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I am running Slackware 12.2 with KDE4 in virtualbox on Windows XP. Rather than doing a full upgrade to current, I initially installed KDE4 from the testing area of current directly after the release of 12.2. Following that I upgraded all those packages everytime that there were updates for them. So currently I am running 4.2.2 without any hiccups (except for this one).
It seems in any qt based program, I am unable to sort by columns. I first noticed this in ktorrent which I built from source. I went onto their forums and they said it was a bug in QT, but it only happens in some builds. So I shrugged it off and figured it would be fixed with the next update of qt from Pat. Well, after getting to this latest version it still doesn't work, and I decided today to start using akregator again today, and the same thing happens there (I am unable to sort by date, which almost makes the feed reader pointless).
I kept hoping that this would be fixed with an update from Pat, but it hasn't happened yet. Could this possibly be because I am not running a full -current?? Even though I have every KDE package and dep update that Pat had in the testing folder directly after releasing Slack 12.2. If it could be because of that, what would be the easiest way to get to -current. I have never done a full update to current before. I kept expecting to see others with this problem, but I have yet to see it.
Did you upgrade to the current qt as well? qt-r948357. The r$ version is from KDE svn and usually has patches that haven't made it into the released version (qt-4.5.0).
Yes, I have upgraded qt from the original r912655 to r931082 when Pat released 4.2.1 to the current r948357 from KDE 4.2.2. I haven't tried to build qt 4.5.0 because I had already heard that the qt-copy that KDE runs has bugfixes that haven't made it upstream. I contemplated building a newer version of qt-copy a couple of weeks ago, but I read that there were some severe incompatibilites between qt 4.5.0 and KDE 4.2.1 and I didn't want to rebuild all of KDE from svn.
I build my own QT and also built KDE 4.2.2. I used Pat's SlackBuilds for all. The only differnce when I built KDE was the version numbers. For QT I used the official qt-x11-opensource version from trolltech, with NO applied the patches from KDE.
Before I did that, I had the same issues that you did. System monitor would not sort colums.
I just installed KDE 4.2.2 from current in a VM and now have the exact same issue as you.
I'm rebuilding the official QT from trolltech now without the KDE patches to see if it makes a difference.
As it turns out, I believe this is a Virtual Box issue. When you have mouse integration enabled, column sorting does not work on all apps. Doesn't matter which patches you apply.
I did an automated build of several qt's with a few different combinations of patches. It didn't make any difference. Once mouse integration was disabled, sorting was restored.
Awesome to know. At least now when I need to adjust my column sorting I can just temporarily disable the integration. I will make a mention of this on Virtualboxes forum, and hopefully we can see a fix come for this soon.
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