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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Bug#17306: KDE 2.0 is a bug itself ...
From:       David van Hoose <david-vh () home ! com>
Date:       2000-12-19 17:11:52
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Martin Heni wrote:
> 
> > I'm running RedHat 7.0 with all update RPMS.
> > I have the Qt-2.2.2 from ftp.kde.org on here.
> > I have been experiencing problems with Konqueror, KMix, KPanel, KWord,
> > KAudioServer, and other programs that are tied in with these.
> > Konqueror: Displays micro-text. Crashes when browsing, configuring,
> > adding bookmarks. Bookmark toolbar option turns itself off.
> 
> I also run KDE on some RedHat 7.0 systems and do experience kind of
> random crashes especially in kmail and konqueror. Nearly all backtraces
> end up in pthread though. I think this indicates more a qt comiling/packaging
> problem than a KDE failure. Nevertheless what people think of KDE will
> be what they see when installing rpm packages - if  it crashes => KDE is
> shit. It does not matter whose fault it actually was. This leads to the
> question whether there should be a not only a KDE beta test phase but also a
> more extened "beta" test of the packages software?

Although I use the source RPMS for Qt, I still do not trust them.
Right now I am conducting compilation testing on the qt-2.2.3 package
from TrollTech. So far, the compilation has failed with gcc 2.95 with
3 different option sets. This is grossly unacceptable. They need to test
their compilations under more situations. You know, "real world" ones.

-- 
-Dave
 
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