James Tyrer posted on Sat, 31 Dec 2011 17:54:26 -0700 as excerpted: > So, I installed the current KDE-4.8 BRANCH and again, it should not be > called a Release Candidate.
> Three icons no longer had their correct icon image but rather had the > "unknown" icon. Can't see how this would happen. Icons? In a plasmoid? In the applications menu? Where? Which ones? My first guess would be that this could be due to icon names changing. Existing configurations (either per-user or for other apps not updated) using the old names would then get the "unknown" icon. If you had given a bit more detail as to where and in what this was occurring and whether it was a user-configured location and/or whether it still occurred in a fresh user config, it would have been easier to figure out what's happening. At least it would have likely been possible for me to confirm whether I see the same issue here on 4.7.95 (aka 4,8-rc1). FWIW, the rc label looks reasonable here, altho I don't by any means have all of kde installed and in fact have neither kdepim nor much of any semantic-desktop stuff installed at all, and like apparently most kde devs I now consider konqueror only a toy browser and default to something else (firefox in my case), tho I do have it installed, so I'd likely fail to notice many issues with konqueror, as well. In particular, I've run both betas and now rc1, and don't see any sign of the icon issues you very vaguely mention, with no specifics that I can verify further. > Fixing that, I found a REGRESSION. That thing that pops up on the end > of a panel when you unlock widgets is again taking up space. This has > been fixed previously. Hmm... It doesn't appear to be doing so here. However, since I'm on the 4.7.95 pre-release and you're apparently on live-branch, it's quite possible they broke something (hopefully temporarily, full release is less than a month out...) on live-branch that I'm not seeing in my version. Confirming, a panel's cashew/toolbox does NOT take up additional room here. Sliding the panel size sliders to shrink the panel moves the cashew into the plasmoid to its left, so they appear on top of each other, as they do if the panel can be expanded further (minimum and maximum sliders not set to the same size) but no plasmoid is forcing it to ATM (as when for example a panel with a systray plasmoid is set with a maximum size to accomodate more tray icons than it has at present, so both the plasmoid and the panel are shrunk to a smaller size... the toolbox doesn't force the panel wider in that case either, as you appear to be suggestion it does for you). > Might I suggest that there must be a better solution to this than the > "Panel Tool Box [sic]" (note that in my dictionary that 'toolbox' is one > word). Indeed there's a dictionary entry for that here (well, on wictionary, which is what I checked), but the word is clearly a compound composed of two separate words (wictionary etymology section confirming), and the two words both remain in popular independent usage as well, so it might be a bit strange, but would be author's preference. And especially if English is a second language for that author, or their dialect has the two separate words commonly used together... Here's the google search "tool box" -toolbox : http://www.google.com/search?q=%22tool+box%22+-toolbox&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8 Looks quite common from here! =:^) IOW, if that's the level of complaints you're listing, this must be quite a good rc indeed! =:^) > I note that when widgets are unlocked that the menu for icons on > the panel and the panel contain an additional item: "Remove this ...". > Couldn't this be handled with an addition to the menu? Oh wait! it is > already there under: PanelOptions. So the: Panel Tool Box [sic] is > redundant. Actually, it'd be other locations for those options that are redundant, because as has been explained before, the other places the option appears are under the control of the plasmoid clicked on (and in the case of the desktop/activity toolbox/cashew, there's a user option to use what would ordinarily be the right-click menu for something else entirely) or otherwise not guaranteed to always be there. The cashew/toolbox is thus the only consistent place such options can be expected to appear (the kdelook IHateTheCashew, cashew-removal plasmoid not withstanding... that's not an officially supported plasmoid and while they aren't going out of their way to break it, neither are plasma authors changing their assumptions, which that plasmoid breaks, thus behavior with it is as they say, "undefined"). All that said, I personally find BOTH the whole cashew thing blown WAY out of proportion as it's simply not that big a deal to me (as long as it works as expected if it appears at all, which it does, here), AND, given kde's usual support of user customization, the plasma-dev's insistence on it entirely mystifying as well. Oh, well, as I said, it's unobtrusive enough for me that I find it to be no big deal. <shrug> > After wasting considerable time, I find that there is a new bug. When I > lock widgets, the content of the top panel moves to the (my) right > pushing the right most icon slightly off the edge and leaving a small > space on the left end. That would also be a REGRESSION -- possibly > related to the first one. Interesting. I don't see that one here either. <shrug> But you are correct in that it does sound like it's related to the cashew taking up space bug. Just to be sure, since I know you had problems with one of the other URLs. You didn't perhaps fetch and build the 4.7 or (given the change noted below) the pre-4.7 branch instead of the 4.8 branch, right? You did know that they changed the plasma module names for 4.7, right? If you're still using the old locations you'd be fetching old pre-4.7 code! That would explain why you're seeing old bugs! According to the gentoo/kde overlay ebuilds and eclasses, the modules are: kde-baseapps kde-runtime kde-workspace FWIW I believe they were kdebase-* previously. They're all three git-based (not the older svn): git://anongit.kde.org/<modulename> Branch: KDE/4.8 -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde-linux mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-linux. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
