Patch for the David Pashley FAQ

2003-02-10 Thread Chris Harris
This patch updates a few incorrect URLs and cleans up some wording ever so slightly. I have been careful not to screw up the SGML, but I have not run it through a parser to make sure it is correct. Sorry. -Chris __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus -

Cannot install latest kdebase-kio-plugins

2003-02-10 Thread Chris Thiel
Trying to upgrade from the 3.1.0-1 sid packages to 3.1.0-2, I get this: Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Correcting dependencies... Done The following extra packages will be installed: kdebase-kio-plugins 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 n

Re: kdm still slow on startup, solutions?

2003-02-10 Thread Marc Schiffbauer
* Norbert Preining schrieb am 11.02.03 um 01:10 Uhr: > Hi! > > I still have the problem mentioned earlier that kdm_greet eats up loads > of CPU/mem and takes very very long for start-up. Is there any solution > to this problem known. I have read about solution with libvorbis (hee, > sounds strange

Re: kdm still slow on startup, solutions?

2003-02-10 Thread Michael Hoodes
Norbet, I corrected this (as I posted earlier) by adding a missing truetype parameter to my SID (KL debs) which is running xfs: I added Truetype (/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Truetype) to the catalogue = parameter in /etc/X11/fs/config Your reason might be a different font but it's a good place to sta

kdm still slow on startup, solutions?

2003-02-10 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi! I still have the problem mentioned earlier that kdm_greet eats up loads of CPU/mem and takes very very long for start-up. Is there any solution to this problem known. I have read about solution with libvorbis (hee, sounds strange), FontPath and fs/config mixtures, and hell what more. Best wis

qt-copy compile issues

2003-02-10 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm having problems compiling qt-copy from kde cvs head The issue seems to be that /usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xft/XftFreetype.h is needed as its included within QTDIR/src/kernel/qtaddons_X11.cpp. Finding out which package it should come from... [EMAIL

Re: kmail within kde3.1 on sid ?

2003-02-10 Thread Daniel Stone
On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 01:42:54PM -0500, James D. Freels scrawled: > This is so frustrating ! We patiently await the release of 3.1 for sid. It > is announced and we patiently wait for the packages to arrive through the > normal route through the Debian system. Many people of commented that t

OO on sparc64?

2003-02-10 Thread Michel Loos
Hi, I just installed debian on an SpacrUltra5, without any problems. But I am unable to find a sparc64 binary for OpenOffice.org-bin. Off course I am trying to build it fromm source, but I am unsuccesfull for the last 2 days. Is there any chance I can make it or did somebody else try for much lo

KDE3.1, KDM & XF86Config-4

2003-02-10 Thread Lewis Shobbrook
Happy to say that I have KDE3.1 running very sweetly indeed. Had not used the std sources though. It's nice to see koffice running side by side, I had some trouble with that and kde3. Anyway, I did notice some problems getting KDM to add users to the logon menu. The users were added by adduser a

Re: antialiasing on sid, kde3.1

2003-02-10 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 10 Feb 2003 7:15 pm, Alan Chandler wrote: ... > > My problem is that it seems to change as you rebuild qt. My fault - it seems that Xlibs has libXft.so.1 and libXft2 has libXft.so.2 so I had picked up the wrong one. - -- Alan Chandler

Re: antialiasing on sid, kde3.1

2003-02-10 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 10 Feb 2003 1:13 pm, Vladimir Wiedermann wrote: > hi, > I'm new here. I have read part of history of this mailing list, but i > didn't find answer to this: > > I got sid, kde3.1 from sid and fontconfig although i have used > font-intaller on

kmail within kde3.1 on sid ?

2003-02-10 Thread James D. Freels
This is so frustrating ! We patiently await the release of 3.1 for sid. It is announced and we patiently wait for the packages to arrive through the normal route through the Debian system. Many people of commented that there is no kmail (kdenetwork). If I upgrade to KDE3.1 without kmail, w

Re: Qt Changes ahead - Info for package maintainers + developers

2003-02-10 Thread Ivan E. Moore II
On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 06:16:08PM +0100, Svein Ove Aas wrote: > Monday 10 February 2003 16:51, skrev Nikita V. Youshchenko: > > > Qt 3 development requires (or should require) libqt-mt.so, Qt 2 > > > development is using libqt.so. > > > > Are you sure? > > IMHO both libqt.so and libqt-mt.so can be

Re: Qt Changes ahead - Info for package maintainers + developers

2003-02-10 Thread Svein Ove Aas
Monday 10 February 2003 16:51, skrev Nikita V. Youshchenko: > > Qt 3 development requires (or should require) libqt-mt.so, Qt 2 > > development is using libqt.so. > > Are you sure? > IMHO both libqt.so and libqt-mt.so can be used by Qt3 developers. > First is for threadless apps, second for threade

Re: antialiasing on sid, kde3.1

2003-02-10 Thread Vladimir Wiedermann
> > After reconfiguring fontconfig - konsole fonts looks terrible - lots of > > squares in midnight commander and so on.. > > It is possible that you can adjust the fonts app by app to get reasonable > looking fonts. > > > Also when i choose different font, most of avaialable fonts look the same

Re: Rationale behind admin/debianrules (was: Qt Changes ahead - Info for package maintainers + developers)

2003-02-10 Thread Karolina Lindqvist
måndagen den 10 februari 2003 14.05 skrev Mark Purcell: > Am I missing something else by not using admin/debianrules? I thinkthe current admin/debianrules is somewhat historical. Old versions contains much more helper stuff, and someone stripped that off at some time. I have my own debian/debian

Re: Need help with sound in 3.1

2003-02-10 Thread Chris Boyle
On Sat, 2003-02-08 at 04:53, Chris Cheney wrote: > arts and kdelibs are now compiled for all the arches they are likely to > get compiled for in the near future. So if you want you can upload the > new xmmsarts version now. Done (version 0.4-24), this morning (about 4 hours ago). WorksForMe. :-)

Re: Qt Changes ahead - Info for package maintainers + developers

2003-02-10 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
> Qt 3 development requires (or should require) libqt-mt.so, Qt 2 > development is using libqt.so. Are you sure? IMHO both libqt.so and libqt-mt.so can be used by Qt3 developers. First is for threadless apps, second for threaded.

Re: antialiasing on sid, kde3.1

2003-02-10 Thread Anders Ellenshøj Andersen
On Monday 10 February 2003 14:13, Vladimir Wiedermann wrote: > Antialiasing won't work, until reconfigure fontconfig. This seems to be the thing to do to get aa to work. > After reconfiguring fontconfig - konsole fonts looks terrible - lots of > squares in midnight commander and so on.. It is p

ERROR: KUniqueApplication: DCOP communication error!

2003-02-10 Thread R. Rodriguez
hi. i get crashes with programs like Kate and Kopete with the above message. I'm using official sid kde debs. any ideas? please!!! :( R. Rodriguez

Re: Missing entrys in controlcenter

2003-02-10 Thread Michael Hoodes
kinfocenter - should be already installed. Michael On Monday 10 February 2003 04:56 am, Florian Struck wrote: > Hi i am using kde 3.1 from Karolina. > Today i realized that there is an entry missing in controlcenter that > was there in earlyer versions of kde. > I mean the system information w

antialiasing on sid, kde3.1

2003-02-10 Thread Vladimir Wiedermann
hi, I'm new here. I have read part of history of this mailing list, but i didn't find answer to this: I got sid, kde3.1 from sid and fontconfig although i have used font-intaller on older Karolina's kde and installed some truetypes from windows. And a problem: Antialiasing won't work, until re

Rationale behind admin/debianrules (was: Qt Changes ahead - Info for package maintainers + developers)

2003-02-10 Thread Mark Purcell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > > a) Chris Cheney: update kde-common/admin/debianrules and fix > > kdelibs/debian/dh-make template that people are going to use to produce > > KDE debs with. Whilst I understand the rational behind the admin/debianrules my personal experience with

Missing entrys in controlcenter

2003-02-10 Thread Florian Struck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi i am using kde 3.1 from Karolina. Today i realized that there is an entry missing in controlcenter that was there in earlyer versions of kde. I mean the system information where i can see infos about my hardware (usb devices pci devices irq's io's

Re: Qt Changes ahead - Info for package maintainers + developers

2003-02-10 Thread Ralf Nolden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Montag, 10. Februar 2003 12:42, Ben Burton wrote: > > OTOH Qt should be found fine through the search pathes > > admin uses for looking through configure for it automatically. > > So you're saying that even if debianrules isn't updated, things shoul

Re: Qt Changes ahead - Info for package maintainers + developers

2003-02-10 Thread Ben Burton
> OTOH Qt should be found fine through the search pathes > admin uses for looking through configure for it automatically. So you're saying that even if debianrules isn't updated, things should still build? So this means that calc and I *don't* need to reupload our modules, yes? (Though of cour

Debian package for 'kalculate'?

2003-02-10 Thread Bill Kendrick
I'd like to try out 'kalculate', as a simpler replacement for 'kcalc' on a kiosk system. (Not many average users will ever care about trigonometric functions, let alone programming tools, like hex<->dec conversion! :^) ) Anyway, I was wondering, has anyone built a '.deb' package out of it? (The

Re: Qt Changes ahead - Info for package maintainers + developers

2003-02-10 Thread Ralf Nolden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Montag, 10. Februar 2003 06:52, Ben Burton wrote: > > a) Chris Cheney: update kde-common/admin/debianrules and fix > > kdelibs/debian/dh-make template that people are going to use to produce > > KDE debs with. > > One thing worth noting: the admin

Re: Indeed. Re: Strange but solved...

2003-02-10 Thread Florian Struck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 10 February 2003 09:19, Soenke von Stamm wrote: > Hmm.. > > digging in my .bash_history returned this: > > (cd .kde/share/apps/konqueror/) > grep href bookmarks.xml|sed "s/.*href\=\"//"|cut -d\" -f1|sort|uniq -d > > hope that helps That did

Re: Indeed. Re: Strange but solved...

2003-02-10 Thread Soenke von Stamm
Hmm.. digging in my .bash_history returned this: (cd .kde/share/apps/konqueror/) grep href bookmarks.xml|sed "s/.*href\=\"//"|cut -d\" -f1|sort|uniq -d hope that helps yours, Sönke Am Sonntag, 9. Februar 2003 11:16 schrieben Sie: > On Thursday 06 February 2003 09:12, Soenke von Stamm

Re: Qt Changes ahead - Info for package maintainers + developers

2003-02-10 Thread Ben Burton
> a) Chris Cheney: update kde-common/admin/debianrules and fix > kdelibs/debian/dh-make template that people are going to use to produce KDE > debs with. One thing worth noting: the admin/debianrules won't be coming from the dh-make template; it will be coming (in most cases) from the upstream