I installed kasts 22.06 (stable) on a Mobian (Debian Unstable, gnome, wayland) system. After a while, everything I did took ages, including closing the app. Basically the problem seems to start after I included the first podcast. I used one that has many episodes and the description is almost always in Hebrew (specifically: Geekonomy: https://feeds.podbean.com/geekonomy/feed.xml ). Looking further, I saw that in the journal I keep getting the following message: org.kde.kasts.desktop[5230]: <Unknown File>: QML QQuickAnchors: Binding loop detected for property "right" org.kde.kasts.desktop[5230]: qml: Don't override the leftPadding or rightPadding on a SwipeListItem! org.kde.kasts.desktop[5230]: This makes it impossible for me to adjust my layout as I need to for various usecases. org.kde.kasts.desktop[5230]: I'll try to fix the mistake for you, but you should remove your overrides from your app's code entirely. org.kde.kasts.desktop[5230]: If I can't fix the paddings, I'll fall back to a default layout, but it'll be slightly incorrect and lacks org.kde.kasts.desktop[5230]: adaptations needed for touch screens and right-to-left languages, among other things. (It's in a loop, so I'm not completely sure what is the first line) I used the following workaround to fix the issue: sudo mv /var/lib/flatpak/app/org.kde.kasts/aarch64/stable/$FLATPAK_HASH/files/bin/kasts{,.real} cat <<EOF | tee -a /var/lib/flatpak/app/org.kde.kasts/aarch64/stable/$FLATPAK_HASH/files/bin/kasts #!/bin/sh export LANG=C exec "$0.real" "$@" EOF sudo chmod +x /var/lib/flatpak/app/org.kde.kasts/aarch64/stable/$FLATPAK_HASH/files/bin/kasts And with that, kasts now works fine. The following values for LANG are problematic: he_IL.UTF-8 ar_JO.UTF-8 The following values work OK: C en_IL.UTF-8 My locale is: $ locale LANG=he_IL.UTF-8 LANGUAGE= LC_CTYPE="he_IL.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="he_IL.UTF-8" LC_TIME="he_IL.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="he_IL.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="he_IL.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="he_IL.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="he_IL.UTF-8" LC_NAME="he_IL.UTF-8" LC_ADDRESS="he_IL.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE="he_IL.UTF-8" LC_MEASUREMENT="he_IL.UTF-8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="he_IL.UTF-8" LC_ALL= $ flatpak list Name Application ID Version Branch Installation Mesa …eedesktop.Platform.GL.default 21.3.9 21.08 system GNOME Application Platform … org.gnome.Platform 42 system Podcasts org.gnome.Podcasts 0.5.1 stable system Adwaita theme org.kde.KStyle.Adwaita 5.15-21.08 system KDE Application Platform org.kde.Platform 5.15-21.08 system Kasts org.kde.kasts 22.06 stable system
Thanks for reporting. Actually, that RTL warning/error in the output is a bug of the Kirigami framework that Kasts is using for the GUI. It's a false warning that's always triggered; it should be solved in the next Kirigami update. But anyway, I agree that looking at your testing results, the problem *IS* actually related to RTL. Unfortunately, I'm not really familiar with any RTL language, but I'll try to reproduce it and find the root cause. The underlying frameworks should all support it, and I tried to layout the UI in such a way that it would still work with RTL.
I've been trying to reproduce this problem, but I can't on my system. The only difference with your setup is that I'm using KDE instead of gnome, but this should (theoretically) not have an impact on a flatpak package... Could you perhaps provide more information, e.g. make a screen recording of exactly what is happening when the app becomes unresponsive? Show the cpu/mem usage when that happens, etc.?
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I reproduced the issue on my laptop (Debian Unstable as well[1]). On my laptop I use the local en_IL. What I have is: # Good rm -rf ~/.local/share/KDE/kasts/database.db3 ~/.cache/KDE/kasts kasts -a https://www.omnycontent.com/d/playlist/23f697a0-7e6a-4e96-a223-a82c00962b12/304b2cf5-dea9-4263-8a33-a919008d5a41/a82055c0-d8eb-4780-b6bb-a919008d5a42/podcast.rss # Bad rm -rf ~/.local/share/KDE/kasts/database.db3 ~/.cache/KDE/kasts LANGUAGE= LANG=he_IL.UTF8 kasts kasts -a https://www.omnycontent.com/d/playlist/23f697a0-7e6a-4e96-a223-a82c00962b12/304b2cf5-dea9-4263-8a33-a919008d5a41/a82055c0-d8eb-4780-b6bb-a919008d5a42/podcast.rss "Bad" means: I can easily switch between the queue, search, subscription and downloads tabs. But when switching to and from the episodes tab, I get a huge CPU usage and some delay. On my phone it is more noticeable. Furthermore, the episodes in the list are badly-placed: too much to the right. BTW: On my laptop I use X11/i3wm (no KDE or gnome). [1] BTW: I added libqt5svg5-dev and kirigami2-dev to the list of required packages listed in the README)
Created attachment 154267 [details] The Episodes screen when Kasts is run in a Hebrew-language locale
Created attachment 154268 [details] The Episodes screen when Kasts is run in an English-language locale
Thanks for the additional info. I'll do another attempt to reproduce.
Thanks for the extra info and the screenshots. I can now finally reproduce the problem on my side. Let's try and get this fixed now.
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/plasma-mobile/kasts/-/merge_requests/89
I think I've fixed this. I don't know how comfortable you are with building from source. If you are able to, you can try out this MR and check if it solves your issues. https://invent.kde.org/plasma-mobile/kasts/-/merge_requests/89
The suggested patch seems to fix my issue. Thanks!
(In reply to Tzafrir Cohen from comment #11) > The suggested patch seems to fix my issue. Thanks! Thanks for confirming. Let's merge this...
Git commit a07deae71d73e56c67e47fb3c9f01364ea741554 by Bart De Vries. Committed on 12/12/2022 at 19:54. Pushed by bdevries into branch 'master'. Fix RTL layout bugs M +4 -1 src/qml/EpisodeListPage.qml M +4 -0 src/qml/FeedDetailsPage.qml M +4 -1 src/qml/FeedListPage.qml M +4 -1 src/qml/GenericEntryDelegate.qml M +4 -1 src/qml/QueuePage.qml https://invent.kde.org/plasma-mobile/kasts/commit/a07deae71d73e56c67e47fb3c9f01364ea741554