Another case of WONTFIX

Wed Apr 13 04:14:51 BST 2011

On Tuesday, April 12, 2011 11:02:03 PM Duncan did opine:

> gene heskett posted on Tue, 12 Apr 2011 19:06:45 -0400 as excerpted:
> 
> [snip, snip...]
> 
> Might as well post this here as anywhere.  I've now upgraded to 4.6.2,
> and have a minor but seriously irritating regression with it (as
> compared to 4.6.1 and back to the 4.5s) in regard to plasma, myself.

I see you've joined the howling masses who would like to be able to reboot, 
and have it come back up at the same settings it shut down with.

To the KDE folks in general, this is a major Pain In The A$$, please make 
fixing this the top priority for 4.6.3.  We love you, or we wouldn't be 
here, but there is a limit and you are pushing it.

To Duncan: How were you building it?

I haven't built kde from scratch in yonks, probably about 5 years.  I used 
Konstruct back then to build it the first time way back when, but then it 
didn't keep up with the code, getting hung looking dependencies that were 
not yet, or had been removed, from the src packages, so after having to fix 
about 10 obscure problems with the third time I tried (this was back when 
fedora says use gnome or goto hell, and I didn't feel like I needed a nanny 
to change my diapers, back then anything root wanted to was greeted with 
anywhere from 1 to 4 of those "are you sure?" requesters), I made up my 
mind to let KDE sort its rattlesnakes, what I had was working reasonably 
well at the time.

> I run dual monitors, stacked, and with 4.6.2, the large (the plasma-max
> 1/3 vertical size of that monitor, full-width horizontal) panel that I
> have CONFIGURED to be at the top of the top panel... *REFUSES* to STAY
> there!
> 
> At every plasma-desktop restart (whether a reboot, a kde restart, or
> only a plasma-desktop restart), the panel appears on my LOWER monitor,
> not the upper one it's configured to.  That has worked just fine for
> many kde versions, at least from 4.4 thru my immediately previous
> 4.6.1.  But with 4.6.2, it INSISTS on displaying on the lower monitor
> instead of the upper one where it always was and where it remains
> configured to be.
> 
> I can of course unlock widgets, click the panel's toolbox to trigger the
> settings popup, and drag, using the screen-edge button, to the correct
> location.  It then stays there for that plasma-desktop session.  But on
> the next one, it's back on the lower monitor again, and having to repeat
> that unlock/click/click-drag EVERY time gets old VERY fast!
> 
> It seems that until 4.5.5 every kde version was an improvement from the
> previous, often a very noticeable improvement.  But apart from 4.6
> finally ridding kde of the hal dependency (good riddance!), the 4.6
> series has reversed the trend, first with no real noticeable
> improvements, now with serious regressions!
> 
> I'm considering going back to 4.6.0, as rid of the hal dependency of 4.5
> and previous but without the regressions of 4.6.1 (which I luckily
> didn't see) and 4.6.2.
> 
> Meanwhile, there's definitely some sort of plasma bug here in 4.6.2. 
> The affect on me is only the above, but it may be that you're seeing a
> far worse version of it.  If in your case that's combining with the
> cascading failure bug I saw in early 4.5 but that was a one-shot
> failure for me, that may well explain why you're having the extreme
> issues you are.  And I've seen mention from others of similar...
> 
> So I'd suggest either 4.5.5, for those upgrading from earlier versions
> and don't care about the hal dependency, or 4.6.0, as the most stable
> 4.6 release to date, for those who *REALLY* want to be rid of hal as
> much as I did.
> 
> Hopefully they fix this trend before it solidifies.  Right now it's a
> couple of exceptions unfortunately in a row, but if 4.6.3 continues it,
> it'll be a definite trend.
> 
> Meanwhile, a possible explanation, as I've posted previously, is that
> kde is in the midst of their svn -> git switch, which caused a lot of
> confusion and some bad tarball component pulls for 4.6.1. [1] They were
> trying to avoid that with 4.6.2, but evidently they failed, at least
> based on my personal experience, but look at the other posts, it's not
> just me. Hopefully they can fix it for 4.6.3 or later updates, but
> right now it's looking like the whole 4.6 series might end up being
> bad, and 4.7 might well be the best chance to break from the rut. 
> That'd give them the six- month feature-release period to straighten
> out the svn -> git migration issues and hopefully get back to the
> every-release-is-an-improvement trend they had, at least for me, in the
> past.
> 
> I know one thing, I'll sure be paying more attention to the 4.6.3
> announcement, to see if there's anything worth upgrading for, before I
> spend the time to build it all, only to find it's a regression, as I did
> with 4.6.2!  Of course with luck they'll have fixed this plasma bug by
> then, and won't have anything worse, but I don't expect it to be the
> automatic upgrade earlier 4.x releases always were, for sure!
> 
> __
> 
> [1] The source of this info is a a post from the gentoo/kde folks to the
> gentoo-dev list, with a link to the discussion on the kde release list,
> pre-4.6.2 release, where they were trying to avoid the 4.6.1 mistakes.
> The reason for the gentoo-dev post was a discussion of trying to
> deprecate and remove hal, which of course requires a 4.6.0+ version of
> kde be gentoo- stabilized.  They were hoping 4.6.2 would be stable
> enough from upstream to do that, but now I'm guessing it'll be 4.6.3 at
> the earliest and it might have to wait until 4.7.2 or so, if the entire
> 4.6 series turns out as bad as the first two updates to it have been,
> with 4.6.0 not as bad as the updates to it thru 4.6.2, but not really
> stable enough for gentoo- stable, either.
> 
> If anyone really wants/cares, I can probably dig out the reference
> links.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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