Bug 53366 – Ktouch 1.3 (using KDE 3.2.2) shows a black text entry window (instead of green) when presented with a specific string as a user defined lecture

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

[Description Jack Taylor 2004-06-08 17:37:38 UTC]

To reiterate the summary, my Ktouch 1.3 (using KDE 3.2.2) shows a black text entry window (instead of green) when presented with this text (it was taken from the article referenced in the URL and was a continuous line - no line breaks):

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Sun is spawning some of the rumors without giving details, which I think is bad form", George Weiss, vice president and research director at Gartner , told LinuxInsider in an exclusive interview. Why are they saying this now? Sun has been recently troubled by competitive dynamics in the Unix market, HP (NYSE: HPQ) and IBM (NYSE: IBM) are a bit stronger, the dot-com implosions happened, and -- this is my thinking -- they are w
 
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This appears to be the same no matter what keyboard layout, lesson scheme and colour set is used. When I discovered it I was using dvorak.ktouch and the classic colour scheme with the dvorak keyboard layout.

The window only goes black when the program asks the user to type in text at the beginning of the line that contains the offending string. I don't know if it returns to normal after this line.

Here are my emerge --info results:

Portage 2.0.50-r7 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 2.6.4)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.4 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1500+
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.13
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.58-r1
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/home/jack/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/ http://ftp.easynet.nl/mirror/gentoo/ http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo/ http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo/"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/home/jack/pkgfiles"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/home/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X acpi alsa apm arts audiofile avi berkdb bidi canna cdr cjk crypt cups doc dvd encode esd ethereal fftw firebird flac flash foomaticdb freewnn gdbm ggi gif ginac gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk2 guile imlib ipv6 jack java jikes jpeg kde kerberos ladcca lesstif libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mozilla mpeg msn mysql nas ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline samba sdl slang speex spell ssl svga tcltk tcpd theora tiff truetype unicode usb videos wmf x86 xml2 xmms xv zlib"


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Make a custom lecture in Ktouch with the above text as a single line
2. View the lecture

Actual Results:  
Ktouch displayed a black background against which black text is shown upon
character entry.

Expected Results:  
Ktouch should have displayed a green background against which black text is
shown on character entry.

[Comment 1 Gregorio Guidi (RETIRED) 2005-01-18 10:24:18 UTC]

Sorry for not responding for so long.
Is this still an issue?

[Comment 2 Gregorio Guidi (RETIRED) 2005-02-17 03:07:50 UTC]

No reply from reporter.