Review Request 124576: Show a dialog if Plasma failed to create an OpenGL Context

Martin Klapetek martin.klapetek at gmail.com
Thu Feb 4 14:31:37 UTC 2016



> On Feb. 4, 2016, 3:26 p.m., Martin Klapetek wrote:
> > FYI, This may not entirely work as https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=358869 shows
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> David Edmundson wrote:
>     ack, there's a new message that we're not catching.
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>     I don't know what the string is though.

I was thinking we could maybe check the GL version ourselves at the very start?
There's a glXQueryVersion function for it. That would effectively catch all these
crashes on no GL..?


- Martin


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On Aug. 1, 2015, 2:08 p.m., David Edmundson wrote:
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> (Updated Aug. 1, 2015, 2:08 p.m.)
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> Review request for Plasma.
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> Repository: plasma-workspace
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> Description
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> Show a dialog if Plasma failed to create an OpenGL Context.
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> remove that "shutup" option we had, it was a workaround for an issue with Qt5.1 spewing warnings constantly.
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> Diffs
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>   shell/main.cpp cec4a69c6276de61d776f323fb4b5cebe73f4c3f 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/124576/diff/
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> Testing
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> Normal plasma is the same as before.
> I don't know how to break my openGL, but placing a random qFatal() with the same error message got my dialog perfectly.
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> Thanks,
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> David Edmundson
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