There will be a 4.4.5 release

2010-06-01 Thread Richard Hartmann
Hi all, just fyi: The KDE Release Team has decided to make a KDE SC 4.4.5 release. So please remember to continue backporting your bug fixes into the 4.4 branch. http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/4235 Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: KDE 4.4.3 upgrade eats 141 MB of /home

2010-05-14 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 17:36, Christoph Burgmer wrote: > 4.4 was supposed to have major improvements over 4.3. 4.2 was supposed to fix > major issues of 4.1 and 4.0. Also called, I believe, the first "stable" > version > of KDE 4. Every minor release has been significantly better than its pred

Re: KDE 4.4.3 upgrade eats 141 MB of /home

2010-05-12 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 02:53, Mike Kasick wrote: > - Long term: Don't use MySQL as the default Akonadi backend, which is >  currently infeasible. It is my understanding that KDE 4.5 will let you choose different backends. > - Disable "kres-migrator".  Or at least add a debconf option to >  kd

Re: Fwd: Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-10 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 00:43, Frederik Schwarzer wrote: > It is technically impossible to lie if stating an opinion. If I prefer vanilla and say "I prefer chocolate", I lie. I hope I could light the whole situation up with that :) Now, to be serious once again: This whole thing is obviously

Re: What needs to improve in KDE 4?

2010-05-10 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 22:39, Dotan Cohen wrote: > Really? Please file those crashes! I though that all the serious Kmail > crashers were fixed! Speaking of which... As you are a walking bug filofax: Even though I have to say the d word.. What is the state of disconnected IMAP? Still killing a

Re: What needs to improve in KDE 4?

2010-05-10 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 16:08, Dotan Cohen wrote: > Please tell us what problems, bugs, or issues KDE 4 that make it > difficult to use. Good idea. The recent messages in various threads motivated me to do Yet Another Round Of KDE 4 Bug Filing. After all, if you don't tell people about what anno

Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-09 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 20:11, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > When I press Alt-F1 I get the Kickoff menu. Same here. Debian Sid, KDE 4.4.3 from experimental. Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@list

Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-06 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 23:08, Mark Purcell wrote: > This is free software, nobody is forced to do anything. Not 100% true. A plain user who wants to keep on using KDE 3 will not be able to do so forever. A year or two are certainly possible even though people will need a different browser for se

Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-06 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 22:12, Mike Bird wrote: > The whole semantic desktop idea is a bad joke in the real MULTI-USER > world.  If semantics are to have any value they must evolve on the > server from all the members of the workgroup, not an isolated user. Semantics can be pushed from above or b

Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-06 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 18:14, Dotan Cohen wrote: > System Settings -> Input and Output > RightClick -> New -> Global Shortcut -> Command It's called "Input Actions". But yes, this works. Still, the current way things are done are less than ideal. Thus: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23661

Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-06 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 19:54, Mike Bird wrote: > Are you aware that KDE PIM developers noticed that the percentage of > KMail users on KDE-PIM's own mailing list has dropped below 50%?  Even > KDE developers are fed up with KDE unreliability. If you check my user string, I am using Gmail's inter

Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-06 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 18:24, Richard Hartmann wrote: > For reference, while typing this email, my total CPU load is ~12% on > the KDE 3 box. On KDE 4, it would be around 20% -- I can get you > better numbers at home. great, now that I upgraded to 4.4.3, my base load is around

Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-06 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 18:22, Dotan Cohen wrote: > Can you try with rekonq or even Firefox? Firefox is a real memory pig. Iceweasel does not have these issues, but then I almost never use it so the test pool is a _lot_ smaller. Never tried rekonq, I can do so tonight. > Try running "top > top.

Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-06 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 18:18, Dotan Cohen wrote: > Maybe you were / are still using Qt3 applications? There is nothing > wrong with that, but it will be memory-heavy. No; definitely not. > So we agree: the more software on the system, the faster it runs! I'm > installing Gimp now... _Or_ KDE

Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-06 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 18:14, Dotan Cohen wrote: > It works! I will give this way a try at home. Promise :) Richard PS: If I forget, please nag. PPS: Thanks for caring about these issues so much. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscrib

Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-06 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 18:08, Dotan Cohen wrote: > What browser? Konqui. Is there any other browser on earth? ;) And yes, this is true for both KHTML & Webkit. > Is it only on specific sites? While some sites seem to trigger it more often, this happens with all sites. > Flash? Not if I can

Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-06 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 17:33, Dotan Cohen wrote: > Actually, I personally have not. However, this was actually the design > goal of Qt4 and many users have tested and reported lower memory usage > in KDE 4 compared to KDE 3. I don't know about CPU, though. For KDE 2 -> 3, this was true. I had 12

Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-06 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 17:28, Dotan Cohen wrote: >> I'm having the feeling that many users which are unhappy with KDE 4.X are >> just >> a feature or two away of accepting it. >> > > That sounds like a good assessment. Agreed. Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.d

Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-06 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 15:22, Nate Bargmann wrote: > Other things that just don't seem inuitive *for me* that were in KDE > 3.5. I dare anyone to create a new application hotkey without using google ;) Why this feature can not be accessed from System Settings directly is beyond me. And I mean _c

Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-06 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 14:59, Dotan Cohen wrote: > Please, let me know what KDE 4 is missing for you. KDE 4.4 has only a > handful of regressions from KDE 3.5.10, and they are not dealbreakers. > Some of those are addressed in KDE 4.5. Not missing as such, but there is one thing which annoys me

Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-06 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 13:12, Dotan Cohen wrote: > The eye-candy in KDE 4 was just a consequence of using Qt4. And of making Plasma core technology. Going so far that for several minor releases, there was no sane way to display files on your desktop. Granted, I don't use that anyway, this is jus

Re: kde 4.0.2 in experimental?

2008-03-06 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 10:14 PM, Alejandro Exojo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, it's right. I'm updating right now both to KDE 3.5.9 and KDE 4.0.2. I thought you could only replace KDE3 with KDE4, not install them alongside each other? Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Fwd: [kde-announce] [KDE Security Advisory] KDM passwordless login vulnerability

2007-09-19 Thread Richard Hartmann
Just making sure everyone sees this. -- Forwarded message -- From: Dirk Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 19 Sep 2007 16:23 Subject: [kde-announce] [KDE Security Advisory] KDM passwordless login vulnerability To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] KDE Security Advisory: KDM passwordless login vu