Forum OpenACS Q&A: Problems with xinha on oacs-5-4

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1: Problems with xinha on oacs-5-4
Posted by Claudio Pasolini on 02/13/08 04:01 PM
I just did a fresh install of oacs-5-4 from CVS and all went good, even if I'd like to know why the usual locations of 'serverroot' and 'homedir' of the config.tcl file was changed.

I then copied some packages from a working oacs-5-3 and started playing around without problems until I changed the locale to it_IT. After that every time I try to create or edit a xowiki page I get several popups similar to the following:

Error reading Language-File (/resources/acs-templating/xinha-nightly/plugins/FullScreen/lang/it.js):
function Error() {
    [native code]
}
complaining that xinha doesn't find the file it.js.

The it.js files dit not exist also in oacs-5-3 and I think that xinha should default to english without complaining, as it did before.

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2: Re: Problems with xinha on oacs-5-4 (response to 1)
Posted by Don Baccus on 02/14/08 01:33 AM
I'll leave the xinha issue to others, but the directory changes in config.tcl follow an OCT decision to adopt debian as our standard platform, with the goal of working towards the ability to do an apt-get install under debian/ubuntu.

This decision was made in response to the endless observations that OpenACS is a pain to install, which lowers the likelihood that folks interested in what we have to offer will actually install and try the toolkit.

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3: Re: Problems with xinha on oacs-5-4 (response to 1)
Posted by Gustaf Neumann on 02/14/08 07:19 PM
Claudio,

Take out the "FullScreen" from the list of the plugins (in the "templating" package parameters from site-map). Seems, that the plugin is not necessary anymore, you can use the fullscreen mode without the plugin.

In older versions, the language was always set to "en", so there might be some troubles with languages, but we should sort this out to improve i18n.

-gustaf

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4: Re: Problems with xinha on oacs-5-4 (response to 3)
Posted by Claudio Pasolini on 02/14/08 10:54 PM
Hi Gustaf,

actually the problem was not limited to the FullScreen plugin, but also to Abbreviation, EditTag, LangMarks and ListType.

Fortunately the language specific files are very small, and so copying and translating them from another language was a matter of minutes.

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5: Re: Problems with xinha on oacs-5-4 (response to 4)
Posted by Gustaf Neumann on 02/15/08 12:45 AM
i was worried about that. Can you submit the .it files to xinha http://xinha.webfactional.com/? Xinha 0.95 is close to release (rc2 is out), it would make sense to include it there. btw, Xinha 0.95 is likely to have support for safari 3.

Actually, i would expect similar language issues for the plugins for other languages as well. Maybe we should reduce the list of the Xinha plugins in the default configuration, such that admins, adding Xinha plugins take responsibility for the availability of the language files of their used languages.

Xinha itself has 34 languages, so i do not expect much problems there.