Re: Genderidentity

2022-01-07 Thread Ian Wadham
The original sentence: "Place %n boy(s) and %n girl(s) in the center. Then split %n pieces of candy equally between them.” could maybe be changed to: “Place some children in the center, %n from the left and %n from the right. Then split %n pieces of candy equally between them.” Perhaps that would

Re: Information regarding upcoming Gitlab Migration

2020-04-28 Thread Ian Wadham
wanted. My 2 cents, Ian Wadham. > On 28 Apr 2020, at 2:46 pm, Bhushan Shah wrote: > > Hi Olivier, > > On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 10:49:46PM +0200, Olivier Churlaud wrote: >>> Because in order to search for something, you need to know it exists. >>> >>> I

Re: Notice of upcoming changes to the behaviour of the anongit network

2020-04-12 Thread Ian Wadham
? 3. Will I be able to do the above without having to know any account ID, password or encryption key? Thanks and best regards, Ian Wadham.

Re: Building games.

2017-08-09 Thread Ian Wadham
Hi Shashwat, On 09/08/2017, at 7:27 AM, Shashwat Mishra wrote: > I am actually not sure how one can build games that use mouse to interact > with it on C++? First, continue this discussion on KDE games development . Re the use of the mouse, first you need to get familiar with the Qt library

Re: Need announcement text for KDE Applications 15.12.0 release next week

2015-12-13 Thread Ian Wadham
On 13/12/2015, at 6:21 AM, Boudhayan Gupta wrote: > On 12 December 2015 at 00:13, Albert Astals Cid wrote: >> Anyone willing to work on the announcement text? > > I was trying to take a crack at it; but I need a little bit of > information. Can developers please either add notes to the > notes.

Re: Need announcement text for KDE Applications 15.12.0 release next week

2015-12-11 Thread Ian Wadham
On 12/12/2015, at 5:43 AM, Albert Astals Cid wrote: > Anyone willing to work on the announcement text? > > https://notes.kde.org/p/release_applications_15_12 > > Previous one at > https://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-applications-15.08.0.php > > If anyone can contribute some screenshots

Re: Apple OS X Patches for KDE Software (was MacPorts Patches).

2015-12-01 Thread Ian Wadham
Hi Boudhayan and everyone else, On 01/12/2015, at 8:48 PM, Boudhayan Gupta wrote: > On 1 December 2015 at 10:40, Ian Wadham wrote: >> In my experience, the only way to solve the problems with KDE software, >> as implemented on Apple OS X, is to institute day-to-day co-operati

Re: Apple OS X Patches for KDE Software (was MacPorts Patches).

2015-12-01 Thread Ian Wadham
Hi Luca and everyone else, On 01/12/2015, at 8:00 PM, Luca Beltrame wrote: > Il Tue, 01 Dec 2015 16:10:37 +1100, Ian Wadham ha scritto: > > Hello Ian, > >> between a small number of MacPorts and KDE developers, not "policies", >> patches, reviews and endles

Re: Beginning with QCA on OSX/iOS/Android

2015-12-01 Thread Ian Wadham
Hi Jason, This is a list for developers of KDE apps. You are not likely to get answers specific to Apple OS X here. Try googling and see what public lists you may find - maybe even an answer to your question... There are several lists that handle OS X topics. Also you might try a Qt list or for

Re: Apple OS X Patches for KDE Software (was MacPorts Patches).

2015-11-30 Thread Ian Wadham
Hi Boudhayan, On 01/12/2015, at 1:05 AM, Boudhayan Gupta wrote: > We've suddenly been having an influx of MacPorts specific patches, It is best not to use that word ("influx") - it has racist and xenophobic connotations, which I am sure you do not intend. Besides, the patches are not "MacPorts s

Re: Input from OS X developers wanted

2015-09-12 Thread Ian Wadham
Hi Alex, For general info, the title of review 125163 is "Disable X11,XCB etc. detection on OS X". On 13/09/2015, at 7:33 AM, Alex Merry wrote: > Could OS X developers please give input on > https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/125163/ ? Gods give me patience! > I'm particularly interested in kn

Re: Moving polkit-kde-agent-1 to kde/workspace

2014-11-28 Thread Ian Wadham
OK, thanks Ben. Ian W. On 29/11/2014, at 3:14 PM, Ben Cooksley wrote: > On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 4:58 PM, Ian Wadham wrote: >> If you can possibly avoid it, please do not put Polkit-kde-agent in a >> Plasma-only module (as has happened to Dr Konqi). That is if p-k-a >> is

Re: Moving polkit-kde-agent-1 to kde/workspace

2014-11-28 Thread Ian Wadham
Hi David, On 29/11/2014, at 1:19 AM, David Edmundson wrote: > Polkit-kde-agent is a small daemon that runs in the user's session bus, and > prompts a user for authentication when a process on the same session requests > polkit authorisation. > > It is currently in extragear/base, however given

Re: oldish websites

2014-10-10 Thread Ian Wadham
Hi Jeremy, On 11/10/2014, at 6:59 AM, Jeremy Whiting wrote: > The other day we moved accessibility.kde.org's content from svn to > git. I got an rsync of svn and made the simple rules and got it done. > Since I have a setup now I thought I'd go through the rest of the > websites currently at http:

Re: Should KDED4 run all the time?

2014-07-01 Thread Ian Wadham
Hi Aleix, On 01/07/2014, at 8:18 PM, Aleix Pol wrote: > On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 4:45 AM, Ian Wadham wrote: > On 30/06/2014, at 11:37 PM, Sune Vuorela wrote: > > On 2014-06-28, Ian Wadham wrote: > >> When fixing some bugs in the KCrash-DrKonqi sequence on Apple OS X, > &

Re: Should KDED4 run all the time?

2014-06-30 Thread Ian Wadham
Hi Sune, Thanks for replying, Sune. On 30/06/2014, at 11:37 PM, Sune Vuorela wrote: > On 2014-06-28, Ian Wadham wrote: >> When fixing some bugs in the KCrash-DrKonqi sequence on Apple OS X, >> I have come to a point where Dr Konqi attempts to call kded4, using DBus, >>

Will the real KDE bug reporter please stand up?

2014-06-29 Thread Ian Wadham
Hi guys, There seems to be more than one place in KDE SC where some kind of bug reporting is offered. 1. You can log in to bugs.kde.org and click "File a Bug". 2. If an application crashes, Dr Konqi runs and takes you through a crash-reporting dialog, which then posts a report to BKO. 3. Yo

Should KDED4 run all the time?

2014-06-28 Thread Ian Wadham
Hi guys, When fixing some bugs in the KCrash-DrKonqi sequence on Apple OS X, I have come to a point where Dr Konqi attempts to call kded4, using DBus, and issues a message "Failed to communicate with kded. Make sure it is running." This is actually a great advance: it has rarely been possible to

Re: Date/Time related widgets crashing plasma-desktop

2014-06-23 Thread Ian Wadham
On 24/06/2014, at 7:18 AM, Lindsay Mathieson wrote: > On Mon, 23 Jun 2014 11:04:00 PM Thomas Lübking wrote: >>> I tried plasmoidviewer and plasma-desktop with --nofork, but no >>> debug info for either. >> >> You get the "No stack" output from >> >> gdb --args plasma-desktop --nofork >> >> ??

Re: Help, Baloo source has moved, how do I build KDE 4.13?

2014-05-23 Thread Ian Wadham
Hi Ben, On 23/05/2014, at 6:13 PM, Ben Cooksley wrote: > On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 6:09 PM, Ian Wadham wrote: >> >> Using kdesrc-build version 1.16-pre2 to build a KDE software base, >> I find that the Baloo source code has gone missing in the last few >> days. I

Help, Baloo source has moved, how do I build KDE 4.13?

2014-05-22 Thread Ian Wadham
Hi KDE guys, Using kdesrc-build version 1.16-pre2 to build a KDE software base, I find that the Baloo source code has gone missing in the last few days. I am trying to build KDE 4.13 (branch-group stable-qt4, which is described by kdesrc-build as "the latest KDE release + bug fixes"). Baloo sour

Re: meinproc4 on Mac, KLocale (was Re: What to test for 4.13?)

2014-04-25 Thread Ian Wadham
On 23/04/2014, at 7:32 AM, Burkhard Lück wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 23. April 2014, 06:55:23 schrieb Ian Wadham: >> On 20/04/2014, at 6:12 PM, Burkhard Lück wrote: >>> Am Sonntag, 20. April 2014, 16:41:35 schrieb Ian Wadham: >>>> Well, that is news to me. I neve

Re: Who are our users?

2014-04-25 Thread Ian Wadham
On 25/04/2014, at 1:07 AM, Shantanu Tushar Jha wrote: > Each of us keep an idea about our target users when we write KDE software, be > it our workspaces, our applications or anything. From recent threads on the > list, I have started doubting if the ideas I have in mind have been correct > or n

Re: meinproc4 on Mac, KLocale (was Re: What to test for 4.13?)

2014-04-22 Thread Ian Wadham
On 20/04/2014, at 6:12 PM, Burkhard Lück wrote: > Am Sonntag, 20. April 2014, 16:41:35 schrieb Ian Wadham: >> Well, that is news to me. I never knew before that all the KDE Handbooks are >> on the web now. What about translations? > > http://docs.kde.org/development/de/kd

Re: Baloo Indexer and options

2014-04-22 Thread Ian Wadham
Hi Vishesh, On 22/04/2014, at 6:18 AM, Vishesh Handa wrote: > On Tuesday, April 22, 2014 05:52:24 AM Lindsay Mathieson wrote: >> With regards to whitelisting they are asking for a useful feature to be >> restored that was was deliberately removed, with no consultation. > > Consultation? Who shoul

Re: meinproc4 on Mac, KLocale (was Re: What to test for 4.13?)

2014-04-19 Thread Ian Wadham
On 19/04/2014, at 7:52 PM, Thomas Lübking wrote: > Am Samstag, 19. April 2014 schrieb Ian Wadham : > > On 18/04/2014, at 4:58 AM, Thomas Lübking wrote: > > >> If removing the KLocale() constructor avoids it, i'm fairly sure it will > >> be the bogus CFStringGet

Re: meinproc4 on Mac, KLocale (was Re: What to test for 4.13?)

2014-04-18 Thread Ian Wadham
On 18/04/2014, at 4:58 AM, Thomas Lübking wrote: > On Donnerstag, 17. April 2014 20:32:17 CEST, Luigi Toscano wrote: >> Ian Wadham ha scritto: >> >>> Sorry it has been such a while since you wrote. A lot of water has >>> flowed under the bridge since then, but

Re: meinproc4 on Mac, KLocale (was Re: What to test for 4.13?)

2014-04-18 Thread Ian Wadham
On 18/04/2014, at 4:58 AM, Thomas Lübking wrote: > On Donnerstag, 17. April 2014 20:32:17 CEST, Luigi Toscano wrote: >> Ian Wadham ha scritto: >> >>> Sorry it has been such a while since you wrote. A lot of water has >>> flowed under the bridge since then, but

Re: meinproc4 on Mac, KLocale (was Re: What to test for 4.13?)

2014-04-18 Thread Ian Wadham
On 18/04/2014, at 4:32 AM, Luigi Toscano wrote: > Ian Wadham ha scritto: >> Hello Thomas and Luigi, >> >> Sorry it has been such a while since you wrote. A lot of water has >> flowed under the bridge since then, but this issue is still of the utmost >

Re: Black-on-black on Mac (re CompositionMode_DestinationIn)

2014-04-18 Thread Ian Wadham
On 19/04/2014, at 6:53 AM, Marko Käning wrote: > I guess we should ask Michael on MacPorts-devel why qt4-mac is configured > this way... > > Ian wrote: > I will find out if there is any reason why MacPorts does not build its > Qt4-Mac package > with raster graphics as the default. I already as

Re: meinproc4 on Mac, KLocale (was Re: What to test for 4.13?)

2014-04-17 Thread Ian Wadham
wrote: > On Freitag, 21. März 2014 08:24:06 CEST, Ian Wadham wrote: > >> That call to KGlobal::locale(); seems an odd one, KDE guys. That function >> is supposed to >> return a locale (KLocale *), but here it is executed as a procedure, >> ignoring the return >&g

Re: Black-on-black on Mac (re CompositionMode_DestinationIn)

2014-04-16 Thread Ian Wadham
On 15/04/2014, at 9:36 AM, Ian Wadham wrote: > This could affect a range of KDE apps and libraries in various ways. > > Bug 332335 - "Links fade to pitch black when mouse hovering over them" > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=332335 > > reports a nasty painting

Black-on-black on Mac (re CompositionMode_DestinationIn)

2014-04-14 Thread Ian Wadham
Attention everyone, This could affect a range of KDE apps and libraries in various ways. Bug 332335 - "Links fade to pitch black when mouse hovering over them" https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=332335 reports a nasty painting problem that was found when hovering over a Plasma ToolButton in KD

Re: Disabling baloo-integration possible?

2014-04-09 Thread Ian Wadham
On 10/04/2014, at 8:40 AM, Thomas Lübking wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 10. April 2014 schrieb : > > > So, I wonder what baloo would be doing on OSX to get its hands into the > > user’s emails… > > I hope Vishesh can clarify this! > > > > Sure one doesn’t want to see any collisions between OSX

Re: Missing application icons of many KDE apps on MacPorts/OSX

2014-04-01 Thread Ian Wadham
./hicolor/32x32/apps/kdevelop.png > ./hicolor/48x48/apps/kdevelop.png > ./oxygen/128x128/apps/kdevelop.png > ./oxygen/16x16/apps/kdevelop.png > ./oxygen/22x22/apps/kdevelop.png > ./oxygen/256x256/apps/kdevelop.png > ./oxygen/32x32/apps/kdevelop.png > ./oxygen/48x48/apps/kdevelop.

Re: Is Konqueror still a live project?

2014-03-30 Thread Ian Wadham
On 28/03/2014, at 9:16 PM, Aaron Zakhrov wrote: > some distros ship it (Konqueror) as the default web browser but it is still a > pretty good file manager A subsidiary question. What replaces Konqueror now? Dolphin replaces the file manager functionality, but what is the "official" supported KDE

Re: Missing application icons of many KDE apps on MacPorts/OSX

2014-03-24 Thread Ian Wadham
On 24/03/2014, at 12:36 PM, Ian Wadham wrote:I do not have KDevelop installed (on Apple OS X), so I tried the Konqueror browser instead.  Similarly towhat you found, Marko, Konqueror has only a generic icon when it is not running, butthis changes to a nice Konqueror icon as it starts to run, and

Re: Missing application icons of many KDE apps on MacPorts/OSX

2014-03-24 Thread Ian Wadham
On 25/03/2014, at 6:06 AM, Bradley Giesbrecht wrote: > On Mar 24, 2014, at 10:57 AM, Thomas Lübking > wrote: >> On Montag, 24. März 2014 00:41:12 CEST, Ian Wadham wrote: >>> And, Marko, can you point me to something that will crack one of Apple's >>> ICNS

Re: Missing application icons of many KDE apps on MacPorts/OSX

2014-03-23 Thread Ian Wadham
Hi Marko and Thomas,I have been pursuing a different line of enquiry on this problem.Firstly, I am finding exactly the same, on Apple OS X, as Marko.  Some KDE appsare installed with icons that appear on the Apple desktop and in the Apple filetree for applications: others get just a generic (Apple-

Re: Missing application icons of many KDE apps on MacPorts/OSX

2014-03-23 Thread Ian Wadham
Hi Thomas and Marko, I guess I am like the old cow's tail: always running along behind … :-) Sunday was my final birthday party, actually a triple celebration: my second son, my daughter and I all have birthdays in the same week. I had a look at the missing icons issue, but was too tired to post

Re: Launch Bug Report Wizard failing on Apple OS X (was "ksycoca4")

2014-03-23 Thread Ian Wadham
On 23/03/2014, at 6:38 PM, mk-li...@email.de wrote: > On 22 Mar 2014, at 23:41 , Ian Wadham wrote: >> That is a normal message. It just tells you where KDE libs is looking for >> the SyCoCa. > OK. Good to know. > >> I see you are running your tutorial2 as if it w

Re: ksycoca4

2014-03-22 Thread Ian Wadham
On 23/03/2014, at 4:52 AM, mk-li...@email.de wrote: > I just tried to start KDE's bug reporter from a little tutorial application > on MacOSX, but I got this spat out at the console: > — > $ tutorial2.app/Contents/MacOS/tutorial2 > tutorial2(1006)/kdecore (KSycoca) KSycocaPrivate::openDatabase: T

Re: meinproc4 on Mac, KLocale (was Re: What to test for 4.13?)

2014-03-21 Thread Ian Wadham
On 20/03/2014, at 7:28 AM, mk-li...@email.de wrote: > On 19 Mar 2014, at 06:29 , Thomas Lübking wrote: >> There seems a known issue reg. multithreaded libxml2 [1], but since Marko >> was the reporter, i simply ruled it out being the remaining one. > > I doubt it was a libxml2 issue, since the co

Re: meinproc4 on Mac, KLocale (was Re: What to test for 4.13?)

2014-03-20 Thread Ian Wadham
On 19/03/2014, at 4:29 PM, Thomas Lübking wrote: > YY > H H YYY > H H PP PP YYY YYY > HHH HHH PPPPP

Re: meinproc4 on Mac, KLocale (was Re: What to test for 4.13?)

2014-03-19 Thread Ian Wadham
On 20/03/2014, at 8:34 AM, mk-li...@email.de wrote: > On 19 Mar 2014, at 22:30 , Thomas Lübking wrote: >> That the libxml2 bug is not related to the bug #261509 backtrace (doesn't >> change anything since i anticipated that for social reasons ;-) > > Ah, ok, so that supports the notion that it

Re: meinproc4 on Mac, KLocale (was Re: What to test for 4.13?)

2014-03-18 Thread Ian Wadham
Hi Luigi, Marko and Thomas, It's my birthday today, so it was a nice present to wake up here in Australia and find that you guys have been busy while I have been sleeping … :-) Today is my busy day when I present a weekly course on science for lay people, so I cannot join in on the meinproc4 hunt

Re: What to test for 4.13?

2014-03-17 Thread Ian Wadham
Hi Luigi, On 18/03/2014, at 10:17 AM, Luigi Toscano wrote: > Ian Wadham wrote: >> 2. There has been trouble with meinproc4 in the past on MacPorts and so, >>if you ask for +docs versions of packages you get a whole lot of TeX >>type dependencies, IIUC. >

Re: What to test for 4.13?

2014-03-17 Thread Ian Wadham
Hello Kevin and Marko, On 17/03/2014, at 6:59 AM, Kevin Krammer wrote: > On Sunday, 2014-03-16, 20:45:49, mk-li...@email.de wrote: >> On 16 Mar 2014, at 20:34 , Kevin Krammer wrote: >>> A dependency in two versions of GTK? >>> For a non-GUI program? >> >> I even had a case with a port (don’t rem

Re: MacPorts: Running KDE ports on Apple OS X

2014-03-17 Thread Ian Wadham
in Marko's machine … :-) On 15/03/2014, at 9:40 PM, Frank Reininghaus wrote: > 2014-03-15 7:10 GMT+01:00 Ian Wadham: > [...] >> And I said it would be nice to have some regular testing >> of Apple and Windows implementations of KDE. >> >> Well ... the response w

Re: KDevelop on Apple OS X

2014-03-16 Thread Ian Wadham
Hi Marko, On 17/03/2014, at 10:54 AM, Aleix Pol wrote: > First of all, KDevelop mailing lists are not dead, we did change our mailing > list to kde.org infrastructure, you might have looked at the wrong place [1]. > > We have some people already using KDevelop through homebrew on Mac OS X [2],

MacPorts: Running KDE ports on Apple OS X

2014-03-14 Thread Ian Wadham
Hi MacPorts guys, especially KDE port developers, Over at the main KDE developers' mailing list, kde-devel@kde.org I have been inadvertently stirring things up re the status of KDE ports on Apple OS X. It started with one of the KDE Promotion guys asking us to suggest things that need volunteers

Re: What to test for 4.13?

2014-03-14 Thread Ian Wadham
On 14/03/2014, at 11:52 PM, Mario Fux KDE ML wrote: > Am Freitag, 14. März 2014, 09.10:01 schrieb Kevin Krammer: > > Morning guys > > Would you be able to mentor me while I try to get a handle on some of > the problems with running KDE apps in an Apple environment? Like my > first p

Re: Running KDE apps on Apple OS X

2014-03-14 Thread Ian Wadham
Hi Marko, On 12/03/2014, at 9:05 AM, mk-li...@email.de wrote: > thanks for your initiative!!! Thanks very much for your enthusiastic show of support. It really made my day … :-) And your ability to quote all those links is awesome … All the best, Ian W. >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/l

Re: Running KDE apps on Apple OS X

2014-03-14 Thread Ian Wadham
Hi Ben, On 13/03/2014, at 7:15 AM, Ben Cooksley wrote: > On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 7:44 AM, John Layt wrote: >> What to do at the KDE end? >> >> We have a wiki at http://community.kde.org/Mac that we need to keep >> updated as things change, as that is where mac.kde.org redirects. We >> also have

Re: Running KDE apps on Apple OS X

2014-03-13 Thread Ian Wadham
Hi John, It's good to see you around again … :-) On 13/03/2014, at 5:44 AM, John Layt wrote: > Some random/long thoughts on KDE on Mac, seeing as I'm a sometimes Qt > Mac developer and a KDE-on-Mac user, subscribed to the KDE Mac list, > was the guy who got the outdated website taken down as it w

Re: Running KDE apps on Apple OS X

2014-03-13 Thread Ian Wadham
On 12/03/2014, at 8:31 AM, Daniel Kreuter wrote: >> Am 11.03.2014 um 04:15 schrieb Ian Wadham : >> Now it works in the Macports installed version, but not in my >> development environment, which has several environment >> variables for $KDEHOME, etc. Is there perhaps a va

Re: What to test for 4.13?

2014-03-13 Thread Ian Wadham
Hi Kevin, On 13/03/2014, at 12:19 AM, Kevin Krammer wrote: > On Tuesday, 2014-03-11, 14:05:02, Ian Wadham wrote: > >> I am chiefly concerned about *integration* issues between certain >> KDE apps and the KDE desktop --- which of course is not present >> when you are runni

Re: What to test for 4.13?

2014-03-13 Thread Ian Wadham
On 13/03/2014, at 12:46 AM, Kevin Krammer wrote: > On Monday, 2014-03-10, 17:06:53, Ian Wadham wrote: >> On 09/03/2014, at 8:23 PM, Kevin Krammer wrote: >>> Hi Ian, >>> >>> On Sunday, 2014-03-09, 17:33:12, Ian Wadham wrote: >>>> Hi Kevin

Re: What to test for 4.13?

2014-03-13 Thread Ian Wadham
On 13/03/2014, at 12:46 AM, Kevin Krammer wrote: > On Monday, 2014-03-10, 17:06:53, Ian Wadham wrote: >> P.S. I see from your signature you are a developer mentor, Kevin. >> >> Would you be able to mentor me while I try to get a handle on some of the >> problems

Running KDE apps on Apple OS X

2014-03-10 Thread Ian Wadham
Hi guys, I need some ongoing help, advice and mentoring from time to time as I investigate why some KDE apps run OK on Apple OS X and others do not. The problem is simply stated. Linux and Apple OS X are similar operating systems underneath, but they run different desktops. When you boot up, ea

Re: What to test for 4.13?

2014-03-10 Thread Ian Wadham
Hello Jos, Ben, Kevin and Frank, I would like to clear the air a little. I am seriously interested in this problem of running KDE apps on Apple Mac OS X and would like to do something to solve it, but I am going to need help and advice on the internals of KDE --- or an up-to-date set of design an

Re: What to test for 4.13?

2014-03-09 Thread Ian Wadham
On 09/03/2014, at 8:23 PM, Kevin Krammer wrote: > Hi Ian, > > On Sunday, 2014-03-09, 17:33:12, Ian Wadham wrote: >> Hi Kevin and Frank, >> >> On 08/03/2014, at 11:02 PM, Kevin Krammer wrote: >>> On Saturday, 2014-03-08, 21:47:07, Ian Wadham wrote: &

Re: What to test for 4.13?

2014-03-09 Thread Ian Wadham
On 09/03/2014, at 7:16 PM, Frank Reininghaus wrote: > 2014-03-09 7:33 GMT+01:00 Ian Wadham: >> On 08/03/2014, at 11:02 PM, Kevin Krammer wrote: >>> On Saturday, 2014-03-08, 21:47:07, Ian Wadham wrote: >>>> On 08/03/2014, at 6:43 PM, Frank Reininghaus wrote: >&

Re: What to test for 4.13?

2014-03-09 Thread Ian Wadham
On 10/03/2014, at 8:20 AM, Jos Poortvliet wrote: > On Friday 07 March 2014 20:17:16 Christoph Feck wrote: >> On Friday 07 March 2014 11:29:52 Jos Poortvliet wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> The first beta of our applications and platform 4.13 is out. There >>> are some major changes, the introduction of B

Re: What to test for 4.13?

2014-03-08 Thread Ian Wadham
Hi Kevin and Frank, On 08/03/2014, at 11:02 PM, Kevin Krammer wrote: > On Saturday, 2014-03-08, 21:47:07, Ian Wadham wrote: >> On 08/03/2014, at 6:43 PM, Frank Reininghaus wrote: >>> 2014-03-08 4:38 GMT+01:00 Ian Wadham: >>>> While we are on the topic of testin

Re: What to test for 4.13?

2014-03-08 Thread Ian Wadham
a few KDE applications and utilities, I am pleased to say. On 08/03/2014, at 6:43 PM, Frank Reininghaus wrote: > 2014-03-08 4:38 GMT+01:00 Ian Wadham: >> While we are on the topic of testing, how much testing is done of >> KDE's cross-platform and cross-desktop implementations? >

Re: What to test for 4.13?

2014-03-07 Thread Ian Wadham
On 07/03/2014, at 9:29 PM, Jos Poortvliet wrote: > The first beta of our applications and platform 4.13 is out. There are some > major changes, the introduction of Baloo being first and foremost among them. > > But there is more. We (the promo team) would like to write an article to ask > our co

Re: What to test for 4.13?

2014-03-07 Thread Ian Wadham
Hi promo guys, Please give the new version of Palapeli jigsaw puzzling a whirl. This contribution to KDE is my celebration of 50 years as a programmer. I started in April 1964. On 07/03/2014, at 9:29 PM, Jos Poortvliet wrote: > The first beta of our applications and platform 4.13 is out. There a

Re: How to make KDEUI dialogs and messages go on top?

2014-02-28 Thread Ian Wadham
On 01/03/2014, at 7:42 AM, Roney Gomes wrote: > On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 7:46 AM, Thomas Lübking > wrote: >> you can pass them a parent, Tool flag (includes the Window flag) will turn >> them into toplevel windows. > > You'll probably have to exclude the Qt::WindowStaysOnTopHint when > passing a p

How to make KDEUI dialogs and messages go on top?

2014-02-27 Thread Ian Wadham
Normally dialogs and messages from the KDEUI library appear on top of the main window, but in my app I have a number of small, floating windows and these can come in front of KMessageBox and KDialog, obscuring the content and buttons. Also, I cannot close or hide the small windows because their co

Arrow keys not seen in keyPressEvent()

2014-01-11 Thread Ian Wadham
Hi guys, @Albert, this is following up a point you raised earlier. The arrow keys (Up, Down, Left and Right) have stopped working in my application some time between KDE 4.6.0 and KDE 4.9.1 (as tested on an old Linux laptop I have). Maybe there has been some change in KDE or Qt that has affected

Re: c++ student needs help.

2013-10-04 Thread Ian Wadham
On 03/10/2013, at 7:44 PM, Lerato Phele wrote: > I am a first-year student at university, I recently register for a c++ > course this semester, i am really struggling with the course, it gives > me a tough time, although I'm reading the prescribed courseware, dont > knw if you can help me with som

Re: Dependency Freeze for 4.11 in 4 days

2013-05-30 Thread Ian Wadham
On 30/05/2013, at 8:36 AM, Albert Astals Cid wrote: > El Dijous, 30 de maig de 2013, a les 03:53:00, Vishesh Handa va escriure: >> Hey Albert >> >> Soprano usually has an exception to this rule, just like Akonadi. Can/Does >> this exception extend to the Shared Desktop Ontologies as well? > > Sin

Re: kde and clang

2013-02-19 Thread Ian Wadham
Hi Agostino, On 19/02/2013, at 7:59 AM, Agostino Sarubbo wrote: > I don't know if someone in the past have checked if the kde metapackage is > "compatible" with clang. I just compiled the entire kde-meta-4.9.5 right now > and all packages was fine. The Macports group have been using Clang for a

Re: [Nepomuk] Nepomuk - Moving away from Strigi

2012-10-09 Thread Ian Wadham
On 09/10/2012, at 6:52 PM, Anne Wilson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 08/10/12 21:57, Reindl Harald wrote: >>> I am arguing against the entire reason for having this thread. >>> Vishesh shouldn't have to go around worrying about this crap just because Red

Re: up to date kdesrc-buildrc

2012-10-05 Thread Ian Wadham
On 06/10/2012, at 2:33 AM, Michael Pyne wrote: > On Monday, October 01, 2012 12:09:33 Ian Wadham wrote: >> Please can you update the website? > > I have updated the website to recommend using the git version of kdesrc-build > for now. Thanks, Michael, that's very cl

Re: up to date kdesrc-buildrc

2012-09-30 Thread Ian Wadham
On 01/10/2012, at 9:40 AM, Michael Pyne wrote: > On Sunday, September 30, 2012 11:23:29 Carsten Mattner wrote: > You may also want to make sure that your kdesrc-build is up-to-date (it's > frequently updated in git, only infrequently are separate releases made). The > kdesrc-build git repository

Re: When does kbuildsycoca4 run?

2012-09-21 Thread Ian Wadham
On 20/09/2012, at 3:47 PM, Teemu Rytilahti wrote: > Ben Cooksley wrote: > >> kded4 provides a number of crucial mini processes which are crucial to >> the operation of KDE processes in certain areas (Timezone data and the >> determining of an active network connection at least) although it >> te

Re: When does kbuildsycoca4 run?

2012-09-21 Thread Ian Wadham
On 21/09/2012, at 12:03 AM, Andras Mantia wrote: > On Thursday, September 20, 2012 02:05:11 PM Ian Wadham wrote: >>> Which of those processes are necessary for running KDE apps? >>> Which can be omitted or "bound off" somehow if you are not running >>>

Re: When does kbuildsycoca4 run?

2012-09-19 Thread Ian Wadham
On 18/09/2012, at 6:17 PM, Ian Wadham wrote: > On my Linux system I have not had to run kbuildsycoca in all the > ten years or so I have been working on KDE. So when does KDE > run it? As part of the build and install process for KDE libs and apps? > Whenever you run an app? Whenev

When does kbuildsycoca4 run?

2012-09-18 Thread Ian Wadham
Hi guys, Over on the mailing list for Macports, which provides ports of open source software on Apple Mac OS X, we are having a discussion about kbuildsycoca4, its effect on ports of KDE libraries and applications and when and whether to run it. The other day I installed kdesdk4 on my Apple Macbo

Re: Bugs for unmaintained applications

2012-06-22 Thread Ian Wadham
On 23/06/2012, at 1:43 AM, todd rme wrote: > There seem to be open bugs for applications that appear to be > unmaintained for a very long time (most since KDE 3 days or have been > replaced by newer applications): > > kerry > kandy > Kwifimanager > KSokoban KSokoban is definitely unmaintained.

Re: Access indexing

2012-02-25 Thread Ian Wadham
On 25/02/2012, at 8:14 PM, Stephan Menzel wrote: > On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 12:44 AM, Ian Wadham wrote: >> Yes I do (have a Macbook). The search function is a small magnifying >> glass icon at the top right of the screen (equivalent to a "systray" item). >> It drop

Re: Access indexing

2012-02-24 Thread Ian Wadham
On 25/02/2012, at 12:46 AM, Stephan Menzel wrote: > Just imagine the following use case and maybe it's getting clearer then: > > I sit in a meeting room with my laptop and conversation turns to the > subject "Project Vulcan" ;-) > Now I know I was having some pictures I took somewhere on my comput

Re: Developing without creating a dedicated developer user account

2012-02-04 Thread Ian Wadham
Maybe http://techbase.kde.org/Getting_Started/Build/kdesrc-build and http://techbase.kde.org/Getting_Started/Build/Environment will give you some ideas. On 05/02/2012, at 7:21 AM, Luiz Romário Santana Rios wrote: > So, so far, I compiled KDE from the sources in a separated user > account dedicate

Re: How to add a menu-item to the Settings menu

2011-12-03 Thread Ian Wadham
On 03/12/2011, at 11:55 PM, Diego Casella ([Po]lentino) wrote: > Well, there is even a shorter way to do that: inside a KXmlGuiWindow-derived > class, simply call > > KStandardAction::preferences(this, SLOT(yourSlot()), actionCollection()); > > and this would add a "Configure $YOUR_APP" menu ent

Re: Bug triage process needs help

2011-09-30 Thread Ian Wadham
mmaries that highlight and prioritise bugs according to how long they have been unanswered, what part of KDE they are in and what is their likely severity and impact on users? The latter two items are hard to assess automatically, I know. However, I think there should at least be a policy of e

Re: Design of PIM, etc. (was Build KMail only?)

2011-07-11 Thread Ian Wadham
On 11/07/2011, at 10:32 PM, Kevin Krammer wrote: > On Monday, 2011-07-11, Ian Wadham wrote: >> On 11/07/2011, at 2:00 PM, Kevin Krammer wrote: >>> On Monday, 2011-07-11, Ian Wadham wrote: >>>> Surely, PIM could be designed around a shared data source (a relational

Re: Design of PIM, etc. (was Build KMail only?)

2011-07-10 Thread Ian Wadham
On 11/07/2011, at 2:00 PM, Kevin Krammer wrote: > On Monday, 2011-07-11, Ian Wadham wrote: > >> Surely, PIM could be designed around a shared data source (a relational >> database if you must) in such a way that the various applications can >> exist independently of

Design of PIM, etc. (was Build KMail only?)

2011-07-10 Thread Ian Wadham
On 11/07/2011, at 6:26 AM, Rui Maciel wrote: > On 07/10/2011 05:35 PM, Tom Albers wrote: >> You can talk all you want, you called akonadi and friends 'cruft' and I find >> that disrespectful and unneeded, you could have conveyed exactly the same >> message without the addition of the word 'cruft

Re: Build KMail only?

2011-07-10 Thread Ian Wadham
On 02/07/2011, at 4:15 AM, Torgny Nyblom wrote: > On Thursday 23 June 2011 08.40.02 Ian Wadham wrote: >> Can I build KMail without Akonadi, etc? If so, how? > > Short: no (as already stated) > > Long: Akonadi is used by most PIM application including KMail as a backend

Re: Build KMail only?

2011-06-30 Thread Ian Wadham
On Thursday 30 June 2011 1:33:07 am Tomaz Canabrava wrote: > On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 9:05 PM, Albert Astals Cid wrote: > > A Wednesday, June 22, 2011, Ian Wadham va escriure: > >> Can I build KMail without Akonadi, etc? > > > > No (or maybe you could but it would be

Build KMail only?

2011-06-22 Thread Ian Wadham
I have recently acquired a Macbook Pro and a group called Macports makes available a whole range of KDE modules and apps, most of which can run natively on the Mac OS X desktop, thanks to Qt-mac. It is even possible to do KDE app development on the Mac desktop and that seems attractive to me. I am

Re: Disabling Oxygen's window dragging for specific QWidgets?

2011-05-19 Thread Ian Wadham
On Thursday 19 May 2011 6:27:12 pm Stefan Majewsky wrote: > On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 12:16 AM, Thomas Lübking > > At least QGraphicsView is added explicitly (and i assume KGameCanvas is > > just one?!) > > No, KGC is not a QGV. It predates QGV by some time, to solve the > problem that QCanvas was g

Re: Cannot build strigi

2011-04-15 Thread Ian Wadham
On Saturday 16 April 2011 1:19:38 pm Raphael Kubo da Costa wrote: > Ian Wadham writes: > > But '... http: ...' does not. I am using bog-standard kdesrc-build-1.13, > > as per http://techbase.kde.org/Getting_Started/Build/kdesrc-build. > > That script uses http://

Re: Cannot build strigi

2011-04-15 Thread Ian Wadham
On Saturday 16 April 2011 11:37:14 am Ben Cooksley wrote: > On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 1:22 PM, Ian Wadham wrote: > > On Thursday 14 April 2011 11:53:17 pm Raphael Kubo da Costa wrote: > >> I've just tried building a fresh new strigi clone here and everything > >>

Re: Cannot build strigi

2011-04-15 Thread Ian Wadham
On Thursday 14 April 2011 11:53:17 pm Raphael Kubo da Costa wrote: > I've just tried building a fresh new strigi clone here and everything > worked fine: > > $ git clone kde:strigi > $ cd strigi && mkdir build && cd build > $ cmake -DSTRIGI_SYNC_SUBMODULES=TRUE .. > Tried git clone kde:str

Re: Cannot build strigi

2011-04-14 Thread Ian Wadham
On Thursday 14 April 2011 11:53:17 pm Raphael Kubo da Costa wrote: > Can you try cloning again (either via kdesrc-build or by just cloning a > submodule like libstreams like I mentioned in the previous paragraph)? > Thanks very much for all the information and advice, Raphael. I am busy today (Fr

Re: Cannot build strigi

2011-04-14 Thread Ian Wadham
On Thursday 14 April 2011 4:34:08 pm Andreas Pakulat wrote: > On 14.04.11 16:00:11, Ian Wadham wrote: > > Now kdesrc-build-1.13 reports the first failure on strigi. After that, > > no major modules will build build. Re strigi, I get the messages: > > Looks like either som

Cannot build strigi

2011-04-13 Thread Ian Wadham
Hi guys, I have been trying to build an application-testing environment from the latest KDE sources, using kdesrc-build-1.13 which I downloaded as a tarball from the kdesrc-build website. I have started by setting up a completely new user for compiling, building and testing KDE apps, but using a

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