Martin Graesslin has taught me much this week. Back in april I wasn’t paying attention, so I missed his series of blog posts on bugs.kde.org for developers, and in particular I missed the bit on saved and shared searches. It bears repeating: if you have an interesting search and are logged in, you can save it (with a name) right from the search results; then, go to Preferences (upper right) -> Saved Searches (middle tab) and you can share a search with others.
Monthly Archives: July 2012
Bug Triage
The KDE 4.4.4 buglist is, if not shrinking, then at least being confirmed that the bugs existed — and some still do. There’s cases where it’s unclear if the bug is actually a bug: when Firefox, Internet Explorer and Konqueror and Rekonq all display the same behavior (behavior which seems to be at odds with a W3C spec) then I’m inclined to call it “not a bug”. My goal is to at least check out and comment on all the bugs in the list (column “changed” shows where I’m at) and in particular check if they’re still present in KDE 4.7.2, which is the version I’ve got on another machine. At some point I’ll have to install the 4.9 beta and do the check again.
- Start system settings (either from command line,
$ systemsettings
, or Menu and search for “Personal Settings”, at least on OpenSuSE 12.1). - In the overview pane, there’s an icon labeled “Desktop Effects”, or search for “Effects”. Click on it.
- You get three tabs, “General”, “All Effects” and “Advanced”. Click the “All Effects” tab, then check the box for the first effect (“Invert”, in my case and in the bug reporter’s case as well).
- Switch to the “Advanced” tab by clicking on it, then switch back to “All Effects”. Notice that the checkmark you just put in next to “Invert” is gone!
That’s the description the original bug reporter gave, and those are easy-to-reproduce steps (I’ve just written them out in more detail here). So that bug could be confirmed, at the very least (for 4.7.2 that is).
Time Warp!
I was thinking of trying the PC-BSD version 9.1 beta. Digging through a pile of hard drives looking for space, I found a set of drives for the FreeBSD 7.3 setup that once was the EBN, and a single drive that turned out to boot into FreeBSD 8.1-PRE with KDE 4.4.4. I think it was a workstation setup I used for only a little while amidst experiments with ZFS and OpenSolaris compatibility. In any case, I ended up in a KDE from two years ago. Funny, thinks I, not a whole lot has changed in the set-up of my desktop (I still stick to the default panel at the bottom, desktop pager, taskbar, system tray thingie, no activities). Nor has much changed in the superficial appearance or behavior of the apps I tend to use, Blogilo, Konsole, KMail, Konqueror (although there are some systematic crashes, but those aren’t worth talking about before I’ve updated the system to FreeBSD 8.3 and KDE 4.8.4 — there’s a fairly short KDE 4.4.4 buglist available which I guess I’ll try to confirm before updating KDE, though).
So everything old is, if not new again, at least familiar.