[kdepim-users] [EXTERNAL] Re: Kalarm plays sound -- sometimes

[David Jarvie]

On Thursday 05 January 2012 18:21:46 James K. Gruetzner wrote:
> Bug 290726 submitted.

Thanks.

> > > P.S.  There is also a problem of KAlarm freezing when in the "Sound File"
> > > dialog box (where one assigns a sound file) whenever I press the little floppy-
> > > disc symbol to a file selection dialog box .  It produces the following error
> > > message:  -----
> > > -----
> > > QObject::startTimer: QTimer can only be used with threads started with
> > > QThread).
> > > -----
> > > I don't think that is related, but it might be, so I included it here.
> > 
> > As you suspect, this is very unlikely to be related to the first problem.
> > Can you please clarify - does it freeze after you click the button which
> > displays the file selection dialog? Does the file selection dialog appear.
> > Is the dialog frozen?
> 
> When in the Edit Display Alarm dialog box, clicking the music note icon in the 
> Sound section opens a Sound File-KAlarm dialog box.  Clicking on the floppy-disk 
> icon next to the path to the sound file usually causes it to freeze.  I've not 
> gotten it to freeze since enabling all the debug tools -- the first time it's 
> worked in several weeks.   Curiouser and curiouser.

I have seen the same freeze myself sometimes. I think it must be a bug in the KDE libraries - I don't see how KAlarm could make a standard dialog freeze.

-- 
David Jarvie.
KDE developer.
KAlarm author -- http://www.astrojar.org.uk/kalarm
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