Upgrading KDE in rawhide to Plasma 5

Sandro Mani manisandro at gmail.com
Thu Jan 29 11:52:28 UTC 2015


On 29.01.2015 10:21, Sandro Mani wrote:
>
> Heads up on a more serious issue: there is still a nasty issue in Qt5 
> which causes all applications to crash when screens are 
> connected/disconnected. This means that now also plasma will crash in 
> those circumstances. Reported at rhbz [1], and a number of upstream 
> reports exists, the latest one being [2]. That one has a patch in 
> review [3] which however seems pretty stalled, but might be a good 
> starting point. I'm currently building a patched qt with that patch to 
> see whether it helps.
>
Patchset 2 from [3] prevented the crash in QScreen::availableGeometry(), 
but there is now a crash in QXcbClipboard::requestor(), see 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1083664#c4

>
> [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1083664
> [2] https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-42985
> [3] https://codereview.qt-project.org/#/c/87885/



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