From kde-devel  Tue Aug 31 01:18:47 1999
From: Mosfet <mosfet () jorsm ! com>
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 01:18:47 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: KPanel in HEAD crash
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=93606197810588

I will look at it, but I am currently really busy with Mandrake and won't be
able to work on KDE CVS for a few days. 

On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, John Corey wrote:
> Cristian Tibirna wrote:
> > 
> > On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Steffen Hansen wrote:
> > 
> > > KPanel crashes periodically for me. It looks like a problem with the
> > > themed pushbuttons for switching desktops. Strangely, other apps dont seem
> > > to have the same problem.
> > >
> > 
> > No, I believe it's the new KWinModule code, not the themed buttons. I
> > think I know why you believe so, though: craches occur after you leave the
> > computer unattended for a fairly long time and then, when you come back to
> > it you change the desktop in some way (if your way is to use the kpanel
> > buttons, then that's why you think it's the buttons). I for one change the
> > desktops by clicking on the app's taskbar button (and if the app is on
> > another desktop ...).
> > 
> > A reason in favor of my supposition is that kicker crashes too, in the
> > exactly same conditions.
> > 
> > I try to track down the problem for the 4th day already, to no avail
> > 
> > Cristian
> 
> For what it's worth, I switch back to the Qt platinum style instead of
> System, and it went back to the old non-crashing way.
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