Bug 139342

Summary: kcalc doesn't let me do *any* operation with SCIM installed
Product: [Applications] kcalc Reporter: David <StormByte>
Component: generalAssignee: Klaus Niederkrüger <kniederk>
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME    
Severity: normal CC: jj_kame_r, martin.tesar
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Gentoo Packages   
OS: Linux   
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Description David 2006-12-29 02:39:09 UTC 
Version:           kcalc 2.0.5 (kde 3.5.5) (using KDE KDE 3.5.5)
Installed from:    Gentoo Packages
Compiler:          gcc 4.1.1 CFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O2 -pipe -msse3"
OS:                Linux

This has a very high severity status.

With SCIM installed, I type a number (from now on, type and click on corresponding buttons are equivalent) it appears corretly, but when I press some operator, the number I typed goes to 0 and I ***CANNOT USE*** kcalc at all.

For example, to do: 3 * 4 in kcalc

I press 3, so I have a 3 in the 'led-like' part of kcalc. After this, I click the "*" button, and my number 3 is now 0, if I type now the 4, it appears the 4, but when pressing = button, the result is 0.

I poested a but in gentoo system but this issue is propably a upstream (your) issue. See this (gentoo's bugzilla report):

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=145923
Comment 1 Patrick 2007-01-11 20:43:59 UTC 
Exactly! I'm experiencing the exact same issue here, although I didn't know it's connected to the use of SCIM. I'm using SCIM (through SKIM) for Chinese input, and about since I set this up properly, kcalc doesn't calculate anymore.

By the way: this is only the case with base set to Decimal. With all other bases (Octal, Binary, Hexadecimal), the calculator works as expected.

This is a PITA, please look into it. People are laughing at me when I advertise KDE as a great desktop environment, but then even my calculator doesn't work. ;)
Comment 2 Patrick 2007-01-11 20:45:57 UTC 
P.S.: I'm also on gentoo, KDE 3.5.5, skim 1.4.5 (libscim 1.4.5), 32 bit system on dual core 32 bit hardware.
Comment 3 Jussi Timperi 2007-05-17 16:10:32 UTC 
Here's also a gentoo user experiencing this on KDE 3.5.6, skim-1.4.5, scim-1.4.6 , scim-qtimm-0.9.4 AMD64
Comment 4 David 2007-05-17 16:19:13 UTC 
*** This bug has been confirmed by popular vote. ***
Comment 5 Funda Wang 2007-06-24 04:01:22 UTC 
The same on Mandriva machines.
Comment 6 Frank Steinmetzger 2007-08-14 13:49:58 UTC 
Upgraded to KDE 3.5.7 two days ago, the problem is still there :(
KCalc 2.0.6
scim 1.4.5-r1
Comment 7 Thomas Zander 2007-12-08 20:42:07 UTC 
*** Bug 143276 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 8 Thomas Zander 2007-12-08 20:47:44 UTC 
Can not reproduce in KDE4 anymore, seems fixed.
Comment 9 Martin Tesar 2009-08-22 18:40:45 UTC 
KCalc 2.0.6 using KDE 3.5.10 (Gentoo) is still unusable because of this bug. The version for KDE 3.5.x won't be fixed?