re: right-click menu option missing

2005-04-08 Thread Tim Folger
Found the answer in the February archives. I just had to install zip and unzip, and the extract option was added to the konq menu again. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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Re: How to get the "media:/" protocol to work

2005-04-08 Thread Christopher Martin
On April 8, 2005 17:10, Clemens Bier wrote: > - Changing HAL to run as root You should not have to do that. Does changing it back break anything? > - Add my user to the plugdev group (since plugdev group should give you sufficient permissions to avoid running HAL as root). Cheers, Christopher

right-click menu option missing

2005-04-08 Thread Tim Folger
Hi, I'm using kde 3.3.2 in sid, and after a recent reinstallation kde no longer offers the "extract here" option when I right click on a compressed folder. I seem to remeber this issue being discussed on the lists recently, but I could find no record of it in the list archives. Thanks for any

How to get the "media:/" protocol to work

2005-04-08 Thread Clemens Bier
Hi Debian KDE users, I have been eagerly reading this thread: http://lists.debian.org/debian-kde/2005/03/msg00098.html I also ended up having the same problems as in this post: http://lists.debian.org/debian-kde/2005/03/msg00112.html By today, I got all problems solved due to the following improv

Re: New font defaults for new users - feedback wanted!

2005-04-08 Thread Christopher Martin
On April 8, 2005 13:32, you wrote: > I also wrote him and here's an excerpt (first his opinion, then mine): > snip--- > -->3. DPI applies well to printing, but not well to the screen. If I > project my laptop display on a screen for a pres

Re: New font defaults for new users - feedback wanted!

2005-04-08 Thread Hendrik Sattler
Am Freitag, 8. April 2005 19:18 schrieb Christopher Martin: > On April 8, 2005 13:09, you wrote: > > Am Freitag, 8. April 2005 18:16 schrieb Christopher Martin: > > > Excellent reading on this whole subject can be found at: > > > http://scanline.ca/dpi/ > > > > He explains some but definitely with

Re: New font defaults for new users - feedback wanted!

2005-04-08 Thread Hendrik Sattler
Am Freitag, 8. April 2005 18:40 schrieb Bastian Venthur: > > Right, you did not. But I'll explain: fonts have e.g. a selected size of > > 12pt. 1pt = 1/72 inch. So you must know, how many pixels an inch is. It's > > that easy. > > Ok I see my error: I allways thought an 8px font has to be 8pixles h

Re: New font defaults for new users - feedback wanted!

2005-04-08 Thread Christopher Martin
On April 8, 2005 13:09, you wrote: > Am Freitag, 8. April 2005 18:16 schrieb Christopher Martin: > > Excellent reading on this whole subject can be found at: > > http://scanline.ca/dpi/ > > He explains some but definitely with the wrong conclusion because he > mixes up totally different problems an

Re: New font defaults for new users - feedback wanted!

2005-04-08 Thread Alex Nordstrom
On Fri, 8 Apr 2005 22:45, Paul wrote: > Paul wrote: > > As far as I know, I've never found a way to set dpi in KDE .. my > > monitor is supposed to run at 81 dpi, but I'm not sure what KDE is > > using. How can I tell what it is, and how to adjust it in KDE? If you run KDM, see /etc/kde3/kdm/Xser

Re: New font defaults for new users - feedback wanted!

2005-04-08 Thread Christopher Martin
On April 8, 2005 12:40, Bastian Venthur wrote: > Hendrik Sattler wrote: > >> Personaly I find "dpi" as it pretty useless for monitor-description, > >> since we have already all data needed: 1280x1024 (19'') for example. > >> But i admint, that i may have not fully understood this hole > >> "graphic

Re: New font defaults for new users - feedback wanted!

2005-04-08 Thread Nick Leverton
On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 06:40:31PM +0200, Bastian Venthur wrote: > Ok but I remember me having calculated the dpi of my monitors "by hand" many > times, so I think It would be nice to have some config tool done this for > me. It can't be to hard: during installation of x or kde the tool could > c

Re: New font defaults for new users - feedback wanted!

2005-04-08 Thread Bastian Venthur
Hendrik Sattler wrote: >> Personaly I find "dpi" as it pretty useless for monitor-description, >> since we have already all data needed: 1280x1024 (19'') for example. But >> i admint, that i may have not fully understood this hole >> "graphics-thingy". > > Right, you did not. But I'll explain: fo

Re: New font defaults for new users - feedback wanted!

2005-04-08 Thread Hendrik Sattler
Am Freitag, 8. April 2005 17:32 schrieb Bastian Venthur: > Ok, but users of *cough* "other systems" have a (not changing by some > magic) default value, so changing the resolution or even using another > monitor always gives the same results. But here on "my system" things can > be quite messed up

Re: New font defaults for new users - feedback wanted!

2005-04-08 Thread Christopher Martin
On April 8, 2005 10:44, Bastian Venthur wrote: > I think you have a tough job adjusting the fonts, since it heavily > depents on the dpi-setting of the system. The main problem here (often > heard in debian.user.german) is, that kdm uses 75dpi by default but > startx starts with 100dpi. > But i *t

Re: New font defaults for new users - feedback wanted!

2005-04-08 Thread Hendrik Sattler
Am Freitag, 8. April 2005 17:22 schrieb Bastian Venthur: > Calculating the dpi for both displays would give me some values about > 92-96dpi but I think 75dpi looks kind of better. I really doubt that on a TFT. > Personaly I find "dpi" as it pretty useless for monitor-description, since > we have

Re: New font defaults for new users - feedback wanted!

2005-04-08 Thread Bastian Venthur
Hendrik Sattler wrote: > Am Freitag, 8. April 2005 16:44 schrieb Bastian Venthur: >> But i *think* kde itself is kind of optimized to 75dpi (the icons on the >> desktop are a good example), therefore i think it would be the best to >> assume the average user works under 75dpi. (I'm not shure about

Re: New font defaults for new users - feedback wanted!

2005-04-08 Thread Bastian Venthur
Pierre Habouzit wrote: > afaik, when using kdm, dpi is guessed by X. > my dpi was read on my both screens (the physical ones) and resulted in > x-dpi and y-dpi (I mean the horiz and vertical dpi weren't the same). > > maybe then if fallbacks to 75dpi if no information is found on the > hardware .

Re: New font defaults for new users - feedback wanted!

2005-04-08 Thread Hendrik Sattler
Am Freitag, 8. April 2005 16:44 schrieb Bastian Venthur: > But i *think* kde itself is kind of optimized to 75dpi (the icons on the > desktop are a good example), therefore i think it would be the best to > assume the average user works under 75dpi. (I'm not shure about this point > but every live-

Re: New font defaults for new users - feedback wanted!

2005-04-08 Thread Paul
Paul wrote: Christopher Martin wrote: On April 8, 2005 03:22, Bastian Venthur wrote: I saw, that now the bug seems to be fixed, but I think not yet right. Before the yesterdays change the defaultfonts were like: Helevetica 12 courier 12 Helevetica 10 Helevetica 12 Helevetica 12 Helevetica 11 Heleve

Re: New font defaults for new users - feedback wanted!

2005-04-08 Thread Pierre Habouzit
afaik, when using kdm, dpi is guessed by X. my dpi was read on my both screens (the physical ones) and resulted in x-dpi and y-dpi (I mean the horiz and vertical dpi weren't the same). maybe then if fallbacks to 75dpi if no information is found on the hardware ... Personnaly I *manually* force

Re: New font defaults for new users - feedback wanted!

2005-04-08 Thread Bastian Venthur
Christopher Martin wrote: > On April 8, 2005 03:22, Bastian Venthur wrote: >> I think someone has forgotten to set the fontsizes right - there are all >> a bi too small > > These defaults are pretty much the same as used by GNOME (which is pretty > good at setting defaults, but they also by defau

New font defaults for new users - feedback wanted!

2005-04-08 Thread Christopher Martin
On April 8, 2005 03:22, Bastian Venthur wrote: > I saw, that now the bug seems to be fixed, but I think not yet right. > Before the yesterdays change the defaultfonts were like: > > Helevetica 12 > courier 12 > Helevetica 10 > Helevetica 12 > Helevetica 12 > Helevetica 11 > Helevetica 12 > > but no

Re: x.org from Ubuntu together with Debian Sarge/Sid and KDE 3.4 packages from alioth

2005-04-08 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Freitag 08 April 2005 11:31 schrieb Jean-Damien Durand: > Dear Martin, > > MS > Then I found that kwin from KDE 3.4 packages from alioth does not > seem to MS > have kcompmgr installed and thus transparency stuff did > not work. > > Sorry but not having kcompmgr does not mean no transparency. >

Re: x.org from Ubuntu together with Debian Sarge/Sid and KDE 3.4 packages from alioth

2005-04-08 Thread Oliver Heins
Am Freitag, 8. April 2005 11:16 schrieb Bastian Venthur: > > could somebody please explain what this means? Is there > some hidden place like alioth, where a brave user can > install some semi-official x.org packages produced by > xss? I'm using debs provided by deb http://neo.wh-stuttgart.de/debi

Re: x.org from Ubuntu together with Debian Sarge/Sid and KDE 3.4 packages from alioth

2005-04-08 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Freitag 08 April 2005 11:16 schrieb Bastian Venthur: > I still have a related question: from time to time I see posts in > debian.devel.x like: > > "X Strike Force X.Org X11 SVN commit: r37 - trunk/debian" > > could somebody please explain what this means? Is there some hidden > place like al

Re: x.org from Ubuntu together with Debian Sarge/Sid and KDE 3.4 packages from alioth

2005-04-08 Thread Jean-Damien Durand
Dear Martin, MS > Then I found that kwin from KDE 3.4 packages from alioth does not seem to MS > have kcompmgr installed and thus transparency stuff did not work. Sorry but not having kcompmgr does not mean no transparency. Anything else about X but not about kde, please no post, just in case.

Re: x.org from Ubuntu together with Debian Sarge/Sid and KDE 3.4 packages from alioth

2005-04-08 Thread Bastian Venthur
Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > Hello, > > I finally wanted to try out xorg 6.8.2 and tried with Ubuntu packages > (version: 6.8.2-10). This worked quite nicely. I just added > > deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hoary main restricted universe > multiverse > > temporarily and installed xserv

x.org from Ubuntu together with Debian Sarge/Sid and KDE 3.4 packages from alioth

2005-04-08 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Hello, I finally wanted to try out xorg 6.8.2 and tried with Ubuntu packages (version: 6.8.2-10). This worked quite nicely. I just added deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hoary main restricted universe multiverse temporarily and installed xserver-xorg and some depdendencies. The automa

broken package?

2005-04-08 Thread hja123
apt-get install kopete gives the following output: kopete: Depends :kdelibs4 (>=4:3.3.2-1) but it is not going to be installed. E: Broken packages Is the package broken? hja123 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Fonts disappeared

2005-04-08 Thread Bastian Venthur
Pierre Habouzit wrote: > Le Lundi 4 Avril 2005 15:03, Bastian Venthur a écrit : >> Pierre Habouzit wrote: >> >> Kind of strange, that the default-KDE-font is set to helevetica, >> >> whicht does not seem to be installed according the the >> >> font-select-dialog. (i have mst-corefonts installed).