Description of problem: I don't have 3d on my test machine, but when I tried the 3D Earth Model desktop applet it and then closed it, the KDE desktop session died unexpectedly. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): extragear-plasma-4.0.1-1.fc9 How reproducible: every time Steps to Reproduce: 1. click Add Widgets in top-right corner 2. add 3D Earth Model (bluemarble) 3. close the desktop applet Actual results: desktop crashes and dies Expected results: Just widget to close Additional info: Nice to fix this or alternatively not install extragear-plasma by default?
Confirmed. I'm not sure which of these upstream bugs fits better: http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=152845 http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=151665
KDE#151665 is a crash on startup of the applet and was fixed back in November, so it can't be that. KDE#152845 sounds more like it. I wouldn't call this a blocker, if you don't have OpenGL shaders, then applets using them aren't expected to work. Now of course crashing isn't nice...
In any case, as far as I can tell, that bug isn't fixed upstream yet (not even in the trunk), and it isn't clear what component is at fault exactly (BlueMarble, libplasma or Qt).
As discussed in the KDE SIG meeting, given: * the usefulness of this applet (almost nil, it's a tech demo), * how this is going to happen to a lot of people (as this requires not only hardware OpenGL, but also shaders, to work), * how the normal reaction to a non-working applet is to close it, * the extent of the damage as this is done and * that upstream is now targeting KDE 4.1 only with extragear-plasma, I will simply disable the bluemarble applet in our extragear-plasma package, at least until we have a working fix for this crash.
Bluemarble is gone in extragear-plasma-4.0.1-3.fc9.