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Apparenlty the prooblem with Konqueror dying trying to load the Blogger.com Dashboard was temporary. This post is made using Konqueror 3.5.2 (KDE 3.5.2). It appears that the problem may have had somewhat to do with the Spell Checker problems I was trying to post about earlier (at the time the Konqueor crash occurred.

The problem then was that Konqueror as configured by default under Knoppix 5.0.1 was still using the German language dictionary for spell-checking, even though I had changed the KDE language preference to US English (US-EN) using the KDE Kicker panel [I.E. "toolbar"] widget.

I have since restarted KDE (due to some problems that seemed to have been caused by my moving the system /tmp directory to an internal drive partition while KDE was still running) and Konqueror starts up and runs and has not [yet] crashed on the Blogger Dashboard interface.

The earlier crash which killed Konqueror for the duration of that KDE session occurred after the problems with the spell checker manifested, and after I clicked the Save Now button to save the post. The Save Now button did not "depress" at that time, and no draft of the message was saved. Immediately after the save operation failed is when I clicked the Dashboard link, which is what caused Konqueror to crash.

Note that at this time, the spell checker does not seem to be working at all in Konqueror (the Auto Spell Check option is checked, and the Check Spelling context menu command does nothing), and that

1. There is no "typeahead" pattern matching in the tags field of the blogger.com Posting interface as there is with Firefox v2.x
2. The layout of the blogger.com Posting interface in Konqueror is munged - there is a large whitespace block below the text entry area, between the bottom edge of the HTML textarea element and the the bottom edge of the boarder which encloses the HTML element. (above the Post Options link, the Labels (sic) [tags] entry field, Publish Post and Save Now buttons, etc.

Labels: blogger, crash, kde, konqueror, linux, v3.5.2

posted by pd wilson   #   06:42