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Old 10-10-2006, 11:57 PM   #1
aquaboogie90
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Unhappy Unresolved Qt bug in 11


Hate to be a party pooper... but I'm pretty sure there's a bug left in Slackware 11's Qt package. I emailed Mr. Volkerding about it *twice* right before release and got no response so I'll ask you all if this is actually a bug or just my imagination. Here's what I wrote:
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There's been a bug in Qt for quite some time, a couple years--probably not long enough to win the 'smite the oldest bug' award though and I'm asking if you could include the patch in the next release.
The bug causes an annoyance in KDE: The first time Kmenu is opened it appears in the lower left corner of the screen even if you have the panel set to less than 100% of the screen width. A more detailed description with screenshots can be found at KDE's bug tracker.
The KDE devs have written a patch to Qt that fixes this as the issue hasn't been addressed in the current vanilla Qt 3 release.
(Check the links for more info.)

I'm in the process of rebuilding Qt myself, though I didn't want to have to do that because the Slackbuild deletes the current Qt install, my computer will take a long time compiling such a huge package, and I don't have the expertise to make a package as well as other people probably could, etc.

If anyone with more influence confirms this, could they please email Patrick?

Thanks.

Last edited by aquaboogie90; 10-11-2006 at 03:28 AM.
 
Old 10-11-2006, 03:01 AM   #2
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Originally Posted by aquaboogie90
Hate to be a party pooper... but I'm pretty sure there's a bug left in Slackware 11. I emailed Mr. Volkerding about it *twice* right before release and got no response so I'll ask you all if this is actually a bug or just my imagination.
I'm sure there are more bugs left in the Slackware packages (note this is not the same as a bug in Slackware).
Probably mentioning a cosmetic bug in KDE right before release was not considered as urgent enough to warrant a rebuild of Qt. I also see that this particular issue was reported more than one and a half years ago, and has not been fixed in Qt sources since. Pat's policy is to let bugs be fixed upstream (i.e. by the Qt developers in this case) rather than going the Redhat way and merging every fix under the sun into Slackware packages.

I suggest you email the Qt developers about this rather than Slackware.

Eric
 
Old 10-11-2006, 03:27 AM   #3
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