List of problems with Plasma Active on Mer

[Aaron Seigo]

On Wednesday, May 30, 2012 21:38:35 Thomas Pfeiffer wrote:
> 2. Several core Plasma Active applications crash on start
> ( https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=300095 ). According to Marco, this is
> caused by an issue with Intel graphics drivers
> ( https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=300095#c14 ).

firxed by making it not a kdeinit4 app. do the following apps also crash for 
you:

* About
* webbrowser
* settings

> 3. The Device Notifier does not detect external memory devices (neither USB
> memory sticks nor flash memory, see
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=300674 ). According to Lamarque, this
> is because it needs udisks, which is not part of Mer
> ( https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=300674#c1 )

getting udisks building and working on Mer needs to be a priority. the solid 
support for HAL is deprecated and using fstab is not going to work in our 
modern age very nicely :)
 
> 4. The lock screen (and boot splash screen) are often black unless some
> repainting due to moving things happens. This may be an old bug reappearing
> ( https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=291381 ).

def a priority bug for us. needs to be tracked down in the screenlocker.

> 5. Whenever Maliit is open, a mouse cursor is shown (not sure if this is
> Mer- specific because I could not get Maliit to work on Meego yet, see
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=300675 )

probably not Mer specific; almost certainly because the keyboard is started 
before the mouse cursor is set and the change is not being propagated properly 
to it.

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