Re: lyx crash when loading eps files

2008-02-19 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 12:45:37PM -0600, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Feb 19, 2008 11:06 AM, Andre Poenitz > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 11:55:21PM -0600, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > I can't understand how/why LyX depends on kdelibs. > > > > LyX doesn't depend on KDE. > > > >

Re: lyx crash when loading eps files

2008-02-19 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Paul Johnson wrote: > Yes, that is what I said at the start.  Then how in the world can it > be an update of kdebase from version 3 to 4.0.1 makes lyx break? Because Qt makes use of plugins provided by KDE. There's *nothing* LyX can do to prevent that. > Or, more to the point, what should I do t

Re: lyx crash when loading eps files

2008-02-19 Thread Paul Johnson
On Feb 19, 2008 11:06 AM, Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 11:55:21PM -0600, Paul Johnson wrote: > > I can't understand how/why LyX depends on kdelibs. > > LyX doesn't depend on KDE. > > Andre' > Yes, that is what I said at the start. Then how in the world can it

Re: lyx crash when loading eps files

2008-02-19 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 11:55:21PM -0600, Paul Johnson wrote: > I can't understand how/why LyX depends on kdelibs. LyX doesn't depend on KDE. Andre'

Re: lyx crash when loading eps files

2008-02-19 Thread José Matos
On Tuesday 19 February 2008 05:55:21 Paul Johnson wrote: > Is there any news on this trouble?  I'm a little puzzled by it. > > On Fedora 8, I just installed the bleeding edge KDE4 and found that > lyx crashed, and then I googled my way to this thread.  I am running > the lyx package that is distrib

Re: lyx crash when loading eps files

2008-02-18 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > Qt itself does not provide > such an architecture Qt itself does not provide such a plugin Jürgen

Re: lyx crash when loading eps files

2008-02-18 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Paul Johnson wrote: > This is not explaining how LyX depends on kdebase.  That's the part > i'm puzzled over.  Is it kdvi that is the trouble? Read it again. LyX uses the Qt 4 toolkit. The Qt4 toolkit has a plugin architecture and uses plugins for several tasks (plugins can be shipped with Qt it

Re: lyx crash when loading eps files

2008-02-18 Thread Paul Johnson
On Feb 19, 2008 12:20 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: > > I can't understand how/why LyX depends on kdelibs. > > Here's the explanation from a kdelibs developer: > > [...] > > Qt uses the QImageIO Plugins for rendering images. Since KDE installs > such a pl

Re: lyx crash when loading eps files

2008-02-18 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Paul Johnson wrote: > I can't understand how/why LyX depends on kdelibs. Here's the explanation from a kdelibs developer: [...] Qt uses the QImageIO Plugins for rendering images. Since KDE installs such a plugin for the EPS format, every Qt application picks that plugin as well. Unfortuna

Re: lyx crash when loading eps files

2008-02-18 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Paul Johnson wrote: > Is there any news on this trouble?  I'm a little puzzled by it. Yes, the problem has been fixed in KDE 4.0.1, which was released some days ago. So try to grab a KDE 4 update. Jürgen

Re: lyx crash when loading eps files

2008-02-18 Thread Paul Johnson
On Jan 25, 2008 7:56 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David Hewitt wrote: > > Responding to myself... I had reason to just now try an EPS figure in LyX > > and it worked fine. Is this known problem restricted to Linux, or > > specifically Kubuntu? > > Well, you need to have KDE 4

Re: lyx crash when loading eps files

2008-01-25 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
David Hewitt wrote: > Responding to myself... I had reason to just now try an EPS figure in LyX > and it worked fine. Is this known problem restricted to Linux, or > specifically Kubuntu? Well, you need to have KDE 4 installed. We had reports for various distros. Amd the problem is still there wi

Re: lyx crash when loading eps files

2008-01-24 Thread David Hewitt
>>> I have written a document containing images in eps. Now, mysteriously, >>> when I try to open the same document lyx crash. > >>This is a known problem. The culprit is kdelibs from KDE4. The only known >>workaround is to deinstall kde4libs (i.e. KDE4, for that matter). > > So, the recent s

Re: lyx crash when loading eps files

2008-01-24 Thread David Hewitt
>> I have written a document containing images in eps. Now, mysteriously, >> when I try to open the same document lyx crash. > > This is a known problem. The culprit is kdelibs from KDE4. The only known > workaround is to deinstall kde4libs (i.e. KDE4, for that matter). > So, the recent sugg

Re: lyx crash when loading eps files

2008-01-24 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Luca Giambonini wrote: > I have written a document containing images in eps. Now, mysteriously, > when I try to open the same document  lyx crash. This is a known problem. The culprit is kdelibs from KDE4. The only known workaround is to deinstall kde4libs (i.e. KDE4, for that matter). Jürgen