Comment 10 for bug 14345

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Frederik Dannemare (frederik) wrote :

>To invoke the bug:
>
>1. Open the "Home Folder" from the system menu on the KDE taskbar.
> (notice that the blue gear icon spins continuously.)
>2. Click the "Split Pane top/bottom" button
> (double file entries _always_ appear in the lower panel.)

Confirmed.

>3. Click the "Reload" button.
> (double entries disappear)

I cannot even get past this point. After hitting refresh and moving the mouse, Konqueror (launched from the System menu)
will crash instantly.

>4. Click the "Close active view" button.
>5. Click anywhere in the list pane, resulting in an instant crash.
>
>This is not the only way to get it to crash, but it does work every time.

It sure does. :(

>I have attached a screenshot (konqdup.png) showing my konqueror layout and the
>duplicate entries in the lower pane.
>
>A few observations:
>
>1. I have added Split Pane and Close Active View buttons to my toolbar, but
>using the menus works just the same.
>2. I found that this procedure only works when I open konqueror from the system
>menu.

I can confirm this.

>I have far fewer konqueror crashes (maybe none; I'll be paying attention
>to this in the future) when I invoke konqueror from a desktop link icon.

My count so far (only 5 tries, though) is "none".

>3. When invoked from the system menu, the blue gear spins forever, but when I
>open konqueror from a desktop icon it stops spinning as soon as the file list is
>displayed (i.e. almost instantly).

I can confirm this as well.