need help for kinfocenter bug

Gary L. Greene Jr. greeneg at phoenuxos.com
Wed Jul 19 03:03:52 BST 2006


On Tuesday 18 July 2006 17:31, Helge Deller wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to fix bug 130772 (http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=130772):
> -------------------
> Bug 130772: running KInfoCenter from prompt causes error message
> Version:           3.5.3 (using KDE KDE 3.5.3)
>
>  To reproduce
>  - press your favorite shortkey for "run program"
>  - type "kinfocenter" and press "enter"
>  - kinfocenter is started
>  - an error message pops up: "KDEInit cannot start KInfoCenter" [bug #1]
>  - the popup is behind the "run program" dialog so it cannot be seen
> immediately [bug #2] ------------------
>
> The most obvious and easiest fix for this is the following patch:
>
> deller at p100:/home/cvs/kde20/kdebase/kcontrol/kcontrol> svn diff
> Index: main.cpp
> ===================================================================
> --- main.cpp    (revision 563912)
> +++ main.cpp    (working copy)
> @@ -104,7 +104,7 @@
>      KCONTROL_VERSION, I18N_NOOP("The KDE Control Center"),
> KAboutData::License_GPL, I18N_NOOP("(c) 1998-2004, The KDE Control Center
> Developers"));
>
> -  KAboutData aboutKInfoCenter( "kcminfo", I18N_NOOP("KDE Info Center"),
> +  KAboutData aboutKInfoCenter( "kinfocenter", I18N_NOOP("KDE Info
> Center"), KCONTROL_VERSION, I18N_NOOP("The KDE Info Center"),
> KAboutData::License_GPL, I18N_NOOP("(c) 1998-2004, The KDE Control Center
> Developers"));
>
>
> -> But the side effect of this patch is now, that the "Report Bug"
> functionality won't work any longer, since bug reports are tried to be sent
> to the "kinfocenter" module,  while in the bug system it's still named
> "kcminfo". Can we add a "kinfocenter" module to bugs.kde.org which maps to
> "kcminfo" ? Or should we rename "kcminfo" as "kinfocenter" in the KDE bug
> tracking system ? Any other proposals or ideas ?
>
> Helge

I can reproduce the bug here on PhoeNUX OS 2006.0.alpha1 with KDE 3.5.3. This 
happens with few other apps too. I'll try to trace this down this week end 
and add them into the bugzilla system too.
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