KDE System Settings Workspace Appearance Crashing ...

[ghmitch]

I'm experiencing the KDE System Settings dialog crashing immediately when I select "Workspace Appearance" button. When I change to the "Tree" view, selecting Window Decorations causes the crash. If anyone has a moment to pull up System Settings and see if they find this same problem, I would appreciate it. - George

[claire]

I'll check this on the RC George, thanks.

Can you remember which ISO you used to install from?

Thanks

[ghmitch]

Thanks Claire! My initial install was from M3B2. It is now current at M3B4+. - George

[claire]

Seems ok now anyway installed from the pre-rc i586 classic dvd.

[condor]

I can add to this discussion. This problem is not specific to either 3b2 or 3b4...I've seen it on 3b1, 3b3, and with other distros, even. It appears to be a bug in one of the optional themes that can be added from the package lists. If you do a default install of Mageia, you won't have the issue. If you install a bunch of optional theme packages that you apply under Workspace Appearance, it can trigger this. I searched around in KDE information to pursue this problem, and there was some mention that it was related to qtcurve..but removing that theme package does not fix it; you still get the crash. Hope that this helps.

[ghmitch]

MAJOR help! That is what I was looking for. Interestingly, one thing I always do is replicate my old system on my new system. That means any themes, or whatever else, have been running on my old Mageia 2 system got immediately installed on the new Mageia 3 system. So ... apparently one of these themes has a major bug that is poisoning the whole desktop theming environment and it is not clear which one? Interesting. Hopefully someone will be able to identifiy the offender and fix it. At this point I have bigger fish to fry, but at least now we have the problem and its root cause documented on this forum. Thanks condor! - George

[condor]

My pleasure.
I can also offer a footnote-I had a user directory from a previous install around where I'd just added themes manually from kde-look (as a result of encountering this issue before). I copied over that ~/.kde4 in place of the one that was now stuck at default on a 3b3 install, and had the theme I'd used in the previous install-but still couldn't touch Workspace Appearance without a crash. This confirms that it's not anything under the ~/.kde4 user config files, but is instead somewhere in the larger kde system.