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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: kikbd (fwd)
From:       Hans Petter Bieker <zerium () webindex ! no>
Date:       1999-01-07 7:46:10
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Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 21:44:41 +0000 (GMT)
From: Alex Hayward <alex@hayward.u-net.com>
To: Hans Petter Bieker <zerium@webindex.no>
Subject: Re: kikbd

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.. :)

I don't have kde-devel write access, you can forward this if you wish.

I have a similar problem with FreeBSD-current (SUPed a month ago). If I 
go to the language icon thingy on KPanel, bring up the menu and choose
'Setup' I get a core dump from kcmikbd. The patch is simple:

--- kikbd/kikbdconf.cpp.orig	Sun Dec 27 21:08:07 1998
+++ kikbd/kikbdconf.cpp	Sun Dec 27 21:10:45 1998
@@ -308,7 +308,7 @@
   switch(opt) {
   case Config_Normal: 
     if(!fork()) {
-      execlp("kcmikbd", 0L);
+      execlp("kcmikbd", "kcmkikbd", 0L);
       ::exit(1);
     }
     break;


I did mention the bug on buglist.kde.org but I've no idea if anyone takes
any notice of that.

While I'm on the subject, another two problems (although my KDE
installation is a week or two out of date):
  kedit displays many of its warning/information windows with text in the
configured colour for text in the main editing window but with a standard
background. This is unreadable if you set up kedit to use white text on a
black background. A simple minded fix is to change all QMessageBox
constructions to use a parent of 0.
  kdoc produced documentation plus some KDE web pages set the background 
to white and don't change the text colour. This, again, is unreadable if
you have KFM set up to display light text on a black background. Ideally
no such colour changes should be used, the user's choices shouldn't be
overriden unless necessary, but at the very least the text colour should
be set too.
  'View document source' in KFM when an HTML view of a 'directory'
containing an index.html file is shown tries to load the directory in to
kedit/whatever rather than the index.html file. Having glanced at the
source I don't think a fix would be especially easy and not necessarily
worthwhile.
  konsole's pop-up menu should remain popped-up if the mouse button button
is released immediately, as KFM and KVT menus do.

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