[SOLVED] Qt application DAMAGES its toolbar/menu ICONS after some time...

[sierdzio]

Sounds strange indeed, a screenshot would help a lot. Have you tried recompiling the app with newer versions of Qt? Or updating OpenSUSE (11.3 is pretty old now)?

[mkae]

Unfortunately I am bound to OpenSUSE 11.3, right now. No chance I could update that.

No, I haven't tried a newer Qt, since that's the one which comes with it.

(I have built the same app on MacOSX, however, and there I do not see any such thing.)

[mkae]

Ah, well, I wished I could add a screenshot to this forum, but I don't see how (w/o using some public web space which I've never used up to now).

[dangelog]

Just put your image on sites like imageshack or tinypic and put the URL here?

[mkae]

OK, will try to do that on Monday. :-)

[mkae]

Here is the OpenSUSE updater applet taskbar icon:

• undamaged: http://tinypic.com/r/28mfprp/5
• damaged: http://tinypic.com/r/osy3id/5
  showing this error as occurring in a core KDE 4 application.

And here is my program which self-destroys all of its toolbar icons after a while:

• undamaged: http://tinypic.com/r/2czebk5/5
• damaged: http://tinypic.com/r/chp4h/5

Any clue as to what may cause such level of destruction?

P.S.: Actually I haven't seen this on a OpenSUSE 11.4 yet... Looks like it's really a Qt issue.

[sierdzio]

Used to happen in old KDE builds (by old I mean like 1 year ago), and affected widgets and menus. Didn't happen to me in a while.

[mkae]

The question is how to avoid this issue. :-/

Looks like the only choice I have is to upgrade my OpenSUSE. :-|

Which I currently can't do. 8-(

[mkae]

Via IRC I got the advice that switching to a newer KDE would be possible when using the repo
@/repositories/KDE:/Distro:/Stable/openSUSE_11.3@

I'll see whether I can achieve that.

[mkae]

In the meantime the repo has vanished at http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Distro:/Stable/ :-(

I luckily got it mirrored just before that happened, but somehow I can't find the switcher in YaST ( http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10573557/Switcher Pics/kde47_switch.png ) so that I begin to believe that I won't be able to upgrade my old 11.3 to a newer KDE version. :-((

[Guest]

Damage is such an inappropriate term for this typical case of corruption :) Not that this is a literature forum or anything, but still it is always a good thing to improve on your terminology :)

[mlong]

Offtopic, but...

bq. Damage is such an inappropriate term for this typical case of corruption

Not to make too much of it, but as a native speaker, I think it's a quite appropriate term. In fact, it's the exact term my colleagues and I have traditionally used when we have that kind of graphics corruption in our apps.

[mkae]

Well, it looks like I have spotted eventually the culprit for this effect.

I had to replace the driver for my graphics card (NVS 290) with NVIDIA's proprietary driver due to a problem with the noveau driver. The latter actually caused quite a few system hangs!

After the driver change the icon-damaging did not appear anymore.

NOVEAU was responsible for both problems.