kdeb (was Re: DSA-293-1, DSA-284-1)

2003-04-26 Thread Mark Constable
On Sun, 27 Apr 2003 01:00 am, Daniel Stone wrote: > On Sun, Apr 27, 2003 at 12:21:40AM +1000, Mark Constable wrote: > > Seems strange, it's a major open source system that would have a > > lot of Debian users.. is it because it's politically incorrect to > > use

Re: DSA-293-1, DSA-284-1

2003-04-26 Thread Mark Constable
On Sat, 26 Apr 2003 11:05 pm, Daniel Stone wrote: > On Sat, Apr 26, 2003 at 10:40:19PM +1000, Mark Constable wrote: > > I'd certainly be prepared to put some time and effort in as > > long as someone else has a clue of what actually needs doing. > > Well, to be fair, it

Re: DSA-293-1, DSA-284-1

2003-04-26 Thread Mark Constable
On Sat, 26 Apr 2003 09:59 pm, Daniel Stone wrote: > On Sat, Apr 26, 2003 at 11:22:33AM +0200, No?l K?the wrote: > > Shouldn't we change from the one-maintainer-who-is > > doing-the-whole-kde-core-stuff to a small team like other successfull > > big packages (openoffice, gcc, libc,...)? > > Voluntee

Passive mode ftp from konqueror

2003-04-16 Thread Mark Constable
Would anyone happen to know a trick to get konqueror doing ftp from behind a firewall ? --markc

Re: KDE 3.1.1 Fast as root but slow as User

2003-04-09 Thread Mark Constable
On Wed, 9 Apr 2003 04:11 pm, Matt Sheffield wrote: > That method has improved performance for me. However by default, Debian > deletes the contents of the /tmp directory on reboot. Thus, the .ICE-unix > ... > time. I'd like to disable /tmp clearing and clean things up myself. How > does one go abou

Re: Athlon optimized KDE build

2002-02-28 Thread Mark Constable
Mr Stone, would please take your personal snipping off this list ! It's of no interest to the rest of us if you have some personal ego problem with someone else. Your responses indicate you yourself need an extra pair of nappies. --markc On Thu, 28 Feb 2002 16:39, Daniel Stone wrote: > On Thu,

Re: Work-needing packages report for Jan 4, 2002

2002-01-04 Thread Mark Constable
On Fri, 4 Jan 2002 20:27, Mariusz Przygodzki wrote: > > There was no prior notice of this on either this list or debian-devel. > > Because some arrogant assholes (called debian maintaners officially) > have flamed Ivan on debian-devel for his very hard volunteer work. The > most interesting is tha

Re: ok folks...let's talk freeze...

2001-11-29 Thread Mark Constable
On Thu, 29 Nov 2001 20:06, Ivan E. Moore II wrote: > We are very close to freeze. I'm very impatiently waiting for word on > ... > Speak now or forever hold your piece. In a few weeks it will be RC bug > fixes only. Minor knit, I've notice that in the last week with Konsole, that using any conso

Re: Font Problem

2001-11-23 Thread Mark Constable
On Fri, 23 Nov 2001 16:05, Michael Ashton wrote: > Personally, I'd like to see Univers become the sans-serif standard on > Linux. That's _my_ favourite. But Helvetica's OK too. Interesting to hear fo your viewpoint, where is "Univers" ? The main problem with the Adobe helvetica on Linux is it

KDE Spellcheck settings ?

2001-10-31 Thread Mark Constable
I can't find where to set up spell checking in Kmail ? I thought I'd bump into the settings one day but it's been nearly a year since I had any spell checking in a mailer since dropping Navigator for Kmail ? --markc

QTDIR

2001-10-30 Thread Mark Constable
Please excuse a naive quetsion... I want to compile Muse ( http://muse.seh.de ) and in its make.inc it has a setting for QTDIR but best I can determine the original QT packages are splt up on Debian so how do I define a single QTDIR env variable for compiling KDE/QT apps under Debian ? Or, is ther

Re: Does KDE Multimedia Need Improvement?

2001-10-28 Thread Mark Constable
On Sun, 28 Oct 2001 05:15, Robert Tilley wrote: > ... > Do I need to ditch KDE and use a lightweight wm for for multimedia?  I > would use noatun (KDE Multimedia Player) but that program doesn't allow > easy display-window size-changing. > > Any information as to what I may be doing wrong is most w

Re: SSL sites in Konqueror

2001-10-11 Thread Mark Constable
On Thu, 11 Oct 2001 14:07, Josh Morris wrote: > Tonight I upgraded to the latest offerings in unstable, and now I noticed > that I cannot connect to anything SSL in Konqueror (Mozilla still works). FWIW I have the opposite problem, mozilla refuses to connect to SSL (https) sites but konqueror sti

Konsole and MMB paste

2001-09-26 Thread Mark Constable
A little change I've noticed with KDE 2.2.1 and konsole is when making a selection in a shell that one _has_ to move the mouse away from the selected area before being able to MMB paste the text. I never had to do this up till the recent 2.2.1 updates. Any else notice this and have any suggestions

Re: Usable browser

2001-09-26 Thread Mark Constable
On Wed, 26 Sep 2001 18:09, Justin Graham wrote: > You need to downgrade your libc6 package. I have a page setup at > http://www.atomichamster.com/fix_libc6.php3 Thank you very much for sharing your efforts into this problem. FWIW, just a hint of how to downgrade a package would be nice. I'm a lo

Usable browser

2001-09-26 Thread Mark Constable
Konqueror and mozilla are not working on my system after the last unstable updates, can anyone suggest a decent replacement browser in the mean time ? I just kicked into GNOME to see how it's going but after using KDE for half a year I had to exit from it as I don't have the patience to re-learn i

Re: Mouse problems after upgrading to Woody (X4)

2001-09-11 Thread Mark Constable
On Mon, 10 Sep 2001 18:13, Hendrik Sattler wrote: > > I have this same problem of not being able to use > > the mouse in X after being started for the console. > > I use this workaround because I don't use kdm much, > gpm -h > and look for the -R option. > You can also use gpmconfig. I'm not sur

Re: Mouse problems after upgrading to Woody (X4)

2001-09-09 Thread Mark Constable
On Mon, 10 Sep 2001 06:36, Hendrik Sattler wrote: > Not if he uses the repeater function of GPM. Turning off gpm while trying > to access /dev/gpmdata is probably not a good idea. I have this same problem of not being able to use the mouse in X after being started for the console. I use this wor

Re: moving windows around freezes up system... requiring reboot.

2001-07-05 Thread Mark Constable
Andy Saxena wrote: I have been using Debian Unstable for a while now. I was using KDE 2.1 quite happily before the upgrade to 2.2beta. I find that if I log into KDE, the system freezes completely when I try to move the windows around. I even tried purging all KDE packages and reinstalling them.