Nikos Chantziaras posted on Wed, 13 Jul 2011 12:52:08 +0300 as excerpted:
> Is anyone else experience this visual breakage in KDE 4.7 (both RC1 and
> RC2 have this bug here):
>
> http://i54.tinypic.com/59xycj.jpg
>
> The calendar widget is too big and nothing is displayed in the right
> part. Also, the corners to the right are cut off (because otherwise
> they would appear rounded.)
Hmm... interesting.
Background...
I don't have a clock or calendar plasmoid on my current default desktop
or panels (I have a superkaramba clock, tho, and before that I had a yasp-
scripted plasmoid clock), so I don't have the normal methods used to
invoke the calendar widget.
However, to address that problem and give me a calender for reference, I
have a hotkey setup to invoke the calendar using plasmoidviewer:
plasmoidviewer calendar
plasmoidviewer is what its name indicates, basically, a method to run a
plasmoid in its own independent window (or in a container simulating a
panel vertical or horizontal, or the desktop, or whatever). It was
apparently designed to facilitate easy plasmoid development, since adding
and updating changing code in a plasmoid in plasma itself troublesome to
do repeatedly, and with plasma's single-threaded structure, one unstable
plasmoid can freeze or crash the entire desktop! So running a developing
plasmoid in its own window, on demand, facilitates far easier plasmoid
development. =:^)
But here I'm using plasmoidviewer for something else, to simply popup the
calendar plasmoid on demand, using a hotkey, without it taking any
resources at all the rest of the time, as it would if I added a clock
plasmoid or the like, to click.
What that means for this thread...
Since I only invoke the calendar on demand, and I hadn't happened to need
it since I installed 4.6.95 (4.7-rc2, the first kde pre-release I've
installed, since until 4.5 kde /releases/ weren't more than pre-release
quality, so I've been taking it slow), I hadn't tried it until reading
your post.
Trying it, yes, I DEFINITELY get the twice-actual-calendar-width window
-- the plasmoidviewer window is twice-width too. I can't confirm or deny
the corner cut-off, tho, as the plasmoid-viewer window displays it
without the rounded corners anyway.
But yes, I can confirm the worst bit of the bug, the double-width aspect,
and what's more, I confirm it in quite a different environment than most
people would run it.
I presume this was the first step in checking for and filing a bug, if
one's not already filed? Please report the bug number here (and cc me
too if you wish), and I can post my results on it, as well.
--
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