Bug 192018

Summary:	RSSNOW: The content of the widget is not drawn
Product:	[Unmaintained] plasma4	Reporter:	Marcello Maggioni <hayarms>
Component:	widget-misc	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	normal	CC:	aseigo, echidnaman, jajaxor, white-wind, wirthmi, xeros
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Compiled Sources
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Marcello Maggioni 2009-05-08 12:03:53 UTC

Version:           4.2.3 (using Devel)
Compiler:          GCC 4.4.0 
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Compiled sources

I'm using KDE 4.2.3 (I had to chose SVN because 4.2.3 still isn't there in the menu, but I'm using KDE 4.2.3) and QT 4.5.1 on Arch Linux and the RSSNOW has great problems . 

Simply everything inside the widget frame isn't drawn , only the header logo.

All the Scroller objects (those that show the feed data on the applet) don't appear.

Seems an issue related to drawing children widgets by the Scroller objects. I tried tracking down the problem in the source code, but the Scroller objects use Animation code and I'm not used to that.

RSSNOW also had problem back when I was using KDE 4.2.2 and QT 4.5.0, but the Scrollers were visible . They had some rendering problems when hovering over with the mouse pointer.

Bye

Marcello

Comment 1 Jonathan Thomas 2009-05-09 20:22:09 UTC

We've also received a downstream report at Kubuntu about this regression: https://launchpad.net/bugs/374143

Comment 2 jajaX 2009-05-09 23:14:32 UTC

Hi !

same problem on kubuntu jaunty and kde 4.2.3. see my bug reports on ubuntu launhcpad.

Comment 3 Aaron J. Seigo 2009-05-10 09:49:22 UTC

plasma from kde 4.2 + qt 4.5.x == use at your own risk. we do not actively test that combination upstream, and we do not recommend that combination to downstreams ... i do know that this works with trunk (will be 4.3) + qt 4.5.1, however. if downstreams wish to ship kde 4.2 + qt 4.5, then they need to be prepared to do some extended testing; we simply do not have the resources upstream here to manage such a variety of combinations, which is why our recommendations in the matter were on the conservative side.

hopefully it all gets magically fixed for you when you get an upgrade to 4.3

Comment 4 Tomasz Czapiewski 2009-05-12 19:53:03 UTC

So it's almost 3 months to get this fixed by KDE upgrade for Kubuntu?
RSSNow in KDE 4.2.2 + QT 4.5.0 worked without problems.

Comment 5 Aaron J. Seigo 2009-05-12 20:15:35 UTC

please don't look this direction; look at Qt Software for such changes (regressions even?) midstream and/or your distribution for shipping a combination that upstream neither actively tests or supports.

Comment 6 Tomasz Czapiewski 2009-05-12 21:44:02 UTC

I apologise for such comment. I'm little angry because I've get some other nasty bugs in (K)ubuntu 9.04 which couldn't be easly fixed such as video driver/xorg instability. I apreciate the great work you do with QT and KDE. I don't know if I could live without KDE 4.x now :-)

Comment 7 Jonathan Thomas 2009-05-12 23:13:51 UTC

*** Bug 192441 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8 jajaX 2009-05-13 00:03:07 UTC

Hi !  (sorry for m bad english !)

this bug is solved (or get round) on arch linux.

see [url=http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/14447#comment43377]that[/url] ;)
I don't found this files on my folders (under kubuntu).

Comment 9 Anne-Marie Mahfouf 2009-05-13 13:04:57 UTC

*** Bug 192557 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10 Tomasz Czapiewski 2009-05-13 20:22:33 UTC

Getting back from Qt 4.5.1 to Qt 4.5.0 from standard repositories in Kubuntu solves this problem for KDE 4.2.x.

Comment 11 Aaron J. Seigo 2009-05-13 23:56:33 UTC

thanks for testing that; 4.5.1 has had a few unfortunate regressions over 4.5.0. :( at least i know it all works in trunk with qt-copy all patched up for what 4.3 will be shipping with.

still, i'm sure it's a bit frustrating for you as a user as well. meh.