Bug 160820

Summary: 3D Earth Model widget sticks around like a ghost, arrhh!
Product: [Plasma] plasma4 Reporter: Rodney Gedda <rodney>
Component: generalAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal    
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Ubuntu   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:

Description Rodney Gedda 2008-04-14 13:40:23 UTC 
Version:           4.0.3 (using KDE 4.0.3)
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages
OS:                Linux

I have seen the reports of Plasma crashing when this widget is added to a system that doesn't support OpenGL shaders, but my experience is different.

If I drag the 3D Earth Model widget to the desktop I get a plasmoid with the message "this object could not be created". When I kill it it returns the next time I start my desktop session (or computer).

If I drag it to the panel I get the message "This object could not be created for the following reason: OpenGL shaders not supported", but not just on the panel the bottom half of the message stretches over to the top of the screen! And now I can't seem to get rid of the damn error message. It just won't delete. Weird shit.

I'm using Intel 945 graphics which supports KWin Composite in a breeze.

I hope this helps make KDE more usable. Keep up the good work.
Comment 1 Aaron J. Seigo 2008-06-16 04:36:03 UTC 
there were a few issues being highlighted here, all of which are addressed in 4.1