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plasma-widget-menubar package

Some Qt applications freezes Plasma-shell on start with plasma-widget-menubar enabled

Bug #701527 reported by bigbrovar
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: plasma-widget-menubar

Some Kde/Qt applications take about 4 mintute to start after launching them, during which time the whole plasma-shell (Including the panel, widgets etc) freezes and becomes unresponsive untill the application that was launced (like 4 minute ago) finally starts then plasma-shell unfreezes and becomes responsive again. However if I were to disable the plasma-widget-menubar, I do not experience this problem and every application starts instanstly after launch. This problem does not affect every Qt Kde application but I have experienced it with dragon player, Juk, and Clementine.
I am running Kubuntu 10.10 with kde 4.5.5.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: plasma-widget-menubar 0.1.13-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-24.42-generic 2.6.35.8
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-24-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Jan 11 16:51:27 2011
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB
 LANG=en_GB.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: plasma-widget-menubar

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bigbrovar (bigbrovar) wrote :
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bigbrovar (bigbrovar) wrote :

Its been close to 2 weeks since I reported this bug. The least that could have been done is at least someone acknowledges it. I have had to reinstall my system (clean install) from scratch because of this problem to see if something was messed up with my setup. when the problem persist I decided to find time to report a bug.

Reporting bugs, trying to get as much infr I can about the problem is really not a particular past-time of mine. And when I find time to report one the least I would like to get is at least someone acknowledges it. Can it be reproduced on their system? do you want for info on the issue? something. I even had to google and tracked down the maintainer of plasma-widget-menubar and directed him to this report. he said he would look into it and get back to me. Up till now nothing. If I were to go to reddit or blog and rant about how messed up Kubuntu is and how buggy and unstable it has been for me,. I would have gotten more Attention. We are all (users and developers) part of the free software ecosystem. When a user takes his time to report a bug or give a feed back. The least you guys can do is not to make it seems he just wasted his time.

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bigbrovar (bigbrovar) wrote :

Just want to add that this bug persist in Kubuntu 11.04 beta 2 (with all updates installed)

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