Bug 177686

Summary: Menu text is invisible
Product: [Applications] digikam Reporter: Greg Letiecq <greg>
Component: Usability-MenusAssignee: Digikam Developers <digikam-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED DOWNSTREAM    
Severity: normal    
Priority: NOR    
Version: 0.9.4   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Ubuntu   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In: 1.0.0
Sentry Crash Report:

Description Greg Letiecq 2008-12-13 16:12:39 UTC
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.
Comment 1 Andi Clemens 2008-12-13 16:29:48 UTC
Which version of digiKam are you using?
Comment 2 Greg Letiecq 2008-12-13 16:37:27 UTC
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?
Comment 3 Greg Letiecq 2008-12-13 16:47:13 UTC
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.
Comment 4 Andi Clemens 2008-12-13 16:49:45 UTC
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.
Comment 5 Andi Clemens 2008-12-13 16:54:58 UTC
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
Comment 6 Greg Letiecq 2008-12-13 17:01:57 UTC
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

Comment 7 Andi Clemens 2008-12-13 17:09:47 UTC
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
Comment 8 Greg Letiecq 2008-12-13 17:14:35 UTC
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.
Comment 9 Andi Clemens 2008-12-13 17:22:43 UTC
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.
Comment 10 Greg Letiecq 2008-12-13 17:25:40 UTC
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.
Comment 11 caulier.gilles 2008-12-22 11:52:32 UTC
Greg,

This entry still valid ?

Gilles Caulier
Comment 12 Andi Clemens 2009-07-01 11:03:56 UTC
I never seen this again, for me it happened only once and only with KDE3.
So again, is this report still valid?

Andi
Comment 13 caulier.gilles 2009-07-01 11:09:06 UTC
Sound like a KDE theme problem, probably customized by a distro. I never see this problem too...

DOWNSTREAM ?

Gilles