Version: 0.13.1 (Using KDE 3.05a (using KDE KDE 3.0.5) Installed from: Mandrake RPMs Compiler: Did not do any compilation. Just downloaded Mandrake CDs and possibly other rpms. OS: Linux While I was viewing a pdf document using the KGhostview in one KDE window I goofed and renamed the pdf file I was viewing using the KDE Konqueror in another window. KDE did not complain to the file renaming. I would have thought that should have resulted in a sharing violation. However, following that KGhostview just kept going showing me blank pages.
I think the proper behaviour should be that KGhostView shows a message that the file got removed. And even better would be if it could still show the pages.
The only way I can reproduce this even going back to KDE 3.0.0 is if I get a broken gs installation (not that hard ;) and gs quits after each page. In normal use, this doesn't happen. If the file gets changed from underneath kghostview after the gs slave has opened it, normal unix semantics keep the old file available to the slave which just keeps on displaying the pages. I leave the bug open, but the real issue is tellling the user that gs exited abruptly. Maybe "the rendering experienced some problems. You might see incomplete images. Please check your ghostscript installation, ...". This might also fix bug 24226. I will look into it. luis pedro coelho.
*** Bug 24226 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Bug 56521 shows a good approach to making the no-warning-if-gs-fails problem come up. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 56521 *** *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 56521 ***