On Monday 26 September 2005 20:48, BandiPat wrote: > Hi guys, > Just saw this email on the SuSE list: > > quote: > Brad Pepers > brad at linuxcanada.com > > There is a bug in the Qt/KDE integration patches to Qt in SuSE 9.3 > which is causing third-party applications such as Quasar, Scribus, > and LinCVS to fail to work properly. Its easy to duplicate and > show and is a problem in the patch to redirect Qt QMessageBox > static methods to KDE message boxes. The basic problem is that > there are two ways to call the QMessageBox functions. One way you > pass in the text for the buttons on the message box and it should > return which button was pressed (0, 1, or 2). The other way to > call something like QMessageBox::warning though is to pass in a > list of button ids such as QMessageBox::Yes/No/Cancel/... and in > this case what should be returned is the button id that was > clicked. The replacement code added in SuSE 9.3 that passes these > functions off to KDE treats these both the same and will return the > button number (0/1/2) in each case. So any code that uses Qt and > calls QMessageBox::warning with button ids of QMessageBox::Yes and > QMessageBox::No and then checks the result to make sure it matches > QMessageBox::Yes will now fail and the user is left with an > application that won't do the work regardless of whether they > choose Yes or No! > unquote > > As I am still running 9.2, but have the newer KDE/QT installed, I > can't recall having this problem, but speaking with a user of SuSE > 10, it does exist. Now the simple thing, it seems to me, would be > for those three mentioned programs to adjust their coding to > eliminate this problem. Although it may be a QT/KDE or SuSE > problem, which I'm confident will be fixed, if it's a deal breaking > bug, wouldn't it be easiest to fix at the program level? If there > are only a few programs finding this bug, wouldn't it be easier for > them to provide a fix for their programs? The Scribus guys may > already be aware and have a fix? I just rejoined the list, so this > may have already been brought up, my appologies if that is the > case. > > Have any others noticed this same bug with SuSE 9.3+? > > Just curious > Patrick
Hi, Oh yeah.... ;) See: http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=2425 Cheers, Peter
