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

Re: [kde] KDE Panel freezing when HDMI connected

2011-09-11 Thread Tim Edwards
On Sunday, September 11, 2011 1:57 PM, Tim Edwards tkedwa...@fastmail.com.au wrote: On Sunday, September 11, 2011 1:33 PM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org 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

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 the

Re: [kde] KDE Panel freezing when HDMI connected

2011-09-11 Thread Tim Edwards
On Sunday, September 11, 2011 2:22 PM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org 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

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 wo...@wonkology.org 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

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 internet

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, if true, is

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 wo...@wonkology.org 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 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 the

Re: [kde] KDE Panel freezing when HDMI connected

2011-09-11 Thread Tim Edwards
On Sunday, September 11, 2011 5:33 PM, Kevin Krammer kevin.kram...@gmx.at 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

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 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 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 think you