csam
March 25, 2025, 4:19pm
1
Gramps v.6.0 on MacOS Ventura
I have installed two plugins - Graph View and FamilyTreeView. Icons for both are missing in the toolbar
In Gramps v.5.2 plugins were installed in
~/.local/share/gramps/gramps52/plugins
In Gramps v.6.0 plugins are installed in
~/Library/Application Support/gramps/gramps60/plugins
Wondering if it is this change of location that is the cause?
Generally, that indicates that addons failed to load. Now you need to track that down.
Both of those addons need a prerequisite.
Did you check the Addons tab of the Addon Manager for “uninstalled” addons? (Remembering to select the “All” filtering for Audiences and Statuses)
I believe that you will see a Requires button that indicates that ypu have not fulfilled a required manual install of an external library.
csam
March 25, 2025, 5:09pm
3
No, no. Both add-ons works fine. It’s just the icons in the toolbor that are missing. I guess that the shown icon is a standard replcement, for when the add-on’s icon is not found.
I have the same Mac issue with 6.0 icons using default but 5.2 icons okay. I use
Library/Application Support/gramps/gramps51/plugins
and
Library/Application Support/gramps/gramps60/plugins
so it is not the plugin folder.
When I run gramps6.0, I get a warning:
Gtk-**WARNING** **: 10:24:46.177: Found an icon but could not load it. Most likely gdk-pixbuf does not provide SVG support.
I think this verifies that this is from the bug 0013728: Add-ons icons don't show in the toolbar - Gramps - Bugtracker – Free Genealogy Software
csam
March 26, 2025, 6:41am
5
@GaryGriffin
Problem solved here:
@csam @ztlxltl
It is quite simple to correct manually the packaging problem, if you have Gramps 5.2.4, if you are not afraid to look inside the app bundle.
In the Finder, select the Gramps (5.2.4) app, right click and select “show contents”, then go to Contents>Resources>lib>gdk-pixbuf-2.0>2.10.0>loaders
In another Finder window, do the same thing with the Gramps (6.0) app. You can see that there is a file named libpixbufloader_svg.dylib (which is a wrong format) while the others are .so
Copy…
csam
March 26, 2025, 7:37am
6
Changing the loaders.cache file as described by @Bouscram also has effect on the icons in the Notes editor
With the loaders.cache from the v6.0 package
With the loaders.cache copied from the v5.2 package