Re: [kde] KDE Panel freezing when HDMI connected

2011-09-11 Thread Alex Schuster
Kevin Krammer writes: > On Sunday, 2011-09-11, Alex Schuster wrote: > > Kevin Krammer writes: > > > Retrieving data could still be done asynchronously, KDE's networking > > > can do that even in a single threaded application. > > > > Sure, I didn't want to imply that was a problem. > > I didn't

Re: [kde] KDE Panel freezing when HDMI connected

2011-09-11 Thread Duncan
Tim Edwards posted on Sun, 11 Sep 2011 22:24:26 +0200 as excerpted: > I have no doubt that there's a fault in the Pyweather plasmoid somewhere > that causes it to hang when the internet connection is flakey. I've > tried another weather plasmoid (CWP) on the same machine and that > doesn't seem to

Re: [kde] KDE Panel freezing when HDMI connected

2011-09-11 Thread Duncan
Anne Wilson posted on Sun, 11 Sep 2011 18:35:32 +0100 as excerpted: > I take your point, but in truth, any well-written piece of code should > be able to exit gracefully if something fails. If it can't, I'd rather > not run it at all. You're absolutely correct. But the point is, one of the big

Re: [kde] KDE Panel freezing when HDMI connected

2011-09-11 Thread Martin Bednár
Le Sunday 11 of September 2011 22:24:26 Tim Edwards a écrit : > On Sunday, September 11, 2011 5:33 PM, "Kevin Krammer" > > wrote: > > On Sunday, 2011-09-11, Alex Schuster wrote: > > > Kevin Krammer writes: > > > > > > Sure, I didn't want to imply that was a problem. > > > > I didn't think you were

Re: [kde] KDE Panel freezing when HDMI connected

2011-09-11 Thread Tim Edwards
On Sunday, September 11, 2011 5:33 PM, "Kevin Krammer" wrote: > On Sunday, 2011-09-11, Alex Schuster wrote: > > Kevin Krammer writes: > > > > Sure, I didn't want to imply that was a problem. > > I didn't think you were, just explaining that there should be no blocking > due > to downloading d

Re: [kde] KDE Panel freezing when HDMI connected

2011-09-11 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 11 Sep 2011 Duncan wrote: > > I wonder if it depends on the design of the specific plasmoid. I'm not > > sure > > > whether I've used my netbook for a long enough period without > > connection to > > > guarantee it, but I think it's true that my yawp plasmoid simply shows > > t

Re: [kde] KDE Panel freezing when HDMI connected

2011-09-11 Thread Duncan
Anne Wilson posted on Sun, 11 Sep 2011 15:24:36 +0100 as excerpted: > On Sunday 11 Sep 2011 Tim Edwards wrote: >> On Sunday, September 11, 2011 2:22 PM, "Alex Schuster" >> >> wrote: >> > Tim Edwards writes: >> > > My theory is it looks like the Pyweather widget is hanging trying to >> > > get

Re: [kde] KDE Panel freezing when HDMI connected

2011-09-11 Thread Kevin Krammer
On Sunday, 2011-09-11, Alex Schuster wrote: > Kevin Krammer writes: > > On Sunday, 2011-09-11, Alex Schuster wrote: > > > Tim Edwards writes: > > > > My theory is it looks like the Pyweather widget is hanging trying > > > > to get data sometimes, and this in turn hangs plasma-desktop. > > > > Which

Re: [kde] KDE Panel freezing when HDMI connected

2011-09-11 Thread Alex Schuster
Kevin Krammer writes: > On Sunday, 2011-09-11, Alex Schuster wrote: > > Tim Edwards writes: > > > My theory is it looks like the Pyweather widget is hanging trying > > > to get data sometimes, and this in turn hangs plasma-desktop. > > > Which, if true, is IMHO a huge design fault in plasma-deskt

Re: [kde] KDE Panel freezing when HDMI connected

2011-09-11 Thread Kevin Krammer
On Sunday, 2011-09-11, Alex Schuster wrote: > Tim Edwards writes: > > Saw something interesting in the konsole window - just before the freeze > > ups each time there is output from the Pyweather plasma widget that > > shows it trying to retrieve weather data from the net. Currently our > > cable i

Re: [kde] KDE Panel freezing when HDMI connected

2011-09-11 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 11 Sep 2011 Tim Edwards wrote: > On Sunday, September 11, 2011 2:22 PM, "Alex Schuster" > > wrote: > > Tim Edwards writes: > > > Saw something interesting in the konsole window - just before the > > > freeze ups each time there is output from the Pyweather plasma widget > > > that shows

Re: [kde] KDE Panel freezing when HDMI connected

2011-09-11 Thread Tim Edwards
On Sunday, September 11, 2011 2:22 PM, "Alex Schuster" wrote: > Tim Edwards writes: > > > Saw something interesting in the konsole window - just before the freeze > > ups each time there is output from the Pyweather plasma widget that > > shows it trying to retrieve weather data from the net. C

Re: [kde] KDE Panel freezing when HDMI connected

2011-09-11 Thread Alex Schuster
Tim Edwards writes: > Saw something interesting in the konsole window - just before the freeze > ups each time there is output from the Pyweather plasma widget that > shows it trying to retrieve weather data from the net. Currently our > cable internet is out so I'm using 3G (USB tethering from th

Re: [kde] KDE Panel freezing when HDMI connected

2011-09-11 Thread Tim Edwards
On Sunday, September 11, 2011 1:57 PM, "Tim Edwards" wrote: > > > On Sunday, September 11, 2011 1:33 PM, "Alex Schuster" > wrote: > > Tim Edwards writes: > > > > > I'm running Opensuse 11.4 with KDE 4.6 on a Netbook. When I plug the > > > netbook in to an external monitor/TV after a few minu

Re: [kde] KDE Panel freezing when HDMI connected

2011-09-11 Thread Tim Edwards
On Sunday, September 11, 2011 1:33 PM, "Alex Schuster" wrote: > Tim Edwards writes: > > > I'm running Opensuse 11.4 with KDE 4.6 on a Netbook. When I plug the > > netbook in to an external monitor/TV after a few minutes the KDE panel > > (including all menus, icons, clock etc.) is completely fr

Re: [kde] KDE Panel freezing when HDMI connected

2011-09-11 Thread Alex Schuster
Tim Edwards writes: > I'm running Opensuse 11.4 with KDE 4.6 on a Netbook. When I plug the > netbook in to an external monitor/TV after a few minutes the KDE panel > (including all menus, icons, clock etc.) is completely frozen. Even > after over an hour it remains frozen. > > All other software

[kde] KDE Panel freezing when HDMI connected

2011-09-11 Thread Tim Edwards
Hi, I'm running Opensuse 11.4 with KDE 4.6 on a Netbook. When I plug the netbook in to an external monitor/TV after a few minutes the KDE panel (including all menus, icons, clock etc.) is completely frozen. Even after over an hour it remains frozen. All other software functions fine - firefox, L