I think this bug has a workaround. I'm not sure this will work on 12.04, for I'm still using 11.10 and it worked there. The idea is to copy /usr/share/gedit/plugins/latex/tools.xml over $HOME/.config/gedit/latex/tools.xml using root user priviledges. This will prevent the local file to be overwritten, because everytime gedit is opened the local tools.xml gets corrupted. This also implies that you cannot edit this file as a normal user through the plugin "Preferences" dialog. An alternative method would be to copy the file as superuser, change ownership to a normal user, modify the tools through the Preferences dialog, and then change the ownership back to root. I didn't have the time to have a look at the code to find out the reasons for this silly behavior (i.e. why most of the text in the local tools.xml gets chopped off), so someone is strongly encouraged to do so and come up with a fix for this.
Cheers. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gedit-plugins in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/996076 Title: gedit latex plugin does not work Status in “gedit-plugins” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: The latex plugin for gedit just does not wok. I am using ubuntu 12.04, gedit 3.4.1-0ubuntu1 and gedit-latex-plugin 3.4.0-1 this is the output terminal output when I open a .tex file with gedit Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/gedit/plugins/latex/windowactivatable.py", line 79, in do_activate self._tool_preferences = ToolPreferences() File "/usr/lib/gedit/plugins/latex/util.py", line 40, in getinstance instances[cls] = cls() File "/usr/lib/gedit/plugins/latex/preferences/tools.py", line 72, in __init__ self.__tools = ElementTree.parse(filename).getroot() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1183, in parse tree.parse(source, parser) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 657, in parse self._root = parser.close() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1655, in close self._raiseerror(v) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1507, in _raiseerror raise err xml.etree.ElementTree.ParseError: unclosed token: line 6, column 2 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gedit-plugins/+bug/996076/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
