Packaging of karamba*
Hi, I am the maintener of karamba in Debian. This mail is to present karamba packaging into Debian. Presentation of Karamba* apt-cache show karamba: Karamba is a KDE program that can display a lot of various information right on your desktop. Karamba uses the same "fake" transparency effect that e.g., Konsole can use. For the moment karamba development is divided in 3 differents parts : karamba: (http://www.efd.lth.se/~d98hk/karamba/) This is the official karamba which is in Debian. For the moment the development is frozen. Superkaramba: (http://netdragon.sourceforge.net/index.php?page=SuperKaramba) This is a fork of karamba. The developer is very active. The major enhancement compared to karamba is the support of python. Most of the best eye candy themes are developed for it. Karamba-rss: I've see a mention of it on karamba.sf.net, but can not say anything more :( Now a project is started on sourceforge (karamba.sf.net) which aim is to unify all karamba stuff. For the moment nothing appears to be done. Karamba in Debian - For the moment only the original karamba is in Debian (version 0.17). Since this version is currently frozen, I don't expect to see new version of karamba within a short period of time. However, as I said before SuperKaramba is in active development, and an unification project was started. So I hope that there will be a merge of all karamba projects. But for the moment this is incertain. So I will not package SuperKaramba and discourage anybody to do that officially (I see an unofficial package of SuperKaramba for the moment : I hope it will satisfy you !) This is for two reasons : First, the situation evolve rapidly, and maybe all karamba projects will merge in a few time. So there is no need to have two (or more) packages since, 1 (or more) will certainly have to disapear... Secondly, I intend to continue packaging karamba and related stuffs. Therefore I intend to package the unified version, and karamba themes. (a package per theme ?) Suggestions for karamba upstream For the moment there is a lot of themes. I hope there will be an archive which will contain all themes. This would be more easy to package. More important I think that themes should be put in a specific directory. This would prevent some configuration stuffs for themes, and will permit an unified management of themes. (maybe /usr/share/karamba/themes) On top of that there should be a ~/.karamba directory where the user can personalize themes. This will enable to make karamba looking a litte bit more professional :) I think I will suggest this to upstreams after receiving your opinions ! Don't hesitate if you have questions or comments. Thanks. PS: I am now moving to France (the 8th) and I will then made a trip Austria. So don't be surprised if I don't give response immediately. I hope that when I come back all version will have merged ! -- Jean-Michel Kelbert pgp0tGOgoARd8.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: How to paste Chinese text from Emacs to other X apps in KDE3
Yang Shouxun wrote: Dear debian users, I used to be able to paste Chinese texts from Emacs to other X apps until upgrading to KDE3 last year via setting "set-selection-coding-system" to "chinese-iso-8bit-with-esc". I get western characters (ASCII >127) rather than correct Chinese characters when copying Chinese text in Emacs (actually Emacs21) in KDE3.1. Any comments are welcome! I have the same problem! I solved it temporarily by saving the file and open it in KWord, which lets me to choose the encoding. But this is too anoying! I'll be glad if someone can solve this :-) Thanks Petr
Re: kppp can't see dns servers
David Pye Combobulated: > Hi there, > > When you say you've developed a problem with kppp, did this occur after an > upgrade etc, or is this the first time you've used it? > The file you should be looking at is /etc/resolv.conf. OK, I've solved the problem. It appears that perms on -rw-r--r--1 root dip52 May 5 03:54 /etc/resolv.conf was set to root:root so that kppp could not read that file. lppp (Libranet lppp) was clearing that file every time on exit so that the file was then empty when I tried to use kppp. As you can see, I've fixed it now. Thanks for all the replies. -- Ciao, CRH
Re: Problem with upgrading to KDE 3.1.1 on Debian woody: finally solved
Dear All, Sorry for the late reply. Guillem Jover wrote: [ Please CC me on replies as I'm not suscribed to -kde ] Hi all, On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 01:46:14PM +0200, Amaya wrote: IIRC, this has been reported: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=xfstt There are three different bug reports regarding this behaviour. Ok, I don't know what can be the cause of your problems. There was a bug that caused gnome2 to slowdown and some times crash, solved in xfstt 1.4, so to test that this is not the same problem I've backported it to woody: deb http://www.hadrons.org/~guillem/debian woody/binary/ I installed this package and found that kdm did not crash. However, after each startup of the X server, I get a "Print jobs for ps: KJobViewer" window popping up. Why, I do not know. This does not happen with xfs-xtt, for instance. Also there are certain fonts that when installed, make X crash. If the above don't solve the problem could you send me the output of: xfstt --gslist --sync Output file of this is attached as xfstt_output.txt regards, guillem My current workaround is to use xfs-xtt instead of xfstt. I am confused about whether I also need xfs or whether I need only ONE of xfs, xfs-xtt OR xfstt. Advice on this is most appreciated. Also, after the last kdm crash report, I found I needed to install xlibmesa3-glu version 4.2.1-6 to make .jpg KDE wallpapers and screensavers work. Because kdm needs a background (Debian) wallpaper on my machine, this could also have contributed to kdm crashing. I hope this helps rather than confuses! Thanks. --Chandra 06 May 03 -- Dr R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar Australian Research Centre for Medical Engineering Murdoch University South Street, Murdoch, WA 6150, AUSTRALIA Phone: +61-(8)-9360-2783Fax: +61-(8)-9360-6304 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Murdoch University CRICOS Provider Code is 00125J -- (Andale Mono) (//usr/share/fonts/truetype/./Andale_Mono.ttf) ; (Arial Black) (//usr/share/fonts/truetype/./Arial_Black.ttf) ; (Arial) (//usr/share/fonts/truetype/./Arial.ttf); (Arial Bold)(//usr/share/fonts/truetype/./Arial_Bold.ttf) ; (Arial Bold Italic) (//usr/share/fonts/truetype/./Arial_Bold_Italic.ttf) ; (Arial Italic) (//usr/share/fonts/truetype/./Arial_Italic.ttf) ; (Comic Sans MS) (//usr/share/fonts/truetype/./Comic_Sans_MS.ttf); (Comic Sans MS Bold)(//usr/share/fonts/truetype/./Comic_Sans_MS_Bold.ttf) ; (Courier New) (//usr/share/fonts/truetype/./Courier_New.ttf) ; (Courier New Bold) (//usr/share/fonts/truetype/./Courier_New_Bold.ttf) ; (Courier New Italic)(//usr/share/fonts/truetype/./Courier_New_Italic.ttf) ; (Courier New Bold Italic) (//usr/share/fonts/truetype/./Courier_New_Bold_Italic.ttf) ; (Georgia) (//usr/share/fonts/truetype/./Georgia.ttf) ; (Georgia Bold) (//usr/share/fonts/truetype/./Georgia_Bold.ttf) ; (Georgia Italic)(//usr/share/fonts/truetype/./Georgia_Italic.ttf) ; (Georgia Bold Italic) (//usr/share/fonts/truetype/./Georgia_Bold_Italic.ttf) ; (Impact)(//usr/share/fonts/truetype/./Impact.ttf) ; (Times New Roman) (//usr/share/fonts/truetype/./Times_New_Roman.ttf) ; (Times New Roman Bold) (//usr/share/fonts/truetype/./Times_New_Roman_Bold.ttf) ; (Times New Roman Bold Italic) (//usr/share/fonts/truetype/./Times_New_Roman_Bold_Italic.ttf) ; (Times New Roman Italic) (//usr/share/fonts/truetype/./Times_New_Roman_Italic.ttf) ; (Trebuchet MS) (//usr/share/fonts/truetype/./Trebuchet_MS.ttf) ; (Trebuchet MS Bold) (//usr/share/fonts/truetype/./Trebuchet_MS_Bold.ttf) ; (Trebuchet MS Italic) (//usr/share/fonts/truetype/./Trebuchet_MS_Italic.ttf) ; (Trebuchet MS Bold Italic) (//usr/share/fonts/truetype/./Trebuchet_MS_Bold_Italic.ttf) ; (Verdana) (//usr/share/fonts/truetype/./Verdana.ttf) ; (Verdana Bold) (//usr/share/fonts/truetype/./Verdana_Bold.ttf) ; (Verdana Italic)(//usr/share/fonts/truetype/./Verdana_Italic.ttf) ; (Verdana Bold Italic) (//usr/share/fonts/truetype/./Verdana_Bold_Italic.ttf) ; (Webdings) (//usr/share/fonts/truetype/./Webdings.ttf) ; (Free Monospaced Bold) (//usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeMonoBold.ttf) ; (Free Monospaced) (//usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeMono.ttf) ; (Free Monospaced Bold Oblique) (//usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeMonoBoldOblique.ttf) ; (Free Monospaced Oblique) (//usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeMonoOblique.ttf) ; (Free Sans) (//usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeSans.ttf) ; (Free Sans Bold)(//usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeSansBold.ttf) ; (Free Sans Bold Oblique) (//usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeSansBoldOblique.ttf) ; (Free Sans Oblique) (//usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeSansOblique.ttf) ; (Free Serif)(//usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/Free
DEB location for KOFFICE V1.2.1
Can anyone tell me what to add to sources.list to update to the latest stable KOFFICE suite (V1.2.1) for Debian under KDE V3.1.1a? I went down and up of the koffice.org Web site and could not find anything for Debian except to look at a FAQ. Of course the FAQ had nothing to do with KOFFICE but instead for KDE itself. Thanks much! David
Re: Odd pauses with KDE 3
On Thu, 1 May 2003, Doug Neal wrote: > On Wednesday 30 April 2003 18:29, Craig Dickson wrote: > > On my only sid KDE 3 machine, I notice that the entire system seems to > > pause for a few seconds at a time. Launching a new Konqueror process (I > > It's knotify. It keeps getting loaded up each time. Normally it should just > run in the background quietly by itself, but the new libstdc++5 package > (pre6) breaks it and it crashes just after it loads. So it keeps getting > loaded over and over... > > Solution - downgrade to the pre5 package until the next version's out. :) Another solution which worked for me was to rename knotify to knotify.bak. I know that's an ugly hack, but it did work for me. And I might add that it made no noticeable difference to KDE whatsoever, so I am led to wonder what on earth knotify is for, anyway?! Trevor Johnston
Re: DEB location for KOFFICE V1.2.1
On Tuesday 06 May 2003 18:07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Can anyone tell me what to add to sources.list to update to the latest > stable KOFFICE suite (V1.2.1) for Debian under KDE V3.1.1a? I went down > and up of the koffice.org Web site and could not find anything for Debian > except to look at a FAQ. Of course the FAQ had nothing to do with KOFFICE > but instead for KDE itself. It's on your favourite debian mirror since dec 2002. Alex. pgpSsXUkp6Wer.pgp Description: signature
Re: Lintian error when packaging an app.
On Mon, May 05, 2003 at 05:13:54PM +0200, Jaime Robles wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hello. > > I am having some problems when packaging an application (KDE app): > == > E: klog: symlink-should-be-relative usr/share/doc/kde/HTML/en/klog/common > /usr/share/doc/kde/HTML/en/common > E: klog: package-has-a-duplicate-relation xlibs (>> 4.1.0), xlibs (>> 4.2.0) > == That first error appears to be legitimate. You probably need to make sure that dh_link is being called in the rules script and that you are using a new enough version of debhelper. If I remember correctly that support was added sometime after the 4.0 release. The last time I ran lintian on my packages it didn't show anything about the symlink's being wrong. dh_link manpage "dh_link also scans the package build tree for existing symlinks which do not conform to debian policy, and corrects them (v4 only)." Chris
