Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kde (199 mails)

[Will Stephenson <wstephenson@xxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 10 March 2009 21:56:07 todd rme wrote:
> There are serious problems using the Lancelot application launcher for
> plasma with Qt 4.5 and 4.4.4.  For instance, the favorites and
> applications section do not show anything.  It has been patched in
> trunk for a while, but it will probably be a while before a new
> version is out.  In the meantime, the people at Gentoo have backported
> the fix to the current Lancelot version and the patch is now available
> for general use.  It would be great if openSUSE also incorporated the
> patch, since Lancelot is pretty much useless in its current state.
> You can get more information here:
>
> http://ivan.fomentgroup.org/blog/2009/03/09/patch-for-lancelot-and-qt4/

Bugs.gentoo.org is apparently down, so I can't check the patch myself, but I 
trust Alexis' judgement (comment #1) that the patch is a hack, and prefer to 
wait for a proper fix in Qt or the patch to enter a Lancelot tarball rather 
than spend time adding patches then removing them later.  

Will