[PyQt] A dire warning message

Hans-Peter Jansen hpj at urpla.net
Fri Jul 8 09:18:53 BST 2011


On Friday 08 July 2011, 08:07:16 Algis Kabaila wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Jul 2011 01:37:35 PM Baz Walter wrote:
> > On 08/07/11 02:36, Algis Kabaila wrote:
> > > On Fri, 8 Jul 2011 03:36:40 AM Baz Walter wrote:
> >
> > you would need to reboot for it to have an effect, as the plugin
> > would still be loaded in memory.
> >
> > in any case, it's not a real solution to your problem - just a
> > possible workaround if you don't want/need the functionality the
> > plugin provides.
> >
> > really, i can't understand why kde chose to force this plugin on
> > users. i appreciate that many people want unified dialogs and so
> > forth, but it's pretty rude not to give users the option to disable
> > something which affects non-kde applications.
>
> Baz,
>
> Good point!
>
> After deleting the plugin and a reboot:
> ak at supremo:~/save$ ls -la /usr/lib/kde4/plugins/gui_platform/
> total 8
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2011-07-08 15:02 .
> drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 4096 2011-04-27 21:15 ..
> ak at supremo:~/save$
> ak at supremo:~/save$ python3 save.py
> KGlobal::locale::Warning your global KLocale is being recreated with
> a valid main component instead of a fake component, this usually
> means you tried to call i18n related functions before your main
> component was created. You should not do that since it most likely
> will not work
> ak at supremo:~/save$

Since you're working on an "adult" system, there's probably a 64bit 
version of that darn thing hanging around somewhere..

Pete


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