Re: How to get rid of unused activities?
Michael Schuerig wrote: > I'm not actively using KDE's activities, but for some reason >20 of them > have accumulated behind my back, as I only noticed accidentally. As I > only need just one of them, I'd like to get rid of the rest. > > In KDE 4.5.3 (Debian experimental-snapshots), the context menu on the > desktop has an entry "Activities" that shows a bar of activities at the > bottom of the screen. In my case, they have somewhat strange icons and > all are named "Desktop". I didn't find any help anywhere, but apparently > I can stop an activity by clicking in the upper right corner of its icon > and in turn a small x is shown there. clicking on the red "x" will remove the activity activities can be stopped by clicking on the square black and white icon in the center of the activity icon > As the x'ed activities didn't > disappear right then, I restarted the session, only to find the number > of activities to have grown even more. each time you start a session, you have new activities? looks like a bug > As far as I can tell, the configuration of actities (among other things) > is stored in ~/.kde/share/config/plasma-desktop-appletsrc. I haven't yet > tried to delete this file as I don't want to lose the "other things". > > Is there a way to clean up the mess and avoid it in the future? I would suggest to ask on the kde forum, then to report a bug. Activities are not supposed to be created automatically at start-up. xavier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/impnti$q1t$1...@dough.gmane.org
Re: How to get rid of unused activities?
On Monday 28 March 2011, Xavier Brochard wrote: > Michael Schuerig wrote: > > I'm not actively using KDE's activities, but for some reason >20 of > > them have accumulated behind my back, as I only noticed > > accidentally. As I only need just one of them, I'd like to get rid > > of the rest. > > > > In KDE 4.5.3 (Debian experimental-snapshots), the context menu on > > the desktop has an entry "Activities" that shows a bar of > > activities at the bottom of the screen. In my case, they have > > somewhat strange icons and all are named "Desktop". I didn't find > > any help anywhere, but apparently I can stop an activity by > > clicking in the upper right corner of its icon and in turn a small > > x is shown there. > > clicking on the red "x" will remove the activity > activities can be stopped by clicking on the square black and white > icon in the center of the activity icon I noticed that accidentally just after reading your paragraph. Apparently it is a two step process: - Click the upper right corner of an activity icon to make a red "x" appear. - Then click again on the "x". Now a dialog asks for confirmation to remove the activity. Is this kind of interaction supposed to be intuitive, even sensible? Without asking it didn't occur to me and as far as I can tell, it isn't documented anywhere. Michael -- Michael Schuerig mailto:mich...@schuerig.de http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201103281253.19411.mich...@schuerig.de
Re: How to get rid of unused activities?
On Monday 28 March 2011, Michael Schuerig wrote: > On Monday 28 March 2011, Xavier Brochard wrote: > > Michael Schuerig wrote: > > clicking on the red "x" will remove the activity > > activities can be stopped by clicking on the square black and white > > icon in the center of the activity icon Thanks you for your help! I almost forgot the important things while being peeved by KDE. Michael -- Michael Schuerig mailto:mich...@schuerig.de http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201103281256.35570.mich...@schuerig.de
Re: Kmix master volume with Pulse
Am Sunday 27 March 2011 schrieb Seb: > Hi, > > Last month I ran into a couple of issues with sound on my AMD 64 Debian > unstable system. First, I noticed speech-dispatcher was blocking my > sound card. I solved this by setting: > > ,-[ /etc/default/speech-dispatcher ] > > | # Defaults for the speech-dispatcher initscript, from > | speech-dispatcher > | > | # Set to yes to start system wide Speech Dispatcher > | RUN=no > > `- > > and now I can see a single "PulseAudio Sound Server" listed under > System Settings -> Multimedia (Device Preference tab), and got sounds > again. Amarok wouldn't play anything with the default Gstreamer (from > the multimedia.org repository; I remember some conflicts between these > packages and stock Debian) backend, so I also had to select VLC as > back end to make that work. See http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/PerfectSetup#KDE and http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/KDE for more information regarding to KDE and Pulseaudio. Maybe KDE has something on http://userbase.kde.org as well. This cleared some of my confusion for me. Instead of "Pulseaudio server" you should get output names when everything is running correctly. See there. > The other issue is that the master volume from Kmix doesn't adjust > volume at all. Using other options under "Select Master Channel" in > Kmix doesn't make any difference. However, using alsamixer, I noticed > that volume can actually be controlled from the "Side 3" level. This > seems odd, since the Master channel in alsamixer's GUI is at max. I didn't see that. > I must admit I'm very confused about the roles of Pulse, Phonon, Alsa, > and the different back ends for controlling sound in KDE, so navigating > this is quite difficult. Any help would be appreciated. Count me in. That is a quite high software stack. Phonon Xine / Gstreamer / VLC ffmpeg Pulseaudio ALSA just to play audio. ;) -- Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de GPG: 03B0 0D6C 0040 0710 4AFA B82F 991B EAAC A599 84C7 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: How to get rid of unused activities?
Am Monday 28 March 2011 schrieb Michael Schuerig: > On Monday 28 March 2011, Xavier Brochard wrote: > > Michael Schuerig wrote: > > > I'm not actively using KDE's activities, but for some reason >20 of > > > them have accumulated behind my back, as I only noticed > > > accidentally. As I only need just one of them, I'd like to get rid > > > of the rest. > > > > > > In KDE 4.5.3 (Debian experimental-snapshots), the context menu on > > > the desktop has an entry "Activities" that shows a bar of > > > activities at the bottom of the screen. In my case, they have > > > somewhat strange icons and all are named "Desktop". I didn't find > > > any help anywhere, but apparently I can stop an activity by > > > clicking in the upper right corner of its icon and in turn a small > > > x is shown there. > > > > clicking on the red "x" will remove the activity > > activities can be stopped by clicking on the square black and white > > icon in the center of the activity icon > > I noticed that accidentally just after reading your paragraph. > Apparently it is a two step process: > > - Click the upper right corner of an activity icon to make a red "x" > appear. > - Then click again on the "x". Now a dialog asks for confirmation to > remove the activity. > > Is this kind of interaction supposed to be intuitive, even sensible? > Without asking it didn't occur to me and as far as I can tell, it isn't > documented anywhere. Activities have been reworked once again for KDE 4.6, so it appears to me its better to wait for KDE 4.6 instead of wasting complaints on an outdated version of the activity system that has been superseded already. I also find this activity stuff not quite intuitive. Sometimes it seems to be that the KDE developer themselves do not know at what to do with it. But then there have been some blog entries of Chani and I think another KDE developer about activities in KDE 4.6 and that stuff written there begins to make sense for me. Lets see how activities fare with KDE 4.6 -- Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de GPG: 03B0 0D6C 0040 0710 4AFA B82F 991B EAAC A599 84C7 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: kde 4.6
On 2011-03-27 07:48:45 Kees de Jong wrote: >On Sunday 27 March 2011 14:21:17 Kete wrote: >> On Sunday March 27, 2011 6:14:24 am Igor Sheykin wrote: >> > it would be better to ask "Would some new KDE4 versions added to >> > debian repos before Wheezy stable release?". >> >> It's not going to take two years for KDE 4.6 to hit Debian >> testing. What have you done to help the volunteers? > >This question is quite valid >if you ask me. We didn't. >Not everyone is a programmer, so not everyone can just >help. What makes you think only programmers are involved in the process? Package maintenance entails a lot of tasks that don't involve reading or writing code. Documentation, testing, and communication can be done by almost anyone. Those are just examples. I ask again: What have you done to help the volunteers? -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/\_/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: kde 4.6
On 27 of March 2011 15:59:46 Modestas Vainius wrote: > Hello, > > On sekmadienis 27 Kovas 2011 13:14:24 Igor Sheykin wrote: > > I think this question is very popular in the last few weeks. > > Nevertheless, "When would be KDE 4.6.x added to debian repos?", > > or it would be better to ask "Would some new KDE4 versions added to > > debian repos before Wheezy stable release?". > > What are the reasons why there are no new versions of KDE4 ? > > KDE SC 4.6.1 -> http://qt-kde.debian.net/ (ETA a few days). This time new > KDE will not conflict with most third-party applications (e.g. ktorrent, > kdiff3 etc.) from official archive (however there might be a few crashes, > not sure yet). > > Official archive will get KDE SC 4.6.2 or later. > > P.S. Upgrade will not be very smooth for semiofficial KDE SC 4.5.1/4.5.3 > users. Some more advanced apt/aptitude/dpkg experience might be needed. Be > prepared. Thank you very much Modestas for your work. If possible, could you please clarify in details which exactly help may people from outside Debian project provide to help speed-up the process of new KDE coming to official repos? I've read about copyright issues but unfortunately I'm not that deep in Debian "internals" and don't have any single idea of how exactly I can help. Thanks in advance. Pavel Mihaduk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201103281822.38856.le...@nixkid.com
Re: kde 4.6
I didn't help, that's true. I'm too busy involved with other projects outside Debian, I'm just a happy user. I greatly appreciate the free time that's spend in Debian by lots of people! But that's not why these questions rise. It's because we aren't properly informed over the progress, we were told it would be uploaded in early march. It's almost April now ;-) These questions would not have been asked if there was a clear progress schedule to follow. Maybe if there was such a progress schedule, then people can see more clear when and where to step in to help with their skills. This is also something that's needed for the projects I'm involved with. So when I've stumbled to a practical solution for such a schedule then I let you know. Maybe someone already knows an exciting solution for this? An easy open-source tool to display and maintain this on a website? -- Kind regards, Kees de Jong signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: kde 4.6
Heyho! On Monday 28 March 2011 16.47:39 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On 2011-03-27 07:48:45 Kees de Jong wrote: > >This question is quite valid > >if you ask me. > We didn't. Come on, can you please let this die or turn into something constructive? Igor asked this FAQ in a quite civil manner, and Modestas -- who does a LOT of the work -- answered. End of story. -- vbi -- "He don't know me vewy well, DO he?" -- Bugs Bunny signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
