Re: [kde] Yet another failed KDE release?

On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 12:19 PM, Felix Miata wrote: > On 2013-03-23 02:10 (GMT+0200) Nikos Chantziaras composed: > > >> The way things are, there's never gonna be a stable KDE version. Not in >> a billion years. > > > You mean besides the one that already exists? KDE3 -> TDE, not to mention > op

Re: [kde] Yet another failed KDE release?

On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 10:42 PM, Anne Wilson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 23/03/13 13:08, dE . wrote: >> There's very less time focused on testing; that should be >> increased, and there's really no reason to hurry releases, no one >> complained KDE is empty and

Re: [kde] Yet another failed KDE release?

On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 7:26 PM, Leon Feng wrote: > 2013/3/23 dE . : >> >> Longer release cycles ensure the thing gets tested on various platforms in >> various ways, fixing bugs which otherwise developers won't notice. >> >> As of the current time, release cycles are too fast; distro devs don't h

Re: [kde] Yet another failed KDE release?

On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 6:42 PM, Leon Feng wrote: > 2013/3/23 Kevin Krammer >> >> On Saturday, 2013-03-23, dE . wrote: >> >> > Cause of this behaviour of distros, KDE gets less chance to get tested. >> > The >> > only solution is to elongate the release cycles, that way, each version >> > of >> >

Re: [kde] Yet another failed KDE release?

On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 5:10 PM, Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: > > dE . posted on Sat, 23 Mar 2013 14:25:42 +0530 as excerpted: > > >> > The moment you open upgraded the KDE desktop you see bugs. > >> > >> Not here, on the contrary, KDE has become more stable and polished with > >> every rel

Re: [kde] Yet another failed KDE release?

On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 11:29 PM, Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: > Kevin Krammer posted on Fri, 22 Mar 2013 12:53:01 +0100 as excerpted: > > >> Honestly, why can't KDE SC support seamless update from previous major > >> release? Is it too much work to rewrite config files whose format has >

Re: [kde] kdm multiple keyboard layouts

First, I didn't noticed gmail was sending HTML. Please excuse me. This one _should_ be plain text. On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 7:48 PM, Bogus Zaba wrote: > > On 03/27/2013 09:16 PM, zoolook wrote: > >> On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 5:11 PM, Bogus Zaba > > wrote: >> >> On

Re: [kde] Yet another failed KDE release?

Kevin Krammer posted on Wed, 27 Mar 2013 21:54:28 +0100 as excerpted: >> Which leaves amarok. Amarok's kde3 -> kde4 conversion was for me a >> microcosm of the larger kde3 -> kde4 debacle. The devs tried switching >> to mysql as akonadi was at the time, but in the process, they used >> mysql fun

Re: [kde] Yet another failed KDE release?

On Wed, 27 Mar 2013 21:21:47 +0100 Kevin Krammer wrote: > > I certainly think freedesktop.org should change it's name perhaps to > > enterprisedesktop.org or maybe cloudesktop.org > > I didn't get the context of that one. Various projects have shown their disregard for the user base and prefe

Re: [kde] kdm multiple keyboard layouts

On 03/27/2013 09:16 PM, zoolook wrote: On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 5:11 PM, Bogus Zaba > wrote: On 03/27/2013 10:18 AM, zoolook wrote: Hello, First, is there a kdm-users dedicated mailing list? Now my question. I'm learning Dvora

Re: [kde] kdm multiple keyboard layouts

On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 5:11 PM, Bogus Zaba wrote: > On 03/27/2013 10:18 AM, zoolook wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> First, is there a kdm-users dedicated mailing list? >> >> Now my question. >> >> I'm learning Dvorak keyboard layout but I share this computer with my >> wife. She doesn't like the layout

Re: [kde] Yet another failed KDE release?

On Monday, 2013-03-25, Duncan wrote: > Kevin Krammer posted on Sun, 24 Mar 2013 16:41:35 +0100 as excerpted: > And in fact that was what I guess kubuntu and some others were (rightly, > it turned out) predicting, the reason they didn't do an LTS at the time, > because they didn't believe the upstr

Re: [kde] Yet another failed KDE release?

On Sunday, 2013-03-24, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > On Sun, 24 Mar 2013 14:16:34 + (UTC) > > Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: > > Of course they'll with a near-certainty still continue to work on > > xorg for a few years anyway, but once the general desktop moves to > > wayland, the X dependenc

Re: [kde] Yet another failed KDE release?

On Sunday, 2013-03-24, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > On Sun, 24 Mar 2013 16:41:35 +0100 > > Kevin Krammer wrote: > > There were a couple of newly developed programs but they were almost > > always components of the workspace product. > > I am currently not aware of any application which dropped feature

Re: [kde] kdm multiple keyboard layouts

On 03/27/2013 10:18 AM, zoolook wrote: Hello, First, is there a kdm-users dedicated mailing list? Now my question. I'm learning Dvorak keyboard layout but I share this computer with my wife. She doesn't like the layout so I need kdm to default to latam layout and have dvorak as a option (eit

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[kde] kdm multiple keyboard layouts

Hello, First, is there a kdm-users dedicated mailing list? Now my question. I'm learning Dvorak keyboard layout but I share this computer with my wife. She doesn't like the layout so I need kdm to default to latam layout and have dvorak as a option (either a keyboard shortcut or a menu option) s

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