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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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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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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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