Re: html documentation for kde

2002-09-27 Thread Ben Burton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > Is there any use for the kde documentation in html format, that some > packages generate? These are all from the modules that I maintain. > It is not something that KDE is using, and all the documentation is > available from within the programs an

Re: html documentation for kde

2002-09-27 Thread Karolina Lindqvist
fredagen den 27 september 2002 08.23 skrev Ben Burton: > /me raises his hand. Oh, and when I first started providing them I got a > personal thank-you from a user, so make that two. :) Thank you for your nice answer. You have convinced me that they are useful and a good thing to have. -- Karol

Notes utility for KDE3?

2002-09-27 Thread Michael Thaler
Hi there, is there any tool for KDE3 to place little stickers with notes on the desktop? I have seen this on a friend's MacOS laptop and it seems pretty useful. Is there any tool to remind you of certain dates like birthdays? Thanks in advance, Michael

Re: Notes utility for KDE3?

2002-09-27 Thread Karolina Lindqvist
fredagen den 27 september 2002 13.25 skrev Michael Thaler: > Hi there, > > is there any tool for KDE3 to place little stickers with notes on the > desktop? I have seen this on a friend's MacOS laptop and it seems > pretty useful. knotes make sticky yellow notes stickers for the screen. > Is there

Re: Notes utility for KDE3?

2002-09-27 Thread Chris Boyle
On Fri, 2002-09-27 at 12:25, Michael Thaler wrote: > is there any tool for KDE3 to place little stickers with notes on the > desktop? I have seen this on a friend's MacOS laptop and it seems > pretty useful. knotes. > Is there any tool to remind you of certain dates like birthdays? korganizer wi

Re: html documentation for kde

2002-09-27 Thread Charles de Miramon
> > It might be useful for some, but is it useful enough to warrant separate > > packages for it? You can also find the documentation (but only in English) at docs.kde.org. Maybe, we should ask Lauri Watts to add the option to download a documentation in HTML format for local browsing. Cheers,

Re: html documentation for kde

2002-09-27 Thread Derek Broughton
From: "Ben Burton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > /me raises his hand. Oh, and when I first started providing them I got a > personal thank-you from a user, so make that two. :) Consider this a personal thank-you from someone who sees the value of providing the html-docs for those who want them, but does

178 days and counting

2002-09-27 Thread Brad Felmey
Since KDE 3.0 was released, and still nothing in sid. -- Brad Felmey

Run kde3 from kdm

2002-09-27 Thread Jordi
Hi all, I have installed kde3 after completely remove kde2 (/etc/kde* and $HOME/.kde* included). Now when I choose "kde3" on kdm I only get a xterm, like failsafe option. I can run kde3 with startx and similar. -- Adéu. Jordi Catalán Morros

Re: html documentation for kde

2002-09-27 Thread Tim Wheeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 i also appriciate the documentation packages. it would be nice if there were more of them. it is good to be able to set up docs locally so i can save the bandwidth. i know i should take the time to actually find the appropriate bug or submit one.

Re: html documentation for kde

2002-09-27 Thread Karolina Lindqvist
fredagen den 27 september 2002 17.09 skrev Tim Wheeler: > i know i should take the time to actually find the appropriate bug or > submit one...but while we're on the topic... the html documentation > doesn't contain the images that the html references. this means ugly > pages. > > removing the l

Re: 178 days and counting

2002-09-27 Thread David Pashley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 27 September 2002 2:48 pm, Brad Felmey wrote: > Since KDE 3.0 was released, and still nothing in sid. > -- > Brad Felmey Well you could join #debian-kde on irc.freenode.org, check out KDE from CVS and fix problems. Whie you're at it you cou

Re: 178 days and counting

2002-09-27 Thread Brad Felmey
On Fri, 2002-09-27 at 11:14, David Pashley wrote: > Well you could join #debian-kde on irc.freenode.org, check out KDE from CVS > and fix problems. Whie you're at it you could sort out a correct transition > to GCC 3.2 in sid without breaking updates including from woody, or you could > just bi

Re: html documentation for kde

2002-09-27 Thread Ben Burton
> i know i should take the time to actually find the appropriate bug or > submit one...but while we're on the topic... the html documentation > doesn't contain the images that the html references. this means ugly > pages. Just curious: have you also installed the applications whose docs don't h

Re: Run kde3 from kdm

2002-09-27 Thread Michael Hoodes
Jordi, Make sure you have a symlink in /usr/bin ln -s /etc/kde3/debian/startkde kde3 and then kde3 should work in kdm (3.0-3.03) the startkde in /usr/bin should also be symlinked to etc/kde3/debian/startkde. For KDE 3.1 (3.07), There is a subtle warning not to use kcontrol t

Re: 178 days and counting

2002-09-27 Thread Derrell . Lipman
David Pashley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Friday 27 September 2002 2:48 pm, Brad Felmey wrote: >> Since KDE 3.0 was released, and still nothing in sid. > > Well you could join #debian-kde on irc.freenode.org, check out KDE from CVS > and fix problems. Whie you're at it you could sort out a c

Re: 178 days and counting

2002-09-27 Thread Quenten Griffith
I haven't tired it but there was some discussion on the list a few weeks ago and someone made kde3 for woody deb http://people.debian.org/~schoepf/kde3/woody ./ I am running kde3 on testing though with no real troubles to speak of. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David Pashley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> write

Re: 178 days and counting

2002-09-27 Thread Michael Knigge
> I've now reinstalled woody/stable and have only stable in sources.list. I'd > love to install kde3.x if someone can point me to a .deb that will install it > on standard woody/stable. Anyone? deb http://people.debian.org/~schoepf/kde3/woody ./ apt-get update apt-get install kdebase apt-get

Re: 178 days and counting

2002-09-27 Thread Bastiaan Naber
On Friday 27 September 2002 18:25, Brad Felmey wrote: > On Fri, 2002-09-27 at 11:14, David Pashley wrote: > > Well you could join #debian-kde on irc.freenode.org, check out KDE from > > CVS and fix problems. Whie you're at it you could sort out a correct > > transition to GCC 3.2 in sid without bre

Re: 178 days and counting

2002-09-27 Thread Derrell . Lipman
Michael Knigge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I've now reinstalled woody/stable and have only stable in > sources.list. I'd >> love to install kde3.x if someone can point me to a .deb that will > install it >> on standard woody/stable. Anyone? > > > deb http://people.debian.org/~schoepf/kde3/w

RE: 178 days and counting

2002-09-27 Thread Albert Heijn
I don't think the reason why one would choose Debian was ever to have always the latest packages without any hassle You choose Debian because it is 1337 :)) -Original Message- From: Bastiaan Naber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 27, 2002 7:33 PM To: debian-kde@lis

Re: 178 days and counting

2002-09-27 Thread scooter
what happens on a Debian system when you compile from source? I have run in succession 3.0 alpha, 3.0beta, 3.1 alpha and now 3.1beta (or for you purests 3.0.7) All built from tarballs on the dread RH. I have never had the slightest difficulty with KDE on RH unless it was something of my own doi

Re: 178 days and counting

2002-09-27 Thread Hendrik Sattler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Freitag, 27. September 2002 19:36 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > woody/unstable (libc3.x maybe? I don't remember.) that were dependencies. Because you wrote that often enought now: "woody" is not "unstable" or "testing" but the current "stable",

Re: 178 days and counting

2002-09-27 Thread Dan Boresjo
Strange, I chose Debian because it's Free, stable, feature-rich and fairly easy to use. The stable distribution is perfect for people who want a general-purpose operating system and have real work to get done, rather than just playing with a technological toy. Can't say I'm iching to upgrade t

Re: 178 days and counting

2002-09-27 Thread Derrell . Lipman
Hendrik Sattler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Am Freitag, 27. September 2002 19:36 schrieb > [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > >> woody/unstable (libc3.x maybe? I don't remember.) that were dependencies. > > Because you wrote that often enought now: > "woody" is not "unstable" or "testing" but the current "

Re: 178 days and counting

2002-09-27 Thread Simon Hepburn
Brad Felmey wrote: > I'd rather just bitch about it, thanks. That's odd I'm running sid and kde3.0.3. How did that happen ? Guess I must have pasted one of those pesky apt-lines for ftp.kde.org that people keep littering this list with, into my sources.list. Mind you that's an awful lot of

Re: 178 days and counting

2002-09-27 Thread csj
On Fri, 27 Sep 2002 11:25:40 -0500 Brad Felmey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2002-09-27 at 11:14, David Pashley wrote: > > > Well you could join #debian-kde on irc.freenode.org, check out KDE > > from CVS and fix problems. Whie you're at it you could sort out a > > correct transition t

Re: 178 days and counting

2002-09-27 Thread Brad Felmey
On Fri, 2002-09-27 at 13:14, Simon Hepburn wrote: > Brad Felmey wrote: > > > I'd rather just bitch about it, thanks. > > That's odd I'm running sid and kde3.0.3. How did that happen ? > Guess I must have pasted one of those pesky apt-lines for ftp.kde.org > that people keep littering this li

Re: Compiling KBabel 1.0.2 for KDE 3.0.3

2002-09-27 Thread Charles de Miramon
> install libdb2-dev > Thanks it worked. If somebody wants a crude .deb package of KBabel 1.0beta2 for Sid / KDE 3.0.3, please contact me Cheers, Charles -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kde-france.org

Re: ugle background when starting kdm

2002-09-27 Thread Fred K Ollinger
> > Does anyone know how to do this ? > > This is part of X - nothing to do with kdm. You could try looking at the > ceiling just before X starts. I don't think it looks so ugly. It looks like the mac classic default desktop. Anyone remember this? Also, if you ever configure X, this is what you se

Re: 178 days and counting

2002-09-27 Thread Wim Stubbe
On Friday 27 September 2002 21:02, Brad Felmey wrote: > On Fri, 2002-09-27 at 13:14, Simon Hepburn wrote: > > Brad Felmey wrote: > > > I'd rather just bitch about it, thanks. > > > > That's odd I'm running sid and kde3.0.3. How did that happen ? > > Guess I must have pasted one of those pesky a

Re: 178 days and counting

2002-09-27 Thread Thomas Schoepf
On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 01:36:16PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > deb http://people.debian.org/~schoepf/kde3/woody ./ > It appears to be what I want. That looks like what I did, though, and there > were still libraries that were required and only available from woody/unstable Use the deb so

Re: ugle background when starting kdm

2002-09-27 Thread Bastiaan Naber
> The reason it shows the dots for so long is b/c your computer is slow. The > faster the computer, the less time to see ugliness. If you get a fast > enough computer, you won't see it anymore. So spring the $300 for a new > computer. Also, if you spend $200 more and get a smokin' graphics card, I

Re: ugle background when starting kdm

2002-09-27 Thread Fred K Ollinger
> Sorry but I have a amd athlon XP 2000+ and a geforce graphics card and > still the dots appear long enough to make my head hurt. I don't think spending > more money will make the dotted background go away Well, I stand corrected. This coming from someone who uses a 200 MHZ pentium II and the dot

Re: ugly x background when starting kdm

2002-09-27 Thread John Gay
I've heard the proper explaination before on the Xpert list. I'm no programmer either but the basic idea is that this is an extremely low-level test of the X-Server. The reason for the horrible pattern it that it can be wrapped evenly on any bit boundary. The usefullness is when you are program

Re: ugly x background when starting kdm

2002-09-27 Thread Peter Clark
Quoting John Gay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I do know that there are patches available to remove this, but this would > mean getting the proper version of source code to apply the patch to, patch > it and re-compile and install. Not a difficult task, even for a > non-programmer, but a lot to down-loa

ugle background when starting kdm

2002-09-27 Thread Nathan Waddell
I would say look at the Xserver logs. I would bet you have something in there that X is searching for and not finding. If you have both a 'Configured Mouse' and 'Generic Mouse' section, disable the one that is NOT set as root pointer. This caused a few seconds of hangup on my box. Look for any

Re: 178 days and counting

2002-09-27 Thread Simon Hepburn
Brad Felmey wrote: > Simon, don't even pretend you understand what I was getting at. It's > painfully obvious you don't. Given that your posts consisted of: >Since KDE 3.0 was released, and still nothing in sid. and >I'd rather just bitch about it, thanks. ... what is it that we are supposed

Re: 178 days and counting

2002-09-27 Thread Simon Hepburn
Simon Hepburn wrote: > As for the line wrap it's set to 78, always has been. Looks like a bug in > kmail when moving mails to or from the drafts folder. I'll try and > reproduce it. Anyone else seen anything similar ? Nothing on the kde bug > page. Reproduced and reported as #48392 -- Simon Hepb

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Re: html documentation for kde

2002-09-27 Thread Tim Wheeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 grace and peace to you. thank everyone (who's typed on this topic) for your help. i set up a server for my local network with the linux documentation html package. i thought, while i was at it, that i'd install any other documentation on the web s

konqueor 3.0.3: not correctly handle charset=gb2312

2002-09-27 Thread Yang Shouxun
Konqueror in KDE 3.0.3 does not always display Chinese pages correctly. After some efforts, I narrow it down to this. If the webpage contains a line such as --->8--- --->8--- to specify the charset to be used, konqueror 3.0.3 will not correctly display the page. Some Chinese characters are miss

kde 3.0.3: problem with Chinese characters

2002-09-27 Thread Yang Shouxun
Besides the problem reported about konqueor web browser, I come across other problems as well. KDE 2.2.x do not have any of these problems. I'm using KDE 3.0.3 with kde-i18n-zhcn i18n package and set the language encoding to gb2312. All KDE apps correctly show the Chinese strings that come with

Re: What's going on with KDE 3 and XFree86's libxkbfile?

2002-09-27 Thread David Pashley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 27 September 2002 2:17 am, Branden Robinson wrote: > [Please reply to both debian-kde and debian -x.] > > I recently got a mail that said something like this: > > Why isn't there a -fPIC compiled version of /usr/X11R6/lib/libxkbfile.a > a

Re: What's going on with KDE 3 and XFree86's libxkbfile?

2002-09-27 Thread Branden Robinson
[Please remember to follow-up to both debian-kde and debian-x.] On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 10:55:51AM +0100, David Pashley wrote: > Branden, can you get deepthroat to send a build log so we can see there this > error is occuring in the build. Can you ask them how recently this has > happened? I'll

Re: Regarding KDE 3, hppa, and libxkbfile

2002-09-27 Thread Helge Deller
> From: David Pashley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-kde@lists.debian.org, debian-x@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: What's going on with KDE 3 and XFree86's libxkbfile? > Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 10:55:51 +0100 > > [snip] > Branden, can you get deepthroat to send a build log so we can see there > t