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On 26/05/2013 13:03, Dale wrote: |
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> Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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>> On 26/05/2013 11:51, Dale wrote: |
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>>> What package provides the kicker thingy? I think in KDE3 it was called |
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>>> kicker but it appears to have changed to something else. Is that |
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>>> krunner that has it now? |
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>> Maybe it's time you used the "thingy" suffix a little less and the real |
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>> names of things a little more :-) |
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>> What thing are you asking about? The panel that is usually at the bottom |
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>> and holds the plasma widgets? Or the thin popup you get with Alt-F2? |
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>> The panel is called plasma-desktop and comes from kde-base/plasma-workspace |
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>> The popup is krunner and comes from kde-base/krunner |
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>> I doubt very much it's a real bug as such in either KDE app (although |
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>> the fix might go in there). It looks much more to me like a side-effect |
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>> of IO blocking - two or more apps are trying to get something done and |
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>> unexpectedly are not getting answers, so they hang around waiting in the |
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>> doorway and get get in the way of everything else. And just for fun, |
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>> video drivers are also trying to get in on the act as they have to deal |
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>> with mouse pointer repaints... |
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>> Debugging this one is going to be fun (for peculiar definitions of fun) |
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> The thingy is the thing at the bottom where I can switch desktops, click |
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> the K menu and where my clock is. I think it was called Kicker in |
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> KDE3. KDE4 seems to have changed it but not sure what the new name is. |
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It's a plasma widget called a panel, the only useful thing it does is to |
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be a container for other widgets that do useful stuff. |
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The panel is started by plasma-desktop as one of the standard widgets it |
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manages. The idea is to give you stuff on the screen that looks more or |
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less like a familiar desktop. Plasma can do other things and give you |
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completely different layouts; like for instance not giving you a panel |
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at all. This would be useful on a phone with small screen |
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The whole thing is heavily event based and has to react to a bucket load |
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of system events being generated such as what the mouse is doing. |
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There's a fantastic number of ways this could go wrong, some might be |
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plasma's fault, some might be faults that happen to plasma |
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> I hope they fix this thing soon. If they remove the driver from the |
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> tree, I'm in a bit of a pickle. |
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No, you won't be. You have the ebuild right now, copy it to your overlay |
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and "remove" becomes something that will not happen |
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Alan McKinnon |
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