Bug 75121

Summary: The file kickerrc gets corrupted after using control panel.
Product: [Unmaintained] kicker Reporter: Alex Weiss <evoweiss>
Component: generalAssignee: John Firebaugh <jfirebaugh>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal    
Priority: NOR    
Version: 1.1   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Gentoo Packages   
OS: Linux   
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Description Alex Weiss 2004-02-13 03:50:47 UTC
Version:           1.1 (using KDE KDE 3.2.0)
Installed from:    Gentoo Packages
Compiler:          gcc3.3.2-r5 Qt libraries installed are 3.3.0 and I recently updated XFree86 to 4.3.0-r4
OS:          Linux

If I use the control panel to make a change (typically in the font settings), the kicker graphics get messed up in that they are cut off on the right side. Hence, instead of seeing the arrows, I see a blank space, though the functionality, i.e., selecting sub-menus, etc. still works. 

I am able to repeat this problem every time just by changing something in the control panel. I can also fix it by deleting the kickerrc. What appears to be happening is that the kickerrc file gets corrupted by these actions. To illustrate this, below I have appended the segment of the kickerrc file before and after the corruption takes place:

Before the corruption:

[menus]
DetailedEntriesNamesFirst=false
DetailedMenuEntries=true
Extensions=
MaxEntries2=30
NumVisibleEntries=5
RecentVsOften=false
ShowHiddenFiles=false
UseBookmarks=true
UseBrowser=true

After the corruption:
[menus]
DetailedEntriesNamesFirst=false
DetailedMenuEntries=true
Extensions=
MaxEntries2=30
NumVisibleEntries=5
RecentAppsStat=1 1076637783 /usr/kde/3.2/share/applications/kde/display.desktop
RecentVsOften=false
ShowHiddenFiles=false
UseBookmarks=true
UseBrowser=true

Note that the line starting "RecentAppsStat" continues to the next line, i.e., the are one single line in my file and I just was unable to paste it into the window that way!
Comment 1 Alex Weiss 2004-02-13 04:06:43 UTC
Hi,

I just noticed that this corruption occurs regardless of what application you run. (so long as it's run off the taskbar it seems as if it screws things up.) The crux of the matter appears to be that when it tries to add some file as being the most recently used application things go bad. This seems to be what the additional line in the kickerrc file I posted earlier point to as well.

Best,

Alex
Comment 2 Alex Weiss 2004-02-13 04:12:49 UTC
Hi,

I fixed it! I just had to kill and restart the kicker and it seems to be working fine. 

Best,

Alex
Comment 3 Alex Weiss 2004-02-13 04:13:57 UTC
Resolved the bug.
Comment 4 Alex Weiss 2004-02-13 04:19:49 UTC
Today is just not my day! I tried to reboot the system and the problem I described earlier returned. Given all this information, I hope somebody out there can lend a hand. Sorry for the multiple postings!

Best,

Alex
Comment 5 Alex Weiss 2004-02-13 04:52:00 UTC
I've done some more poking around and have learned more about the reported bug. The problem with the kicker comes up only when I use the control center panel next to it on the taskbar. If I access the same utilities (font changer) via the kicker, everything works out just fine. The same method I described earlier will take care of the problem.
Comment 6 John Firebaugh 2004-02-13 05:07:20 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 73237 ***