16 thoughts on “GRunner…”

  1. martin

    Makes me _very_ curious, but needs more polish / needs to be more user friendly. This was my experience:

    fetched lp:grunner, open MD and compiled it. Ran the generated exe and got this error:

    mnemo@kingfish:~/src/grunner$ GRunner/bin/Debug/GRunner.exe

    ** (GRunner:30530): WARNING **: The following assembly referenced from /home/mnemo/src/grunner/GRunner/bin/Debug/GRunner.exe could not be loaded:
    Assembly: gnomedesktop-sharp (assemblyref_index=9)
    Version: 2.20.0.0
    Public Key: 35e10195dab3c99f
    The assembly was not found in the Global Assembly Cache, a path listed in the MONO_PATH environment variable, or in the location of the executing assembly (/home/mnemo/src/grunner/GRunner/bin/Debug/).

    ** (GRunner:30530): WARNING **: Could not load file or assembly ‘gnomedesktop-sharp, Version=2.20.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=35e10195dab3c99f’ or one of its dependencies.

    ** (GRunner:30530): WARNING **: Missing method .ctor in assembly /home/mnemo/src/grunner/GRunner/bin/Debug/GRunner.exe, type Gnome.DesktopItem

    Unhandled Exception: System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not load file or assembly ‘gnomedesktop-sharp, Version=2.20.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=35e10195dab3c99f’ or one of its dependencies.
    File name: ‘gnomedesktop-sharp, Version=2.20.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=35e10195dab3c99f’
    at GRunner.SystemUtils..ctor () [0x00000]
    at GRunner.DBusController.Init () [0x00000]
    at (wrapper remoting-invoke-with-check) GRunner.DBusController:Init ()
    at GRunner.MainClass.Main (System.String[] args) [0x00000]
    mnemo@kingfish:~/src/grunner$

    then after some random guesswork and search apt-cache for a while I tried:
    sudo apt-get install gnome-desktop-sharp2

    but even after that I crashes on startup:

    mnemo@kingfish:~/src/grunner/GRunner/bin/Debug$ ./GRunner.exe
    Unhandled Exception: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
    at GRunner.Item.parseExec (System.String exec) [0x00000]
    at GRunner.Item.get_Exec () [0x00000]
    at GRunner.SystemUtils.CreateApplicationsList () [0x00000]
    at GRunner.SystemUtils..ctor () [0x00000]
    at GRunner.DBusController.Init () [0x00000]
    at (wrapper remoting-invoke-with-check) GRunner.DBusController:Init ()
    at GRunner.MainClass.Main (System.String[] args) [0x00000]

    At this point I just gave up.

    Tell me, what does the grunner app do?

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  2. admin Post author

    GRunner is in developing 🙂

    It’s normal that there are some problems. It’s still a prototipe for now.

    Anyway.. it seems that you did not install some required packages, try to install:

    gnome-desktop-sharp2 libndesk-dbus1.0-cil

    Ah, remember to kill any instance of GRunner (it works on dbus!).

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  3. Hans Rödtang

    This should replace the GNOME Run Dialog ^^, a nice middle ground between it and the heavy GNOME-Do.

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  4. martin

    I have both of those packages installed and I still get the error. If I investigate deeper, the problem is that the “exec” variable in parseExec() is null when it’s called from get_Exec() on startup.

    Unhandled Exception: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
    at GRunner.Item.parseExec (System.String exec) [0x00016] in /home/mnemo/src/grunner/GRunner/Base/Item.cs:114
    at GRunner.Item.get_Exec () [0x00000] in /home/mnemo/src/grunner/GRunner/Base/Item.cs:68
    at GRunner.SystemUtils.CreateApplicationsList () [0x000bf] in /home/mnemo/src/grunner/GRunner/Utils/SystemUtils.cs:143
    at GRunner.SystemUtils..ctor () [0x00006] in /home/mnemo/src/grunner/GRunner/Utils/SystemUtils.cs:39
    at GRunner.DBusController.Init () [0x00000] in /home/mnemo/src/grunner/GRunner/gtk-gui/generated.cs:1
    at (wrapper remoting-invoke-with-check) GRunner.DBusController:Init ()
    at GRunner.MainClass.Main (System.String[] args) [0x00023] in /home/mnemo/src/grunner/GRunner/Main.cs:26

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  5. admin Post author

    It seems that you have some wrong files.desktop.

    Try to investigate, in file Utils/SystemUtils.cs try to add this line at 149:

    	if(item.Exist)
	{
+		Console.WriteLine(file);
		if (dict.ContainsKey(item.Exec))
			{
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  10. martin

    Hey Leo,

    I found out why your program crashes on my machine. It’s because the program cannot handle items on the desktop which have a pipe (|) in the caption text or maybe in the filename.

    If I do this:

    +++ GRunner/Utils/SystemUtils.cs 2009-03-01 19:18:04 +0000
    @@ -122,14 +122,20 @@

    foreach (string file in Directory.GetFiles(dir,”*.desktop”))
    {
    + Console.WriteLine(“file==” + file);
    string fileName = file.Substring(dir.Length+1);
    try{
    – item = new Item(new DesktopItem(fileName,DesktopItemLoadFlags.NoTranslations));
    + DesktopItem di1 = new DesktopItem(fileName,DesktopItemLoadFlags.NoTranslations);
    + Console.WriteLine(“di1 created”);
    + item = new Item(di1);
    }
    – catch {
    + catch (Exception ex) {
    + Console.WriteLine(ex.GetType() + “: ” + ex.Message);
    try
    – {
    – item = new Item(DesktopItem.NewFromFile(file,DesktopItemLoadFlags.NoTranslations));
    + {
    + DesktopItem di2 = DesktopItem.NewFromFile(file,DesktopItemLoadFlags.NoTranslations);
    + Console.WriteLine (“di2 created”);
    + item = new Item(di2);
    }
    catch
    {
    @@ -140,6 +146,7 @@
    }
    if(item.Exist)
    {
    + Console.WriteLine(“file==” + fileName);
    if (dict.ContainsKey(item.Exec))
    {
    if (dict[item.Exec].IsMissingIcon)

    Then it prints this:
    file==/home/mnemo/Desktop/a|b.desktop
    GLib.GException: Error cannot find file id ‘a|b.desktop’
    di2 created
    file==a|b.desktop
    exec is null

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  12. admin Post author

    Thanks for the report…

    I’ve solved problem in bzr…

    GRunner will exclude every desktop file that does not present “Exec” string (that is not an application), at least for now.

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  13. Vadim P.

    I like your style (video + simplistic instructions to get it for the technical users :).

    How will this fare with Gnome DO?

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