[kde-freebsd] KDE-4.1.0 report

[Matt Dawson]

Hannes Hauswedell wrote:
> Am Sonntag 03 August 2008 17:54:19 schrieb Matt Dawson:
> > 1) The system tray does not show any icons. It expands, but there's
> > nothing there. Changing the desktop theme to oxygen from elegance
> > gives the impression that they're off to the bottom of the system
> > tray's display space. Might seem trivial, but this makes Kmix, Juk
> > and Kopete almost impossible to interact with properly.
>
> Same here.

OK, let's just ask one question before we start looking at KDE as the culprit: 
Are all of us seeing this problem using nVidia cards with the proprietary 
driver from ports? It could be an issue with the nVidia driver. ${DEITY} 
knows, it misses a few features. I'll also try to get hold of a friend of 
mine who has a Radeon hidden away and try that...

> > 2) Sound in Juk is hit'n'miss. Looks like it's a "feature" rather
> > than a bug, as there seems to be some fading in and out going on
> > between tracks. I personally preferred the old behaviour, but
> > whatever floats their boat. Might try Amarok when I can get the
> > system tray working.
>
> Yeah, thats a juk-problem. It starts to play a second track, than lowers
> volume for corssfading and then raises volume again, which sounds kinda
> weird.
> You could report a bug @ bugs.kde.org ;)

Perhaps it would be nice to have this new feature switchable in some sort of 
option menu. I don't particularly like it but, as I'm not the one coding it, 
I really can't complain. The original behaviour with Juk leaving my volume 
settings alone would be a nice option to have, though. I have a feeling the 
issue of no sound (except for a brief, fading blast of audio on hitting stop 
on the next selected track) after hitting stop for the first time is this 
fading thing getting stuck at 0% volume. The track position slider moves and 
it consumes CPU enough for me to say it's decoding OGG files, so it's a safe 
bet.

It's also possible that this: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=161168 is a 
fix for this issue. If it sounds a little less like a collision between two 
bands' instrument trucks on track changes, it'll do for me. :)
-- 
Matt Dawson.

matt at chronos.org.uk
MTD15-RIPE