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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: kikbd
From:       Cristian Tibirna <ctibirna () gch ! ulaval ! ca>
Date:       1999-01-05 19:08:00
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Hi

I took over kikbd some days ago.

In the situation you gave, if you respond yes all the time you end up with
two config boxes and when you close one of them, it segfaults.

If you answer first no then yes, it segfaults a first time, but it still
pops un a config window.

In my setup it finishes cleanly at startup before displaying a window if
the "use PC-101 base keyboard" was selected (and is saved in kikbdrc). But
I can observe this only with kdelibs and kikbd compiled with debug.

I tried to read the code and I discovered at least 3 (three) levels of
non-necessary complication (cascading calls of routines doing nothing but
calling other subroutines).

I fear to change drastically the code right now before 1.1, but I'm afraid
I'll just have to do it. Kikbd is sensed to be used by more than 20% of
the KDE users and it always fucks up the startup of a newly installed KDE.

Hold on for news. 

Cristian Tibirna           ::  ctibirna@gch.ulaval.ca
PhD Student                ::  WT: (1-418-) 656-2131/6224
GCH - U.Laval, QC, Canada  ::  HT: (1-418-) 658-2286

On Tue, 5 Jan 1999, Hans Petter Bieker wrote:

> kikbd SEGVs after first telling me that:
> "Your configuration is empty. Install system default."
> 
> I answer No, and I get:
> "Configuration file you have has older format when expected.\n"
> "Some settings may be incorrect"
> And I answer no here too.
> 
> Then it crashes. It doesn't matter if I anser yes or now. I have have the
> same problem on all my boxes (on runing fbsd v2.2.8-RELEASE and one runing
> fbsd 3.0-CURRENT).
> 
> gcc 2.7.2.1
> qt142
> 
> I'll try to trace it if I'm the only one having this problem.. :)
> 
> -bieker-
> 
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> 

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