applets/invest-applet in gnome-system-monitor

I kinda wanted to redo the panel a little anyway.

Same issue here, in gutsy. Added the applet, cannot remove, left/right click does nothing.

Did you clicked in the "grey" (with human theme) part of the applet (right side) ? Does that works? Can someone make a screenshot? Also a few steps to trigger the "bug" would be nice to have, thanks.

I had the same problem, but I solved with a right click just in the border or very near to the border of the icon on the Panel, sorry for my bad English.

invest works for me in Gutsy (Ubuntu Ultimate Edition 1.6).

I had to right-click on the panel just to the right of the icon, an area which does not look like part of the applet but apparently is.

Thanks for the feedback, more like an user issue than a bug in the applet, thanks.

Sorry, I spoke about Feisty 7.04
see you from sunny Spain