Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (946 mails)

[Lars Müller <lmuelle@xxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 07:02:39PM +0200, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-10-13 at 16:40 +0100, Dave Howorth wrote:
> > Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> > > Too bad my theory on why I have a slew of different machines that render
> > > badly for non-root users of KDE, yet render correctly for root remains.
> > > I am at a loss. And have a slew of upset users. William Stephenson was
> > > helping me with suggestions. But no solution has been found.
> >
> > At one place I worked, we had a teddy bear that did the debugging for
> > us. When you had a difficult bug, you sat the teddy where he could see
> > both you and the screen and then explained to him exactly what was
> > happening and why all the hypothetical explanations failed. He usually
> > solved the problems quite quickly, just by staring at you intensely at
> > the right moment.
> >
> > You could try explaining it all to us in excruciating detail if you like ...
>
> Having exhausted all other routes to a solution, I can consider this...
>
> I have an earlier thread on this list, and the opensuse-kde list (August
> 2010).
>
> Here is what I first reported:
>
> For regular KDE users, many screen components are not drawn. They are
> black.

I had ugly black KDE menues with several openSUSE 11.3 installes after
upgrades from 11.2.  All are caused by pulling some kde*upstream*
packages in.

Compare the results of the following two rpm calls:

   rpm -qa \*kde\*open\*

and

   rpm -qa \*kde\*upstream\*

If the last command reported any packages I had the KDE funeral theme
installed.

Lars
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Lars Müller [ˈlaː(r)z ˈmʏlɐ]
Samba Team
SUSE Linux, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany