[opensuse] KDE defaults after upgrade from 10.3 to 11.2
I did an update of a 10.3 system to openSUSE 11.2. I used the 11.2 DVD to do this (not zypper). As part of the update, I let the updater add the on-line 11.2 updates. No KDE repos are added. Just the 11.2 update that the install adds. For the most part all went well. Except that the desktop looks crappy, even for a user created after the update was completed. The most obvious problem is that the panel at the bottom is black, and the text on it black. Or, when leaving the desktop, the window is black with black text. ICONS are OK. There is something that is obviously not to plan. I also tried deleting the $HOME/.kde and $HOME/.kde4 directories, hoping that they would be better when the user logs in again. Nope. Same badness. Maybe this is not enough to remove to force regeneration of the user settings? Oddly, the root user has a correct appearance. No other user. I am guessing that when the system was updated, the default settings that a KDE user should get have not been properly updated. I do not know where to look for this, if that is even what it is. I am guessing that I could fiddle with a user's settings and get it looking good again. However, this is not really an option for this machine. We are trying to see how well it works to let users log with Windows Active Directory verification (which works so very nicely!). I would have to do this for each user after they create their login. Umm, no... I did follow many of the discussions about settings problems in kde 4. Most of those seemed to be about messing up old settings, and seemed to be more of an issue in older KDE 4 releases. I sort of thought the KDE in the 11.2 update directory had most of this sorted out. I use it on my 11.2-from-the-beginning system and have no complaints. I am guessing the damage was done in the initial KDE install in the 11.2 upgrade. But I might be wrong. Where to start? -- Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Ramböll Sverige AB Krukmakargatan 21 P.O. Box 17009 SE-104 62 Stockholm, Sweden Office: Int +46 10-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 19/03/10 08:23, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
I did an update of a 10.3 system to openSUSE 11.2. I used the 11.2 DVD to do this (not zypper). As part of the update, I let the updater add the on-line 11.2 updates. No KDE repos are added. Just the 11.2 update that the install adds.
For the most part all went well. Except that the desktop looks crappy, even for a user created after the update was completed. The most obvious problem is that the panel at the bottom is black, and the text on it black. Or, when leaving the desktop, the window is black with black text. ICONS are OK. There is something that is obviously not to plan.
The default plasma theme in 11.2 is a light-grey color, not black. So the default theme is not being loaded.
I also tried deleting the $HOME/.kde and $HOME/.kde4 directories, hoping that they would be better when the user logs in again. Nope. Same badness. Maybe this is not enough to remove to force regeneration of the user settings?
Oddly, the root user has a correct appearance. No other user.
I am guessing that when the system was updated, the default settings that a KDE user should get have not been properly updated. I do not know where to look for this, if that is even what it is.
The default plasma settings used are in /etc/kde4/share/config and /usr/share/kde4/config, part of the kdebase4-workspace-branding-openSUSE package.
I am guessing that I could fiddle with a user's settings and get it looking good again. However, this is not really an option for this machine. We are trying to see how well it works to let users log with Windows Active Directory verification (which works so very nicely!). I would have to do this for each user after they create their login. Umm, no...
I did follow many of the discussions about settings problems in kde 4. Most of those seemed to be about messing up old settings, and seemed to be more of an issue in older KDE 4 releases. I sort of thought the KDE in the 11.2 update directory had most of this sorted out. I use it on my 11.2-from-the-beginning system and have no complaints.
I am guessing the damage was done in the initial KDE install in the 11.2 upgrade. But I might be wrong.
Where to start?
Try force-reinstalling the branding packages is my suggestion. Also make sure you have the openSUSE branding packages (no upstream). Regards, Tejas -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Fri, 2010-03-19 at 11:02 +0000, Tejas Guruswamy wrote:
The default plasma theme in 11.2 is a light-grey color, not black. So the default theme is not being loaded.
I have the same idea. That is why I deleted the user's .kde and .kde4 directories, expecting nice new settings to be used. Perhaps there is more that must be deleted? The following branding packages are installed: gimp-branding-openSUSE-11.2-2.1.noarch kdelibs4-branding-openSUSE-11.2-29.31.1.i586 splashy-branding-openSUSE-0.3.13-3.4.2.i586 kdebase4-workspace-branding-openSUSE-11.2-29.31.1.i586 yast2-registration-branding-openSUSE-2.18.0-2.4.noarch branding-openSUSE-11.2-2.2.noarch gnome-menus-branding-openSUSE-11.1-39.3.noarch gtk2-branding-openSUSE-11.2-3.5.noarch compiz-branding-openSUSE-0.7.8-43.44.1.i586 glib2-branding-openSUSE-2.16-50.2.noarch MozillaFirefox-branding-openSUSE-3.5-8.9.1.i586 yast2-branding-openSUSE-2.18.0-2.1.noarch gfxboot-branding-openSUSE-4.1.39-1.1.1.i586 bootsplash-branding-openSUSE-3.1-50.2.noarch kdm-branding-openSUSE-11.2-29.31.1.i586 kdebase4-runtime-branding-openSUSE-11.2-29.31.1.i586 OpenOffice_org-branding-openSUSE-3.0-26.2.noarch kio_sysinfo-branding-openSUSE-11.2-29.31.1.i586 All are openSUSE. The KDE branding seems to be at 29.31.1 Does this seem reasonable for a system with the openSUSE 11.2 updates installed (no OBS KDE stuff).
The default plasma settings used are in /etc/kde4/share/config and /usr/share/kde4/config, part of the kdebase4-workspace-branding-openSUSE package.
There are files from the install here (based on dates).
Where to start?
Try force-reinstalling the branding packages is my suggestion. Also make sure you have the openSUSE branding packages (no upstream).
I have now done this. Too bad I am once again across the country, making testing more difficult... -- Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Ramböll Sverige AB Krukmakargatan 21 P.O. Box 17009 SE-104 62 Stockholm, Sweden Office: Int +46 10-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Fri, 2010-03-19 at 13:15 +0100, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
On Fri, 2010-03-19 at 11:02 +0000, Tejas Guruswamy wrote:
The default plasma theme in 11.2 is a light-grey color, not black. So the default theme is not being loaded.
I see that the ugly desktop that new users get is the same as the ugly desktop all old users - except root - get. Existing users are thus also not getting updated when they first log in to kde. Is there some 'kde version' flag for existing and new users that is set to something other than kde4 that is causing the config not to be updated when logging in? This would be a flag that existed on the 10.3 system that was not updated. I did find this for the displaymanager variable (reported as https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=559872 but found to be something else - read the bug) -- Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Ramböll Sverige AB Krukmakargatan 21 P.O. Box 17009 SE-104 62 Stockholm, Sweden Office: Int +46 10-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Mon, 2010-03-29 at 12:44 +0200, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
On Fri, 2010-03-19 at 13:15 +0100, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
On Fri, 2010-03-19 at 11:02 +0000, Tejas Guruswamy wrote:
The default plasma theme in 11.2 is a light-grey color, not black. So the default theme is not being loaded.
I see that the ugly desktop that new users get is the same as the ugly desktop all old users - except root - get. Existing users are thus also not getting updated when they first log in to kde.
Is there some 'kde version' flag for existing and new users that is set to something other than kde4 that is causing the config not to be updated when logging in? This would be a flag that existed on the 10.3 system that was not updated. I did find this for the displaymanager variable (reported as https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=559872 but found to be something else - read the bug)
I have another system on which I did a fresh install of 11.2. This is different from my original post in that I did not do an update to an earlier KDE. The install added the KDE from the 11.2 update directory before any users logged in. The root user KDE looks as expected. However, I used existing /home directories from the earlier 10.0 install. So they had files for kde 3.something. I get the same ugly layout with black backgrounds and black text in menus and in the panel. So it is not limited to doing an update. To KDE. It seems to be the update to earlier configuration values that individual users have. If I want to force a users to get 'new' kde settings for everything, what should I delete? I tried $HOME/.kde and $HOME/.kde4. But when they came back, the layout was crap. So I am guessing it is a setting somewhere else that I need to remove. The plasma theme is not listed in the themes you can select for the desktop. I see only Air, Air openSUSE (which is what is selected), Aya and Oxygen. Selecting any of these has little effect. The themes should be in: kdebase4-openSUSE-11.2-29.31.1.src.rpm Right? -- Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Ramböll Sverige AB Krukmakargatan 21 P.O. Box 17009 SE-104 62 Stockholm, Sweden Office: Int +46 10-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 12:45:23PM +0200, Roger Oberholtzer wrote: [ 8< ]
I have another system on which I did a fresh install of 11.2. This is different from my original post in that I did not do an update to an earlier KDE. The install added the KDE from the 11.2 update directory before any users logged in.
The root user KDE looks as expected.
However, I used existing /home directories from the earlier 10.0 install. So they had files for kde 3.something. I get the same ugly layout with black backgrounds and black text in menus and in the panel.
So it is not limited to doing an update. To KDE. It seems to be the update to earlier configuration values that individual users have.
If I want to force a users to get 'new' kde settings for everything, what should I delete? I tried $HOME/.kde and $HOME/.kde4. But when they came back, the layout was crap. So I am guessing it is a setting somewhere else that I need to remove.
The plasma theme is not listed in the themes you can select for the desktop. I see only Air, Air openSUSE (which is what is selected), Aya and Oxygen. Selecting any of these has little effect.
The themes should be in: kdebase4-openSUSE-11.2-29.31.1.src.rpm
Right?
I might have faced the same issue before on openSUSE 11.2 systems. Please check if you have any kde*upstream packages installed. rpm -qa \*upstream\* That had been the case on one of my systems and replacing upstream with the openSUSE version made the KDE menues look more greenish again. zypper se here makes the search a bit easier as it is case insensitive. Lars
On Wed, 2010-04-07 at 13:01 +0200, Lars Müller wrote:
rpm -qa \*upstream\*
No such packages. Sigh. I have attached a bit of the panel. Even more fun is when the Leave dialog is presented, you cannot see the text for logging out vs. shutting down or rebooting the system. Ordinary users are not happy. -- Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Ramböll Sverige AB Krukmakargatan 21 P.O. Box 17009 SE-104 62 Stockholm, Sweden Office: Int +46 10-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696
On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 01:08:36PM +0200, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
On Wed, 2010-04-07 at 13:01 +0200, Lars Müller wrote:
rpm -qa \*upstream\*
No such packages. Sigh.
I have attached a bit of the panel. Even more fun is when the Leave dialog is presented, you cannot see the text for logging out vs. shutting down or rebooting the system. Ordinary users are not happy.
KDE here had been in the same unreadabe color scheme till I ensured to install: rpm -qa 'kde*openSUSE*' | sort kdebase4-openSUSE-11.2-29.31.1.i586 kdebase4-openSUSE-lang-11.2-29.31.1.noarch kdebase4-runtime-branding-openSUSE-11.2-29.31.1.i586 kdebase4-workspace-branding-openSUSE-11.2-29.31.1.i586 In both use cases the systems got ugraded from openSUSE 11.1. Lars -- Lars Müller [ˈlaː(r)z ˈmʏlɐ] Samba Team SUSE Linux, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany
On Wed, 2010-04-07 at 19:45 +0200, Lars Müller wrote:
On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 01:08:36PM +0200, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
On Wed, 2010-04-07 at 13:01 +0200, Lars Müller wrote:
rpm -qa \*upstream\*
No such packages. Sigh.
I have attached a bit of the panel. Even more fun is when the Leave dialog is presented, you cannot see the text for logging out vs. shutting down or rebooting the system. Ordinary users are not happy.
KDE here had been in the same unreadabe color scheme till I ensured to install:
rpm -qa 'kde*openSUSE*' | sort kdebase4-openSUSE-11.2-29.31.1.i586 kdebase4-openSUSE-lang-11.2-29.31.1.noarch kdebase4-runtime-branding-openSUSE-11.2-29.31.1.i586 kdebase4-workspace-branding-openSUSE-11.2-29.31.1.i586
In both use cases the systems got ugraded from openSUSE 11.1.
I will try this when I can again access the systems. In my more recent posts, the system was a fresh install (not an update as in the original post). And a new user gets this crap setup in bots situations. What they have in common over systems where I installed 11.2 and this did not happen is that in the 'working' systems, the users were created/logged in BEFORE the kde update (the general 11.2 update - not a version from some KDE repo) was done. Only after the users ran with the KDE that ships with 11.2 was the update to KDE done. In the systems that do not work, the KDE update was done as part of the install, and so was done before the user logged in. One very very odd detail: the root user's desktop looks correct on all systems... -- Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Ramböll Sverige AB Krukmakargatan 21 P.O. Box 17009 SE-104 62 Stockholm, Sweden Office: Int +46 10-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Thu, 2010-04-08 at 10:15 +0200, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
On Wed, 2010-04-07 at 19:45 +0200, Lars Müller wrote:
On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 01:08:36PM +0200, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
On Wed, 2010-04-07 at 13:01 +0200, Lars Müller wrote:
rpm -qa \*upstream\*
No such packages. Sigh.
I have attached a bit of the panel. Even more fun is when the Leave dialog is presented, you cannot see the text for logging out vs. shutting down or rebooting the system. Ordinary users are not happy.
KDE here had been in the same unreadabe color scheme till I ensured to install:
rpm -qa 'kde*openSUSE*' | sort kdebase4-openSUSE-11.2-29.31.1.i586 kdebase4-openSUSE-lang-11.2-29.31.1.noarch kdebase4-runtime-branding-openSUSE-11.2-29.31.1.i586 kdebase4-workspace-branding-openSUSE-11.2-29.31.1.i586
In both use cases the systems got ugraded from openSUSE 11.1.
These are installed and up-to-date. No joy. A bit more info: When you configure the desktop, where you can select the Theme, there is a pop-up window that shows the name of the theme. One thing I notice as different between the users where the desktop looks correct (user added during install but before install updated kde), and those where it does not work (user added after the install updated kde) is: for the unlucky users, there is no icon behind the name. The name of the theme is just in a colored box. For the lucky users, there is an icon, with the name of the theme on top of the icon. Why would there be no icon for some users? Has anyone else done all these steps: - an 11.2 install - let the install update kde to the version in the update directory - add a user after all this - run kde -- Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Ramböll Sverige AB Krukmakargatan 21 P.O. Box 17009 SE-104 62 Stockholm, Sweden Office: Int +46 10-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Mon, 2010-04-12 at 13:53 +0200, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
for the unlucky users, there is no icon behind the name. The name of the theme is just in a colored box. For the lucky users, there is an icon, with the name of the theme on top of the icon.
Why would there be no icon for some users?
Perhaps a needed clarification: In case you missed the earlier part of the thread, the missing icon here is not the issue - it is the generally crappy and often non-usable desktop look. Unusable means, among many other things, black menus with black text all through kde. This includes the panel, panel setup, logout and other menus. -- Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Ramböll Sverige AB Krukmakargatan 21 P.O. Box 17009 SE-104 62 Stockholm, Sweden Office: Int +46 10-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
I am unsure how to proceed with this issue. Perhaps throw the machines away? :) How does on fully reset a user from KDE's point of view? Remove (while user not logged in): $HOME/.kde $HOME/.kde4 /tmp/kde-$USER* /tmp/ksocket-$USER Anything else? -- Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Ramböll Sverige AB Krukmakargatan 21 P.O. Box 17009 SE-104 62 Stockholm, Sweden Office: Int +46 10-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Tuesday 13 April 2010 14:28:22 Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
I am unsure how to proceed with this issue. Perhaps throw the machines away? :)
Roger So last week I managed to resolve it on my workstation while destroying the evidence that would enable me to diagnose why it is going wrong out of the box for you. Then today I was able to reproduce it with a clean install. Steps to reproduce: * Boot openSUSE 11.2 KDE LiveCD * zypper rm kdebase4-runtime-branding-openSUSE (installs kdebase4-runtime- branding-upstream to satisfy requirements * Restart Plasma by re-logging in or by kquitapp plasma-desktop && sleep 5 && plasma-desktop Plasma starts with a black desktop theme (oxygen) with black text. The Desktop Settings' dialog's Desktop Theme popup contains a default themed preview first without any text. The reason is that kdebase4-workspace-branding-openSUSE includes /etc/kde4/share/config/plasmarc which sets the desktop theme to 'openSUSEdefault' but kdebase4-runtime-branding-openSUSE contains the files for that theme in /usr/share/kde4/apps/desktoptheme/openSUSEdefault. If the theme is not found, Plasma falls back to the blackish 'oxygen' while using the KDE default colours which have black text. Using a white-on-black colour scheme like Obsidian coast then gives you workable colours, but for normal black-on-light colour schemes, I recommend setting Aya or Air as a desktop theme instead of Oxygen. As a fix for my reproduction of the problem I am going to make Plasma fall back to Air, and make kdebase4-workspace-branding-openSUSE require kdebase4- runtime-branding-openSUSE. What I am not sure about is how your users with migrated homes from KDE 3 end up in this situation. Does any of the info above ring a bell with you? Will -- Will Stephenson, openSUSE Team SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - Nürnberg - AG Nürnberg - HRB 16746 - GF: Markus Rex -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Fri, 2010-05-07 at 11:56 +0200, Will Stephenson wrote:
On Tuesday 13 April 2010 14:28:22 Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
I am unsure how to proceed with this issue. Perhaps throw the machines away? :)
Roger
So last week I managed to resolve it on my workstation while destroying the evidence that would enable me to diagnose why it is going wrong out of the box for you. Then today I was able to reproduce it with a clean install.
Steps to reproduce:
* Boot openSUSE 11.2 KDE LiveCD * zypper rm kdebase4-runtime-branding-openSUSE (installs kdebase4-runtime- branding-upstream to satisfy requirements * Restart Plasma by re-logging in or by kquitapp plasma-desktop && sleep 5 && plasma-desktop
Could this sequence happen when doing a new install that updates to the latest kde in the update repo? The original kdebase4-runtime-branding-openSUSE would be removed. I do not know if the upstream is added and plasma restarted as part of this update process. It would seem odd for plasma to be restarted. But you never know. When you boot the Live CD, are you doing an update from the update repo?
Plasma starts with a black desktop theme (oxygen) with black text. The Desktop Settings' dialog's Desktop Theme popup contains a default themed preview first without any text.
The reason is that kdebase4-workspace-branding-openSUSE includes /etc/kde4/share/config/plasmarc which sets the desktop theme to 'openSUSEdefault' but kdebase4-runtime-branding-openSUSE contains the files for that theme in /usr/share/kde4/apps/desktoptheme/openSUSEdefault.
If the theme is not found, Plasma falls back to the blackish 'oxygen' while using the KDE default colours which have black text.
Using a white-on-black colour scheme like Obsidian coast then gives you workable colours, but for normal black-on-light colour schemes, I recommend setting Aya or Air as a desktop theme instead of Oxygen.
This has no effect. I have tried all the themes, logging out and in again just to be sure. I see no difference in the appearance.
As a fix for my reproduction of the problem I am going to make Plasma fall back to Air, and make kdebase4-workspace-branding-openSUSE require kdebase4- runtime-branding-openSUSE.
What I am not sure about is how your users with migrated homes from KDE 3 end up in this situation. Does any of the info above ring a bell with you?
The really odd part is that it works for root, who, during the install, is added before all the other users (I would imagine). Does the update to kde during install happen before or after the non-root users are added? -- Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Ramböll Sverige AB Krukmakargatan 21 P.O. Box 17009 SE-104 62 Stockholm, Sweden Office: Int +46 10-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
I reinstalled 11.2 on one of the problem systems. This time I did the 11.2 install without doing the update. Then I added users. Then I did the update. Much better. But still not as it should be... This is all just so weird. Certain popup windows are not drawn. For example, when you want to log out, there is a popup that offers you three choices (log out, reboot, turn off). All that is shown are little triangles where the corners of these windows would be. It seems that if I click on the place where I think an option is, that happens. Similarly, if you have an icon on your desktop for a directory, when you hover over the icon you usually get a popup of the directories in that place. This popuip is the same. Or, when you hover the mouse over the Kickoff menu, a popup that tells a bit about it is shown. Or not. So, perhaps these are all classes of the same base icon. I am running 4.3.5 as found in the 11.2 update repo. I see that one kde package is different (not 4.3.5): kdebase4-session-4.3.1-7.1.1.i586. Maybe that is the correct one. I just tried a "zypper up" to see if it wants to update it. Nope. I cannot fathom what could go wrong in a standard install that could lead to such odd behavior. This system is a conservative system. It only knows about KDE in the original install, and in the 11.2 update repo. It has never been told about anything else. It uses the X.org ATI driver (/usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/radeon_drv.so). I know this sounds like a small thing. But these are system that are used by engineers. Missing windows is something they notice. On Fri, 2010-05-07 at 11:56 +0200, Will Stephenson wrote:
On Tuesday 13 April 2010 14:28:22 Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
I am unsure how to proceed with this issue. Perhaps throw the machines away? :)
Roger
So last week I managed to resolve it on my workstation while destroying the evidence that would enable me to diagnose why it is going wrong out of the box for you. Then today I was able to reproduce it with a clean install.
Steps to reproduce:
* Boot openSUSE 11.2 KDE LiveCD * zypper rm kdebase4-runtime-branding-openSUSE (installs kdebase4-runtime- branding-upstream to satisfy requirements * Restart Plasma by re-logging in or by kquitapp plasma-desktop && sleep 5 && plasma-desktop
Plasma starts with a black desktop theme (oxygen) with black text. The Desktop Settings' dialog's Desktop Theme popup contains a default themed preview first without any text.
The reason is that kdebase4-workspace-branding-openSUSE includes /etc/kde4/share/config/plasmarc which sets the desktop theme to 'openSUSEdefault' but kdebase4-runtime-branding-openSUSE contains the files for that theme in /usr/share/kde4/apps/desktoptheme/openSUSEdefault.
If the theme is not found, Plasma falls back to the blackish 'oxygen' while using the KDE default colours which have black text.
Using a white-on-black colour scheme like Obsidian coast then gives you workable colours, but for normal black-on-light colour schemes, I recommend setting Aya or Air as a desktop theme instead of Oxygen.
As a fix for my reproduction of the problem I am going to make Plasma fall back to Air, and make kdebase4-workspace-branding-openSUSE require kdebase4- runtime-branding-openSUSE.
What I am not sure about is how your users with migrated homes from KDE 3 end up in this situation. Does any of the info above ring a bell with you?
Will
-- Will Stephenson, openSUSE Team SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - Nürnberg - AG Nürnberg - HRB 16746 - GF: Markus Rex
-- Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Ramböll Sverige AB Krukmakargatan 21 P.O. Box 17009 SE-104 62 Stockholm, Sweden Office: Int +46 10-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 06/18/2010 04:17 AM, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
I know this sounds like a small thing. But these are system that are used by engineers. Missing windows is something they notice.
And they notice missing control center modules and menu entries as well :p If anything I have will help, let me know. Thanks. Will, if you stumble across anything that might help me in this investigation, please let me know. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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