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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Kicker Applet Issue
From:       Randy Carnahan <rcarn () chartermi ! net>
Date:       2005-06-09 13:18:25
Message-ID: 200506090918.25054.rcarn () chartermi ! net
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As a follow up to this issue, which is still stumping me:

I have totally removed all of KDE from my home system, rebuilt KDE 
3.4.1, then compiled my applet and the foreground font color is still 
staying Black.  What could possibly have changed in applet and/or 
kicker code that would have broken my applet this way?  It worked in 
3.3.2 -- I've dug through the kicker/applet APIs, but I can't see too 
much that would have changed in regards to keeping 
setPaletteForegroundColor() from working. (Or maybe it's switching back 
to the default Black afterwards, maybe?)  I did notice that the .la/.so 
files for applets are now saved as <name>_panelapplet instead of 
lib<name> in the kde libdir.

Anyways, if anyone might have a clue on this, please toss me a bone. :) 
If you can spot something in my code for why the label foreground color 
is not setting, please let me know.

Randy Carnahan

On Monday 06 June 2005 11:40, Randy Carnahan wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Some time ago, I coded up a kicker applet to track my desktops:
>
> http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=12202
>
> Worked great for a long time, really no issues, but once I upgraded
> to KDE 3.4 (and just 3.4.1 before the weekend) it no longer uses
> settings for the Font Color saved from the applet's config dialog. 
> Strangely, however, the settings *are* being saved to the applet's rc
> file:
>
> rcarn@cerebus [11:15] ~/.kde $ cat share/config/libkcliprc
> Font=Luxi Sans,10,-1,5,50,0,0,0,0,0
> FontColor=255,255,255
>
> It defaults to being Black, instead of whatever was chosen. The
> actual font choice works just fine, and is updated once the dialog
> closes, just not the color.  I've looked over the changes in 3.4(.1)
> and can't see any API changes to KPanelApplet and other widgets, that
> could account for why the color is no longer being set.  I'm still
> using QT 3.3, so the setPaletteForegroundColor() from the inherited
> QWidget has not changed.
>
> Here is my complete preferences() method:
>
> void kclip::preferences() {
>     // Set to our current settings
>     confDialog->fontEdit->setFont(deskFont);
>     confDialog->configFontColor->setColor(deskFontColor);
>
>     if (confDialog->exec() == QDialog::Accepted) {
>         deskFont = confDialog->fontEdit->font();
>         deskFontColor = confDialog->configFontColor->color();
>         deskLabel->setFont(deskFont);
>         setPaletteForegroundColor(deskFontColor);
>         ksConfig->writeEntry("Font", deskFont);
>         ksConfig->writeEntry("FontColor", deskFontColor);
>         figureWidth();
>         updateLayout();
>         changeDeskLabel(currentDesk);
>     }
> }
>
> Any clue on why this is not working anymore?  I've totally cleared
> out any and all files, recompiled, and it still doesn't work. :) 
> Keeping in mind, I am not a C+ guru (I mostly work in
> python/pyQT/pyKDE) but comfortable coding and digging around in APIs,
> is there something I might have missed in the last KDE update?
>
> Thank you.


 
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