tango skin: cannot access hamburger menu options on macOS

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Reported by: foss-4
Date: 2017-05-07T19:46:37Z
Status: Fix Released
Importance: Medium
Launchpad Issue: lp1689196
Tags: skin
Attachments: [mixxx nightly tango skin hamburge menu broken.mp4](https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1689196/+attachment/4873201/+files/mixxx nightly tango skin hamburge menu broken.mp4), skin.xml

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macOS 10.12.4
Mixxx nightly 6275

see screencast.

the menu seems to show on the very left, but options are behind existing skin elements and unaccessible (and not readable of course).

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Commented by: foss-4
Date: 2017-05-07T19:46:37Z
Attachments: [mixxx nightly tango skin hamburge menu broken.mp4](https://bugs.launchpad.net/mixxx/+bug/1689196/+attachment/4873201/+files/mixxx nightly tango skin hamburge menu broken.mp4)

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Commented by: foss-4
Date: 2017-05-09T09:20:56Z

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This is the PR introducing Tango skin to master: #1151

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Commented by: ronso0
Date: 2017-05-10T18:01:22Z

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We tried different things to bring skin settings to the front:

• nesting skin container into another WidgetGroup
• nesting skin settings template into another WidgetGroup

Apparently all other stacked layouts and WidgetStacks in skin work.
And it seems to happen with OSX only.

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Commented by: Be-ing
Date: 2017-05-13T15:56:54Z

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If you don't have any other ideas for how to make the stacking work, I suggest pushing the rest of the skin over like Deere's settings menu.

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Commented by: ronso0
Date: 2017-05-15T17:05:27Z
Attachments: skin.xml

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Placing it left to main skin would be last resort.

@foss-4 Could you please try the following skin.xml?

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Commented by: foss-4
Date: 2017-05-15T18:04:58Z

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Hey ronso0, thanks for digging into this. The skin.xml file from today does not improve the situation.

If you need debugging info find me on irc.

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Commented by: ronso0
Date: 2017-05-17T18:27:18Z

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Okay thanks, that would have been to simple.

Since I don't know how to debug qt, here's my last try, maybe related to a focus bug with mac and qt4.8 I found on the net.

To test, please run Mixxx in developer mode (mixxx --developer), then go to Developer menu, pick Developer Tools. In that window's Controls tab type
'settings' in the search box. 'skin_settings' will show up, set its value to 1

If then, skin settings pop up properly (and stay until you click somewhere in main skin) we'd be one step closer.

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Commented by: foss-4
Date: 2017-05-18T08:26:11Z

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wanted to test this but I assume doing sth wrong with starting from CLI. here's what I tired:

open -a mixxx.app --args developer

Mixxx openes but I don't see a developer menu.

help says:
Usage: open [-e] [-t] [-f] [-W] [-R] [-n] [-g] [-h] [-s <partial SDK name>][-b <bundle identifier>] [-a <application>] [filenames] [--args arguments]
Help: Open opens files from a shell.
      By default, opens each file using the default application for that file.  
      If the file is in the form of a URL, the file will be opened as a URL.
Options: 
      -a                Opens with the specified application.
      -b                Opens with the specified application bundle identifier.
      -e                Opens with TextEdit.
      -t                Opens with default text editor.
      -f                Reads input from standard input and opens with TextEdit.
      -F  --fresh       Launches the app fresh, that is, without restoring windows. Saved persistent state is lost, excluding Untitled documents.
      -R, --reveal      Selects in the Finder instead of opening.
      -W, --wait-apps   Blocks until the used applications are closed (even if they were already running).
          --args        All remaining arguments are passed in argv to the application's main() function instead of opened.
      -n, --new         Open a new instance of the application even if one is already running.
      -j, --hide        Launches the app hidden.
      -g, --background  Does not bring the application to the foreground.
      -h, --header      Searches header file locations for headers matching the given filenames, and opens them.
      -s                For -h, the SDK to use; if supplied, only SDKs whose names contain the argument value are searched.
                        Otherwise the highest versioned SDK in each platform is used.

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Commented by: ronso0
Date: 2017-05-18T12:49:42Z

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I don't have any experience with OSX, sorry.
Maybe try this from the directory where mixxx.app is located:
./mixxx --developer

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Commented by: foss-4
Date: 2017-05-19T07:55:05Z

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no luck so far.

open path/to/mixxx/mixxx.app

works, but

open path/to/mixxx/mixxx.app --developer

just shows the info as pasted above and not open the app.

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Commented by: sblaisot
Date: 2017-05-19T09:42:03Z

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2 things to try :
open path/to/mixxx/mixxx.app --args "--developer"
open path/to/mixxx/mixxx.app --args -- --developer

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Commented by: foss-4
Date: 2017-05-19T09:50:36Z

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Sébastien, thanks a bunch.

open path/to/mixxx/mixxx.app --args "--developer"
actually worked.

so opened developer menu > developer tools
"settings" in the search box brings up one result. change value from "0" to "1".

then using the hamburger menu still results in the behavior shown in the initial screencast.

:( sorry I don't have better news.

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Commented by: ronso0
Date: 2017-05-19T14:19:05Z

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Okay, thank you for trying.
So I'll move skin settings to the right part of main skin in #1259, where I wanted it to be in the first place and what didn't work out with the 'floating menu'. Also it will be consistent with Deere this way.

Nevertheless it would be good if someone with QT experience looks into this, maybe this bug causes other issues.

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Commented by: foss-4
Date: 2017-07-08T09:32:44Z

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#1259 has been merged. Setting to "Fix Committed"

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Commented by: foss-4
Date: 2017-10-16T10:25:29Z

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fix verifed. thanks a lot ronso0.

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Issue closed with status Fix Released.