Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 173086
kudesigner (kugar designer) crashes on startup
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:17 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050922 Fedora/1.0.7-1.1.fc4 Firefox/1.0.7 Description of problem: When starting kudesigner, nothing happens. Could this be the same problem as a similar bug in kdevelop (http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=114393)? The bug in kdevelop prevents that program from starting because it looks for a picture file for the splash screen and doesn't find it where expected. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): koffice-kugar-1.4.2-1.fc4 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. type kudesigner in konsole 2. 3. Actual Results: nothing Expected Results: kudesigner window, file selection window or at least splash screen should have appeared. Additional info:
I tested this on another machine with FC4 for i386 with the same [lack of] result.
Yes same here... I will wait for someone upstream to comment on this ...
same with 1.5 beta1... if you wnt to try it out for fc4 rpms can be found here: http://fedora.lowlatency.de/review/koffice/
I don't think this is related to the kdevelop report. strace'ing the kudesigner process isn't very helpful either. ?? I'd file a report upstream against koffice/kudesigner to see what they have to say.
Already did... see external BZ ref below :)
same with 1.4.95...
same with 1.5.0-rc1
Had a hunch today and found the cause (I'm using koffice-1.5.0 final), rename /usr/share/applications/fedora-kudesigner.desktop to /usr/share/applications/kudesigner.desktop and now it works (for me). I think it has something to do with kudesigner's (as well as many koffice components) extensive use of kparts and their def's in the .desktop file. Might not be a bad idea to change all the desktop-file-install's to use --vendor="" instead of --vendor="fedora". Defining the vendor here is only really warranted when there isn't one already clear/defined anyway.
Ah great news, altough I find this _very_ strange. I will fix it with the 1.5.0 final push (could you send me the sources?!) Hm, for the vendor part => don't know because the rpm os provided by fedora and I got the impression that koffice folks want bug ect to go here... and this would make it more clear that the users koffice is coming from fedora...