https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=461178 User tgoettlicher@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=461178#c1 Thomas Göttlicher changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |tgoettlicher@novell.com Status|NEW |NEEDINFO Info Provider| |jastrother@hotmail.com --- Comment #1 from Thomas Göttlicher 2009-01-09 04:30:27 MST --- I've tried it several times on my machine but the categories are always readable. Do the headlines get readable when you change the view? For example by switching to a different filter and back again or by changing the column width? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=461178 User tgoettlicher@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=461178#c2 --- Comment #2 from Thomas Göttlicher 2009-01-16 08:13:14 MST --- James, are the headlines correctly shown when you switch to a different filter? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=461178 User jastrother@hotmail.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=461178#c4 --- Comment #4 from James Strother 2009-02-02 18:58:31 MST --- Sorry for the lack of responsiveness, I signed up for the account quite sometime ago and it uses a rather old email address. Unfortunately, now that I am checking this address I can't actually provide much more information. I submitted this bug report right after installing opensuse, but I later switched to another linux distribution (for my hardware several bugs made opensuse unusable). Nonetheless, I will try to answer the questions from what I remember.

Do the headlines get readable when you change the view? For example by switching to a different filter and back again or by changing the column width? I didn't try changing the filter, but I did try changing the width and as I remember it did not fix things.

Since the problem appears intermittently I think it is likely that it results from accessing an uninitialized variable. If the program is run from within valgrind there is pretty decent chance it will point out the problem. Of course, you'll get a bunch of junk from QT passing uninitialized buffers back and forth to X11, but the real problem should stand out if it is there. If valgrind doesn't highlight the problem, then a check of the source code should turn it up. QTableView does not cause the columns to stretch by default. So somewhere there should be a call to the horizontal header's stretchLastSection(bool) function to cause this expansion. If this function is not being called or is being called with an uninitialized variable, then it should be easy to spot. At any rate, since I can't really answer the current or an future questions, I won't re-open the bug. But my guess is that valgrind and grepping the source code will expose the bug fairly quickly. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=461178 User jastrother@hotmail.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=461178#c6 --- Comment #6 from James Strother 2009-02-03 20:19:57 MST --- Stefan, I'm not convinced that is true. I've worked on projects where uninitialized variables caused rare failures for years before being fixed. If the uninitialized variable is on the stack, then there is a pretty good chance that it will have a semi-deterministic value even though it is always uninitialized. Of course, there are other sources of non-deterministic behavior but it seems like a good place to start. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.