Stay where you are, imo :) Craig
On Monday 26 September 2005 21:08, Bart Alberti wrote: > I was about to install 9.3 up grade from 9.2 directly. Is recommended > not to do so? > > Bart Alberti > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Scribus mailing list > Scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de > http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/mailman/listinfo/scribus -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20050926/b457e05a/attachment.pgp
