Bug#991798: closed by Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer (Re: Bug#991798: Acknowledgement (qtcreator: No suitable kits found) [worked around])

2021-08-03 Thread Ross Boylan
ot necessarily have to be used > to code Qt stuff, in fact I use it for coding microcontrollers. So no, > it will not "work out the box" in the way you expected. > > On Mon, 2 Aug 2021 00:42:07 -0700 Ross Boylan > wrote: > > I seem to have got things working on b

Bug#991798: Acknowledgement (qtcreator: No suitable kits found) [worked around]

2021-08-02 Thread Ross Boylan
I seem to have got things working on bullseye. I'm not sure how many of the following steps are essential, except the last one! Also, though this may solve my immediate problem, the issue that qtcreator doesn't work "out of the box" remains. If something about the interrelations between packages

Bug#991798: qtcreator: No suitable kits found

2021-08-01 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: qtcreator Version: 4.14.1-1 Severity: important Justification: Unable to use package Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? Install qtcreator and launch it. File | New File or Project Application (Qt Quick) | Qt Quick Application - Scroll Hit choose Enter

Bug#718646: kde-runtime: knotify4 using over 2G

2013-08-03 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: kde-runtime Version: 4:4.8.4-2 Severity: important Tags: upstream Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? I have been logged in to KDE for 59 days. knotify4 has been steadily taking up more memory over time. I have done aptitude updates during this time. * What exactly

Bug#714560: kmail loses place in message list

2013-06-30 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: kmail Version: 4:4.4.11.1+l10n-3+b1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, kmail's message list for a large folder keeps returning to the same message, even though I have selected a different message. * What led up to the situation? Accessing a remote IMAP folder with ~65,000 unread

Bug#708086: korganizer: import ics fails with unescapable loop

2013-05-12 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: korganizer Version: 4:4.4.11.1+l10n-3+b1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? Fresh install, but copied .kde/share/apps/korganizer from the KDE 3 directory used by the earlier version of Korganizer. Started korganizer for first time and tried to import

Bug#706882: kmail: A does not reply to all

2013-05-06 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sunday, May 05, 2013 02:17:43 PM Kevin Krammer wrote: On Sunday, 2013-05-05, Kevin Krammer wrote: On Sunday, 2013-05-05, Ross Boylan wrote: Package: kmail Version: 4:4.4.11.1+l10n-3+b1 Severity: normal From the top menu selecting message shows a list of commands including

Bug#706882: kmail: A does not reply to all

2013-05-06 Thread Ross Boylan
On Monday, May 06, 2013 10:00:12 AM Kevin Krammer wrote: On Monday, 2013-05-06, Ross Boylan wrote: Are you saying it's a KDE standard to always use capital letters? That's quite confusing to me, since lower and upper case letters often do different things--in fact they do different things

Bug#706882: kmail: A does not reply to all

2013-05-05 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: kmail Version: 4:4.4.11.1+l10n-3+b1 Severity: normal From the top menu selecting message shows a list of commands including reply all. A is indicated as a shortcut. However, whether focus is on the message list or the message, A acts like a reply. Lowercase a does do a reply all.

Bug#704412: composer: search repient in addressbook not working

2013-05-05 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: kmail Version: 4:4.4.11.1+l10n-3+b1 Followup-For: Bug #704412 I'm seeing the same misbehavior here. -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale:

Bug#706783: kmail scrolls too far in message list

2013-05-04 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: kmail Version: 4:4.4.11.1+l10n-3+b1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, With kmail open in the usual 3-pane view the upper right panel has a message list. There is a scroll bar to its right. When I click on the scroll bar above the slider the message list jumps forward a bit too much.

Re: broken KDE task in squeeze?

2011-02-02 Thread Ross Boylan
On Wed, 2011-02-02 at 10:08 +0200, Modestas Vainius wrote: Hello, On trečiadienis 02 Vasaris 2011 01:48:42 Ross Boylan wrote: I'm running squeeze in a VM. Under tasks in aptitude there is a KDE desktop. When I select (+ key) it, an error appears for kde-network-manager because

broken KDE task in squeeze?

2011-02-01 Thread Ross Boylan
this is an obsolete package. It would be really good to fix the tasks before squeeze. I wasn't sure where to report this, so I'm doing it here. Ross Boylan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-qt-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#549540: umbrello crashes when connecting function send in sequence diagram

2009-10-03 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: umbrello Version: 4:3.5.9-2 Severity: normal Might warrant higher severity; this makes the program basically unusable for me. Steps to reproduce: open the attached file in Umbrello. Go to the sequence diagram regular key down if it's not already visible. Select the asynchronous message

ktorrent, kde3 and kde4

2009-07-27 Thread Ross Boylan
the planned removal of kdebase-bin-kde3. So, two questions: Is the installation safe, or is something odd on my system making it unsafe? Is it safe to do the upgrade while running KDE3? By this I mean while inside a KDE3 session. Thanks. Ross Boylan P.S. I'd appreciate a cc, since I'm

Bug#474668: korganizer: weird calendar colors after upgrade

2008-04-07 Thread Ross Boylan
On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 09:33 +0200, Sune Vuorela wrote: On Monday 07 April 2008, Ross Boylan wrote: Package: korganizer Version: 4:3.5.9-2 Severity: minor After the latest upgrade in testing the colors were very strange; in particular, items from my main calendar were a dark red

Bug#308312: 308312: colors for different calendars

2008-04-06 Thread Ross Boylan
If I understand the wish, I think it's been granted. Perhaps I don't, since the upstream bug is also still open. In 3.5.9 (and earlier) the bottom left shows a list of calendars. One can assign colors to them, and the items on that calendar show in the main display with that color. If the item

Bug#474668: korganizer: weird calendar colors after upgrade

2008-04-06 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: korganizer Version: 4:3.5.9-2 Severity: minor After the latest upgrade in testing the colors were very strange; in particular, items from my main calendar were a dark red, giving an alarming impression. Looking a little closer, I saw that each calendar, as displayed in the lower left,

Bug#473159: ksysguard loses high CPU process

2008-03-28 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: ksysguard Version: 4:3.5.8.dfsg.1-7 Severity: normal top shows that firefox-bin is using about 150% of CPU; ksysguard does not display firefox in the processes pain at all, though it does show high overall CPU useage. It displayed firefox-bin earlier when its useage was lower. I

Bug#473159: ksysguard loses high CPU process

2008-03-28 Thread Ross Boylan
When I killed the window that was chewing up CPU (TV listings at zap2it.com), firefox's CPU useage went down to about 25%, and it reappeared in the process list of ksysguard. Ross -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: switching users kills first user

2007-10-05 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sat, 2007-09-29 at 12:12 -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: For at least the last month, sometimes when I switch user (as in switch user from the KDE menu) to another user's session, the session for the first user is killed. This appears to be an nvidia problem. I filed a bug (445322) about

Re: switching users kills first user

2007-09-30 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sun, 2007-09-30 at 11:58 +0200, Raúl Sánchez Siles wrote: El Sábado, 29 de Septiembre de 2007, Ross Boylan escribió: For at least the last month, sometimes when I switch user (as in switch user from the KDE menu) to another user's session, the session for the first user is killed

Re: switching users kills first user

2007-09-30 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sun, 2007-09-30 at 21:36 +0200, David Bremner wrote: Ross == Ross Boylan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ross Since this only happens from KDE switch user (I have not, Ross for example seen it with ctl-alt-Fn) it seems at least Ross possible KDE has some role in it. Ross Does

switching users kills first user

2007-09-29 Thread Ross Boylan
For at least the last month, sometimes when I switch user (as in switch user from the KDE menu) to another user's session, the session for the first user is killed. This has happened with 2 or 3 user sessions. It has happened when switching from the first session (vt7) or the 2nd (vt8). The

Using KDE docbook's on Debian

2006-11-16 Thread Ross Boylan
I downloaded some documentation in docbook form from KDE's site and tried to produce a pdf from it. This didn't work because it referenced kdex.dtd and couldn't find it. The file is on my system, but seems not be integrated into Debian's docbook machinery. I tried various things like hardcoding

Bug#398499: 398499: korganizer exceptions trouble reported upstream

2006-11-15 Thread Ross Boylan
by the announcement about upstream tracking). I also tried a deletion; it didn't work either. I've rebooted since the original report; it didn't help. Ross Boylan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#398499: 398499: korganizer exceptions trouble reported upstream

2006-11-15 Thread Ross Boylan
forwarded 38499 https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=137435 thanks Trying again... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#398499: 398499: korganizer exceptions trouble reported upstream

2006-11-15 Thread Ross Boylan
forwarded 398499 https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=137435 thanks Ugh. 3rd time's a charm? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#357413: confirming close (kword: paste into table fails)

2006-11-15 Thread Ross Boylan
about not responding. At the time of the original request, 1.5 was not available in testing, and I lost track of this by the time it got there. Thanks. Ross Boylan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#374993: #374993: karm copy to clipboard trouble reported upstream

2006-11-14 Thread Ross Boylan
in .kde/share/apps/karm back and forth. I may have done this when the app was open once or twice. --- Additional Comment #1 From tstaerk 2006-11-14 17:19 --- I can reproduce this. It seems to me that Copy all Tasks starts copying the tasks from the position of activeTask on. -- Ross

Bug#374993: [Bug 137309] incomplete time reports totals [Patch]

2006-11-14 Thread Ross Boylan
Thank you! Ross On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 21:10 +, tstaerk wrote: --- You are receiving this mail because: --- You reported the bug, or are watching the reporter. http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=137309 --- Additional Comments From dev staerk de

Bug#398499: korganizer: exceptions to recurrences don't seem to work

2006-11-13 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: korganizer Version: 4:3.5.5.dfsg.1-1 Severity: normal I created a new event and enabled recurrences. However, when I attempt to create some exceptions (lower right corner of the recurrence tab) nothing happens. When I choose a date for which an event is scheduled (admittedly, the first

Bug#396776: karm: stops timing too readily

2006-11-02 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: karm Version: 4:3.5.5-1 Severity: minor If one edits a task that is currently timing, and add some time to it, the timer stops. Actually, simply opening the editor and then hitting OK stops the timer. If one selects setttings | configure karm, and then hits OK on the dialogue, the

Safety of upgrading KDE while running KDE?

2006-10-18 Thread Ross Boylan
had one particularly bad experience in which gnumeric blanked out a file as a result of an upgrade while it was running. So I tend to shutdown GNOME applications before upgrades that might affect them. And firefox routinely warns you to shutdown firefox after an upgrade. Thanks. Ross Boylan

Re: How to use -dbg packages?

2006-08-27 Thread Ross Boylan
disk paging. It's possible the system if pretty clever about this (e.g., the symbols just stay on disk until they're needed). If so, the effect would be negligible; I don't think the system is that clever. Ross Boylan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Files and directories to preserve across upgrade--surprising success

2006-08-23 Thread Ross Boylan
On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 12:03:18PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: I upgraded one machine from KDE 3.5.3 to 3.5.4 and discovered that some of my defaults got lost. In particular, my fonts both in and outside of KDE became terrible (that is, non KDE apps running under KDE, such as firefox). The list

Re: Files and directories to preserve across upgrade

2006-08-22 Thread Ross Boylan
On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 02:14:04PM -0600, John Schmidt wrote: On Monday 21 August 2006 13:03, Ross Boylan wrote: I upgraded one machine from KDE 3.5.3 to 3.5.4 and discovered that some of my defaults got lost. In particular, my fonts both in and outside of KDE became terrible (that is, non

Files and directories to preserve across upgrade

2006-08-21 Thread Ross Boylan
? Is this just a libcairo issue? I wish KDE were not so inclined to blow away customizations when upgrading. Also, perhaps it would make sense for Debian to set the hinting style to full by default. Thanks. -- Ross Boylan wk: (415) 514-8146 185 Berry St #5700

kprinter using its own version of CUPS?

2006-07-16 Thread Ross Boylan
When I print a test page via CUPS (using the web interface) I get a page that says Printed Using CUPS v1.2.x. When I go into the KDE printer control module and print a test page I get a page that says Printed Using CUPS c1.1.x. While this isn't causing any problem I've noticed, it seems a little

Bug#374214: Improve integration of of kdmrc changes done from KDE and those from dpkg

2006-06-22 Thread Ross Boylan
this report to upstream, but haven't gotten a fix yet. I'll give the upstream report a prod. Cheers, Christopher Martin Thanks. To the extent this involves dpkg, isn't it Debian-specific? I agree there's some upstream work involved too. Ross On Saturday 17 June 2006 18:58, Ross Boylan wrote

Bug#374214: Improve integration of of kdmrc changes done from KDE and those from dpkg

2006-06-17 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: kdm Version: 4:3.5.3-2 Severity: wishlist Currently, if you make a change to kdmrc from within KDE (i.e., via KDE's graphical tools) it makes big changes to /etc/kde3/kdm/kdmrc. These include deleting all the comments. On subsequent apt-get upgrade's I get the message that kdmrc has

Re: problems printing with cups 1.2

2006-06-17 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 07:51:50AM +0200, Lutz Lennardt wrote: On Saturday 17 Juni 2006 00:14 Ross Boylan wrote: I can't get printing working from KDE since upgrading to cups 1.2. Apparently I'm not alone. Someone recently posted about having a problem with this in sid, but I'm seeing

Bug#370403: [Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#370403: cupsys breaks all of KDE printing

2006-06-16 Thread Ross Boylan
is it that CUPS didn't upgrade? What other bugs are you referring to that relate to that? Thanks for any help you can offer. -- Ross Boylan wk: (415) 514-8146 185 Berry St #5700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dept of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

problems printing with cups 1.2

2006-06-16 Thread Ross Boylan
the upstream issue seems unresolved. What to do? I pulled in kdeprint from unstable since there were some references to that fixing things; it didn't help for me. Upstream CUPS has apparently provided a temporary hack, but testing and unstable both have the same version of cupsys. -- Ross Boylan

Re: problems printing with cups 1.2 [work-around]

2006-06-16 Thread Ross Boylan
On Fri, 2006-06-16 at 15:14 -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: I can't get printing working from KDE since upgrading to cups 1.2. Apparently I'm not alone. Someone recently posted about having a problem with this in sid, but I'm seeing it in testing. See also Debian bug 370403 and the upstream bugs

What might be grabbing devices?

2006-05-31 Thread Ross Boylan
is Debian testing, KDE 3.5, 2.4 kernel (i.e, not udev). The one with the dvd is running 2.6.15 kernel with udev. Thanks. Ross Boylan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What might be grabbing devices?

2006-05-31 Thread Ross Boylan
On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 06:24:13PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 09:16:26 -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: I know that the desktop monitors for new devices because when I insert a dvd a window pops up asking me what I want to do. For cd/dvd burning I'm advised to turn off

Bug#347865: kword: printing also has this effect

2006-04-11 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: kword Version: 1:1.4.2-7 Followup-For: Bug #347865 I'm also seeing the extra pages added when I print. I get one extra page when I print, but 4 when I save. Again, this is a fax document. This time is has a few frame breaks in it; perhaps each one generates and extra page on save? --

Bug#357413: kword: paste into table fails

2006-03-16 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: kword Version: 1:1.4.2-7 Severity: normal When I paste into a cell of a table, nothing happens. Sometimes the display changes slightly, with some of the lines of the table obscured (I mean the lines around the cell boundaries). However, the contents don't appear to be updated. I did a

Bug#347865: kword: save causes weird document reformatting, adding a blank page

2006-01-12 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: kword Version: 1:1.4.2-5 Severity: normal I have created a fax from the fax template in kword. It has some text on the cover sheet, but well less than a full page. When I save the document it flashes some alternate box layouts and fonts on the screen briefly. After this the document

Re: KDE froze 1/2 way through startup after upgrade [SOLVED]

2006-01-02 Thread Ross Boylan
On Fri, 2005-12-23 at 15:31 -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: I just upgraded from KDE 3.3 - 3.4 in testing. Before the upgrade I did /etc/init.d/kdm stop, and after /etc/init.d/kdm start. Things looked OK, and I logged in. The window that shows progress in starting up the session showed up

Bug#344947: kdm: NEWS file not displayed on upgrade

2005-12-27 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: kdm Version: 4:3.4.2-4 Severity: normal I recently upgraded from 3.3 to 3.4 in testing. There is a NEWS.Debian entry about KDM (and some other things), but it was not displayed. I have enables apt-listchanges, and in the same upgrade I did get NEWS items about other packages. I've

Re: KDE froze 1/2 way through startup after upgrade

2005-12-27 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 12:37:22PM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: Hello Ross, Ross Boylan wrote: I just upgraded from KDE 3.3 - 3.4 in testing. Before the upgrade I did /etc/init.d/kdm stop, and after /etc/init.d/kdm start. Things looked OK, and I logged in. The window that shows progress

Re: KDE froze 1/2 way through startup after upgrade

2005-12-26 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 04:22:01PM +0100, Gert Brinkmann wrote: Ross Boylan wrote: DCOP Cleaning up dead connections. Did you try to simply reboot the system? No, because I'm in the middle of a c. 10 day computation. libhal.c 767 : org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceDoesNotExist raised

KDE froze 1/2 way through startup after upgrade

2005-12-23 Thread Ross Boylan
I just upgraded from KDE 3.3 - 3.4 in testing. Before the upgrade I did /etc/init.d/kdm stop, and after /etc/init.d/kdm start. Things looked OK, and I logged in. The window that shows progress in starting up the session showed up, and reached 50%. Then it just sat there. It doesn't seem to be

Bug#343835: kicker: application buttons on toolbar lost on 3.3 - 3.4 upgrade

2005-12-17 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: kicker Version: 4:3.4.2-4 Severity: normal I upgraded from KDE 3.3 to 3.4 in testing. Afterwards, a shortcut button I had on my taskbar disappeared. I created it by clicking on the panel, select Add to panel, special button, non KDE application. I have a feeling I may have lost some

Bug#229555: 229555: KDE 2-3 upgrade issues may be obsolete

2005-12-17 Thread Ross Boylan
It might be appropriate to close this bug as no longer relevant. Ross -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Getting latest KDE (Quanta) in testing

2005-09-18 Thread Ross Boylan
about building Quanta (or other KDE apps) in an earlier KDE environment, or is that just a bad idea? Any recommendations about how best to proceed? Basically, my goal is to get a cutting edge Quanta with minimal necessary disruption to the rest of the system. Thanks. Ross Boylan P.S. I've seen

security of KDE 3.2 in testing/sarge

2004-09-16 Thread Ross Boylan
I noticed some security advisories in August concerning KDE and Qt: DSA 539-1 DSA 542-1 The messages say the security fix has been applied to stable and sid, in the form of the 3.3 version. However, testing is at 3.2, and my understanding is this is the version planned for release. The

Re: security of KDE 3.2 in testing/sarge

2004-09-16 Thread Ross Boylan
On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 07:28:53PM +0200, Adeodato Simó wrote: * Ross Boylan [Thu, 16 Sep 2004 10:15:39 -0700]: I noticed some security advisories in August concerning KDE and Qt: DSA 539-1 DSA 542-1 Are these bugs present in the current testing 3.2? Are there any plans to fix them

Web-URL annoyances

2004-05-29 Thread Ross Boylan
When I highlight a URL the Web-URL thingy pops up on the lower right of my screen. For quite awhile it's been misbehaving, though somewhat erratically. The worst problem is that sometimes after I click on it my session gets completely locked up--no response to mouse or ctl-alt-Fn keys to switch

Web-URL annoyances

2004-05-29 Thread Ross Boylan
For awhile now I've noticed problems with the Web-URL thing that pops up when you select a URL. It shows up in the lower right of my screen. The problems are erratic. The most serious problem is that sometimes after I click on one of the items (e.g., selecting mozilla) the whole system locks up

Re: KDE 3.2.2 Sluggish

2004-05-09 Thread Ross Boylan
On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 11:45:17PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: I'm having a problem that might be related. A lot of my clicks are getting lost. This is true regardless of whether I'm clicking a KDE item or a non-KDE app. I'm doing a lot of double-clicking or holding my clicks for a bit

Bug#247193: kdm: reserve doesn't seem to work

2004-05-07 Thread Ross Boylan
Great, I don't know if you caught it, but I had a typo in the last line of my patch, leaving out the l in xdmctl. I've attached a revised patch that fixes that, does away with escaping the ':' in the file names (I'm not sure whether that's an improvement) and adds a note to be careful when

Bug#247193: kdm: reserve doesn't seem to work

2004-05-05 Thread Ross Boylan
On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 11:50:54AM +0200, Achim Bohnet wrote: On Monday 03 May 2004 21:18, Ross Boylan wrote: Package: kdm Version: 4:3.2.2-1 Severity: normal I uncommented the first commented display line in /etc/kde3/kdm/Xservers: :1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] reserve /usr/X11R6/bin/X

Bug#247196: kdm: clarify documentation

2004-05-05 Thread Ross Boylan
On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 12:10:06PM +0200, Achim Bohnet wrote: On Monday 03 May 2004 21:35, Ross Boylan wrote: Package: kdm Version: 4:3.2.2-1 Severity: wishlist Hi Ross, 1) The current documentation makes several references to the xdm manpage, but users may not have xdm installed

Missing documentation

2004-05-05 Thread Ross Boylan
In the last few days I've tried to read the documentation for a couple of KDE applications (via their help menu) and the KDE Help Center comes up and says it can't find the docs. I also recall reading that the KDE packagers could use help with the documentation. So, is this anything I should

Re: Missing documentation

2004-05-05 Thread Ross Boylan
Let me make sure I understand. Also some additional comments below. On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 04:01:41PM +0200, Alejandro Exojo wrote: El Miércoles, 5 de Mayo de 2004 07:06, Ross Boylan escribió: In the last few days I've tried to read the documentation for a couple of KDE applications (via

Bug#247397: kdelibs-bin: checksum differs from installed package

2004-05-04 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: kdelibs-bin Version: 4:3.2.2-2 Severity: minor tiger reports --FAIL-- [lin005f] Installed file `/usr/bin/kfmexec' checksum differs from installed package ''. I don't know why, and I doubt it's significant, but I thought I'd let you know. -- System Information: Debian Release:

Bug#247397: kdelibs-bin: checksum differs from installed package

2004-05-04 Thread Ross Boylan
On Tue, 2004-05-04 at 15:04, Chris Cheney wrote: On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 02:33:10PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: Package: kdelibs-bin Version: 4:3.2.2-2 Severity: minor tiger reports --FAIL-- [lin005f] Installed file `/usr/bin/kfmexec' checksum differs from installed package

Re: KDE 3.2.2 Sluggish

2004-05-04 Thread Ross Boylan
On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 03:28:47PM -0700, Matt Rechkemmer wrote: I've been using KDE with Sid for sometime now, however, since the upgrade from 3.2.1 to 3.2.2 KDE has been horrendously slow. Sometimes, I'll click on a launcher icon, and have to watch it get stuck; same behavior with the K

Bug#247193: kdm: reserve doesn't seem to work

2004-05-03 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: kdm Version: 4:3.2.2-1 Severity: normal I uncommented the first commented display line in /etc/kde3/kdm/Xservers: :1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] reserve /usr/X11R6/bin/X -nolisten tcp :1 vt8 and did invoke-rc.d kdm restart Despite this /var/run/xdmctl/ only showed xdmctl and xdmctl-:0. As I

Bug#247196: kdm: clarify documentation

2004-05-03 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: kdm Version: 4:3.2.2-1 Severity: wishlist 1) The current documentation makes several references to the xdm manpage, but users may not have xdm installed. For this and other reasons, a kdm manpage would be good (see also bug #193527). 2) README.Debian does indicate it is for xdm, but it

Re: Login Manager

2004-05-03 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sun, May 02, 2004 at 12:15:05AM -0400, Bruce Park wrote: Hey guys, I've been trying to solve this problem ever since I did an upgrade on my system. Currently, I'm running KDE 3.2 in Sarge and ever since I did the upgrade, I've been having this weird font problem with the login manager.

Re: debian desktop item stopped working

2004-05-01 Thread Ross Boylan
On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 09:25:38PM -0500, Chris Cheney wrote: On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 04:01:45PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: I've been upgrading along with KDE in testing. A few days ago, after the initial upgrade to 3.2, I noticed a debian icon on my KDE desktop. Clicking it took me

Re: Alsa with 2.4.24

2004-03-07 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 02:51:16PM +, Tony Middleton wrote: I've previously posted this to debian.user but on further investigation I think it is a KDE problem. I run a sarge system using standard kernel-image-k7 and alsa modules. I have an Audigy sound card which uses the emu10k1

Bug#232466: arts: Sound server fatal error: cpu overload, aborting (workaround)

2004-02-13 Thread Ross Boylan
On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 03:35, Adeodato Simó wrote: * Ross Boylan [Thu, 12 Feb 2004 15:11:25 -0800]: A few seconds after KDE starts up I get a pop up window with Error Sound server fatal error: cpu overload, aborting I got one of these about two weeks ago. Some clues

Bug#232466: arts: Sound server fatal error: cpu overload, aborting

2004-02-12 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: arts Version: 1.1.5-2 Severity: normal A few seconds after KDE starts up I get a pop up window with Error -artsmess visible on the title bar (I assume it's artsmessage, but I can't resize it to see). The error is Sound server fatal error: cpu overload, aborting Despite this warning, I

Bug#229555: kde-core: kicker disappeared on upgrade from KDE 2 - 3

2004-01-25 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: kde-core Version: 4:3.1.2 Severity: important I just upgraded from the standard Debian KDE 2.2.2 to 3.1 (unstable). When I started up, my desktop was almost entirely blank. There was no taskbar at the bottom. I think this is produced by the kicker program. (By taskbar I mean the whole

Re: Wiki seems to be fibbing; KDE not installable in testing

2004-01-24 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 08:12:52PM +0100, Dominique Devriese wrote: Dominique Devriese writes: Ross Boylan writes: # apt-get -d install kde-core Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Some packages could not be installed. Can you please attach the output

Re: Wiki seems to be fibbing; KDE not installable in testing

2004-01-24 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 08:59:58PM +, Nick Sanders wrote: Thanks. I think I'll probably go ahead and install from unstable. Any reason not to? Can't you install the packages individually i.e without using meta packages like kde-core, kdelibs and kdebase. That suggests

Bug#229078: /usr/bin/kwrite: printout cut off on left and right

2004-01-23 Thread Ross Boylan
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Bug#229078: /usr/bin/kwrite: printout cut off on left and right

2004-01-22 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: kate Version: 4:3.1.3-1 Severity: normal File: /usr/bin/kwrite Using the Konqueror file browser I clicked on a text file and it brought it up in KWrite. I printed it, requesting 2-up printing. I left the default paper size, US Letter. The resulting printout was cut off by several

Bug#229078: Similar symptoms in Konqueror

2004-01-22 Thread Ross Boylan
I also notice this problem in a printout from Konqueror. In that case, printing was ordinary (1-up). It also shows the bottom cut off. The same page prints OK from Mozilla, which I believe uses the gnome printing system and/or xprt-xprintorg.

Re: Source of much KDE 2.2 weirdness identified

2004-01-17 Thread Ross Boylan
On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 06:26:56PM +0100, Thomas Ritter wrote: On Thursday 15 January 2004 07:13, Ross Boylan wrote: Simply by toggling Use Anti-Aliasing for fonts and icons on in the Control Center | Look Feel | Fonts I can make much of the bad behavior reappear (in particular

Source of much KDE 2.2 weirdness identified

2004-01-15 Thread Ross Boylan
I'm running a mostly testing system with the KDE 2.2.2-14.7 packages installed. For many months this has been a sick puppy. Many fonts were invisible, the help text was invisible, and more recently lots of apps, including the control panel were showing up with entire windows or widgets that have

Re: Packagers: What should we recommend about KDE 2 - 3 upgrades?

2004-01-08 Thread Ross Boylan
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 11:37:30PM -0500, Matej Cepl wrote: On Wednesday 07 of January 2004 19:35, Ross Boylan wrote: I would like to raise an issue for the Debian KDE package maintainers: will someone who has been running woody KDE 2.2 run into troubles if they upgrade to 3.x

Re: Source Code

2004-01-08 Thread Ross Boylan
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 08:10:08PM -0500, Robert Tilley wrote: I would like to apt-get source code and projects that can be loaded into KDevelop so I can learn KDE programming. Can anyone help a young (sic), budding programmer? apt-get source gets you the debian packaging of parts of the

Re: Packagers: What should we recommend about KDE 2 - 3 upgrades?

2004-01-08 Thread Ross Boylan
On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 12:46:35PM +0100, Hendrik Sattler wrote: Content-Description: signed data Am Donnerstag, 8. Januar 2004 01:35 schrieb Ross Boylan: My guess is the safest route would be to compile KDE 3 to use a different directory, such as ~/.kde3. Possibly there could be some

Re: Accessing Code

2004-01-08 Thread Ross Boylan
On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 09:45:05AM -0500, Bob Tilley (ATT) wrote: I have KDevelop 3 installed and wish to learn KDE programming. I am sure that the source of most programs in the Debian archives consist of complicated projects with many source files and dependencies. Is it possible to

Packagers: What should we recommend about KDE 2 - 3 upgrades?

2004-01-07 Thread Ross Boylan
I would like to raise an issue for the Debian KDE package maintainers: will someone who has been running woody KDE 2.2 run into troubles if they upgrade to 3.x? And if so, what should we do about this? I asked about this earlier, but want to raise it a bit more forcefully now, because subsequent

KDE setting xterm resources

2004-01-04 Thread Ross Boylan
My xterm is starting with an Helvetica font under KDE2, which doesn't work well (it's s p a c e d o u t). I have just discovered that xterm is fine under other desktops or window managers, so clearly something in the KDE startu is setting the resource. In particular, xrdb -query reports

Re: Where are default fonts specified?

2003-11-11 Thread Ross Boylan
On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 11:57:27PM +0100, A.R. (Tom) Peters wrote: Does anyone know where in Debian default fonts for X are set? After a recent apt-get upgrade apparently some config file as changed, to the effect that an application that I use switched from a fixed width font (courier 10)

Re: KDE 3.1.4 repository and Libranet 2.8.1

2003-11-07 Thread Ross Boylan
On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 04:50:27PM -0800, Ralph Alvy wrote: That's what I feared, so I stayed away. However, I thought that maybe those binaries were no different than the ones the eventually find their way in sarge and sid, and if that was the case, I'd try them out. Antiphon wrote: You

testing 2.2 - 3.1 transition

2003-11-05 Thread Ross Boylan
I see that parts of KDE 3.1 have finally made it into testing. I have a testing system running KDE 2.2 (standard Debiain packages). I think some of the miscellaneous issues (e.g., libsensors) may be holding things up right now, but, aside from that, is it safe to just upgrade or dist-upgrade?

Re: testing 2.2 - 3.1 transition

2003-11-05 Thread Ross Boylan
On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 10:43:30AM +0100, Benoit Panizzon wrote: Am Mit, 2003-11-05 um 09.04 schrieb Ross Boylan: I see that parts of KDE 3.1 have finally made it into testing. I have a testing system running KDE 2.2 (standard Debiain packages). I think some of the miscellaneous issues

Re: Qt versioning (was: KDE 3.1.2 broken)

2003-08-02 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 12:24:37AM +0200, Ralf Nolden wrote: [snip] I updated to Qt 3.1.2 already while madkiss was forced to stay with 3.1.1 until maybe 3.2.0 will fix the glibc issue (or a new glibc is uploaded in unstable). It's only a temporary issue. Upgradable versions from KDE's woody

Re: Can't type anything in kword.

2003-08-02 Thread Ross Boylan
On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 12:07:45AM +0800, Yun-Ta Tsai wrote: Greeting, ;-) I am currently using sid in my box. I found that I had problems with kword that no matter how hard I pressed the keyboard, it never gave me any letter. Then, I toggled the configuration box, it told me my

Re: kde, fonts sometimes

2003-07-17 Thread Ross Boylan
On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 08:57:41PM +0200, Jaroslaw Psikuta wrote: Hello. I have kde 3.1.2 and the problem: in konsole and other places like admin mod in control center, kdm i havent fonts. I can see only blank window, but in others application everything is ok. Anyone can tell me why?

Re: true type fonts fixed...

2003-07-15 Thread Ross Boylan
Unfortunately, I have no great wisdom, just some clarifications and speculations below. Ross On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 05:57:46PM -0600, Bruce Sass wrote: Sorry 'bout the delay. On Fri, 11 Jul 2003, Ross Boylan wrote: On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 03:21:15PM -0600, Bruce Sass wrote: On Wed, 9

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