[Konsole-devel] Bug#46777: More analysis.

[Stephen Usher]

Noting that konsole from KDE 3.0.0 compiled with gcc 2.95.3 works I tried
using previous KDE release code for the konsole part of kdebase.

I discovered that using the source from kdebase-3.0/konsole and replacing
the kdebase-3.0.3/konsole with this version made no difference.

This means that either:-

	(a) The different compilers are generating differently acting code.
or	(b) Interaction with another KDE library is showing a bug.
or	(c) Interaction with the new QT libraries is showing a bug.

The bug is obviously to do with font rendering and calculated space for the
fonts.

No other KDE application I have found experiences any of these font problems.

The failure of konsole means that I cannot bring KDE 3 into service at our
site as it's one of the most widely used programs, dispite a whole host of
benefits from other parts of KDE. Hence, for us it's a critical bug.

I'm not sure what else I can try to give you more information.

Stephen Usher
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(Complete bug history is available at http://bugs.kde.org/db/46/46777.html)