Bug#693508: How to get hamster-applet running again

[Micha Lenk]

Hi,

I just ran into the same issue with the hamster applet not starting 
anymore. I am running Debian wheezy with some backports installed (see 
system information below). When I run it from the shell I always got the 
following output:

$ hamster-time-tracker
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/usr/bin/hamster-time-tracker", line 602, in <module>
     app = ProjectHamster()
   File "/usr/bin/hamster-time-tracker", line 110, in __init__
     self.init_workspace_tracking()
   File "/usr/bin/hamster-time-tracker", line 209, in 
init_workspace_tracking
     if not wnck: # can't track if we don't have the trackable
NameError: global name 'wnck' is not defined

Following the advice in message #12 from Debian Bug #693508 did not help 
me at all. I even removed the mentioned file 
~/.gconf/apps/hamster-applet/%gconf.xml entirely, but even this didn't help.

What did help though was to run gconf-editor and set the Gconf key 
/apps/hamster-applet/workspace_tracking to an empty list. After that 
hamster started again. Apparently Gconf on my system stores the settings 
somewhere else...

I hope this information is useful to other users affected by this issue.


Happy hacking,
Micha



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.5
   APT prefers stable-updates
   APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages hamster-applet depends on:
ii  gconf2            3.2.5-1+build1
ii  python            2.7.3-4+deb7u1
ii  python-cairo      1.8.8-1+b2
ii  python-dbus       1.1.1-1
ii  python-gconf      2.28.1+dfsg-1
ii  python-gnome2     2.28.1+dfsg-1
ii  python-gobject-2  2.28.6-10
ii  python-gtk2       2.24.0-3+b1
ii  python-wnck       2.32.0+dfsg-2+b1
ii  python-xdg        0.19-5
ii  python2.7         2.7.3-6+deb7u2

Versions of packages hamster-applet recommends:
ii  gnome-icon-theme  3.4.0-2
ii  python-notify     0.1.1-3

Versions of packages hamster-applet suggests:
pn  python-evolution  <none>

-- no debconf information