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Date: Sun, 26 May 2013 07:10:53 -0500
From: Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>
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Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On 26/05/2013 13:03, Dale wrote:
>> Alan McKinnon wrote:
>>> On 26/05/2013 11:51, Dale wrote:
>>>
>>>> What package provides the kicker thingy? I think in KDE3 it was called
>>>> kicker but it appears to have changed to something else. Is that
>>>> krunner that has it now?
>>> Maybe it's time you used the "thingy" suffix a little less and the real
>>> names of things a little more :-)
>>>
>>> What thing are you asking about? The panel that is usually at the bottom
>>> and holds the plasma widgets? Or the thin popup you get with Alt-F2?
>>>
>>> The panel is called plasma-desktop and comes from kde-base/plasma-workspace
>>> The popup is krunner and comes from kde-base/krunner
>>>
>>> I doubt very much it's a real bug as such in either KDE app (although
>>> the fix might go in there). It looks much more to me like a side-effect
>>> of IO blocking - two or more apps are trying to get something done and
>>> unexpectedly are not getting answers, so they hang around waiting in the
>>> doorway and get get in the way of everything else. And just for fun,
>>> video drivers are also trying to get in on the act as they have to deal
>>> with mouse pointer repaints...
>>>
>>> Debugging this one is going to be fun (for peculiar definitions of fun)
>>>
>>>
>> The thingy is the thing at the bottom where I can switch desktops, click
>> the K menu and where my clock is. I think it was called Kicker in
>> KDE3. KDE4 seems to have changed it but not sure what the new name is.
> It's a plasma widget called a panel, the only useful thing it does is to
> be a container for other widgets that do useful stuff.
>
> The panel is started by plasma-desktop as one of the standard widgets it
> manages. The idea is to give you stuff on the screen that looks more or
> less like a familiar desktop. Plasma can do other things and give you
> completely different layouts; like for instance not giving you a panel
> at all. This would be useful on a phone with small screen
>
> The whole thing is heavily event based and has to react to a bucket load
> of system events being generated such as what the mouse is doing.
> There's a fantastic number of ways this could go wrong, some might be
> plasma's fault, some might be faults that happen to plasma
I'll try to remember to call it a panel thingy then. ROFL
>> I hope they fix this thing soon. If they remove the driver from the
>> tree, I'm in a bit of a pickle.
> No, you won't be. You have the ebuild right now, copy it to your overlay
> and "remove" becomes something that will not happen
>
>
>
Last time I did that, it didn't work out well. Actually, it just plain
didn't work. May as well tell it like it is. ;-) I'll save a copy
just in case.
Cross that bridge when I get there I guess.
Dale
:-) :-)
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