When running on Vista, selecting an item from the menu (e.g. by right clicking the icon in the system tray, or by selecting an item from a Workrave drop-down menu such as which timers to show in the applet) the color is white-on-white.

Also, right clicking the applet opens a Workrave menu, but selecting any of the items is non functional. Workrave does not open a dialog which it does when selecting a menu item from the systray menu.

<< Also, right clicking the applet opens a Workrave menu, but selecting any of the items is non functional. Workrave does not open a dialog which it does when selecting a menu item from the systray menu. >>

Please select 'About...' Does it say Workrave 1.8.5?

Do you have a 64-bit processor? Are you using Vista x64? You can check by using command 'winver' 

Please test the applet menu functionality after a reboot.

Also, you can use a checksum utility to check workrave-applet.dll :

> cd "\Program Files\Workrave\lib"
> md5deep -lk workrave-applet.dll
7a14a2681bf7a08ec7b5f72808ed8bb0 *workrave-applet.dll

^^ that's the right md5 for Workrave 1.8.5 applet.

- About window shows 1.8.5
- No 64 version of Vista. This is a Dell D600. Note that it's not capable of running Aero so it runs the basic interface.
- Reboot does not change the behaviour.
- md5: 
7a14a2681bf7a08ec7b5f72808ed8bb0 *workrave-applet.dll

Thank you for checking the applet md5. You wrote:


<< When running on Vista, selecting an item from the menu (e.g. by right clicking the icon in the system tray, or by selecting an item from a Workrave drop-down menu such as which timers to show in the applet) the color is white-on-white. >>

Reported earlier this year as bug #580. It is a cosmetic issue and I'll try to have it fixed by the next release.


<< Also, right clicking the applet opens a Workrave menu, but selecting any of the items is non functional. Workrave does not open a dialog which it does when selecting a menu item from the systray menu. >>

Confirmed on Vista. It probably happens because Workrave's applet (running with medium integrity as the logged on user) is unable to SendMessages to Workrave (running with high integrity as a "full" Administrator). Workrave does not need administrator privileges to run on Vista, and that requirement will be removed from future releases.

When the next nightly is released I will test it for stability and to see if the applet menu problem is still present.

Problem seems to be fixed in latest build.

Workrave now uses a more recent version of Gtk and no longer requires admin privileges