Bug 146377 - khelpcenter's Browse Info Pages > Alphabetically should sort entries
Summary: khelpcenter's Browse Info Pages > Alphabetically should sort entries
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kdebase
Version: 5
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Than Ngo
QA Contact: Ben Levenson
URL:
Whiteboard:
: 146470 (view as bug list)
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-01-27 18:30 UTC by Joe Christy
Modified: 2008-03-10 12:49 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

Fixed In Version: F8
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2008-03-10 12:49:05 UTC
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Description Joe Christy 2005-01-27 18:30:30 UTC
Description of problem:
Browsing Info Pages > Alphabetically > <some initial> displays a long,
unsorted list of entries

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
3.3.1-4.3.FC3

How reproducible:
Every time.

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Launch Help within KDE
2.open "Browse Info Pages" sub-menu in "Contents" sidebar
3.open "Alphabetically" sub-menu
4.open any sub-menu for a particular initial, e.g. "B"
  
Actual results:
A nearly useless long, unsorted list of entries appears

Expected results:
A long, helpfully (alphabetically) sorted list of entries appears

Additional info:
upstream bugs.kde.org shows this as *RESOLVED* bug 43815, fixed 2003-05-01

Could this have been broken by improper UTF-8 locale-ization for en-us?

Comment 1 Joe Christy 2005-01-28 17:08:50 UTC
This is the duplicate of Bug # 146470, that I couldn't find. I
couldn't find it because I typoed kdehelpcenter for khelpcenter in the
summary. Doh!

Comment 2 Joe Christy 2005-01-28 17:16:06 UTC
Upon further examination:
1) this doesn't seem to have anything to do with
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43815 - the codebase has changed
quite a bit since then, and that bug concerned merely an inverted sort
order.
2) The sort (dis-)order is stable across invocations of khelpcenter. I
haven't been able to reproduce the sort (dis-) order of the list of
entries under D with any other tool.

Comment 3 Than Ngo 2005-01-28 17:35:41 UTC
*** Bug 146470 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4 Joe Christy 2005-01-28 17:38:08 UTC
Reported upstream as: http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=98092


Comment 5 Joe Christy 2005-01-28 17:39:05 UTC
For example, the Browse Info Pages>Alphabetically>B submenu appears as:
bzero
btowc
bsearch
brk
bindtextdomain
bind_textdomain_codeset
bind
bcopy
bcmp
basename
basename
backtrace_symbols_fd
backtrace_symbols
backtrace
BUFSIZE
BRKINT
BC_STRING_MAX
BC_SCALE_MAX
BC_DIM_MAX
BC_BASE_MAX
bison
bibtex
basename
bash
Binutils
Bfd


Comment 6 Matthew Miller 2006-07-10 21:22:42 UTC
Fedora Core 3 is now maintained by the Fedora Legacy project for security
updates only. If this problem is a security issue, please reopen and
reassign to the Fedora Legacy product. If it is not a security issue and
hasn't been resolved in the current FC5 updates or in the FC6 test
release, reopen and change the version to match.

Thank you!


Comment 7 Joe Christy 2006-07-10 21:43:36 UTC
No change in problem w/ subsequent versions

Comment 8 Than Ngo 2006-07-11 08:31:38 UTC
I cannot reproduce this issue with kde-3.5.3 in fc5-update and rawhide.
You should update to new kde version.

Comment 9 Joe Christy 2006-07-15 23:00:51 UTC
I am running:
pequod(~) rpm -qa | grep kde
kdesvn-0.8.4-1.fc5
kdepim-devel-3.5.3-0.2.fc5
kdeutils-devel-3.5.3-0.2.fc5
kdebase-3.5.3-0.4.fc5
kdebindings-3.5.3-0.1.fc5
kdeedu-3.5.3-0.1.fc5
kdemultimedia-extras-nonfree-3.5.1-2.lvn5
kdeartwork-3.5.3-0.1.fc5
kdepim-3.5.3-0.2.fc5
kdeaccessibility-3.5.3-0.1.fc5
kdeartwork-icons-3.5.3-0.1.fc5
kdesdk-devel-3.5.3-0.1.fc5
kdemultimedia-3.5.3-0.2.fc5
kdebase-devel-3.5.3-0.4.fc5
kdelibs-apidocs-3.5.3-0.4.fc5
lockdev-devel-1.0.1-9.2.1
kdebluetooth-devel-1.0-0.9.beta1.fc5
kdesdk-3.5.3-0.1.fc5
kdevelop-3.3.3-0.1.fc5
qalculate-kde-0.9.4-1.fc5.2
kdetoys-3.5.1-3.fc5
kdewebdev-3.5.3-0.1.fc5
kdegraphics-3.5.3-0.2.fc5
kdelibs-3.5.3-0.4.fc5
lockdev-1.0.1-9.2.1
kdegraphics-devel-3.5.3-0.2.fc5
kdelibs-devel-3.5.3-0.4.fc5
kdeadmin-3.5.3-0.1.fc5
kdemultimedia-extras-3.5.2-5.fc5
kdebluetooth-1.0-0.9.beta1.fc5
kdenetwork-devel-3.5.3-0.1.fc5
kdegames-3.5.3-0.1.fc5
kdenetwork-3.5.3-0.1.fc5
kdeaddons-3.5.3-0.1.fc5
kdeutils-3.5.3-0.2.fc5


Just now, when I perform the steps to reproduce, I see exactly the same,
un-alphabetical, disordered list as in comment #5.

I see this behavior on two different machines, both of which have undergone
clean installs (of FC4 and then of FC5) since I initially filed this bug. It is
independent of user account as well.

What _exactly_ do you see when you perform the steps to reproduce?

How could this bug be so remarkably reproducible here, yet unreproducible there??

Comment 10 Matthew Miller 2006-07-15 23:03:01 UTC
Maybe it depends on your LANG settings?

Comment 11 Joe Christy 2006-07-15 23:13:17 UTC
I have:

pequod(~) echo $LANG
en_US.UTF-8

Should I use some other, (non-default) setting?

Comment 12 lexual 2007-04-10 23:37:56 UTC
I have en_US.UTF-8, I can't reproduce this.

Comment 13 petrosyan 2008-03-10 06:13:19 UTC
Fedora Core 5 is no longer maintained. Is this bug still present in Fedora 8?

Comment 14 Than Ngo 2008-03-10 12:49:05 UTC
it's fixed in current F8


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