Bug 54973

Summary:	program launch doesn't show error message on linker error
Product:	[Plasma] krunner	Reporter:	Nicolai Haehnle <prefect_>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	alexander.lohnau, jonas.vejlin, l.lunak, likivik
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Compiled Sources
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Nicolai Haehnle 2003-02-21 16:11:31 UTC

Version:            (using KDE Devel)
Installed from:    Compiled sources
OS:          Linux

As far as I can see, the following applies to any situation where you can launch a program.

When KDE tries to load a program with missing/incompatible shared libraries, loading fails silently without giving any explanatory message to the user.
This is obviously a bad thing because they will think the program just "doesn't work", and they have no way to fix it. Even worse, they might try to update the program which obviously won't help.

When a program cannot be loaded because of linking problems, KDE should present the user with an error message just like the one that appears when a program cannot be loaded because the executable doesn't exist.

Note: I do realize that the way Linux loads program could make this difficult and awkward. I just hope that you can fix this as good as possible :)

Comment 1 Jonas Vejlin 2009-08-02 18:33:42 UTC

Is this still valid for kde 4?