[PyQt] Goods news about the "menu text missing in PyKDE apps with Oxygen" bug

[Phil Thompson]

On Thursday 10 April 2008, Simon Edwards wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Some people here might have crossed paths with the "menu text missing in
> PyKDE apps with Oxygen" bug. Basically menu labels are not rendered when
> a PyKDE4 application is used with the Oxygen widget style. After quite a
> lot of hair-pulling work over the last few days I've figured out what
> the problem is.
>
> First, a solution. Put the following lines in your PyKDE4/__init__.py
> file in your Python installation's site-packages directory. (typically
> /lib/python2.5/site-packages/PyKDE4/__init__.py).
>
>    import sys, dl
>    sys.setdlopenflags(dl.RTLD_NOW|dl.RTLD_GLOBAL)
>
> I'm sure what the 'official' solution is going to be, but Jim and I will
> work it out. This _might_ fix the problems some people have been having
> with KConfig and friends. Let me + Jim know if that is the case.
>
> Phil: Does this problem affect PyQt4? I don't know if they use
> dynamic_cast much.

Qt doesn't use dynamic_cast at all.

> For those who are interested in the gory details, the problem is
> described here:
>
>    http://gcc.gnu.org/faq.html#dso
>
> A dynamic_cast was failing in Oxygen in the menu drawing code, and a
> default value was being used instead (an empty string). The thing is
> that Python dlopens()s kdeui instead of just being linked to it like a
> normal C++ program. This breaks dynamic_cast between kdeui.so and
> oxygen.so. I've tested this out with test code here, and the problem
> fits this analysis exactly.
>
> A workaround in Python:
>
>    http://mail.python.org/pipermail/c++-sig/2005-April/008829.html

Phil