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Month: September 2010

Re: [trinity-devel] [systemtray] Clearing area to set background

From: "Timothy Pearson" <kb9vqf@...>
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 21:34:09 -0500
>> The [systemtray] message has been removed.  I am
>> thinking that the
>> BadWindow errors may actually be caused by Qt, as Trinity
>> uses XClearArea
>> very sparingly and you just helped rule out the only
>> section of code that
>> could have been causing the repeating BadWindow errors.
>
> I don't pretend to be a developer, but that seems to make sense only from
> the amount of those messages seen. As I mentioned previously, I see the
> messages only with KDE and not Xfce or window managers. That indicates
> something peculiar to KDE/Qt.
>
> Qt probably needs patching eventually. At least, that is the opinion of a
> few people who questioned whether proceeding with updating 3.5.10 is
> worthwhile. If patching is required then sounds like a project for 3.5.13
> and not 3.5.12?

Definitely.  And as far as Qt3 is concerned, if it isn't broken I probably
won't be fixing it. ;-)  Effort would be better spent getting the TQT
interface up and running to allow Trinity to run under Qt4...

Tim