Re: Options for the Debian KDE team (was: Lancelot locks accessing NTFS partition)

2009-04-10 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 09 April 2009 19:24:30 you wrote: >On Friday 10 April 2009 00:46:44 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >> Won't someone please think of the users? >Boyd, I actually prefer Stephen--I'm a junior and my father is Boyd. >The Debian KDE team can do about 5-10 things in a month. > >Which would

Re: Panel woes and other peculiarities

2009-04-10 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <200904100218.56104.mich...@schuerig.de>, Michael Schuerig wrote: >On Friday 10 April 2009, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >> In <200904100017.17828.mich...@schuerig.de>, Michael Schuerig wrote: >> >- Where do the panels get their colors from? >> IIRC, your desktop theme. Right click an empty sp

apt-get dist-upgrade followup

2009-04-10 Thread Jean-Damien Durand
First, applauds for this (yet again) packaging success of KDE4. I can only quote linux magazine, "good things come to those who wait" [1] I did an apt-get dist-upgrade on my sid-oriented-since-years box, here are the few issues that came: - Kaboom: All but one (the jabber one) Kopete contacts w

Re: Panel woes and other peculiarities

2009-04-10 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2009-04-09, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > Regarding the system tray: Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's an upstream bug (I= >=20 > had a few people confirm it a couple of week ago on one of the KDE lists). = >=20 > The system tray seems to want to take all the extra space on the panel, unl= > ess=

Akonadi, Nepomuk, and PowerDevil

2009-04-10 Thread Michael Schuerig
Akonadi, Nepomuk, and PowerDevil are all supposed to do good things behind the scenes. Unfortunately, they are not very forthcoming with information about what exactly they do or what their needs are. Akonadi wants its own instance of MySQL to be running, for whatever reason, even though there

Re: Akonadi, Nepomuk, and PowerDevil

2009-04-10 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2009-04-10, Michael Schuerig wrote: > PowerDevil points out that another power manager has been detected, > preventing it from working properly. Well, that's fine, but how do I > find the other miscreant? I deinstalled (k)powersaved, who else might be > interfering? With qdbus org.freedeskt

Re: Lancelot locks accessing NTFS partition

2009-04-10 Thread Alejandro Exojo
El Jueves, 9 de Abril de 2009, Ritesh Raj Sarraf escribió: > Upstream simply tagged it as a backward incompatible major release. And so > did many of the other distributions. Are you sure of this? AFAIK, upstream provided upgrade paths through kconf_update, as always. And if something broke, it w

Re: Akonadi, Nepomuk, and PowerDevil

2009-04-10 Thread Michael Schuerig
On Friday 10 April 2009, Sune Vuorela wrote: > On 2009-04-10, Michael Schuerig wrote: > > PowerDevil points out that another power manager has been detected, > > preventing it from working properly. Well, that's fine, but how do > > I find the other miscreant? I deinstalled (k)powersaved, who else

Helping Debian KDE

2009-04-10 Thread Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan
Hi all, I've read the thread regarding Lancelot, and there are request from Debian developer for KDE, for assistance. For your information, I'm not a developer. I cannot code in C, but I can create scripts (Bash, awk, sed) to simplify my daily job. I'm working as a Linux/Unix system engineer in M

Re: Akonadi, Nepomuk, and PowerDevil

2009-04-10 Thread Kevin Krammer
On Friday 10 April 2009, Michael Schuerig wrote: > Akonadi wants its own instance of MySQL to be running, for whatever > reason, even though there are no "resources" set up in its > configuration. Am I supposed to do something there? Akonadi uses the database for a couple of things: - ensuring un

Re: Helping Debian KDE

2009-04-10 Thread Stéphane Péchard
> If you have documents somewhere on how people can assist, do let me know. I'd be interested to! thanks stéphane -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: clean install of kde4 on sid

2009-04-10 Thread Federico Brega
You can try with testing enabled too, in sources.list , it should work for a few days untill newer libs will come in testing. Charon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Helping Debian KDE

2009-04-10 Thread Mark Purcell
On Friday 10 April 2009 20:55:09 Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan wrote: > Please provide me more information on how I can assist Debian KDE team. > > If you have documents somewhere on how people can assist, do let me know. Sharuzzaman, Thanks for your email. Some details of how people can help are ava

Re: Bluetooth in KDE4

2009-04-10 Thread Manolete, ese artista...
El Viernes 10 Abril 2009 02:29:11 Mark Purcell escribió: > Unfortunately KDE4 doesn't have the full functionality of KDE3 so if those > features are critical then you should stick with KDE3 for the time being. > > There is some work on packaging the bluetooth stack for KDE4 for debian, but > th

Re: Akonadi, Nepomuk, and PowerDevil

2009-04-10 Thread Manolete, ese artista...
El Viernes 10 Abril 2009 11:55:04 Michael Schuerig escribió: > Nepomouk is somehow involved with Desktop Search and the "Semantic > Desktop" (whatever that means). It points out that Strigi is not > running, but doesn't tell me, that, how or why I ought to start it. > You should not, it won't

clean install of kde4 on sid

2009-04-10 Thread rich123409
Patience is a virtue. Kde4 now installs on Sid. xorg is having problems but they call it unstable for a reason. :) thanks for the help. I was just surprised when I could upgrade and not install clean. I usually have problems the other way.

Re: components not working after upgrade to KDE 422 (and move to .kde)

2009-04-10 Thread Xavier Brochard
Sune Vuorela wrote: > On 2009-04-09, Xavier Brochard wrote: >> I'm using KDE 4 since the beginning (on Sid with experimental packages). >> Yesterday I've upgraded to KDE 422 and migrate my .kde4 to .kde >> Some hardware related things are not working anymore since the upgrade >> (I'm using a lapto

Re: components not working after upgrade to KDE 422 (and move to .kde)

2009-04-10 Thread Xavier Brochard
Hello Modestas Vainius wrote: > On 2009 m. April 9 d., Thursday 18:36:47 Xavier Brochard wrote: >> I'm using KDE 4 since the beginning (on Sid with experimental packages). >> Yesterday I've upgraded to KDE 422 and migrate my .kde4 to .kde >> Some hardware related things are not working anymore sin

Re: keeping kde 3.5.X base whilst upgrading applications

2009-04-10 Thread Arthur Marsh
Sune Vuorela wrote, on 07/04/09 20:31: On 2009-04-07, Arthur Marsh wrote: Hi, some applications that are the reason I installed KDE in the first place will not have KDE 4.X versions for quite a while (Quanta Plus, Rosegarden). I intend to stay on KDE 3.5.X until all KDE applications that I us

Re: KMail (KDE 4.2.2) indexing? again and again

2009-04-10 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > Is this happening on a Disconnected IMAP account ? I think in KDE 4.2.2, kmail has some serious memory leak issues (Contrary to what the changelog says). I don't know the exact pattern to reproduce, but once when triggered, even if I kill and start kmail, it eats up a

Kopete notifications

2009-04-10 Thread Benjamí Villoslada
Kopete send a lot of global notifications (new messages, new connections) that I've disabled. I'm only interested in new messages or connections for some users, but seems that individual notifications doesn't work. Is due to my configuration or one bug? Regards, -- Benjamí http://blog.bitas

Re: Panel woes and other peculiarities

2009-04-10 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In , Sune Vuorela wrote: >On 2009-04-09, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >> Regarding the system tray: Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's an upstream bug >> (I= =20 >> had a few people confirm it a couple of week ago on one of the KDE lists). >> = =20 >> The system tray seems to want to take all the extr

Re: Akonadi, Nepomuk, and PowerDevil

2009-04-10 Thread Michael Schuerig
On Friday 10 April 2009, Manolete, ese artista... wrote: > El Viernes 10 Abril 2009 11:55:04 Michael Schuerig escribió: > > Nepomouk is somehow involved with Desktop Search and the "Semantic > > Desktop" (whatever that means). It points out that Strigi is not > > running, but doesn't tell me, that,

Re: components not working after upgrade to KDE 422 (and move to .kde)

2009-04-10 Thread Xavier Brochard
Valerio Passini wrote: > Alle Thursday 09 April 2009, hai scritto: >> I'm using KDE 4 since the beginning (on Sid with experimental packages). >> Yesterday I've upgraded to KDE 422 and migrate my .kde4 to .kde >> Some hardware related things are not working anymore since the upgrade >> (I'm using a

Re: Panel woes and other peculiarities

2009-04-10 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2009-04-10, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > The current behavior is a regression from KDE 3. In KDE 3, I could have a= >=20 Please take this upstream. We aren' going to fix it in debian. /Sune -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: Kopete notifications

2009-04-10 Thread Manolete, ese artista...
El Viernes 10 Abril 2009 16:55:07 Benjamí Villoslada escribió: > Kopete send a lot of global notifications (new messages, new connections) > that > I've disabled. I'm only interested in new messages or connections for some > users, but seems that individual notifications doesn't work. Is due t

Re: Akonadi, Nepomuk, and PowerDevil

2009-04-10 Thread Manolete, ese artista...
El Viernes 10 Abril 2009 17:06:51 Michael Schuerig escribió: > If that's the case, I can stop all these nepomuk processes and happily > revert to Konqueror as my beloved file manager. Well, you can wait for some advice from other more experienced users or some mantainer; but if I'm not worng, a

Re: Akonadi, Nepomuk, and PowerDevil

2009-04-10 Thread Dietz Pröpper
Michael Schuerig: > If that's the case, I can stop all these nepomuk processes and happily > revert to Konqueror as my beloved file manager. Dolphin works fine without Nepomuk. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact lis

Re: Akonadi, Nepomuk, and PowerDevil

2009-04-10 Thread Michael Schuerig
On Friday 10 April 2009, Dietz Pröpper wrote: > Michael Schuerig: > > If that's the case, I can stop all these nepomuk processes and > > happily revert to Konqueror as my beloved file manager. > > Dolphin works fine without Nepomuk. No doubt, but Konqueror, for me, works better. And as Nepomuk wou

Re: Akonadi, Nepomuk, and PowerDevil

2009-04-10 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2009-04-10, Michael Schuerig wrote: > No doubt, but Konqueror, for me, works better. And as Nepomuk would have > been the only feature Dolphin has over Konqueror, I much prefer the > later. Welcome to the world of choice ;) /Sune -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debia

[SOLVED] Re: components not working after upgrade to KDE 422 (and move to .kde)

2009-04-10 Thread Xavier Brochard
Problem solved by upgrading to kernel 2.6.29 (I was using latest 2.6.26) However, I don't understand what package could have created the problems. I will ask help on another list for reporting the bug. thanks to all xavier Xavier Brochard wrote: > I'm using KDE 4 since the beginning (on Sid wit

Re: Akonadi, Nepomuk, and PowerDevil

2009-04-10 Thread Dietz Pröpper
Michael Schuerig: > On Friday 10 April 2009, Dietz Pröpper wrote: > > Michael Schuerig: > > > If that's the case, I can stop all these nepomuk processes and > > > happily revert to Konqueror as my beloved file manager. > > > > Dolphin works fine without Nepomuk. > > No doubt, but Konqueror, for me,

keyboard layout problem during migration to kde4

2009-04-10 Thread Seb
Hi, I've upgraded to KDE 4.2 now that it's available in Debian sid. Among the few bumps during the upgrade, the right ALT key on my keyboard (Microsoft Natural Ergonomic 4000) is no longer recognized as such. Going into the System Settings -> Regional & Language -> Keyboard layout, I selected Mic

Re: keyboard layout problem during migration to kde4

2009-04-10 Thread Seb
On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 13:48:03 -0500, Seb wrote: > Hi, I've upgraded to KDE 4.2 now that it's available in Debian sid. > Among the few bumps during the upgrade, the right ALT key on my > keyboard (Microsoft Natural Ergonomic 4000) is no longer recognized as > such. Going into the System Settings -

Re: Akonadi, Nepomuk, and PowerDevil

2009-04-10 Thread Michael Schuerig
On Friday 10 April 2009, Michael Schuerig wrote: > On Friday 10 April 2009, Sune Vuorela wrote: > > On 2009-04-10, Michael Schuerig wrote: > > > PowerDevil points out that another power manager has been > > > detected, preventing it from working properly. Well, that's fine, > > > but how do I find

kde4.2 mjpeg streaming video

2009-04-10 Thread Bob
With konqueror 3.5 I was able to view mjpeg streaming video from my motion web servers, the upgrade to KDE 4.2 konqueror shows a blank page. Anyone had success with konqueror 4.2.2 and streaming video? TIA Bob Brewer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a sub

Re: clean install of kde4 on sid

2009-04-10 Thread Alex Hermosilla
Hi, My machine is amd64 and has the same problem. I can't install kde4-minimal. Bye On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 1:42 PM, Federico Brega wrote: > You can try with testing enabled too, in sources.list , it should work > for a few days untill newer libs will come in testing. > Charon > > > -- > To UN

Re: Kaboom, the Debian KDE settings migration wizard

2009-04-10 Thread Guan de dio
Hi everybody, Today I have been upgrade my KDE4.2 to KDE4.2.2 using Kaboom. The installation is apparently correct, but when I start for first time my X windows, my desktop configuration is missing. The decoration of the Windows, the theme basically. Is there any way to go back the c

Re: Bluetooth in KDE4

2009-04-10 Thread micloos
Manolete, ese artista... wrote: > > > P.D: Of course I just want to laud Mark's attitude, not to start a new > discussion. ¡¡PLEASE, NO!! ;-P > A pity I didn't have this info last week, now going back to kde3 is near to impossible bluetooth has become something essential for a lot of us (pri

Re: Kaboom, the Debian KDE settings migration wizard

2009-04-10 Thread Michael Schuerig
On Saturday 11 April 2009, Guan de dio wrote: > Is there any way to go back the configuration of the desktop ? Do you have all the necessary parts installed? Make sure that kde4- minimal is installed, in case it is not. Michael -- Michael Schuerig mailto:mich...@schuerig.de http://www.schue

KDE 4 and Custom Menus

2009-04-10 Thread Mark Zimmerman
Greetings: In KDE 3, you could define custom menus for the root window by going to: Settings -> Desktop -> Behavior and then using the Mouse Button Actions section in the General tab. I cannot find the equivalent functionality in KDE 4. Is it gone, or does someone know how to find it? Thanks, -

My experience upgrading to KDE4

2009-04-10 Thread Nate Bargmann
Well, I took the plunge today upgrading to KDE4. I've tracked Sid for several years and never has it broken like today. :-D Installation of the mysqld package is hopelessly broken and hangs, only Ctl-C will break out of the install script. A number of packages complain about hal not being confi

Re: My experience upgrading to KDE4

2009-04-10 Thread Bernard Gray
... > I have no keyboard or mouse!  I can't even get to a shell prompt.  I > guess the joke's on me. Hi Nate, xserver 1.6 just hit sid in the last few days, input devices are now handled by hal (ie this is nothing to do with kde): * Comment all your inputDevices directives, and InputDevices sectio

Re: My experience upgrading to KDE4

2009-04-10 Thread Nate Bargmann
According to bug #523187, apparently the splashy package was preventing invoke-rc.d from being able to stop/start packages. Once I purged splashy, mysql-server-5.0, hal, and all the other recalcitrant packages installed. Now KDM balks at startup occasionally. If I can get it to a shell prompt I