I've been using Fedora for a couple of months now, and I like what I see. One of my main problems with it is KPackageKit/Apper. It has to be the most buggy piece of software in KDE.

It doesn't display descriptions correctly until the screen is refreshed. screenie
It doesn't update information for the description when a new package is selected. screenie
It has wm issues. (Initial placement is 10-20 pixels to the right of the center of the screen, window can be moved down, but not up)
It can't decide what type of categories that it will use (half of the time it uses one scheme(no subcategories), while the other half, it uses another(with subcategories))
It doesn't resolve dependencies when uninstalling software properly some of the time.

I hope this serves as a wakeup call for developers that seem to think that changing the application's name is more important than fixing bugs. KPackageKit/Apper has the potential to be a good program, if the bugs are resolved.

seana11 wrote:I've been using Fedora for a couple of months now, and I like what I see. One of my main problems with it is KPackageKit/Apper. It has to be the most buggy piece of software in KDE.

[list]It doesn't display descriptions correctly until the screen is refreshed. screenie

This item is likely a video driver issue (hw accelerated text display corruption).

Well, after further experimentation, it seems that it isn't redrawing the screen after certain events where it should (During the description animation, when another item is selected). This could be fixed just by redrawing the screen after, and is definitely not a driver issue.

Do you have some reliable way to reproduce it then?

I tried pretty hard, and couldn't on my older f16 x86_64 laptop with i945 intel graphics (with and without compositing).

Playing devil's advocate, what video hw/driver are you using? with or without desktop effects?

I really haven't tried to reproduce it on any machines other than my own. It's a very common issue that anyone who uses this software would notice, if they had it.

On drivers, I have intel integrated graphics, but am using the VEGA driver, instead of intel's because theirs is incredebly buggy. (Segmentation faults galore) Running F16_x86-64.

lspci wrote:00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09)

Vesa is there largely as a safe fallback. I wouldn't trust it much beyond that.

rdieter wrote:Vesa is there largely as a safe fallback. I wouldn't trust it much beyond that.

Yes, I know the limitations of VEGA. It can't use my native resolution (1336x758) and instead uses 1024x758. It doesn't have any 3d support either. But, it's also a lot more stable, making it my first choice.