Bug 379008

Summary: Kate wiews painted blank grey when resuming session
Product: [Applications] kate Reporter: Luigi Calligaris <l.calligaris>
Component: applicationAssignee: KWrite Developers <kwrite-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME    
Severity: normal CC: christoph, l.calligaris
Priority: NOR Keywords: triaged
Version First Reported In: 15.12   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Kubuntu   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed/Implemented In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments: Kate active text view painted grey, with no possibility to interact with it.

Description Luigi Calligaris 2017-04-20 17:22:54 UTC
Created attachment 105114 [details]
Kate active text view painted grey, with no possibility to interact with it.

I'm running kate on Kubuntu 16.04.2 LTS. At times, when resuming a previous session, kate will initially paint the views as completely blank areas in grey color, as shown in attachment, with no possibility to interact with the text contained in them.

If more than one view is open when the reported behavior occurs, sliding the separator between an active view and an inactive one can force kate to paint both views properly. After this, behavior is normal. If only one view is active at the moment, there's no way to recover.

The bug may be related to the way view information is stored/retrieved into session data.

My installed program and library versions are:
calligar@heplnl151:~$ dpkg -l *kate*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                                      Version                   Architecture              Description
+++-=========================================-=========================-=========================-=======================================================================================
ii  kate                                      4:15.12.3-0ubuntu2        amd64
ii  kate-data                                 4:4.14.3-0ubuntu4         all  
ii  kate5-data                                4:15.12.3-0ubuntu2        all  
ii  katepart                                  4:4.14.3-0ubuntu4         amd64
ii  ktexteditor-katepart                      5.18.0-0ubuntu1           amd64
ii  libkate1:amd64                            0.4.1-7                   amd64
rc  libkateinterfaces4                        4:4.14.3-0ubuntu4         amd64
ii  libkatepartinterfaces4                    4:4.14.3-0ubuntu4         amd64
Comment 1 Christoph Feck 2017-04-21 16:22:56 UTC
Please test a recent version, 15.12 is quite old already.
Comment 2 Christoph Cullmann 2017-07-24 22:47:10 UTC
Please retry with a current version, can't reproduce this.
Comment 3 Andrew Crouthamel 2018-09-28 02:44:16 UTC
Dear Bug Submitter,

This bug has been in NEEDSINFO status with no change for at least 15 days. Please provide the requested information as soon as possible and set the bug status as REPORTED. Due to regular bug tracker maintenance, if the bug is still in NEEDSINFO status with no change in 30 days, the bug will be closed as RESOLVED > WORKSFORME due to lack of needed information.

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If you have already provided the requested information, please set the bug status as REPORTED so that the KDE team knows that the bug is ready to be confirmed.

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Comment 4 Andrew Crouthamel 2018-10-28 03:36:27 UTC
Dear Bug Submitter,

This bug has been in NEEDSINFO status with no change for at least 30 days. The bug is now closed as RESOLVED > WORKSFORME due to lack of needed information.

For more information about our bug triaging procedures please read the wiki located here: https://community.kde.org/Guidelines_and_HOWTOs/Bug_triaging

Thank you for helping us make KDE software even better for everyone!