Re: KDE backward compatibility issue

2015-01-30 Thread Todd Rme
On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 6:40 PM, Thomas Lübking wrote: > On Freitag, 30. Januar 2015 18:22:03 CEST, Vasily Khoruzhick wrote: > >> It's a way to keep all tray icons on the panel. In case of horizontal >> panel >> it's even seemless > > > I'd not rather not expect a "seamless" result from this appro

Use of Air wallpaper by Sony

2010-11-08 Thread todd rme
I am not sure the proper place for this. A user on the KDE Forum brought it to our attention that Sony is using the Air wallpaper for production photos on their laptops. See here: http://www.dabs.com/products/sony-vaio-e-series-eb3j0e-wi-core-i3-370m-2-4ghz-4gb-320gb-15-5--windows-7-home-premium

Re: Use of Air wallpaper by Sony

2010-11-08 Thread todd rme
On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 8:13 PM, Michael Pyne wrote: > On Monday, November 08, 2010 11:17:49 todd rme wrote: >> I am not sure the proper place for this.  A user on the KDE Forum >> brought it to our attention that Sony is using the Air wallpaper for >> production photos on the

Re: Thoughts from a former KDE, currently Mozilla developer

2010-12-08 Thread todd rme
On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 3:01 PM, Thiago Macieira wrote: > On Tuesday, 7 de December de 2010 20:28:57 Benoit Jacob wrote: >> So do crash reports now automatically land in a database that's easy >> to do queries on? (See the web interface provided by Socorro) >> >> If I want to get a list of all KDE

Re: Where to start?

2010-12-11 Thread todd rme
On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Felix Rohrbach wrote: > Hi, > > first, thanks for your respose! > > Am Freitag, 10. Dezember 2010, 21:00:26 schrieb Aaron J. Seigo: >> On Friday, December 10, 2010, Felix Rohrbach wrote: >> > 1) With which project should I start? >> >> pick something that interest

Re: UX Developer Sprint Proposal

2010-12-20 Thread todd rme
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 8:55 PM, Celeste Lyn Paul wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > This is information on a UX Developer Sprint proposal in Spring 2011. > Feel free to forward or add whoever you may think would be interested > in this sprint. An organization wiki page is located: > http://community.kde.o

Re: UX Developer Sprint Proposal

2010-12-31 Thread todd rme
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 8:55 PM, Celeste Lyn Paul wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > This is information on a UX Developer Sprint proposal in Spring 2011. > Feel free to forward or add whoever you may think would be interested > in this sprint. An organization wiki page is located: > http://community.kde.o

Re: [Moving/Copying Files] Overwriting identical files

2011-02-08 Thread todd rme
On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 3:58 AM, todd rme wrote: > On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 7:30 AM, Matthias Fuchs wrote: >> Hi, >> >> When moving and copying multiple files it can be quite tedious to make out if >> there are differences for all these files. >> >> >>

Problematic GHNS implementations

2011-02-13 Thread todd rme
I know this is not the proper place to be discussing bugs, but I am seeing a worrying pattern of problems with GHNS since KDE 4.5. As far as I can tell, there are at least 4 GHNS implementations that are currently broken. The plasmoid GHNS system does not remember the plasmoids you installed afte

Re: Problematic GHNS implementations

2011-02-14 Thread todd rme
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 7:51 AM, Sebastian Kügler wrote: > On Sunday, February 13, 2011 18:20:10 todd rme wrote: >> I know this is not the proper place to be discussing bugs, but I am >> seeing a worrying pattern of problems with GHNS since KDE 4.5.  As far >> as I can tell,

Re: [Moving/Copying Files] Overwriting identical files

2011-02-24 Thread todd rme
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 6:12 AM, Aston wrote: > What I'd really like to see is for the "Do you want to overwrite" dialogues to > come up before any files are copied, so it scans the directory first for any > directories and files which have the same name, and prompts the user to > confirm > the a

Re: [Moving/Copying Files] Overwriting identical files

2011-02-24 Thread todd rme
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 12:10 PM, Matthias Fuchs wrote: > Am Dienstag 08 Februar 2011, 23:22:49 schrieb todd rme: >> On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 3:58 AM, todd rme wrote: >> > On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 7:30 AM, Matthias Fuchs wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> >> >

Re: Problematic GHNS implementations

2011-02-24 Thread todd rme
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 5:27 AM, Matthias Fuchs wrote: > Am Montag 14 Februar 2011, 15:35:31 schrieb todd rme: >> On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 7:51 AM, Sebastian Kügler wrote: >> > On Sunday, February 13, 2011 18:20:10 todd rme wrote: >> >> I know this is not the prop

Re: Problematic GHNS implementations

2011-02-24 Thread todd rme
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 4:15 PM, Sebastian Kügler wrote: > On Thursday, February 24, 2011 20:34:22 todd rme wrote: >> Or are, for example, plasma developers not >> bothered by the fact that installing plasmoids and updating plasma >> themes are both broken? > > Can&#x

Re: Future of KSysguard - removing remote monitoring

2011-03-08 Thread todd rme
On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 9:15 AM, John Tapsell wrote: > Hi all, > >  For the past 13 years or so, ksysguard has been in KDE under various > names.  Right from the beginning it was designed to monitor remote > systems as well as local ones. > >  To monitor remote systems, it can connect to a remote m

Wayland screen locking and KDE

2011-04-05 Thread todd rme
There is a discussion going on about how Wayland will be handling screen locking: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2011-April/000874.html However, from the discussion, I am a little concerned how this would work with, for instance, plasmoids on the screensaver. I don't know th

dbus-python and gnome

2011-04-28 Thread todd rme
I am not sure the best mailing list for this, but it seems of general importance so I am sending it here. A little background: If you use python, you are probably aware that there is currently a big push underway to switch from pythong 2 to python 3. Most major distributions will probably be swi

Re: KJob: chaining and synchronizing jobs

2011-05-03 Thread todd rme
On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 2:01 PM, Michael Schuerig wrote: > > I have several KJob jobs, some of which may run in parallel, some depend > on the results of one or more others, and all of them are fallible. The > context is Akonadi, but I think my question is generic. > > I want to retrieve items from

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

2011-05-13 Thread todd rme
On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 1:38 PM, Parker Coates wrote: > On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 12:41, Hugo Pereira Da Costa wrote: >> Hello Nikos, >>> I noticed that when running in KDE and using the Oxygen style, the >>> windows of my Qt application can be dragged around with the mouse by >>> clicking on any ar

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

2011-05-14 Thread todd rme
On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 8:19 AM, Michael Jansen wrote: > That is really great guys. But look at the mail from todd. 26 Games reveice > bugs because of that feature? 26! And you guys still consider this a FEATURE? > > Mike > For most games it isn't a major issue, since you aren't normally dragging

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

2011-05-15 Thread todd rme
On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 12:45 PM, Albert Astals Cid wrote: > A Sunday, May 15, 2011, Nikos Chantziaras va escriure: >> No.  That would mean that many applications would not be draggable, >> since their creators never tested, don't know, or don't care about KDE. >>   The result: an inconsistent mes

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

2011-05-15 Thread todd rme
On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 5:22 PM, Michael Jansen wrote: > On Sunday 15 May 2011 14:54:27 todd rme wrote: >> >> What mess?  So far we know of one application that is affected by this >> in a negative manner, and the developer already plans to fix it.  Then >> we have so

Re: Regarding kdelibs/kio

2011-06-05 Thread todd rme
On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 9:55 AM, Thiago Macieira wrote: > Em Sunday, 5 de June de 2011, às 13:06:07, tushar mehta escreveu: >> Hi all, >> >> I am currently trying to understand how kde applications uses kio >> for doing file related operations. I am currently working on kget and >> as part of my su

Re: Regarding kdelibs/kio

2011-06-05 Thread todd rme
On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 11:04 AM, tushar mehta wrote: > > Question: > Do we have any control on how much data kioslaves will read from network > and put into kernel buffer? > and if application is taking out the data from kernel buffer at some rate > then > it will be specific to that application a

Re: Regarding kdelibs/kio

2011-06-05 Thread todd rme
On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 11:17 AM, tushar mehta wrote: > On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 2:38 PM, todd rme wrote: >> >> On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 11:04 AM, tushar mehta wrote: >> > >> > Question: >> > Do we have any control on how much data kioslaves will read fr

Re: Regarding kdelibs/kio

2011-06-05 Thread todd rme
On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 11:45 AM, Thiago Macieira wrote: > Em Sunday, 5 de June de 2011, às 14:38:07, tushar mehta escreveu: >> But the problem is that even if KIO is filling up the kernel buffer at some >> rate >> but the application is not reading that data at same rate. Then situation >> will re

Re: The Future of our Frameworks

2011-06-06 Thread todd rme
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 7:26 PM, Sebastian Kügler wrote: > Hi all, > > You've probably been aware that a rather sizable group of KDE developers and > stakeholders in our development platform is meeting in Randa, Switzerland to > discuss the future of our development frameworks, with the big topic b

Re: Qt-only Oxygen style

2011-06-24 Thread todd rme
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 9:02 PM, Luis Gustavo Spern Barreto wrote: > Sorry for everything. I just want to say I'm just here to discuss > issues related to KDE development and my question was simple and > straightforward. I just wanted to get answer to my question. Was there something insufficien

Re: why are bugs ignored over months?

2011-09-21 Thread todd rme
On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 2:10 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: >> Getting nasty and impatient helps nobody, is not constructive, is not >> polite, doesn't teach anyone a lesson or makes anyone eager to please you. >> It's counter-productive. > > i agree - but what should you do as user if a bug hits you

Re: why are bugs ignored over months?

2011-09-21 Thread todd rme
On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 2:18 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: > > > Am 21.09.2011 14:14, schrieb todd rme: >> On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 2:10 PM, Reindl Harald >> wrote: >>> i agree - but what should you do as user if a bug hits you multiple each >>> hour >&

Re: Bug triage process needs help

2011-09-30 Thread todd rme
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 11:56 AM, Sven Burmeister wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 29. September 2011, 13:25:49 schrieb Sebastian Kügler: >> > It's frustrating for users submitting bug reports when an easily >> > reproducible bug sits in the queue, without even a comment, for six >> >> > months.  For the r

Re: Bug triage process needs help

2011-09-30 Thread todd rme
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 5:33 PM, Rui Maciel wrote: > On 09/30/2011 01:29 PM, todd rme wrote: >> >> I don't think any of those are good options, since all of them have >> the same result: spamming developers with huge amounts of useless >> information.  This would

Re: Bug triage process needs help

2011-10-02 Thread todd rme
On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 10:52 PM, Rui Maciel wrote: > On 09/30/2011 07:17 PM, todd rme wrote: >> >> If they don't have time to respond to all the bug reports, what makes >> you think they would have time to respond to just as many, if not >> more, emails?  You wou

Re: Bug triage process needs help

2011-10-02 Thread todd rme
On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 1:08 PM, Kevin Krammer wrote: > On Saturday, 2011-10-01, Joshua Blocher wrote: >> I think we are acting like it all has to be done manually which is >> simply not true. Why are we tackling bug triage as something that only >> a human can do? > > Because it potentially requir

Re: [KDE Usability] tasks for Google Code-in

2011-10-15 Thread todd rme
On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 3:19 PM, Lydia Pintscher wrote: > Heya folks :) > > Google Code-in > (http://www.google-melange.com/gci/document/show/gci_program/google/gci2011/about) > has been announced again for this year. Org applications will start on > Monday and we'll try to get in again given las

Re:

2011-11-13 Thread todd rme
On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 5:36 AM, Pedro . wrote: > Hi, > I have build and installed kde-baseapps from git master and i got trully > disapointed with dolphin. > Now dolphin when selecting Folders in the left panel appears an empty panel, > the compact vew mode isnt anymore in the  i dont have anymor

Re: Dolphin in a bad path

2011-11-13 Thread todd rme
On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 5:37 AM, Pedro . wrote: > Hi, > I have build and installed kde-baseapps from git master and i got trully > disapointed with dolphin. > Now dolphin when selecting Folders in the left panel appears an empty panel, > the compact vew mode isnt anymore in the  i dont have anymor

Re: SIP client

2011-12-11 Thread todd rme
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 1:19 AM, Anton Cherkasov wrote: > Hi all! > > There really is no normal SIP client for KDE4? > Kcall and KPhone is completely unusable, and Twinkle is based on Qt 3. > Do we have any project for that? I think telepathy will or already does support this. it is intended as

Re: Qt migration efforts

2011-12-12 Thread todd rme
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 8:24 AM, Gravis wrote: > there are a lot of basic and advanced things in Qt that KDE isnt using > but using their own implementation or variant.  this may be an issue of > code being merged into Qt and the KDE code not being deprecated but i > can't say for certain. > > -Gr

Re: KIO-MTP development

2012-01-13 Thread todd rme
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 3:52 PM, Philipp Schmidt wrote: > Hi all, > > > > this week I started developing a KIO-Slave for MTP since I now have a Galaxy > Nexus and like accessing it via Dolphin and not having to use mtpfs. You can > find it on github: > > > > https://github.com/hefeweiz3n/kio-mtp >

Re: KIO-MTP development

2012-01-15 Thread todd rme
On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 10:09 AM, Bart Cerneels wrote: > On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 15:52, Philipp Schmidt wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> >> >> this week I started developing a KIO-Slave for MTP since I now have a Galaxy >> Nexus and like accessing it via Dolphin and not having to use mtpfs. You can >> fin

Re: Access indexing

2012-02-21 Thread todd rme
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 3:51 PM, Kevin Krammer wrote: > On Thursday, 2012-02-16, Stephan Menzel wrote: >> No, this wouldn't cut it. There's several reasons: >> >> 1) >> Maybe I described confusingly. I want it to search for arbitrary >> filenames (not just applications) and similar expressions _fa

Re: GSoC idea: improving scanning and OCR in KDE (skanlite/kooka)

2012-03-06 Thread todd rme
2012/3/6 José Manuel Santamaría Lema : > Hi, > > I'm considering to apply to GSoC this year, and if I do, I would like to > improve the status of scanning and optical character recognition in KDE; being > more specific: > > > What I want to achieve > > > A few years

Re: GSoC idea: improving scanning and OCR in KDE (skanlite/kooka)

2012-03-07 Thread todd rme
On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 8:03 PM, Klaas Freitag wrote: > On 06.03.2012 18:02, todd rme wrote: >> >> 2012/3/6 José Manuel Santamaría Lema: >> >> Scanner kio slave.  An easy scanner interface using file managers >> (like the current CD ripper kio slave).  There woul

Re: GSoC idea: improving scanning and OCR in KDE (skanlite/kooka)

2012-03-07 Thread todd rme
On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Andreas Pakulat wrote: > On 07.03.12 10:23:32, todd rme wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 8:03 PM, Klaas Freitag wrote: >> > On 06.03.2012 18:02, todd rme wrote: > [...] >> > These kind of things. Not sure if a kio is cool for any of

Re: GSoC idea: improving scanning and OCR in KDE (skanlite/kooka)

2012-03-07 Thread todd rme
2012/3/7 Kåre Särs : > On Wednesday 07 March 2012 10:59:50 todd rme wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Andreas Pakulat wrote: >> > On 07.03.12 10:23:32, todd rme wrote: >> >> On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 8:03 PM, Klaas Freitag wrote: >> >

Re: A note about KIO and password management

2012-04-23 Thread todd rme
On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 8:13 PM, Dawit A wrote: > Though this is documented in multiple places, it might not be apparent to a > lot of developers as I have encountered and addressed this issue in multiple > places recently. > > If you are using KIO in your application and you want user provided >

Re: Several new utilities for KDE: KLook and StackFolder

2012-05-03 Thread todd rme
On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 11:46 AM, Denis Koryavov wrote: > KLook > > KLook is an other utility for KDE, it written in QML. With the help of this > utility, user can quickly > look at files with different  mime-types. In fact, it is practically exact > copy of MacOS X > QuickLook utility).  User can

Re: Need some help with Dolphin

2012-06-12 Thread todd rme
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 9:03 AM, Mario Fux wrote: > Am Dienstag 12 Juni 2012, 07.54:24 schrieb Srikanth S: > > Morning Srikanth > >> Thanks for your response Sebastian. Apart from the possible problems you've >> mentioned, I see the following as well: >> 1. Many people would keep movies and such o

Bugs for unmaintained applications

2012-06-22 Thread todd rme
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 kbfx systemsettings-kde3 Khalkhi kpdf ktip metabar ksayit kdetv kiconedit kugar dcop krecord lanbro

Re: Call for testing: kio-mtp

2012-09-24 Thread todd rme
On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 11:03 AM, Philipp Schmidt wrote: > Hi, > > thanks for the feedback! > > Am Freitag, 21. September 2012, 20:27:35 schrieb Ben Cooksley: >> Thanks for writing this - it makes using an Android device >> significantly easier I must say. >> It worked perfectly fine with the Andr

Re: Call for testing: kio-mtp - Updated repo

2012-10-05 Thread todd rme
On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 7:53 AM, Philipp Schmidt wrote: > If you haven't found out already, the Slave is now in playground. > > https://projects.kde.org/projects/playground/base/kio-mtp > > Please use this to check it out of git: > > git clone git://anongit.kde.org/kio-mtp > > Philipp One minor is

Re: [Nepomuk] Nepomuk - Moving away from Strigi

2012-10-08 Thread todd rme
On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 3:51 PM, Vishesh Handa wrote: > Hey everyone > > For 4.10, Nepomuk will no longer depend on Strigi for file indexing. We have > written our own file indexer which are based on popular libraries such as > taglib, exiv, ffmpeg, etc. This allows us to better control the indexin

Re: [Nepomuk] Nepomuk - Moving away from Strigi

2012-10-08 Thread todd rme
On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 4:42 PM, Vishesh Handa wrote: > > > On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 8:08 PM, Eric Hameleers wrote: >> >> On Mon, 8 Oct 2012, Aleix Pol wrote: >> >>> In any case, I'm unsure that KDE can shine without ffmpeg. >>> >>> Aleix >>> >> >> I am sure that ffmpeg is providing some core functi