On Freitag 26 Februar 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> Is it normal that every KDE (4.4.0) application is generating an awful
> lot of debug messages on stderr? When I start one from the terminal (be
> it Dolphin, Konqueror or whatever) the output generated is pretty much
> gigantic. It's stuff like this:
>
> QPainter::setPen: Painter not active
> QPainter::font: Painter not active
> QPainter::font: Painter not active
> QPainter::setFont: Painter not active
> QPainter::setPen: Painter not active
> QPainter::font: Painter not active
> konqueror(12426)/kio (Slave) KIO::Slave::createSlave: createSlave
> "file" for KUrl("file:///usr/share/apps/kdeui/about/box-top-
> middle.png")
> konqueror(12426)/kio (KIOConnection)
> KIO::ConnectionServer::listenForRemote: Listening on "local:/tmp
> /ksocket-realnc/konquerorb12426.slave-socket"
> kio_file(12429)/kio (kioslave) KIO::SlaveBase::mimeType: "image/png"
> kio_file(12431)/kio (kioslave) KIO::SlaveBase::mimeType: "image/png"
> kio_file(12433)/kio (kioslave) KIO::SlaveBase::mimeType: "image/png"
> kio_file(12435)/kio (kioslave) KIO::SlaveBase::mimeType: "image/png"
> konqueror(12426)/kio (Slave) KIO::Slave::createSlave: createSlave
> "file" for KUrl("file:///usr/share/apps/kdeui/about/box-middle-
> left.png")
> kio_file(12443) kdemain: Starting 12443
> [...]
> [etc, etc, ad infinitum]
>
> Currently, after about 2 hours of uptime, my ~/.xsession-errors is about
> 12MB big and full with those debug messages.
>
> The "debug" USE flag is globally disabled. What's going on? I doubt
> this is intended behavior.
the debug flag has nothing to do with this.
Why don't you open a nice bug at bugs.kde.org?
