Version: (using KDE 4.1.0) OS: Linux Installed from: Ubuntu Packages Adept (Kubuntu) upgraded from KDE 3.5 to 4.1. Digikam now has no visible text other than the top menu bar and the picture descriptions in the album view. When rolling over dropdown menu items text flashes for an instant and then disappears. Changed font in KDE control center and windowing theme, and the problem still persists. No other KDE applications appear to be affected.
Which version of digiKam are you using?
I can't tell because the text won't appear. Kinda makes troubleshooting a little difficult. Another piece of information: this is showing up in k3b as well, so this may be a KDE issue and not specific to digiKam. Can this bug be moved to KDE 4.1?
Further information: a new user created after the upgrade from KDE 3.5 to 4.1 does not have the same problem. This appears to be an issue with legacy configuration files hanging around in the user's home directory.
Funny, as you wrote this I had the same problem in digiKam while importing images from my camera. All text except in the mainmenu and the buttons was gone (Folderview, Iconview, Statusbar, Import Dialog as well...). Never seen that before. Since I have not updated KDE, it must be something that never occurred before. Also note that I currently use "Dessert" theme, not Default. Maybe this is the reason? With the default theme (used until yesterday) I have never seen that.
There are other ways to determine the package / program version. Try digikam -v in the console to get the version number. Or use your package manager to extract the information. Version numbers can be very helpful for us devs. I think Kubuntu still uses 0.9.4 but to be sure it is better you just tell us :-) Andi
I should have thought of that. digikam -v reports: Qt: 3.3.8b KDE: 3.5.10 (incorrect) digiKam: 0.9.4 kde4-config reports the following: Qt: 4.4.3 KDE: 4.1.3 (KDE 4.1.3) kde4-config: 1.0
Actually this is not incorrect, digiKam 0.9.4 is linked against KDE 3.5.10. But ok this is not so important right now. Are you using a special digiKam theme? Andi
Using default theme, switched back and forth between several during debug attempt. I think Oxygen is the current theme. Switching these seems to have had no effect. Since newly created users don't seem to have this problem, it really looks like a legacy KDE config file is the culprit. This system was installed with KDE2.x and upgraded via apt to where it is now. The answer here may be as simple as nuking a file in the user's .kde directory, but I'm not familiar with how KDE stores config data and what might be safe to mess with.
Oxygen is no digiKam theme ;-) digiKam itself has a theming engine, you can change the themes in the settings menu (if you can see it :-)) Since you are using digiKam 0.9.4, your config file is still the same as it was in KDE3 (and assuming you had digiKam 0.9.3 before the system upgrade). So if it worked before, it should do so now. You have no KDE4 config file for this because digiKam 0.9.4 is still a KDE3 application.
Makes sense. I was referring to KDE themes, since I can't change the theme in digiKam without being able to see the menu text. The digiKam theme hadn't been changed while it was running under KDE 3.5, and it wasn't changed in KDE4.
Greg, This entry still valid ? Gilles Caulier
I never seen this again, for me it happened only once and only with KDE3. So again, is this report still valid? Andi
Sound like a KDE theme problem, probably customized by a distro. I never see this problem too... DOWNSTREAM ? Gilles