[Scribus] QT/KDE bugs?

[PLinnell]

On Monday 26 September 2005 20:48, BandiPat wrote:
> Hi guys,
> Just saw this email on the SuSE list:
>
> quote:
> Brad Pepers
> brad at linuxcanada.com
>
> There is a bug in the Qt/KDE integration patches to Qt in SuSE 9.3
> which is causing third-party applications such as Quasar, Scribus,
> and LinCVS to fail to work properly.  Its easy to duplicate and
> show and is a problem in the patch to redirect Qt QMessageBox
> static methods to KDE message boxes.  The basic problem is that
> there are two ways to call the QMessageBox functions.  One way you
> pass in the text for the buttons on the message box and it should
> return which button was pressed (0, 1, or 2).  The other way to
> call something like QMessageBox::warning though is to pass in a
> list of button ids such as QMessageBox::Yes/No/Cancel/... and in
> this case what should be returned is the button id that was
> clicked.  The replacement code added in SuSE 9.3 that passes these
> functions off to KDE treats these both the same and will return the
> button number (0/1/2) in each case.  So any code that uses Qt and
> calls QMessageBox::warning with button ids of QMessageBox::Yes and
> QMessageBox::No and then checks the result to make sure it matches
> QMessageBox::Yes will now fail and the user is left with an
> application that won't do the work regardless of whether they
> choose Yes or No!
> unquote
>
> As I am still running 9.2, but have the newer KDE/QT installed, I
> can't recall having this problem, but speaking with a user of SuSE
> 10, it does exist.  Now the simple thing, it seems to me, would be
> for those three mentioned programs to adjust their coding to
> eliminate this problem.  Although it may be a QT/KDE or SuSE
> problem, which I'm confident will be fixed, if it's a deal breaking
> bug, wouldn't it be easiest to fix at the program level? If there
> are only a few programs finding this bug, wouldn't it be easier for
> them to provide a fix for their programs? The Scribus guys may
> already be aware and have a fix? I just rejoined the list, so this
> may have already been brought up, my appologies if that is the
> case.
>
> Have any others noticed this same bug with SuSE 9.3+?
>
> Just curious
> Patrick


Hi,

Oh yeah.... ;)

See: http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=2425

Cheers,

Peter