Re: KMail dependence on Akonadi

2017-07-07 Thread Leslie Turriff
On 2017-07-07 18:37:22 Aleksey Midenkov wrote: > By what purpose there is KMail dependence on other services? Can it > work standalone? Based on the responses that I saw during the rollout of KDE4 and the confusion that Akonadi caused, the KDE developers think that Akonadi is a wonderful

Re: KMail dependence on Akonadi

2017-07-09 Thread Leslie Turriff
On 2017-07-08 01:14:49 Duncan wrote: > You may be confusing akonadi and nepomuk/baloo. Okay, you're right. But they're both more trouble than they're worth.

Re: KMail dependence on Akonadi

2017-07-17 Thread Leslie Turriff
On 2017-07-11 21:44:31 Nicolás Alvarez wrote: > Okay, let's change this around: What are you try to achieve with this > discussion? Having someone agree with you and rewrite the whole KDE > PIM system to not use Akonadi? > > Note that as far as I know, KMail doesn't connect to IMAP servers. It > do

Re: KMail dependence on Akonadi

2017-07-17 Thread Leslie Turriff
On 2017-07-17 18:29:29 Aleksey Midenkov wrote: > Another problem is too little feedback, so devs are on their own. 999 > of 1000 are just silently choose what to use. When you ask them they > will tell you their reasons, but they will never tell it on their own. I've tried to get changes t

[kde] Need an example of --font value for kdialog

2014-12-02 Thread J. Leslie Turriff
I want to specify a particular font in kdialog. kdialog --help-all shows that --font allows this, but does not give an example. I tried kdialog --font Monospace --textbox but I get this message: QFont::setRawName(): Invalid XLFD: "Monospace"

[kde] Looking for the final release of Kommander3

2015-03-09 Thread J. Leslie Turriff
Can anyone tell me where I can obtain kommander-1.5.3.tar.bz2? The Kommander support site's link for it is broken. -- A Caution to Everybody Consider the Auk; Becoming extinct because he forgot how to fly, and could only walk. Consider man, who m

Re: [kde] interesting comment from a poster on phoronix

2015-08-20 Thread J. Leslie Turriff
On Thursday 20 August 2015 04:37:59 ianseeks wrote: > http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=KDE-Applications-15.08 > > >> "Ahead of the Plasma 5.4 release later this month and after last week's > >> KDE Frameworks 5.13 release is KDE Applications 15.08." > >> > >> How am I supposed to

Re: [kde] interesting comment from a poster on phoronix

2015-08-20 Thread J. Leslie Turriff
On Thursday 20 August 2015 11:44:32 John Layt wrote: > On 20 August 2015 at 16:15, J. Leslie Turriff wrote: > > Another of the many good reasons to stay on KDE3. > > Now that is just trolling :-) > True. I'm still really unhappy about the KDE4 upgra

Re: [kde] interesting comment from a poster on phoronix

2015-08-20 Thread J. Leslie Turriff
On Thursday 20 August 2015 13:27:07 Hussam Al-Tayeb wrote: > On Thu, 2015-08-20 at 13:10 -0500, J. Leslie Turriff wrote: > > On Thursday 20 August 2015 11:44:32 John Layt wrote: > > > On 20 August 2015 at 16:15, J. Leslie Turriff > > > > > > wrote: > > &g

Re: [kde] Kfind pdfs

2015-10-18 Thread J. Leslie Turriff
On Thursday 08 October 2015 08:07:53 Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Hi. > > Am Donnerstag, 8. Oktober 2015, 12:25:21 CEST schrieb Mark Ballard: > > I presume this is well known, but feel I must report it as an error. > > > > Kfind, a most brilliantly-endowed search tool, appears unable to find > > tex

[kde] how to use kdialog --font ?

2015-10-26 Thread J. Leslie Turriff
I want to use kdialog to display a table of values, and to make the output columns line up, the simplest way is to display the data with a monospace font, e.g. DejaVu Sans Mono. kdialog --help-qt shows option -fn or --font , but does not describe the format of the string. Fo

Re: Lost behavior between KDE 4.1.3.1 and 5.5.5

2018-06-18 Thread J Leslie Turriff
On 2018-06-18 07:37:08 Draciron Smith wrote: > I don't upgrade till a version is out of support since upgrades never work > and I have to do a wipe and load and that's an insane amount of work for > me. I've been using Kbuntu LTS 14.04 and loving it with KDE 4.1.3.1 for > years now. I am in the pro

Re: Lost behavior between KDE 4.1.3.1 and 5.5.5

2018-06-19 Thread J Leslie Turriff
On 2018-06-18 15:13:39 Draciron Smith wrote: > Trinity > unfortunately is not in Ubuntu's 16.04 LTS repo. I looked. I'm loath to put > a lot of software on my machine that I have to manually watch for updates > because I simply forget and because of the risk of  dependency hell. I don't kn

Re: Lost behavior between KDE 4.1.3.1 and 5.5.5

2018-06-19 Thread J Leslie Turriff
On 2018-06-18 12:01:33 René J.V. Bertin wrote: > On Monday June 18 2018 11:11:32 J Leslie Turriff wrote: > > This suggestion might sound extreme, but you should take a look at the > > *Trinity Desktop* <https://www.trinitydesktop.org/>, a fork of KDE3 (or > > check

Re: Lost behavior between KDE 4.1.3.1 and 5.5.5

2018-06-19 Thread J Leslie Turriff
On 2018-06-19 15:21:42 René J.V. Bertin wrote: > On Tuesday June 19 2018 15:04:58 J Leslie Turriff wrote: > > Well, as from I understand, Trinity can interact with KF5 applications, > > Well, Gnome apps can also interact with KF5 apps, that's just because they > all us

Re: Lost behavior between KDE 4.1.3.1 and 5.5.5

2018-06-22 Thread J Leslie Turriff
On 2018-06-20 05:26:56 Draciron Smith wrote: > Not a big fan of Konquerer. When it comes to rendering websites, I have to agree, but Konqueror is still the best file manager, IMO. > > I would think that Trinity would stick with the > latest QT just for support issues. The Tri

Re: Dolphin loses UI settings when restarted

2018-06-28 Thread J Leslie Turriff
On 2018-06-27 03:24:36 René J.V. Bertin wrote: > >Is there some KDE wiki site that can be used to document that? Is > > https://userbase.kde.org the right place? > > Presumably, or the forums. Cross your fingers though that this doesn't irk > someone who feels that KDE look-and-feel should be exclu

Re: Color configuration issue on Plasma

2018-07-05 Thread J Leslie Turriff
On 2018-07-05 13:29:54 René J.V. Bertin wrote: > >After all these years, I just want something that works. > > Should have gotten a Mac (and accept the choices it makes for you) ;) > (Or what I did: clone a good old and well-oiled install that works just as > you want and then tweak it to work on t

Re: Color configuration issue on Plasma

2018-07-05 Thread J Leslie Turriff
On 2018-07-05 13:29:54 René J.V. Bertin wrote: > >After all these years, I just want something that works. > > Should have gotten a Mac (and accept the choices it makes for you) ;) > (Or what I did: clone a good old and well-oiled install that works just as > you want and then tweak it to work on t

Re: KDE for Windows

2019-04-09 Thread J Leslie Turriff
That's nice; but KDE is more than just Kate and Krita. On 2019-04-09 22:31:54 黄其泽 wrote: > Both kate and krita have windows version. > > Samiur Rahman 于2019年4月8日周一 下午11:16写道: > > > Hello, > > > > Is there a chance that KDE for Windows can be revived? There are great > > applications in th

Re: kdesyscoca dumps errors onto a window on a different Desktop

2019-11-20 Thread J Leslie Turriff
On 2019-11-07 03:12:07 René J.V. Bertin wrote: > On Wednesday November 06 2019 13:05:25 Jerome Yuzyk wrote: > >What's the rationale for dumping into that window on a Desktop I'm not > > using? > > You should know that all your different *virtual* desktops are part of the > same session, it is just

Re: Can't Remove KMail Header Themes and Import Wizard apps

2020-06-05 Thread J Leslie Turriff
On 2020-06-04 08:39:59 mikejrandazzo11 wrote: > Hey, so the other day I installed KMail from the Software Store on Fedora > Linux. When I opened the main KMail app, it didn't work, so I pressed the > remove button in the software store. It removed the main KMail app; but it > didn't remove KMails H

Re: Connecting a TV via HDMI

2020-09-12 Thread J Leslie Turriff
On 2020-09-11 00:51:54 Dave Close wrote: > Dan Armbrust wrote: > > Many laptops still have a hardware key - typically a "Fn" + a > > number key that oggles the laptop hardware between laptop screen, > > laptop screen mirror to hdmi, and laptop screen and hdmi as distinct > > monitors. > > > > Try p

Re: Right click menu

2021-03-15 Thread J Leslie Turriff
Darn! Yet another place where desktop settings can be hidden. :-( Leslie On 2021-03-15 04:56:32 René J.V. Bertin wrote: > On Monday March 15 2021 07:56:42 Ianseeks wrote: > >Is there any way to configure the right-click menu within each > > application? I'd like to be able to put items o

Re: KDE Desktop on a UHD 4K monitor

2021-03-19 Thread J Leslie Turriff
On 2021-03-19 14:42:18 Jerome Yuzyk wrote: > My new desktop machine has been my introduction to 4K screen resolution. > Fortunately my eyes can handle most everything being smaller, so now I have > gobs of pixel real estate and after a settling-in period with my old > 1920x1200-based layout I'm won

Re: kate: set buffer read-only

2021-05-07 Thread J Leslie Turriff
The only thing I can find for this in Kate is Menu => Tools => Read-Only Mode. There is no command-line switch for this, nor can I find a DCOP function that toggles the setting; so one would have to first open the document, then use the Tools menu to disable writing, which seems quite e

Re: kate: set buffer read-only

2021-05-07 Thread J Leslie Turriff
On 2021-05-07 14:54:01 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Friday, May 07, 2021 03:41:03 PM J Leslie Turriff wrote: > > The only thing I can find for this in Kate is Menu => Tools => Read-Only > > Mode. There is no command-line switch for this, nor can I find a DCOP > >

Re: kate: set buffer read-only

2021-05-08 Thread J Leslie Turriff
On 2021-05-08 04:38:01 René J.V. Bertin wrote: > On Friday May 07 2021 14:41:03 J Leslie Turriff wrote: > > The only thing I can find for this in Kate is Menu => Tools => Read-Only > > Mode. There is no command-line switch for this, nor can I find a DCOP > > functi

Re: kate: set buffer read-only

2021-05-08 Thread J Leslie Turriff
On 2021-05-08 16:33:32 hw wrote: > On 5/7/21 9:41 PM, J Leslie Turriff wrote: > > The only thing I can find for this in Kate is Menu => Tools => Read-Only > > Mode. > > Thank you, that would fix the problem --- if kate only would remember it > when restoring th

Re: Konsole doublle click

2022-08-23 Thread J Leslie Turriff
On 2022-08-22 06:53:15 Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > I would like "=" to act as a word delimiter in Konsole. How do I do > this? "=" appears in the list shown in >Settings -> Edit Current Profile -> Text Interaction -> Word Characters > but this doesn't have the desired effect. I believe

Re: Dolphin replace/remove invalid chars in filename when copying to NTFS?

2023-01-05 Thread J Leslie Turriff
On 2023-01-05 07:05:53 Alexander Puchmayr wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 5. Jänner 2023, 12:38:50 CET schrieb René J.V. Bertin: > > On Thursday January 05 2023 09:29:43 Alexander Puchmayr wrote: > > >Hi, > > > > > >I just wanted to copy a bunch of files containing various characters > > > like '?' and ':'

Browser security improvement suggestion (Was Re: Can KWin prevent windows from raising themselves from their v.desktop to the current v.desktop?)

2023-02-02 Thread J Leslie Turriff
On 2023-01-23 18:01:05 Duncan wrote: > Duncan posted on Mon, 23 Jan 2023 19:21:17 - (UTC) as excerpted: > > Consider the possible security side-effects. As an example, consider a > > browser password dialog (say for firefox's master password, if you have > > it setup). Often you want it raise