On Sun, 26 May 2013 07:10:53 -0500 Dale <[email protected]> wrote:
> Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On 26/05/2013 13:03, Dale wrote: > >> Alan McKinnon wrote: > >>> On 26/05/2013 11:51, Dale wrote: > >>> > >>>> What package provides the kicker thingy? I think in KDE3 it was called > >>>> kicker but it appears to have changed to something else. Is that > >>>> krunner that has it now? > >>> Maybe it's time you used the "thingy" suffix a little less and the real > >>> names of things a little more :-) > >>> > >>> What thing are you asking about? The panel that is usually at the bottom > >>> and holds the plasma widgets? Or the thin popup you get with Alt-F2? > >>> > >>> The panel is called plasma-desktop and comes from > >>> kde-base/plasma-workspace > >>> The popup is krunner and comes from kde-base/krunner > >>> > >>> I doubt very much it's a real bug as such in either KDE app (although > >>> the fix might go in there). It looks much more to me like a side-effect > >>> of IO blocking - two or more apps are trying to get something done and > >>> unexpectedly are not getting answers, so they hang around waiting in the > >>> doorway and get get in the way of everything else. And just for fun, > >>> video drivers are also trying to get in on the act as they have to deal > >>> with mouse pointer repaints... > >>> > >>> Debugging this one is going to be fun (for peculiar definitions of fun) > >>> > >>> > >> The thingy is the thing at the bottom where I can switch desktops, click > >> the K menu and where my clock is. I think it was called Kicker in > >> KDE3. KDE4 seems to have changed it but not sure what the new name is. > > It's a plasma widget called a panel, the only useful thing it does is to > > be a container for other widgets that do useful stuff. > > > > The panel is started by plasma-desktop as one of the standard widgets it > > manages. The idea is to give you stuff on the screen that looks more or > > less like a familiar desktop. Plasma can do other things and give you > > completely different layouts; like for instance not giving you a panel > > at all. This would be useful on a phone with small screen > > > > The whole thing is heavily event based and has to react to a bucket load > > of system events being generated such as what the mouse is doing. > > There's a fantastic number of ways this could go wrong, some might be > > plasma's fault, some might be faults that happen to plasma > > > I'll try to remember to call it a panel thingy then. ROFL > > > >> I hope they fix this thing soon. If they remove the driver from the > >> tree, I'm in a bit of a pickle. > > No, you won't be. You have the ebuild right now, copy it to your overlay > > and "remove" becomes something that will not happen > > > > > > > > Last time I did that, it didn't work out well. Actually, it just plain > didn't work. May as well tell it like it is. ;-) I'll save a copy > just in case. > > Cross that bridge when I get there I guess. > > Dale > > :-) :-) > > -- > I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how > you interpreted my words! > > I suspect it's the fact your using the ~arch version of kde (4.10.3) is not fully stable yet and yes there be bugs in them valleys.
