Re: [opensuse] my KDE 4.4.1 upgrade experience

Vadym,

On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 12:10 PM, Vadym Krevs <vkrevs@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 31 March 2010 09:18, C <smaug42@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 10:13, Vadym Krevs <vkrevs@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
would have never slipped through. Similarly, had konsole from KDE
4.4.x been better tested, it would've been able to save and reuse
user's preferences such as default font.

I've tested this on multiple machines.. the font preferences save just
fine. I can set to Misc Fixed and save/exit the preferences... restart
Terminal and the font pref is Misc Fixed.  Reboot.. same thing..
terminal retains whatever font I select, and whatever font size I
select.

If this was a common issue that is reported in the bugs, then we would
all see it... I go back to my question from before... what is
different in your system vs all the ones I've tested (multiple
hardware configs... laptop and desktop) that makes it work correctly
every time for me and fail every time for you?


Well, you noted quite correctly in one of the previous emails that the
issue may have been caused by some settings in my .kde4 profile or my
hardware. That's precisely why I had downloaded a KDE 4 live cd with
KDE 4.4.2 and booted it in Virtual Box and immediately reproduced it.
The issue remained after installing from the live image in virtual box
and applying all relevant standard updates. That probably eliminates
the settings in .kde4 profile as the root cause of any of these
issues. Next is hardware. I am pretty certain that the image in
virtual box does not use the binary ATI driver which is probably the
only other thing that could have been relevant. So I feel doubtful
that the hardware on my real system is the cause either.

And one final note - I am not the only person who has experienced
these issues. Please have a glance through the Qt bug reports I had
listed in the previous emails, or search for open konsole bugs in
kde's bugzilla, and you will see that other people had encountered
them as well. And not only on openSUSE.


One reason why saving of preferences works for some and does not work
for others might be the number of opened Konsoles.
I bumped into it while fighting with profiles (see
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=557536).
The workaround suggested on KDE bug list was to close all Konsoles but
one, make your settings, save and exit it. Then the settings are
really saved. Otherwise it may happen that after you change some
preference in one Konsole and re-login, the other Konsole has been
closed later and it's settings overridden the saved before. I had
separate Konsole window on each desktop, and I could not save modified
profiles.

(It is not specific for 4.4, it was the same for 4.3 and 4.2)

Regards,
--
Mark Goldstein
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