On Sunday 14 Jun 2015 11:43:37 Alex DEKKER wrote:
> Allow me to row back somewhat:
>
> $ locate kde4/apps | grep icons | grep svg | wc -l
> 134
> $ locate kde4/apps | grep icons | grep png | wc -l
> 1090
>
> Looking through /usr/share/kde4/apps/*/icons it seems that, er, perhaps
> PNG is the dom
On Sunday 14 Jun 2015 11:43:37 Alex DEKKER wrote:
> Allow me to row back somewhat:
>
> $ locate kde4/apps | grep icons | grep svg | wc -l
> 134
> $ locate kde4/apps | grep icons | grep png | wc -l
> 1090
>
> Looking through /usr/share/kde4/apps/*/icons it seems that, er, perhaps
> PNG is the dom
On Saturday 13 Jun 2015 21:32:36 Alex DEKKER wrote:
> On 13/06/15 19:04, Nick Boyce wrote:
> > All this leaves me wondering what tool KDE developers on Debian use to
> > create their packages' icons can anyone give me a clue ?
>
> Inkscape? AIUI, KDE icons are S
As part of learning KDE-programming I want to try creating a custom icon for a
home-grown app - but have immediately hit a problem: there seems to be just
one icon editor utility for KDE, called KIconEdit, but there is no kiconedit
package in current versions of Debian.
The last version of Deb
digging into their source code on a hunt
for the magic method.
[1] http://www.qtcentre.org/threads/44049-KGlobal-locale-Warning-error
https://forum.qt.io/topic/7620/kglobal-locale-warning
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12571895/save-open-dialog-localization-in-qt
All clues grate
On Friday 29 Aug 2014 17:49:54 I wrote:
> I'm getting occasional (well, twice so far) crashes in Knotes as it starts
> up after user login to the desktop. I would attempt to report this,
> except that the Crash Reporting Assistant says the backtrace is not useful
> due to missing symbols.
>
> So
On Friday 29 Aug 2014 21:42:30 Maximiliano Curia wrote:
> El 2014-08-29 a las 17:49 +0100, Nick Boyce escribió:
[,,,]
> > The following extra packages will be installed:
> > kdepimlibs-dbg libakonadi-calendar4 libakonadi-notes4
> > libkalarmcal2 libkblog4 libkmb
I'm getting occasional (well, twice so far) crashes in Knotes as it starts up
after user login to the desktop. I would attempt to report this, except that
the Crash Reporting Assistant says the backtrace is not useful due to missing
symbols.
So I'm trying to figure out which debug packages to
On Monday 18 Aug 2014 23:58:18 I wrote:
> I'm going to submit a couple of Debian bugs for my original issue and
> one other minor fault
https://bugs.debian.org/759610
partitionmanager: partition alignment attribute missing from 'new partition'
dialog
Severity: important
https://bugs.debian.org/
Is KDE Partition Manager [1] still a maintained package ?
I ask because the version in stable (Wheezy) is still the same version as in
oldstable (Squeeze) - 1.0.2-1. This matters because 1.0.2 lacks features
which are needed with modern large hard drives. It also has some rough edges
which do
On Mon, 18 Aug 2014 21:49:56 + (UTC)
Sune Vuorela wrote:
> On 2014-08-18, Nick Boyce wrote:
>
> > Is KDE Partition Manager [1] still a maintained package ?
>
> Kind of not, kind of.
>
> the most active person of the past, george, is not active any longer.
>
[resent - original on 17/08/2014 did not appear]
Is KDE Partition Manager [1] still a maintained package ?
I ask because the version in stable (Wheezy) is still the same version as in
oldstable (Squeeze) - 1.0.2-1. This matters because 1.0.2 lacks features
which are needed with modern large ha
On Tue, 18 Feb 2014 09:41:49 -0600 y...@marupa.net wrote:
> On Tuesday, February 18, 2014 04:24:46 AM Nick Boyce wrote:
> > On Mon, 17 Feb 2014 17:20:24 -0600 y...@marupa.net wrote:
> > > On Monday, February 17, 2014 09:38:47 PM Sune Vuorela wrote:
> > >
> > >
On Mon, 17 Feb 2014 17:20:24 -0600 y...@marupa.net wrote:
> On Monday, February 17, 2014 09:38:47 PM Sune Vuorela wrote:
> > On 2014-02-17, Nick Boyce wrote:
> > > Thanks, I guess that explains it ... well mostly ... I had
> > > thought that Wayland was just an op
On Mon, 17 Feb 2014 10:27:42 -0600 y...@marupa.net wrote:
> On Monday, February 17, 2014 04:13:11 PM Nick Boyce wrote:
>
> > In the latest KDE Commit-Digest
> >
> > "KDM has been removed ... KDM goes the way of the Dodo."
> >
> > A quick bit o
Sorry - this isn't strictly a Debian KDE question, but I figure somebody
here will know something about this.
In the latest KDE Commit-Digest (Issue 322, dated 12th.Jan.2014) [1] the
following very terse and (to me) bizarre statement is made :
"KDM has been removed ... KDM goes the way of the D
On Saturday 10 Nov 2012 10:27:47 Rainer Dorsch wrote:
> I support to include this fix, because the kwallet behavior is very
> annoying.
>
> Has anybody rebuilt kde to check if it can just be applied?
>
> Is there a Debian bug report for this?
See the reply from Pino Toscano just two messages be
On Wednesday 12 Sep 2012 13:32:48 Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> > Actually (answering my own question), looking at just the first 4 stack
> > frames ... I could use my superpowers to deduce perhaps the missing
> > debug symbols are the ones for D-Bus :-)
> >
> > Would I be right ?
>
> Yes. You use
On Tuesday 04 Sep 2012 23:47:41 Mark Charles wrote:
> Has anybody managed to get Akonadi working on Squeeze?
To answer your question, yes, I use KDE on vanilla Squeeze, so I have
Korganizer and Akonadi running. Akonadi is running happily, as is MySQL which
is what Akonadi uses to store the dat
On Tuesday 11 Sep 2012 21:13:15 Nick Boyce wrote:
> Can anyone help me figure out how to proceed in order to get useful crash
> dumps from Dolphin ?
It's been suggested to me off-list that if I posted the entire backtrace it
might help someone see which debug symbols I need, so I
I had a Dolphin crash the other day, but the crash handler was unable to
obtain a useful stack trace - see screenshot here :
http://www.glimmer.adsl24.co.uk/images/Dolphin-20120910.png
At first I assumed that - in the usual way - I needed to install Dolphin debug
symbols to get a useful stack tr
On Monday 06 Aug 2012 05:15:58 Nick Boyce wrote:
> Can anyone here think of a reason why package KGpg does NOT depend on any
> version of GnuPG (neither V1 nor V2, nor even PGP) ?
[...]
> I'd gladly submit a Debian (packaging) bug for this .
FWIW: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin
Can anyone here think of a reason why package KGpg does NOT depend on any
version of GnuPG (neither V1 nor V2, nor even PGP) ?
[I presume kgpg is compatible with gnupg2, but I'd be using v1 ...]
I'm using Squeeze, but the situation is the same for Wheezy.
nick@mybox:~$ apt-cache depends kgpg
kg
On Friday 27 Jul 2012 17:46:38 Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 26. Juli 2012 schrieb Nick Boyce:
[...]
> > So I have a 3-star backtrace now - thanks everyone, and off to
> > bugs.kde.org I go.
>
> Please have a look whether your backtrace is similar to what I r
On Thursday 26 Jul 2012 20:12:21 Nick Boyce wrote:
> Funnily enough, since I installed the debug symbols suggested by Daniel S
> Konqueror hasn't crashed once . I wonder whether this is a clue.
Ha ! That did it . all I had to do was write the words "hasn't crashed
On Sunday 22 Jul 2012 11:07:27 Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> Please note that upstream likely is not interested anymore in bug reports
> for such an old version of Konqueror. Cause a bug might already have been
> fixed long ago.
Yeah, I was afraid of that - though it would be somewhat disappointing
On Saturday 21 Jul 2012 15:18:19 Xavier Brochard wrote:
> Nick Boyce wrote:
>
> > (b) the user has to install 325Mb of debug packages (painful for some
> > folks) to acquire the ability to report crashes in a web browser, at a
> > time where the browser package itself is
On Thursday 19 Jul 2012 08:30:46 Daniel Sutil wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 4:34 AM, Nick Boyce wrote:
> [...]
>> I've searched packages.d.o for anything resembling a package of Konqueror
>> debug symbols, but without success. (Searching package descriptions for
&
Hi All,
I've finally gotten sick enough of Konqueror crashes on Squeeze to want to do
something about it.
Several times a week I get Konqueror (4.4.5 / AMD64) dying on me, announced by
Dr.Konqui popping up, offering to let me produce a crash-dump and report the
error as a bug, failing to find
On 18/03/2012 09:14, R33D3M33R wrote:
>
> 2012/3/15 Nick Boyce
>
>> I've tried all the obvious meta-packages, with these results :
>>
>> "aptitude install kde (or kde-standard or kde-full)" gives : The
>> following packages have unmet depe
On 15/03/2012 10:36, Martin Alfke wrote:
> On 15.03.2012, at 03:42, Nick Boyce wrote:
[...]
>> I have just installed a fresh and bare-bones (no desktop) 'squeeze'
>> system on an AMD64 box, using the netinst 6.0.4 CD, and I'd now
>> like to install KDE 4.6.
es, I could just install the KDE 4.4.3 that comes with 'squeeze' - I
quite like it, but I thought I'd just have a look at the 4.6.5 backport.]
PS: what's with the wacky version numbers (5:66) of stable packages like
'kde', 'kde-full' and 'kde-plasma-deskt
on.
* If you are not experienced at compiling then the best advice for you
is to
not even try, but to install the ready-made binary packages made
available
by the Debian package maintainers and other volunteers.
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that I can hardly wait for stability :)
"And now back to your usual programmes ..."
Cheers
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to and if I'm totally wrong, he can tell me so, and I won't mind a
bit, whatever language structures he uses to do so ;)
That's multinational volunteer mailing lists for you.
Hey ho.
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I realise this might all be well known to some folks here :)
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Mind you, Konqueror 3.3 crashes on Slashdot unless I disable Javascript :)
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hich may be
good enough - I haven't used it, and don't know. It's apparently an
Ubuntu project to port Gnome's 'system-config-printer' to KDE.
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inclination or abilities ... I'd concentrate on investigating
your PC's setup, and compare behaviour with other SSL sites.
It occurs to me to ask: you _are_ using a Debian stable ("Etch") system,
aren't you ? Strange things can happen with unstable or testing.
Good luck.
Nick
e undefined symbols from
/usr/lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.8 ... don't know whether that's normal though
... not in a position to check here right now.
How's Konq's behaviour with all the other SSL sites in your life ?
Sorry I can't say anything more helpful :(
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But I'd love to know: the above changes ... are they a Good Thing[TM] ?
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nstall
libvisual and recompile" !).
Kaffeine works fine playing DVD movies - no stutters at all.
For audio CDs, I need KsCD - but maybe you're right, and I really don't :)
Thanks for the feedback.
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y* like to be able to say
either "I'm the only Formal Release Sarge user reporting this", or "At least
n other Debian users have confirmed this" ... so, er, which is it ? Could
some other folks reading this please just say whether this happens or doesn't
happen fo
g bug about it, though there _is_ a vaguely related one against an
earlier version :
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=200688
"kscd tries to read continously cdrom when a cd is ejected"
And now, back to your usual programs ...
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KDE the messages stop getting logged -
and furthermore they don't resume when I restart KDE *until* I login
again
If this is a widespread current problem, what should we do about it ?
Maybe this is better taken to debian-user ...
Cheers,
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On Sunday 17 December 2006 14:23, Kevin Krammer wrote:
> On Saturday 16 December 2006 23:30, Nick Boyce wrote:
>
> > Does anyone here know how to (or whether it's possible to) get the
> > Konqueror 3.3.2 that comes with Sarge to work with Gmail's AJAX interface
onqueror 3.5.x (e.g. [1]), and says
to set the browser identification string to Firefox - that isn't possible for
Konqi 3.3.2, as the choice isn't available.
The fallback Gmail basic HTML interface works fine, but isn't nearly so nice.
[1] http://dot.kde.org/1144261981/1144353008/1
[following up my own post again]
On Monday 13 November 2006 02:12, Nick Boyce wrote:
> Well ... it's getting worse. Tonight I couldn't view Slashdot at all for
> several minutes. Something on the front page was killing Konqueror as soon
> as the page started loading.
[...
On 13/11/06, Arthur Marsh wrote:
> Nick Boyce wrote, On 13/11/06 12:42:
>>
>> Well ... it's getting worse. Tonight I couldn't view Slashdot at all
>> for several minutes. Something on the front page was killing
>> Konqueror as soon as the page sta
On Saturday 12 November 2006 03:26, Nick Boyce wrote:
> Over the last couple of weeks I've experienced a series of Konqueror
> crashes using my vanilla Sarge system while surfing the web. A common
> feature seems to be Slashdot. In every case, I had Slashdot pages open,
> a
- the address in the line beginning #20 varies slightly.
(1) Is anyone else seeing this ?
(2) I'm not skilled at interpreting this further - can anyone here tell me
which KDE module or package this is likely to actually lie within, and where
to look for known bugs - or which KDE package to
On Mon, 24 Apr 2006 07:25:07 +0200, Iván Forcada Atienza wrote:
> [lun, 24 abr 2006 03:28:45 +0100] - Nick Boyce:
> > > [1] http://www.swscanner.org
[...]
> > Looks nice - could you put a note on the download page saying which
> > Debian release the deb is compatible wit
uld you put a note on the download page saying which
Debian release the deb is compatible with (I'm hoping it's Sarge ...)
? Or perhaps just tell us here ?
Thanks
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Bristol, UK
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relevant packager out of the deb and display that too ?
I realise this would be redundant for long-time users, but still, in
the interests of bringing Debian to the masses ...
Just my 2p ... anyone else ?
Worth making a feature request (bug against dpkg) ?
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On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 23:41:31 -0500, Hal Smith wrote:
> ... then imediately goes to logon prompt
erm ... is that a _bad_ thing, then ?
What kind of logon prompt ? Shell, or KDE ?
(Or do you mean "crashes and reboots" ?)
KDE logon prompt would be about right :)
Nick Boyce
Bristol
already looks a lot better at 1024x768 than at
800x600 ... as if the higher resolutions are being "designed in".
Just my 2p.
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ou've got, (" and @ swapped over) then maybe the keyboard is a
UK keyboard.
Sounds like a UK keyboard to me - I get your symptoms when I use a UK
keyboard with a US keyboard map.
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On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 09:49:05 -0500, Jason Mansfield wrote:
>Does anyone know where I can get these from? I searched google and found
>many references to them from like 2002 and none of the links to the deb's
>work anymore.
(Assuming you want packages for i386 hardware ...) *unofficial* Debian
Woo
ers, the best 4 of which will "go into the next
release of KDE" [3.4] :
http://www.kde-look.org/news/index.php?id=145
"last day to submit your KDE SVG wallpaper is January 8th 2005"
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On Mon, 4 Oct 2004 02:27:44 -0500, Chris Cheney wrote:
>On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 04:27:19AM +0100, Nick Boyce wrote:
>> FAO: the Debian KDE maintainers
>>
>> If possible, could someone please post some details of the intended
>> supported upgrade paths for users of Wood
On Mon, 4 Oct 2004 14:31:30 -0700, Michael Peddemors wrote:
>On October 3, 2004 08:27 pm, Nick Boyce wrote:
>> That's curious and alarming .. thanks for that heads-up. In fact
>> I see the oldest Debian binaries there are for 3.2.2 - even though
>> 3.1.5 and
27;d be grateful to be pointed to it.
Cheers (and TIA for the Herculean labours of you all)
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aths to Sarge/KDE3.2.3/3.3
[see my next post :)]
PS: I could make my apt archive copies of the KDE 3.1.4 debs for i386
available if anyone wants them.
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eensaver packages :
http://lists.debian.org/debian-kde/2004/03/msg00012.html
>2) I have to adjust my volume settings every time I log in onto the KDE.
>Why would that be?
Have you tried using the "File | Save Current Volumes" in Kmix ?
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ses to force me to.
If apt hadn't existed, I might even have been forced to give up using
Debian because of the thought of having to use dselect for package
management.
[phew] I feel better now ... thankyou for letting me share that with
you ;-)
Nick Boyce
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anilla Woody - however, that isn't looking very easy at all - I
haven't actually done it yet, but simulations with various apt
commands are not offering to do what I want at all ... See my post on
this list today :
Subject "How To Downgrade XFree86 From 4.2.1 to 4.1.0 ?"
http://
afterwards ?
I'm starting to think I may have to blow away every vestige of XFree,
KDE, and all other X apps, and then reinstall ouch :-(
PS: it turns out I'm not the only one with the KDE 3.1.4-to-3.2.2
upgrade problem - two other people have mailed me off list to say they
have the same problem.
Cheers,
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ade path using the binaries provided
by our trusty band of volunteers. It would be a shame if all that
effort were put into making the binary debs but nobody could use them.
Still .. it seems _I_ might be the only one who can't use them :-{
Cheers
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ebian wonder tool in many other Debian docs. If this is really
true then there's a major docs update job to be done ...
I've tried both synaptic and aptitude, and preferred aptitude's
interface.
Thanks
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disclaimer: I'm just a user, not a developer. I use Woody cause I
don't have the time or the knowledge ro wrangle with unstable.
PS: I could post the apt-get output if anyone thought it would be
useful.
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it solved
> everything.
Maybe that's your problem too - let us know ?
[aside: I'm wondering quite how or where we should report bugs or
problems in the download.kde.org packages. This list would be the
right place only if the packager reads the list (as the previous
packagers fo
might be time for me to upgrade my XFree-4.2 ...
Does anyone know how complicated that might be with current packages ?
ISTR that a whole lot of other Debian packages have to be changed to
move to XFree-4.3 ... e.g. font management ?
I'm far from a Linux machine right now, so can't tel
igure some screensavers any more"
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On Tue, 18 May 2004 21:54:06 +0200, Alejandro Exojo wrote:
>El Martes, 18 de Mayo de 2004 04:09, Nick Boyce escribió:
[...]
>> As a Woody KDE user I'm aware that the usual packager
>> suspects^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hheros are all somewhat preoccupied ..
>
>You're using ba
On Tue, 18 May 2004 21:54:06 +0200, Alejandro Exojo wrote:
>El Martes, 18 de Mayo de 2004 04:09, Nick Boyce escribió:
>> It would appear the right advice is to stop using Konqueror to surf
>> the web until we have our KDEs fixed.
>
>If you don't visit cracker's webs
nt at
ftp://ftp.plig.org/pub/kde/stable/3.2.2/Debian/README ]
Or I suppose switching to Mozilla for a while may be a sensible option
...
Cheers
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unning "Ralf Nolden" KDE 3.1.4 (from download.k.o) on Woody.
Meanwhile, I guess it's apply-the-patch time for me.
Cheers
Nick Boyce
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tunity to raise the flag for the Woody camp. I'm
always grateful that anyone takes the time to build Woody debs (tip o
the hat to Ralf et al), and really don't want to change my system into
some kind of hybrid.
Cheers,
Nick Boyce
Bristol, UK
c++2.10- 2.95.4-11woody The GNU stdc++ library (development
files)
ii qt3-dev-tools 3.1.2-0woody1 Qt3 development tools
ii xlibs-dev 4.2.1-15.backp X Window System client library
development files
(I have a backport of Xfree86 4.2.1 from backports.org installed)
Good luck.
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s if
we have the xscreensaver daemon running ... which is equally horrible
(ok - I mean "un-KDE-ish").
(3) How come some people find all 160 screensavers work from Kcontrol
without the problem I found ? (I'm thinking perhaps there are
different .desktop files in other packagers' KDE debs ...)
Cheers,
Nick Boyce
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setup dialog and the xscreensaver daemon,
but I'm wondering whether you're referring to the ".desktop" files that
seem to relate one-to-one with the xscreensavers ... these don't work
at all on my system. I'll be posting about this shortly.
Cheers,
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Bristol, UK
ht try installing it to
see what happens.
Maenwhile, nothing has changed for me, and the screensaver situation
is the same on my box right now (KDE 3.1.4). It seems to me it's time
we tried to clean this situation up.
Cheers,
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Bristol, UK
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t
everything else is solid [well ... lets not mention Noatun :-)]
Haven't tried Aegypten.
Thanks for the 3.2 feedback - that's the kind of success story I want
to hear :)
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Never test for an error condition you don't know how to handle.
post .. I should have searched
the list archive (it was 19th.January for anyone else looking for it).
I'll check this out - thanks for making these debs available.
Cheers
Nick Boyce
Bristol, UK
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On Monday 09 Feb 2004 10:16 am, Chris Cheney wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 09:00:55AM +0100, Adrian von Bidder wrote:
> > On Monday 09 February 2004 02.22, Nick Boyce wrote:
> > > On Sunday 08 Feb 2004 11:49 pm, Andreas Goesele wrote:
> > > > Is 3.1.5 still to
On Sunday 08 Feb 2004 11:49 pm, Andreas Goesele wrote:
> Is 3.1.5 still to come or are we supposed to go directly to 3.2?
Me too ! :-)
I'd be quite interested in that answer.
Thanks
Nick Boyce
Bristol, UK
htake ?
Wouldn't
deb http://download.kde.org/stable/3.1.4/Debian stable main
be better ?
(Given that the Debian Woody 3.1.5 debs aren't ready yet.)
It's a more "official" source of KDE-for-Woody.
Nick Boyce
Bristol, UK
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of any management."
-- Hugo Mills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
package up the "binary" of the Plastik style I've made,
for transfer to the other boxes.
If it's possible, I'd be grateful if someone could point me at some
instructions for doing so.
Thanks very much.
Nick Boyce
Bristol, UK
PS: for the sake of anyone else lost in the
hich fonts are scalable
AFAICT in the Control Centre dialog.
(is "scalable" the same thing as "outline" ?)
Thanks to everyone who helped out.
Nick Boyce
Bristol, UK
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--Cat in the Hat
debs ?
Cheers
Nick Boyce
Bristol, UK
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A. Because it breaks the logical sequence of discussion
Q. Why is top posting bad?
nk you for sending me a copy of your book; I'll waste no time
>reading it.
> -- Moses Hadas
Oh the joys of English language ambiguity.
Cheers,
Nick Boyce
Bristol, UK
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does quite what I want. I wish Christopher Robin was here".
On Sat, 10 Jan 2004 12:49:20 -0900, Greg Madden wrote:
>On Friday 09 January 2004 09:00 pm, Nick Boyce wrote:
>> With this deb source line :
>>deb http://www.backports.org/debian stable xfree86
>> running "apt-get update; apt-get -s upgrade" gives me messages s
all" some particular meta or base
package, instead of "upgrading" ?
Thanks in advance
Nick Boyce
Bristol, UK
On Mon, 5 Jan 2004 00:37:39 -0500, Jonathan Nelson wrote (off-list):
>On Monday January 05 2004 12:06 am, Nick Boyce wrote:
>> Oh ... thanks .. really ? ... confused I am now.
>>
>> Anti-aliasing is definitely enabled in Kcontrol - see my screenshot of
>> the relevant
On Sun, 04 Jan 2004 12:47:50 +0100, Dominique Devriese wrote:
>Nick Boyce writes:
>
>> I'm running KDE 3.1.4 with XFree86 4.1.0-16 on Woody, with
>> anti-aliasing switched on, and although the desktop mostly looks
>> pretty slick, there are still some *really* bad fon
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