(Kubuntu Intrepid) Akregator will not display feed contents

Bug #275596 reported by 1cewolf
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: akregator

Akregator doesn't seem to display the contents of a feed when I click on it. See the attached screenshot for an example. I can still use the "Go" menu to cycle through articles and Akregator displays them just fine.

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1cewolf (zeratul-zoominternet) wrote :
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Thomas Pfeiffer (o-monroe) wrote :

it seems that the article list is reduced to zero height by default. There should be a - hardly visible - resize handle between the search bar and the article window. Pull that down to see the list. This definitely should be changed, however, since many users migth not find the handle and thus think the list ha s disappeared completely.

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1cewolf (zeratul-zoominternet) wrote :

You're right, thanks! What I'd like to know is why it spontaneously set the height to zero in the first place. I just loaded it up one day - no updates were applied beforehand - and it had set itself that way.

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Richard Birnie (rbirnie-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Setting confirmed. Observed by two users and I've seen this myself

Changed in kdepim:
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Confirmed
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Richard Birnie (rbirnie-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

There is a duplicate of this report in bug 271362. This gave me a clue to the source of the problem. The size of the different panels is controlled by the file .kde/share/config/akregatorrc

At the end of that file is a section like this

[View]
Splitter 1 Sizes=328,949
Splitter 2 Sizes=0,598

As you can see one of the panels is set to size zero. I've attached a very small patch that corrects this. We're very close to Intrepid final now so this fix may not make it in until after release.

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assignee: nobody → rbirnie
status: Confirmed → In Progress
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Richard Birnie (rbirnie-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Scratch my previous comment. That patch fixes the symptoms but not the cause of the problem which is somewhere deeper. I'm looking into it

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Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman) wrote :

This should be reported upstream, in any case. (As long as it is still a problem in KDE 4.2 and as long as it hasn't been reported already)

Changed in kdepim:
status: In Progress → Confirmed
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Georges Dubus (madjar) wrote :

Hello

This bug seems to be fixed in KDE 4.2 (the default values are correct), which sould be backported to Intrepid soon. If you still experience this bug after updating, please reopen this bug report.

Changed in kdepim:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
status: New → Fix Released
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