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[Jeffrey Liu <jliu@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jaap,

The problem was that set XDG_DATA_DIRS incorrectly to ~/gtk/inst/share/zim.

After setting it to your suggestion ~/gtk/inst/share, everything works.

I'll be putting pyzim through it's paces and will continue researching
on how to package it for the Mac.

Thanks again,
Jeff


On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 3:36 AM, Jaap
Karssenberg<jaap.karssenberg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 5:17 AM, Jeffrey Liu<jliu@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Forgive me as I'm not a programmer.  I don't know what else I can do
>> to debug this issue.
> ...
>>  File "/Users/jliu/gtk/inst/lib/python2.5/site-packages/zim/gui/__init__.py",
>> line 189, in __init__
>>    icon = data_file('zim.png').path
>> AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'path'
>
> If you check out the latest version from launchpad, it will have a
> check for the data path. If it can not find the data files it will
> give you the path it searched. If you don't have it already you can
> check out the dev tree with "bzr branch lp:zim/pyzim".
>
> In theory it should work if the correct path is in the XDG_DATA_DIRS
> environment variable.
>
> So if you installed the icon "zim.png" to
> "/Users/jliu/gtk/inst/share/zim/zim.png" the path
> "/Users/jliu/gtk/inst/share" should be in XDG_DATA_DIRS.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Jaap
>