René J.V. Bertin posted on Wed, 27 Oct 2021 14:34:18 +0200 as excerpted:
> On Wednesday October 27 2021 12:19:47 Duncan wrote:
>
>> > (because wayland has no concept of primary screen
>
> Well that s*cks (I suppose)!
For most apps/windows in practice it's generally not /too/ bad because
kwin a
On Wednesday October 27 2021 12:19:47 Duncan wrote:
> > (because wayland has no concept of primary screen
Well that s*cks (I suppose)!
R.
René J.V. Bertin posted on Mon, 25 Oct 2021 14:27:29 +0200 as excerpted:
> On Monday October 25 2021 11:51:24 Duncan wrote:
>
>>Heh, not crazy-res as in dpi, actually rather low dpi, but crazy big...
>>Try two 75"/1.9m 4k TVs as monitors. Literally a /wall/ of screen! =:^)
>
> Still pretty high
René J.V. Bertin posted on Mon, 25 Oct 2021 13:57:26 +0200 as excerpted:
> Pity you didn't post screenshots. I'm not seeing (much) vertical screen
> waste in the window titlebars, not with my QtCurve theme in any case. In
> fact, (much) less padding would probably start looking weird; there's
> ce
On Tuesday October 26 2021 12:09:19 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
>I'd have to check on the frequency (not up to it this morning / afternoon),
>but I think I get a refresh rate of 60 Hz. at the 1920x1080 resolution -- ahh
>wait, easier than I thought (displayed when I switch to and then back from a
On Tuesday, October 26, 2021 11:41:34 AM René J.V. Bertin wrote:
> On Tuesday October 26 2021 08:19:36 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
> Something specific to (certain) EU countries, where owners of appliances
> containing a TV tuner have to pay a few hundred bucks each year, which are
> used to finance
On Tuesday October 26 2021 08:19:36 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
>Not sure what you mean by the TV tax.
Something specific to (certain) EU countries, where owners of appliances
containing a TV tuner have to pay a few hundred bucks each year, which are used
to finance the national TV stations. Give
On Monday, October 25, 2021 08:27:29 AM René J.V. Bertin wrote:
> Last time I used a TV as a monitor was in my C64 days - and even that
> didn't last long (meaning we got a proper monitor, the computer lasted me
> a bit longer :) ) Nowadays I do the opposite (saves us from paying the "TV
> tax" O:-
On Monday October 25 2021 11:51:24 Duncan wrote:
>Heh, not crazy-res as in dpi, actually rather low dpi, but crazy big...
>Try two 75"/1.9m 4k TVs as monitors. Literally a /wall/ of screen! =:^)
Still pretty high dpi effectively, when you've moved back far enough to be able
to take it all in
On Monday October 25 2021 10:30:52 Duncan wrote:
>So I switched to the oxygen windeco which would have been my choice
>anyway, were the vertical titlebar padding not so ridiculously space-
>wasting.
That's what I'm using too ATM, when I'm using KWin. I long had all kinds of
annoying glitches wi
René J.V. Bertin posted on Mon, 25 Oct 2021 11:44:54 +0200 as excerpted:
> Configurability will undoubtedly remain, but I'm less certain it'll
> continue to allow you to get exactly what you want if your tastes don't
> co-evolve. QML-based apps *can* use the widget style of your choice but
> IIUC
René J.V. Bertin posted on Mon, 25 Oct 2021 11:09:47 +0200 as excerpted:
> On Monday October 25 2021 01:09:31 Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
>
>>OTOH, I do have a tablet (a Surface Go) on which I installed my standard
>>Arch-with-KDE. And there I appreciate the fact that touch support is
>>being worke
On Monday October 25 2021 05:03:29 Duncan wrote:
>The **BIG** thing I'd worry about there is security -- qt4 has long been
>out of support upstream, and kde4 went with it. They, qtwebkit in
>particular, are *KNOWN* to be full of security holes by now. A still
I didn't go into specifics of wh
On Monday October 25 2021 01:09:31 Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
>OTOH, I do have a tablet (a Surface Go) on which I installed my standard
>Arch-with-KDE. And there I appreciate the fact that touch support is being
>worked on – even on X11.
Sure, but that's something else, right? There are desktop co
René J.V. Bertin posted on Sun, 24 Oct 2021 12:19:21 +0200 as excerpted:
[Reordering to put the important discussion first.]
> My current system has (self-built)
> KF5 apps running under that same Plasma4 desktop but it seems I'm going
> to have to keep looking what to replace that with when hold
Am Sun, Oct 24, 2021 at 12:19:21PM +0200 schrieb René J.V. Bertin:
> >Generally, I approve of new and improved systems, but I have some
>
> I hear you, but have some doubts about the meaning of the concept
> "improved" where the GUI is concerned. The Plasma5 desktop seems to be
> following the cur
I wrote:
>1. How do I disable the "icons-only task manager" and enable one with
>more useful visible information? (I *hate* icons.)
Duncan answered:
>If the task manager (icons-only or not) is on a panel, configure-clicking
>(normally, right-clicking) on it, *provided* you can click it without
>
On Saturday October 23 2021 16:56:21 Dave Close wrote:
>I just installed a new system and discovered I now have KDE 5.22.
Do I read you correctly that you started with an entirely clean system,
including your home directory? What I usually do, even with a clean install on
a new machine is, in o
Am Sat, Oct 23, 2021 at 04:56:21PM -0700 schrieb Dave Close:
> I just installed a new system and discovered I now have KDE 5.22.
> Generally, I approve of new and improved systems, but I have some
> questions and the web has not helped me find answers.
I just upgraded to 5.23, but it is very like
Dave Close posted on Sat, 23 Oct 2021 16:56:21 -0700 as excerpted:
> I just installed a new system and discovered I now have KDE 5.22.
> Generally, I approve of new and improved systems, but I have some
> questions and the web has not helped me find answers.
>
> 1. How do I disable the "icons-onl
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