QDockWidget problem (was: Re: KXmlGuiWindow needs a fix (or something surrounding it)

Tom Albers tomalbers at kde.nl
Fri Dec 7 17:04:05 GMT 2007


Op Friday 19 October 2007 10:32 schreef u:
> On Thursday 18 October 2007, Rafael Fernández López wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > Yesterday Albert (aacid), reported that dolphin was having a strange issue:
> > 
> > - Have a widget docked (for example, places).
> > - Undock it.
> > - Close the dock.
> > - Close the app.
> > - Reopen the app.
> > 
> > The dock is "not shown". Well, it is. Try to grab it with "Alt+Click" and you 
> > will see that it "exists" but it has been drawn as "transparent" and now it 
> > has the contents that the window had in its position.
> > 
> > I have tried it with dolphin and confirmed this bug with step (that also uses 
> > docks, because for example umbrello does not try to restore them as the user 
> > left them). Dolphin and step try to do it (restore) and when trying to load 
> > those widgets that were undocked they fall in trouble.
> > 
> > It would be more productive if someone familiar with this code give this 
> > problem a look.
> 
> This is completely unrelated to XMLGUI, isn't it? Sounds more like a KMainWindow
> saveMainWindowSettings/applyMainWindowSettings problem?
> 

Hi,

As this effects a lot of applications, I think it is best to have somewhat more info about this bug before the release.
Do we need to report it to TT?

Toma


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