Bug 357048 - knotes 15.12.0 displays contens by black on black and with micro charactiers
Summary: knotes 15.12.0 displays contens by black on black and with micro charactiers
Status: REPORTED
Alias: None
Product: knotes
Classification: Applications
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Arch Linux Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: kdepim bugs
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Reported: 2015-12-22 15:05 UTC by SinClaus
Modified: 2019-12-30 02:25 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Description SinClaus 2015-12-22 15:05:15 UTC
After update I see on both boxes (with KDE 4 and KDE 5) black square in place of my notes.
I can see something only by select area by mouse. All content don't have reaction about settings.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Take old installation of Arch
2. Make some notes in a knotes.
3. Update system.

Actual Results:  
Black box.
Comment 1 Knut Hildebrandt 2016-04-05 14:26:36 UTC
The same here. After the upgrade knotes had lost the settings for the all notes I had, what means that all of them were positioned in the left upper corner of the display and black letters on black background. After a short look at the settings of the notes I found out, that neither text colour nor background colour were set. Thus I set them all anew. When I upgraded to Plasma 5.6 yesterday the same again. All the settings of my notes are gone and they pop up in the left upper corner totally black.

I'm having now knotes 15.12.3-2 installed.
Comment 2 Knut Hildebrandt 2016-04-05 14:36:53 UTC
When I speak of upgrade I mean from KDE4 to Plasma5, which I did a month ago going right away to Plasma 5.5.

And I'm on Chakra Linux.
Comment 3 SinClaus 2016-04-08 13:24:42 UTC
Another time Knotes shows black on black!!!!
Comment 4 Fabio Coatti 2016-04-27 07:32:39 UTC
Same problem here, (notes black on black on upper left corner)
knotes 16.04.0 
Gentoo overlay packages 
gcc 5.3
qt 5.6.0
plasma 5.21.0
Comment 5 Tony O'Bryan 2016-05-22 12:09:11 UTC
Fresh install of Kubuntu 16.04 with pre-existing home.  All notes are black on black.
Comment 6 Tony O'Bryan 2016-05-22 12:10:15 UTC
(In reply to Tony O'Bryan from comment #5)
> Fresh install of Kubuntu 16.04 with pre-existing home.  All notes are black
> on black.

I should note that the pre-existing home was from a Kubuntu 14.10 installation.
Comment 7 Mebuntu 2016-06-19 08:20:07 UTC
Yes, me too.  Same upgrade, from the previous LTS version of Kubuntu to the current one.
Comment 8 SinClaus 2019-12-29 14:03:47 UTC
What idiot was write this version? Why knotes try to find his files with url begins by "file:". Now I have in my home catalog new catalog file:.
Comment 9 Tony O'Bryan 2019-12-30 02:25:31 UTC
(In reply to SinClaus from comment #8)
> What idiot was write this version? Why knotes try to find his files with url
> begins by "file:". Now I have in my home catalog new catalog file:.

I think name calling is counter-productive, and should be avoided.  The developers are people, too, and they have feelings like the rest of us.  Please keep the discussion to the merits (or lack of) of the software, not personal attacks.

That being said, I have also been very frustrated with the usability of KDE ever since Akonadi was introduced.  It has caused more problems and instabilities than any other KDE feature I use (or used to use).  I stopped using the entirety of the KDE PIM subsystem a few years ago because Akonadi repeatedly caused devastating data losses.  That was unfortunate, because the applications themselves were really good (KMail, KNotes, and KOrganizer).

Add in the complete and utter stagnation of the fish protocol (which had so much potential in the late 1990's, but which has seen zero progress since then), and the loss of good file managent (Dolphin had potential, even though it was badly conceived from the start), and it appears that KDE has been in a slow decline for a number of years.