From kde-bugs-dist  Thu Oct 31 20:57:07 2002
From: Sarah Wilkin <orque () uvic ! ca>
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 20:57:07 +0000
To: kde-bugs-dist
Subject: [Bug 50013] New: configuring panel made it crash and now it won't relaunch
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           Summary: configuring panel made it crash and now it won't
                    relaunch
           Product: kicker
           Version: unspecified
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: crash
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: jfirebaugh@kde.org
        ReportedBy: orque@uvic.ca


Version:           v1.9.8v1.9.8v1.9.8v1.9.8v1.9.8v1.9.8v1.9.8v1.9.8v1.9.8v1.9.8v1.9.8v1.9.8v1.9.8v1.9.8v1.9.8v1.9.8v1.9.8v1.9.8v1.9.8v1.9.8v1.9.8v1.9.8v1.9.8v1.9.8v1.9.8v1.9.8v1.9.8v1.9.8v1.9.8v1.9.8v1.9.8v1.9.8 (using KDE 2.2-1)
Compiler:          gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.1 2.96-98)
OS:          Linux (i686) release 2.4.7-10

This bug looks similar to bug # 12054 "kicker freezes (infinite loop) when an applet is moved and panel is longer than screen", but not the same (there was no mention of kicker never showing up again).

Here is the scenario: moved kicker to the left side of the screen and made icons medium (previously they were small). Started futzing around with the placement of things. After changing the clock to analog, moved it to the bottom. However, it went too far so I went to move it up. It wouldn't move and I could no longer use the scroll arrows. Moving something on top of the panel and moving it away caused a redraw of white. After logging out and logging back in, the kde launch panel takes a very long time on the "loading panel" bit, then kicker never comes up. Unfortunately there's no way I can reproduce the bug since kicker has seemingly disappeared. I have tried going to the preferences and changing things such as autohide to get it to show up. No luck.

It doesn't make for the best experience within my first 1/2 hour of using kde! :(