Bug#740126: qtcreator: fails to find qtcreator docs

2014-12-10 Thread Nate Bargmann
Package: qtcreator
Followup-For: Bug #740126

Dear Maintainer,

I just installed qtcreator initially with no help files as I have
aptitude set to not automatically install recommended packages.  I then
installed the qtcreator-doc and qt5-doc packages plus the
qttools5-dev-tools package and restarted qtcreator.  I found the help
contents was still blank and the qtcreator help system loaded a link into
the default web browser instead.

I found via a Web search the method to associate the help files manually
as did the originator of this report.  After manually adding the files
the help contents is now populated correctly.

Does qtcreator have a system-wide help registration that is not run when
new documentation is added?


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages qtcreator depends on:
ii  libbotan-1.10-0  1.10.8-2
ii  libc62.19-13
ii  libgcc1  1:4.9.2-4
ii  libqt5concurrent55.3.2+dfsg-4+b1
ii  libqt5core5a [qtbase-abi-5-3-2]  5.3.2+dfsg-4+b1
ii  libqt5declarative5 [qtquick1-abi-5-2-1]  5.3.2-3
ii  libqt5designer5  5.3.2-3
ii  libqt5designercomponents55.3.2-3
ii  libqt5gui5   5.3.2+dfsg-4+b1
ii  libqt5help5  5.3.2-3
ii  libqt5network5   5.3.2+dfsg-4+b1
ii  libqt5printsupport5  5.3.2+dfsg-4+b1
ii  libqt5qml5 [qtdeclarative-abi-5-3-2] 5.3.2-4
ii  libqt5quick5 5.3.2-4
ii  libqt5script55.3.2+dfsg-2
ii  libqt5sql5   5.3.2+dfsg-4+b1
ii  libqt5sql5-sqlite5.3.2+dfsg-4+b1
ii  libqt5webkit55.3.2+dfsg-3
ii  libqt5widgets5   5.3.2+dfsg-4+b1
ii  libqt5x11extras5 5.3.2-2
ii  libqt5xml5   5.3.2+dfsg-4+b1
ii  libstdc++6   4.9.2-4
ii  libx11-6 2:1.6.2-3
ii  qml-module-qtquick-controls  5.3.2-2
ii  qml-module-qtquick2  5.3.2-4
ii  qtchooser47-gd2b7997-2
ii  qtcreator-data   3.2.1+dfsg-7

Versions of packages qtcreator recommends:
ii  gdb   7.7.1+dfsg-5
ii  make  4.0-8
ii  qt5-doc   5.3.2-3
pn  qtbase5-dev-tools none
ii  qtcreator-doc 3.2.1+dfsg-7
pn  qtdeclarative5-dev-tools  none
pn  qtquick1-5-dev-tools  none
ii  qttools5-dev-tools5.3.2-3
pn  qttranslations5-l10n  none
pn  qtxmlpatterns5-dev-tools  none
ii  xfce4-terminal [x-terminal-emulator]  0.6.3-1+b1
ii  xterm [x-terminal-emulator]   312-1

Versions of packages qtcreator suggests:
pn  cmake  none
ii  g++4:4.9.2-1
ii  git1:2.1.3-1
pn  kdelibs5-data  none
pn  subversion none

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Re: What needs to improve in KDE 4?

2010-05-11 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2010 11 May 02:19 -0500, Valentin Pavlyuchenko wrote:
 2010/5/11 godo go...@dobosevic.com:
  Few thing's that I really ned or miss me from KDE 3:
 
  KDE dragon pic in logout window :-)
  http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/48/Kdelogout.png
 
 
 Yeah,
 Of course it's not a bug, but please return Konqi in logout window! :D

For that matter, return Konqui to a lot of places!  Seems he's been sent
out to dragon pasture in KDE4.  :-(

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Re: memory usage

2010-05-11 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2010 11 May 14:44 -0500, Marcus Better wrote:
 -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
 Hash: SHA1
 
 Florian Kulzer wrote:
  with such large applications. Have you already tried to set
  /proc/sys/vm/swappiness to zero?
 
 After some initial testing, I think it did the trick! Amazing, thanks a lot!
 
 The default swappiness setting (60) seems to be a horrible choice for 
 desktops.

Debian is not a desktop oriented distribution.  This is evidenced by not
having an alternate kernel in the archive with a desktop configuration.
Other distributions do seem to have some sort of desktop performance
advantage, it seems to me at least.  Having a desktop enabled kernel is
left as an exercise for the local admin.

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Re: What needs to improve in KDE 4?

2010-05-11 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2010 11 May 15:50 -0500, Marc Haber wrote:
 On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 10:22:35PM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:
   Is it guaranteed that KDE doesn't store anything outside of ~/.kde so
   that a user doesn't risk things getting desynched if one exchanges one
   ~/.kde with a different one?
  
  No, Akonadi stores some stuff in ~/.config/
 
 So one is better off by using a completely new accout (and ditching it
 afterwards).

That will prove rather quickly if the trouble is local or system wide.

My regret by moving ~/.local out of the way is that all the Wine menu
items disappeared.  It would be nice if the menu editor allowed the 
importing of the individual .desktop files.  I see that moving them back
into ~/.local/share/Applications caused them all to pop into the Lost
and Found section which is better than nothing.

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Re: What needs to improve in KDE 4?

2010-05-10 Thread Nate Bargmann
Dotan,

I think you may have already responded to these in another thread but
after upgrading to 4.4 a few days ago and with a clean slate (by
moving .kde and some other 'dot' directories out of the way) I'm down to
one daily annoyance as you've already addressed in the BTS--Konsole
beep.

The other involves the very clumsy way by which separate wall paper may
be placed on each desktop which currently involves activating Separate 
Desktop activities, then zooming out via the cashew, selecting the wall
paper for each desktop, and then zooming back in which is a craps shoot
as to which desktop will be where.  There was a reply to that message
about an intent to redo that particular functionality for perhaps 4.6 or
so.  It's not a show stopper but it's far from intuitive.  On the flip
side, I do like each desktop having its own activity as I can have
different folder views or other widgets on a given desktop based on how
I use it.

for *my use* I have found KDE 4.4 quite pleasant over the past few days,
perhaps aided by moving the old config directories out of the way.
Device Notifier is now useful for me due to the tip provided by another
list member in that thread.

Thanks!

- Nate 

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Re: What needs to improve in KDE 4?

2010-05-10 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2010 10 May 11:50 -0500, Dotan Cohen wrote:
 
 Yes, 4.2 and now 4.4 seem to behave badly without a clean ~/.kde. I
 find that very disturbing and unstable.

For the record, I had a clean ~/.kde for 4.2 when it hit Sid about a
year ago and upgraded the offered KDE packages through 4.3.4, IIRC, and
then started with a clean ~/.kde for Sid's new 4.4.3.

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KDE unable to play complete K3B .wav files

2010-05-08 Thread Nate Bargmann
Here is an oddity I've noticed for a while.  When K3B finishes buring a
CD it plays a sound file, k3b_success1.wav, which is a trumpet of several
seconds.  Lately I've only heard the first note or two.  After a bit of
checking here is what I've found:

In System Settings configure notification (also from the same menu in
configure K3B) only the first note is played.

In Dolphin clicking on k3b_success1.wav launches gnome-mplayer and the
entire file is played.

Also in Dolphin with k3b_success1.wav highlighted clicking the play
button in the far right hand pane plays the first three notes.

In Audacity, k3b_success1.wav plays in its entirety.  Looking at the
waveform shows no reason to why it should be truncated by KDE.

As an experiment I converted the three .wav files included with the 
k3b-data~all.deb package to .ogg format (which match the KDE files
included in /usr/share/shounds) and they play fine.  I am running an up
to date Sid installation with K3B 1.91.0-rc2-1 and KDE 4.4.

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Re: KDE unable to play complete K3B .wav files

2010-05-08 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2010 08 May 09:10 -0500, Diederik de Haas wrote:
 On 2010-05-08 Nate Bargmann wrote:
  In System Settings configure notification (also from the same menu in
  configure K3B) only the first note is played.
 
 Tried it from K3b and I can confirm your findings
  
  In Dolphin clicking on k3b_success1.wav launches gnome-mplayer and the
  entire file is played.
 
 Same here, although I've played it with both Amarok as smplayer
  
  Also in Dolphin with k3b_success1.wav highlighted clicking the play
  button in the far right hand pane plays the first three notes.
 
 Same here.
 
  Here is an oddity I've noticed
 
 It sure is odd.

Thanks for the confirmation, Diederik.  I wonder which package to file a
bug report against?  The k3b package may in fact be easiest to request
that the sound files be packaged in .ogg format, but that only masks
that fact that something in the KDE sound stack is having an issue with
.wav files.

My system is configured to use the Phonon Xine Backend in Sound and Video 
Configuration.  Could that be the culprit and how can we test?

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Re: kde SC 4.4

2010-05-07 Thread Nate Bargmann
I am avaluating KDE 4.4 as I updated this main desktop machine last
night.  So far, so good.  As I was getting some weird behavior for the
past several weeks so I moved ~/.kde out of the way after the upgrade
and before starting KDE 4.4.  So far, so good.

I am still annoyed by the lack of a native Konsole beep and Device
Notifier, while much improved, still lacks a way to simply mount
removable media without having to run Dolphin (I mostly use Midnight
Commander and I use a DE to ease working with removable media).  I also
think that setting a different wallpaper for each desktop could be more
intuitive than having to enable desktop activities in the Settings
Manager, then zoom out with the cashew, then set the wallpaper via
right-click menu from each desktop, and find out it's a craps shoot 
which desktop has which wallpaper.  But those are nits I've noticed 
so far and are fixable.

Dotan, if you'd like more input from me, please ask.

Otherwise, 4.4 is working well for me as far as I tried various things
over the course of a couple of hours so I think I'll stick around.  ;-)

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Re: kde SC 4.4

2010-05-07 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2010 07 May 07:17 -0500, cobaco wrote:
 On Friday 07 May 2010, Nate Bargmann wrote:
  Device Notifier, while much improved, still lacks a way to simply mount
  removable media without having to run Dolphin 
 
 click device notifier plasmoid, ups pops the list with devices present, 
 mouseover device you want to mount, click the icon on the right to mount the 
 device?

Well, I'll be.  I missed that last night (it was late, I was tired,
heh).

 Am I misunderstanding what you're asking for? Because that feature seems to 
 be working just fine here, used it to update the map on the mini-sd card 
 from my gps just last week

That is exactly was I've been looking for!  Thank you so much, Cobaco.

Okay, that's one less annoyance.  Next!

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Re: KDE 4.4.3 in unstable

2010-05-06 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2010 06 May 02:13 -0500, Diederik de Haas wrote:
 I don't get what you're trying to accomplish.
 
 On 2010-05-05 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
  In 4.4, kmail depends on mysql-server in order to send mail. (kmail -
  Akonadi  - mysql-server).
 
 So you don't like the dependency to Akonadi? Too bad.

Regardless the rationale, this seems to be an attitude that has become
very pervasive among KDE developers with the advent of KDE4 and it has
me looking seriously at the alternatives.  I no longer recommend KDE to
other users due to the my way or the highway attitude I've encountered
since running KDE 4.2 over a year ago and encountering various issues.

- Nate 

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Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-06 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2010 06 May 01:35 -0500, Jorge Gonçalves wrote:
 Hello!
 
 First, thank you for the great distro that is Debian, one of the best.
 
 I would like to suggest you some way so that the users keep on using
 the good old KDE 3.5 when they migrate to the upcoming Lenny.

Others have probably pointed this out, Lenny has 3.5, the upcoming
Squeeze will not.

 Maybe use dummy packages, or rename the packages so that KDE 3.5 could
 remain installed, and not be forced to upgrade to Kde4.

That ship has sailed and it isn't coming back.  KDE 3.5 is considered
dead.  Why some motivated person has not forked it yet has escaped me.

If I had the time, resources, and ability, it would be worthwhile to me
to see the KDE 3.5 codebase live on.  If nothing else, the Lenny source
tarballs would be a starting point for a new branch.  I'd expect some
pushback from the KDE devs so it's likely the fork could not call itself
KDE.  Some will say that KDE 3.5 can go no further which was also said
of XMMS which spawned Beep Media Player which spawned Audacious which is
alive and well, last I checked.  As I see it, KDE4 has been given 2+
years to match KDE 3.5 and they've been unable to do so thus the time
has come for someone to seriously consider reviving the KDE 3.5
codebase.

 I really feel sorry that KDE 3 series is no more being developed, and
 when the day cames that I no longer will be able to use KDE 3, I will
 switch to Apple or even Windows, but NEVER to kde4 or Gnome!
 (and I feel many users out there think like me!!!)

Well, don't go throwing the baby out with the bathwater as we say over
here!  I felt the same way but even though it is quirky, XFCE works
fairly well as does GNOME in Linux Mint 8.  Still, either pales in
comparison to the KDE 3.5 as does KDE4 but at the end of the day, the 
DE is really not why I use a Linux distribution in the first place.  So
jumping to a proprietary OS is not an option.

- Nate 

 Thank you, keep the good work, Debian is one of the best.

Agreed.  No matter the distro I choose, they are all Debian based.

- Nate 

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Re: KDE 4.4.3 in unstable

2010-05-06 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2010 06 May 07:27 -0500, Frederik Schwarzer wrote:
 [Nate Bargmann - Donnerstag 06 Mai 2010 13:28:23] 
  * On 2010 06 May 02:13 -0500, Diederik de Haas wrote:
   I don't get what you're trying to accomplish.
   
   On 2010-05-05 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
In 4.4, kmail depends on mysql-server in order to send mail. (kmail -
Akonadi  - mysql-server).
   
   So you don't like the dependency to Akonadi? Too bad.
  
  Regardless the rationale, this seems to be an attitude that has become
  very pervasive among KDE developers with the advent of KDE4 and it has
  me looking seriously at the alternatives.  I no longer recommend KDE to
  other users due to the my way or the highway attitude I've encountered
  since running KDE 4.2 over a year ago and encountering various issues.
 
 I certainly understand both sides here. The hardest break for KDE 4 was/is
 probably the social provocation it induced.
 For over a year, the developers that were working hard on getting things
 fixed did hear a lot of you are stupid, you do not listen to users
 and give me kicker back comments. It's not just the developers to blame
 if they do not have the patience to answer every akonady sucks comment
 with proper reasoning.

During that time, I gave the devs the benefit of the doubt understanding
the new directions they were taking and buying the hype that things would
be improved.  After a a year of use of KDE4, I disagree that much is
improved for *me*.  I'm fine with the devs doing whatever they want with
the codebase--it's theirs after all--but when I as a simple user feel
left behind at the station then I must consider the alternatives.

It's not just the multitude of server processes that KDE4 seems to
insist on running, but the lost functionality.  To wit, I participated
in an open bug on Konsole where the KDE4 version no longer generates the
PC speaker style beep.  I understand that to many the beep is annoying
but I've heard it for so long that I now rely on it for efficient use of
the terminal.  The dev's reply was essentially, Too bad.  Still, I'm
not alone in regretting this small loss of functionality.  After all,
the code for the beep had to actively been removed in the newer versions
of Konsole but as a Konsole user, I was never asked in any way how this
decision would affect me.  Too bad.

Along the same lines, I cannot be convinced that Device Notifier is a
suitable replacement for the similar functionality in KDE 3.5.  Other
tasks that I found easy in 3.5 are now cumbersome at best *for me* in
KDE4.  Now that my system is poised to update to KDE 4.4, I think this
is where I'll get off the train and let KDE go where it wants and I
shall go elsewhere.

Thanks for the fish.

- Nate  

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Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-06 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2010 06 May 08:03 -0500, Dotan Cohen wrote:
  Maybe use dummy packages, or rename the packages so that KDE 3.5 could
  remain installed, and not be forced to upgrade to Kde4.
 
  That ship has sailed and it isn't coming back. ??KDE 3.5 is considered
  dead. ??Why some motivated person has not forked it yet has escaped me.
 
 
 Not exactly forked, but maintained:
 http://apt.pearsoncomputing.net/

I saw that later in the thread.  It looks interesting.  Thanks.

  ??Still, either pales in
  comparison to the KDE 3.5 as does KDE4
 
 Please, let me know what KDE 4 is missing for you. KDE 4.4 has only a
 handful of regressions from KDE 3.5.10, and they are not dealbreakers.
 Some of those are addressed in KDE 4.5.

I'm tired of typing this time and again:

No speaker beep in Konsole--dev says, Too bad.

Device Notifier is a poor design and not easily changed to simply allow
mounting so removable medium rather than starting Dolphin each time.

No right click on the desktop to bring up the menu.

Other things that just don't seem inuitive *for me* that were in KDE
3.5.

These are small things to be sure and likely of little interest to
anyone else.  To me they are the little things that make 3.5 a pleasure
to use and 4.x an impediment to my produtivity.

 The KDE 4 sux time has passed. If you still have problems with KDE
 4, then please let me know what they are so that they can be fixed.

The time for I tried it for 15 minutes and KDE4 sux comments has long
passed, yes.  I've given it a fair shake, I feel, I've tried asking
politely for the things I liked about 3.5 to restored in 4.x only to be
brushed aside by KDE devs.  So *for me* KDE4 is not my vision of an
ideal desktop environment.  YMMV and I wish the KDE4 team and its users
all the best.  I may check in again some day and see how things are
going.  This is Free Software after all where one may come and go as one
pleases.

If nothing else, KDE4 has given me the benefit of giving the other DEs a
fair evaluation, something I'd not done when I was happy with KDE 3.4 and
3.5.

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Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-06 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2010 06 May 09:45 -0500, Facundo Aguilera wrote:
 El Jueves 06 Mayo 2010 10:22:09 Nate Bargmann n...@n0nb.us escribi?:
 
  
  I'm tired of typing this time and again:
  
  No speaker beep in Konsole--dev says, Too bad.
  
 
 Konsole - settings - notifications - bell in current session - run beep
 
 (aptitude install beep)
 
 Is this what you want?

I have been doing that as a work-around which is not ideal as it is much
slower than the PC speaker beep, especially for tab completion.  It
seems to take some time to load between successive tab key presses.

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Re: KDE 4.4.3 in unstable

2010-05-06 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2010 06 May 08:33 -0500, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote:
 Nate Bargmann wrote:
 
  Now that my system is poised to update to KDE 4.4, I think this
  is where I'll get off the train and let KDE go where it wants and I
  shall go elsewhere.
  
  Thanks for the fish.
  
  - Nate 
 
 Free software is all about freedom:
 
  - developers are free to assign their time to whatever they see fit
  - other developers are free to fork code and use a given codebase
  - users are free to use the code
  - … or not.

Please don't pander.  I am well aware of the above as I also develop a
bit of Free Software that is in Debian.

 You are free to choose whatever software fits you best. Your problem seems 
 that Debian won't ship KDE 3.5 because nobody (so far) is interesting in 
 doing the work. No ranting will change that (rather the opposite even).

Problem?  Sorry, no problem with Debian here from me.  How you have 
inferred such is interesting as I've made no comment regarding the
Debian KDE package team and their decisions (noting well that the team
has almost no choice but to package what upstream makes available as
current code).  I'm making comments about one version of KDE versus 
another which is the same regardless of the distribution.

 I see two paths you can take :
 
   * change DE and stop ranting

Sorry, bub, but you have me confused with someone else.  I am not
engaging in a rant of any sort but have merely stated my observations
from using various versions of KDE and how it works or doesn't *for me*
(I've noted that several times in this thread, in fact).  The fact that 
you obviously dislike reading my opinion doesn't mean I have to listen 
to you telling me to shut up about it.

   * contribute and change the situation

As a small time dev myself I can tell from that statement that you are
not one as that is the fastest way to discourage contribution from the
users of your software.  Any dev that does believe that is on the fast
track to irrelevancy,

 That's just IMHO.

Funny, my comments have been strictly about the software.  Your comments
have been strictly about *me*.  Interesting...

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Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-06 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2010 06 May 16:27 -0500, Facundo Aguilera wrote:
 El Jueves 06 Mayo 2010 18:01:42 Nate Bargmann n...@n0nb.us escribió:
  * On 2010 06 May 09:45 -0500, Facundo Aguilera wrote:
   El Jueves 06 Mayo 2010 10:22:09 Nate Bargmann n...@n0nb.us escribi?:
I'm tired of typing this time and again:

No speaker beep in Konsole--dev says, Too bad.
   
   Konsole - settings - notifications - bell in current session - run
   beep
   
   (aptitude install beep)
   
   Is this what you want?
  
  I have been doing that as a work-around which is not ideal as it is much
  slower than the PC speaker beep, especially for tab completion.  It
  seems to take some time to load between successive tab key presses.
  
  - Nate 
 
 If beep doesn't beep in your PC speaker, maybe the problem is your system 
 configuration.

It beeps.  It's just much slower than it was in Konsole of 3.5 or even
at the Linux console which makes it less than ideal.

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Re: KDE menu wierdness

2010-05-04 Thread Nate Bargmann
For some time I've been seeing an effect where clicking on the menu icon
in the panel will show the menu briefly.  The only way to keep it
visible is to click and hold down the mouse button while navigating the
menu.  I sure do miss the reliability of the menu in the 3.5 series.

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Re: Manually add Wine desktop files to K menu?

2010-01-15 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Kevin Krammer kevin.kram...@gmx.at [2010 Jan 15 05:38 -0600]:
 On Friday, 2010-01-15, Nate Bargmann wrote:
  Last year when I updated to KDE4 my Wine menu items disappeared.  One
  app exists and it was reinstalled a few months ago.  I have several
  Wine application .desktop files in ~/.config/menus/applications-merged/
  but it seems as though KDE doesn't find them.
 
 Hmm. there should only be .menu files in there.

You are correct, Kevin.  They are .menu files.  My mistake.

  Also, the various .desktop files exist in their own directories under
  ~/.local/share/applications/wine/Programs/ and KDE doesn't find those
  either.  Some of these programs were installed after KDE4 was installed
  but still don't show in KDE's Wine submenu.
 
 Can you check if the .menu files in the first directory do  reference these 
 .desktop files?

As near as I can tell, they do.

For example, I installed DisplaySet with Wine on both my laptop (which
is having the trouble) and my desktop.  On the laptop no menu entry
ever appeared while on the desktop a DisplaySet menu appears under the
Programs folder with two entries, DisplaySet and DisplaySet Help.

I've confirmed that identical files were installed on each machine with
one picking them up and the other not.  Not being clear on which file
to look for that controls all of this isn't helping.

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Re: Manually add Wine desktop files to K menu?

2010-01-15 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Kevin Krammer kevin.kram...@gmx.at [2010 Jan 15 07:20 -0600]:
 On Friday, 2010-01-15, Nate Bargmann wrote:
 
  For example, I installed DisplaySet with Wine on both my laptop (which
  is having the trouble) and my desktop.  On the laptop no menu entry
  ever appeared while on the desktop a DisplaySet menu appears under the
  Programs folder with two entries, DisplaySet and DisplaySet Help.
  
  I've confirmed that identical files were installed on each machine with
  one picking them up and the other not.  Not being clear on which file
  to look for that controls all of this isn't helping.
 
 This is a very useful hint though.
 My guess is that the binary cache usd by the KDE menu to speed up loading of 
 the menu entries has not been updated correctly.
 
 Try running kbuildsycoca4, probably with --noincremental and see if this 
 helps.

No change.  I tried running inside a Konsole and logging out of KDE and
ran it from a virtual terminal with X killed.

One thing I noticed is that the laptop had a ~/.menu directory that was
dated sometime in 2006.  I moved it out of the way as the desktop
machine didn't have that directory.  That made no difference either. 
However, that directory showed only the one installed wine app that
appears in the KDE menu.  Strange.

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Re: Manually add Wine desktop files to K menu?

2010-01-15 Thread Nate Bargmann
Following a suggestion of a thread about amarok not appearing in the
menu for another user, I tried the following:

$ kbuildsycoca4 --noincremental --menutest | grep wine
kbuildsycoca4 running...
KConfigIni: In file /usr/share/applications/wine-browsedrive.desktop, line 2: 
 Invalid escape sequence \ .
KConfigIni: In file /usr/share/applications/wine-browsedrive.desktop, line 8: 
 Invalid escape sequence \ .
Wine/Programs/Accessories/  wine-notepad.desktop
/usr/share/applications/wine-notepad.desktop
Wine/Programs/EZNEC/wine-Programs-EZNEC-EZNEC Demo v. 5.0.desktop   
/home/nate/.local/share/applications/wine/Programs/EZNEC/EZNEC Demo v. 
5.0.desktop
Wine/Programs/Morse Runner/ wine-Programs-Morse Runner-Morse Runner.desktop 
/home/nate/.local/share/applications/wine/Programs/Morse Runner/Morse 
Runner.desktop
Wine/Programs/DisplaySet/   wine-Programs-DisplaySet-DisplaySet 
Help.desktop
/home/nate/.local/share/applications/wine/Programs/DisplaySet/DisplaySet 
Help.desktop
Wine/Programs/DisplaySet/   wine-Programs-DisplaySet-DisplaySet.desktop 
/home/nate/.local/share/applications/wine/Programs/DisplaySet/DisplaySet.desktop
Wine/Programs/Ideal Industries/ wine-Programs-Ideal Industries-LANTEK 
Reporter.desktop  /home/nate/.local/share/applications/wine/Programs/Ideal 
Industries/LANTEK Reporter.desktop


Of these, only the Morse Runner app appears in my menu.  I don't know
if this is of any help or not.

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Re: Manually add Wine desktop files to K menu?

2010-01-15 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Kevin Krammer kevin.kram...@gmx.at [2010 Jan 15 07:20 -0600]:

 Try running kbuildsycoca4, probably with --noincremental and see if this 
 helps.

In another message I included the output of kbuildsycoca4.  On a whim,
I decided to move ~/.config/menus/applications-kmenuedit.menu out of
the way and then waited a bit for the menu to reload.  Whaddaya know, I
am seeing the Wine files kbuildsycoca4 reported that it found.

It remains to be seen if editing the menu with the menu editor will
break this again.

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Manually add Wine desktop files to K menu?

2010-01-14 Thread Nate Bargmann
Last year when I updated to KDE4 my Wine menu items disappeared.  One
app exists and it was reinstalled a few months ago.  I have several
Wine application .desktop files in ~/.config/menus/applications-merged/
but it seems as though KDE doesn't find them.

Also, the various .desktop files exist in their own directories under
~/.local/share/applications/wine/Programs/ and KDE doesn't find those
either.  Some of these programs were installed after KDE4 was installed
but still don't show in KDE's Wine submenu.

Any and all assistance is welcome.

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Re: KDE Support in Debian

2009-11-10 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Scott scle...@sgaming.ca [2009 Nov 10 07:31 -0600]:
   My question here is KDE well documented and stable on Debian?  I
 understand that Gnome is also the default desktop for Debian, but is KDE
 well supported?

It seems as well supported as any other package.  While there is a need
for limited Debian support, most of the support (documentation, forums,
etc.) come from upstream KDE resources.  Note also that if you install
Debian Stable you will be installing KDE 3.5.9 which the upstream KDE
project considers deprecated.  Fortunately it is very stable.

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Re: KDE Support in Debian

2009-11-10 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Jan De Luyck mailinglists+debiankde_20070...@kcore.org [2009 Nov 10 09:28 
-0600]:
 I'm using KDE4 on my sid (unstable) workstation and laptop without any KDE-
 related problems. 

This may be KDE or Debian related, but I know that on this T41 laptop I
cannot run full desktop effects with the latest Sid.  I use the Radeon
Xorg driver and when I select desktop effects all of the Plasma related
stuff on the screen is corrupted.  Meanwhile, I have Kubuntu 9.10
installed on another partition on this laptop and it absolutely rocks
with full desktop effects enabled--same hardware and Xorg driver.  

I'm not sure if the reason is simply the 2.6.31 kernel in Kubuntu
versus the 2.6.30 kernel in Sid or if the Kubuntu kernel has been
compiled with desktop support and Debian's has not.  Some time ago
after discussion on this list I filed a Debian bug wishlist report
asking for a Debian kernel with the desktop support enabled.  It was
closed as will not fix so if that is the difference, then that puts
Debian at a disadvantage on the desktop.

Whatever the reason while I can live without desktop effects, which
even when they worked in Sid were terribly slow, until something comes
along that requires its availability.

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Re: KDE Support in Debian

2009-11-10 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. b...@iguanasuicide.net [2009 Nov 10 15:41 -0600]:
 On Tuesday 10 November 2009 15:27:35 Nate Bargmann wrote:
  * Jan De Luyck mailinglists+debiankde_20070...@kcore.org
  [2009 Nov 10 09:28 -0600]:
   I'm using KDE4 on my sid (unstable) workstation and laptop without any
   KDE- related problems.
 
  This may be KDE or Debian related, but I know that on this T41 laptop I
  cannot run full desktop effects with the latest Sid.  I use the Radeon
  Xorg driver and when I select desktop effects all of the Plasma related
  stuff on the screen is corrupted.  Meanwhile, I have Kubuntu 9.10
  installed on another partition on this laptop and it absolutely rocks
  with full desktop effects enabled--same hardware and Xorg driver.
 
 Did you install the proper firmware package?  The firmware is arguably non-
 free, so it doesn't appear in Debian kernels.  It may appear in Ubuntu 
 kernels 
 because they take a different stance on such firmware.

I think so as I have the firmware-linux package installed which pulled
in firmware-linux-free and firmware-linux-nonfree.  Last I checked (it
was some time back) I think the Kubuntu installation has similar
packages installed.

  I'm not sure if the reason is simply the 2.6.31 kernel in Kubuntu
  versus the 2.6.30 kernel in Sid or if the Kubuntu kernel has been
  compiled with desktop support and Debian's has not.  Some time ago
  after discussion on this list I filed a Debian bug wishlist report
  asking for a Debian kernel with the desktop support enabled.  It was
  closed as will not fix.
 
 Yes, pending a formal vote, firmware without source code will not be added 
 back to the Debian kernel, and such firmware will be removed as bugs are 
 filed 
 against it.

Apples and oranges.  I did not ask for firmware, in fact this was
before certain firmware was placed into non-free as I recall. 
Searching I came up with:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=375845

as the report.  The actual closing report was that activating PREEMPT
support triggered a lot of bugs but the possibility was left open of
eventually enabling PREEMPT support.  There are a couple of lines with
PREEMPT in them that differ between the Sid kernel and the Kubuntu
kernel here most that Debian sets CONFIG_PREEMPT_NONE=y and Kubuntu
sets CONFIG_PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY=y (they are consectutive lines in the
config files).

 I agree with Debian's stance on the firmware issue.  Others may not, even if 
 they are similarly concerned with software freedoms in general.

So far it's not bothersome to me.

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Re: Is KDE sound daemon causing audio problems?

2009-11-05 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Xavier Vello xavier.ve...@gmail.com [2009 Nov 05 09:58 -0600]:
  I see no specific mention of ALSA in the system settings menu.  I
  noticed that my prefered sound card wasn't at the top of the output and
  input lists so I changed that.  In the Backend tab I only have Xine and
  Aptitude shows only gstreamer as an option.  Where else might I be able
  to ensure ALSA and not OSS is the prefered audio device?
 
 The tooltip on the devices explains what sound system it uses :
 http://alioth.debian.org/~wdgt-guest/pub/phonon_alsa.png

My tooltips match yours exactly.

 In fact, phonon uses xine for it's audio/video codecs. The output is 
 controlled by phonon itself (with the device preferences tab).

Is there a consequence to not having Pulse audio nor Jack installed,
which I don't?

Thanks!

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Re: Searchbar in Konqueror

2009-10-18 Thread Nate Bargmann
* George Kiagiadakis kiagiadakis.geo...@gmail.com [2009 Oct 18 02:35 -0500]:
 On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 5:15 AM, Nate Bargmann n...@n0nb.us wrote:
  On an off-chance I removed the Location bar from the address bar, but the
  search bar didn't show.  Sadly, the search bar is enabled in Konqueror
  in Kubuntu out of the box.  Somehow this should be possible on Debian
  as well.
 
 Works fine for me here. The search bar is part of the location bar, so
 make sure you have that (don't remove it). In all computers I have
 tried, just installing konq-plugins makes this bar show without having
 to do something else. I can't think of what could be wrong...

Location Bar is there (how elese could I browse the web besides
bookmarks?).  This is a system that was migrated using Kaboom and was
upgraded last week.  I wonder if there could be a bug due to the
migrated config files?

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Re: Searchbar in Konqueror

2009-10-18 Thread Nate Bargmann
* jedd j...@progsoc.org [2009 Oct 18 07:14 -0500]:
 On Saturday 17 October 2009 14:21:19 Nate Bargmann wrote:
  After a brief search I found that I needed to install the konq-plugins
  package for the searchbar extension which I did.  When I go to
  Settings|Configure Extensions the Search Bar plugin is shown as
  available and enabled.
 
  I'm guessing you've already tried to disable it, save, quit,
  come back, and re-enable it?

I had not but on your suggestion I gave that a try and it still didn't
appear.

  The function works fine here - FWIW - I've just enabled it again,
  immediately pops up on an Apply - and then disabled it.
 
  It's actually one of the first things I get rid of in any browser,
  but particularly konqueror where you have the far more powerful
  gg: shortcut.  Search bars just take up space that I can't spare,
  and limit me to one engine (compare my frequent usage of gg:,
  ud:, wp:, and so on).

I'm afraid that as I'd start using those I'd find that they won't work
in Iceweasel/Firefox or IE7 at work. Sigh...

  I'd suggest relocating your konquerorrc - while you're not logged
  into KDE of course - and seeing if the default instance you get on
  the next login plays nicer.

Just tried that.  No change.

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Re: Searchbar in Konqueror

2009-10-18 Thread Nate Bargmann
Apparently, I'm not the only soul seeing this as:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=550330

describes the same behavior I'm seeing.  So far no answer on a fix.

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Re: Searchbar in Konqueror

2009-10-18 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Xavier Vello xavier.ve...@gmail.com [2009 Oct 18 12:35 -0500]:
 Le dimanche 18 octobre 2009 17:51:55, Nate Bargmann a écrit :
  Apparently, I'm not the only soul seeing this as:
  
  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=550330
  
  describes the same behavior I'm seeing.  So far no answer on a fix.
 
 Hello
 
 I'm trying to reproduce the bug, but it works here with konqueror 4.3.2 and 
 konq-plugins 4.3.0. Can you please provide the output of dpkg -l | grep konq

Certainly!

Here it is:

$ dpkg -l | grep konq
ii  konq-plugins 4:4.3.0-1  
plugins for Konqueror, the KDE file/web/doc browser
ii  konq-plugins-l10n4:4.3.0-1  
plugins for Konqueror, the KDE file/web/doc browser (localisatio
ii  konqueror4:4.3.2-1  KDE 
4's advanced file manager, web browser and document viewer
ii  konqueror-nsplugins  4:4.3.2-1  
Netscape plugin support for Konqueror
ii  konquest 4:4.3.2-1  
simple turn-based strategy game for KDE
ii  libkonq5 4:4.3.2-1  
core libraries for Konqueror
ii  libkonq5-templates   4:4.3.2-1  
data files for the Konqueror libraries
ii  libkonqsidebarplugin44:4.3.2-1  
Konqueror sidebar plugin library
ii  mozilla-acroread 9.2-0.1
Adobe Acrobat(R) Reader plugin for mozilla / konqueror

Note that the mozilla-acroread package is from the
www.debian-multimedia.org repository.

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Searchbar in Konqueror

2009-10-17 Thread Nate Bargmann
After a brief search I found that I needed to install the konq-plugins
package for the searchbar extension which I did.  When I go to
Settings|Configure Extensions the Search Bar plugin is shown as
available and enabled.  When I go to Configure Toolbars, however,
Search Bar is not one of the available options either as a seperate
tool bar or as an option for an existing toolbar (I'd like to place it
to the right of the address bar as it used to be).

What am I missing?

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Re: Searchbar in Konqueror

2009-10-17 Thread Nate Bargmann
On an off-chance I removed the Location bar from the address bar, but the
search bar didn't show.  Sadly, the search bar is enabled in Konqueror
in Kubuntu out of the box.  Somehow this should be possible on Debian
as well.

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Re: KDE 4 simply broken

2009-05-15 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Marcus Better mar...@better.se [2009 May 15 04:11 -0500]:
 -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
 Hash: SHA1
 
 Nate Bargmann wrote:
  While I've been hit with some annoying bugs and a couple of lack of
  features like no system beep passed through Konsole, I've not seen the
  crashes.
 
 Wow, how did you do that? I get crashes several times a day from all over 
 the place.

I don't know.  I just use KDE as I always have.  That said, I primarily
browse with Iceweasel and that is about all I use this kaptop for
except reading usenet with Pan.  Once in a great while I'll fire up
Konqueror but I do keep a Konsole open with three tabs.  I even launch
Xscreensaver instead of using the KDE one.

  Perhaps that has more to do with your video driver and
  kernel.
 
 I doubt it. I've filed a lot of crashes upstream and they are real. On the 
 bright side, they are getting fixed quite rapidly so I'm optmistic.

Other than Kwin, I'm probably not actually touching KDE all that much. 
The reason I started using it full time was its integration with
hotplug devices such as insertion of a USB pen which wasn't handled at
all by IceWM at the time.

One thing I did was move my ~/.kde directory out of the way after it
seemed Kaboom did nothing useful for me and reset my few
customizations.

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Re: KDE 4 simply broken

2009-05-14 Thread Nate Bargmann
While I've been hit with some annoying bugs and a couple of lack of
features like no system beep passed through Konsole, I've not seen the
crashes.  Perhaps that has more to do with your video driver and
kernel.  Other than KDM refusing to start since upgrading to KDE4,
after installing kernel 2.6.29-2 the video stuff was much improved (I'm
using the Radeon driver).

At the risk of starting a flame war, it seems as though some of GNOME's
philosphy has rubbed off onto the KDE devs.  They now seem to worry
about confusing and too many options and seem intent on following
GNOME's path toward dumbing down the interface.  If both major desktops
head off in that direction it may be time to look for a third option.

On my main workstation I still run KDE 3.5.10 and even though it is
Sid, it hasn't been updated for several months and it's running just
fine.  I'm keeping Sid current on a T41 laptop and will only update the
desktop once I feel KDE4 is ready for my prime time.  In fact, I still
have OOo Calc 2.3 installed on this machine as some later version
screwed up the sorting rather badly.

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Bug#526403: konsole: PC speaker beep is not passed from Bash through Konsole

2009-04-30 Thread Nate Bargmann
Package: konsole
Version: 4:4.2.2-1
Severity: normal


The PC speaker style beep seems to no longer be available through Konsole.
Playing a sound file is too slow for tab completion and other instances
where Bash generates the ASCII Bell character (Ctl-G).  In Konsole 1.6.6
(KDE 3.5.10) the bell is played as expected while in Konsole 2.2.2
(KDE 4.2.2) the bell is mute.  No configuration of Konsole was ever required 
to play the ASCII Bell character in the past.

The lack of the Bell character creates a severe limitation on feedback
from the shell for various tasks.

- Nate 

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Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.29-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages konsole depends on:
ii  kdebase-runtime   4:4.2.2-1  runtime components from the offici
ii  kdelibs5  4:4.2.2-2  core libraries for all KDE 4 appli
ii  libc6 2.9-7  GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libqt4-dbus   4.5.1-1Qt 4 D-Bus module
ii  libqtcore44.5.1-1Qt 4 core module
ii  libqtgui4 4.5.1-1Qt 4 GUI module
ii  libstdc++64.3.3-8The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libx11-6  2:1.2.1-1  X11 client-side library
ii  libxrender1   1:0.9.4-2  X Rendering Extension client libra

konsole recommends no packages.

konsole suggests no packages.

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Re: Configuration tips requested

2009-04-28 Thread Nate Bargmann
* emikaadeo emikaa...@gmail.com [2009 Apr 28 01:36 -0500]:
 Joseph Rawson wrote:
 
  * No Web search bar in Konqueror to the right of the address bar.
 
  I think that this functionality has been split to a separate package, but
  I can't remember the name of it.
 
 It's konq-plugins

Thanks!  I should have checked Aptitude for recommended packages.

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Re: Configuration tips requested

2009-04-28 Thread Nate Bargmann
* mariusz marszek_...@wp.pl [2009 Apr 28 08:35 -0500]:
 
 
  * The middle mouse button doesn't open a link in a new tab in Konqueror.
 
 You have to disable Konqueror Gestures in systemsettings. It should help.

Ahhh.  That strikes a second one off my list.  Disabling gestures was
hardly intiutive.

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Re: ATI, KDE and the last Kernel

2009-04-23 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Guan de dio guan.de...@gmail.com [2009 Apr 22 13:35 -0500]:
 Hi everybody,
 
   Today I upgrade my lapto form KDE 4.1 to KDE4.2.2.
   The performance is better than KDE4.1, not only fixing bug this KDE is
 more quickly in my laptop :) thanks for the big effort.
 
   I ony has a small issue.
 
My laptop has a ATI card (X600 Radeon), after the ugrading (KDE + Kernel)
 I lost the desktop effect.
If I download the frimware file that it is necesary  with the new kernel
 (R300_cp.bin). If I perform glxgear in a konsole I can watch the gears, but
 the glxinfo shows that the render is OFF.

I found a similar issue, see:

http://wiki.x.org/wiki/radeon%3Ar6xx_r7xx_branch

and

http://bugs.debian.org/523385

I skipped the step of changing to the experimental driver and found
that the driver works very well but crashes the kernel (2.6.29 Debian)
when X is exited.  The latest Xorg Radeon drivers depend on kernel
driver support from the forthcoming 2.6.30 kernel.  Apparently the
Ubuntu folks have backported the kernel drivers to their 2.6.28 kernel
and while desktop effects work in Jaunty, they are much slower on my
machine than the rebuilt drivers are with Debian 2.6.29 on my machine.

My xorg.cong is very brief having been generated by `dpkg-reconfigure
xserver-xorg' and I am running a Thinkpad T41 with a Radeon Mobility
M7W chipset.

- Nate 

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Re: My experience upgrading to KDE4

2009-04-11 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Sune Vuorela nos...@vuorela.dk [2009 Apr 11 02:02 -0500]:
 On 2009-04-11, Nate Bargmann n...@n0nb.us wrote:
  Well, I took the plunge today upgrading to KDE4.  I've tracked Sid for
  several years and never has it broken like today.  :-D
 
 Your breakage doesn't sound like being much KDE4 related, but general
 lots of things happens in debian unstable, sometimes stuff
 break-related.

This just seems to be more radical than at most times in the past. 
I'll post my experiences in case someone else can benefit.  I'm a
master at taking the wrong road and then backtracking.  :-)

 You read about the splashy issue. Xorg vs hal also.

After removing splashy Aptitude finished the upgrade without an error. 
Hal seems to be working fine and Xorg is mostly working fine except for
what seems to be an occasional hang.

 You either need desktop-base or you need to purge desktop-base.

I installed it and KDM came up working.  Now, it seems to be hit or
miss, mostly miss, whether it will work on a system start.  After the
last system restart I got dumped to a shell prompt and running startx
failed.  It turned out that my almost ten year old ~/.xsession file was
getting in the way by calling IceWM programs that were no longer on my
system!  I've been using XDM/KDM for many years now.  Cruft is an
interesting thing with interesting consequences.

Phonon gave me no sound and it claimed my sound device was broken (or
some such language) while Audacious played just fine so the
hardware/ALSA stuff was working.  I installed the Xine backend for
Phonon and now KDE sounds are working just fine and I purged the
Gstreamer backend.  However, in Konsole all Bash beeps seem to be
suppressed.

Lastly, I cannot for the life of me figure out how to tell the panel to
only show the windows in a given desktop and not all at once.  I know
it's doable as I configured it that way on my Kubuntu installation.

Also, KDE4 is much faster on my Debian installation than on my Kubuntu
installation and I think the reason is that on the Debian side
compositing is disabled and something is preventing it from working. 
Meanwhile glxinfo says direct rendering is enabled.  This is on an IBM
T41 laptop with a Radeon Mobility M7 graphics chipset.

I installed Kaboom and perhaps it migrated more settings than it seems,
but most of my KDE3 customizations seemed to have been lost.  Still the
migration was probably as painless as could be expected.

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My experience upgrading to KDE4

2009-04-10 Thread Nate Bargmann
Well, I took the plunge today upgrading to KDE4.  I've tracked Sid for
several years and never has it broken like today.  :-D

Installation of the mysqld package is hopelessly broken and hangs, only
Ctl-C will break out of the install script.  A number of packages
complain about hal not being configured.  Such is the fun of the new
Free Desktop.

I found kdm wouldn't start and the Debian User list recommended
installing the desktop-base package which I did and now KDM starts, but
I have no keyboard or mouse!  I can't even get to a shell prompt.  I
guess the joke's on me.  Fortunately, I have a boot menu option for a
shell prompt so I can fix things as I receive advice.  I guess the
first order of business is fixing hal, but I don't see a bug that
discusses a broken upgrade yet.  Perhaps I need to remove it and
reinstall it.

Fortunately, this is my test laptop so I'm not experimenting on
something that matters at the moment.

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Re: My experience upgrading to KDE4

2009-04-10 Thread Nate Bargmann
According to bug #523187, apparently the splashy package was preventing
invoke-rc.d from being able to stop/start packages.  Once I purged
splashy, mysql-server-5.0, hal, and all the other recalcitrant packages
installed.

Now KDM balks at startup occasionally.  If I can get it to a shell
prompt I can use the `startx' command and once I exit KDE4, then KDM
will start.  Go figure.

At least I'm now at a place where I can work again.

Just from the first few minutes, the desktop response seems faster than
Kubuntu 9.04.

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Re: KDE 4.2 in unstable _NOT YET__

2009-03-18 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Fathi Boudra f...@debian.org [2009 Mar 17 07:52 -0500]:
  I rely on WLAssistant for my WiFi connection management.  I understand
  that it becomes obsolete under KDE4.  Is there a planned replacement or
  will I be forced to use Network Manager or some other scheme?
 
 there's plasma-widget-networkmanagement package.
 At the moment, it's in NEW queue:
 http://ftp-master.debian.org/new/plasma-widget-networkmanagement_0.1~svn926306-1.html
 
 I use it and it works fine.

Thanks for the tip, Fathi.

I presume a lot of this will get moved into Unstable once KDE4 moves
in.  This is one of those show stoppers that will cause me to put
KDE3 in hold status for a while.

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Re: KDE 4.2 in unstable _NOT YET__

2009-03-18 Thread Nate Bargmann

* Bernard Gray bernard.g...@gmail.com [2009 Mar 18 19:01 -0500]:
  Thanks for the reply, Bernard.
 
  I used to use wpasupplicant and that is what finally drove me to
  wlassistant so I could choose among APs manually.  I realize Debian
  relies on configuring the network stack without reliance on a GUI and I
  too use ifplugd for my wired Ethernet interface.
 
 wpagui provides the missing gui tool to provide this manual choosing
 functionality. It has received some major work in the last 6 months or
 so to make it better suited to this purpose (sys tray applet etc)
 
 Might be worth a revisit?

Quite likely.  Thanks.

It has been a few years since I last used wpasupplicant.

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Re: KDE 4.2 in unstable _NOT YET__

2009-03-16 Thread Nate Bargmann
I rely on WLAssistant for my WiFi connection management.  I understand
that it becomes obsolete under KDE4.  Is there a planned replacement or
will I be forced to use Network Manager or some other scheme?

- Nate 

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Re: The kde team solution is not work well, i think so

2008-01-16 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008 Jan 16 21:17 -0600]:
 On Jan 15, 2008 4:32 AM, Nate Bargmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  Have you read Aaron Seigo's blogs on this topic?  There is a reason
  they believe they had to do it now otherwise KDE 4.0.0 would remain an
  ongoing Beta much like the GNU HURD.  Some things just don't happen
  until there is an actual .0 release.  Friday's release has set a lot of
  good things in motion that wouldn't have happened, even though they
  readily admit that it is not feature complete and buggy.
 
 What's so special about turning over the odometer prematurely that
 couldn't have been accomplished better with a freeze?

Ask them.  I was just relaying some things I'd read over the past
month.

- Nate 

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Re: The kde team solution is not work well, i think so

2008-01-15 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008 Jan 15 02:21 -0600]:
 On Jan 14, 2008 1:09 AM, Ritesh Raj Sarraf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  BasaBuru wrote:
 
   Please dont send a private mail, we loss information
  
   I'm use a sid/experimental Debian
 
  You should have read Ana's announcement email.
  Second, what is in Experimental is not for general user.
  If you are using something from experimental, you know what you are doing.
 
  I'm using KDE4 right now (from experimental) and it works good.
 
 I'm not sure it works well yet, but not by any fault of the DDs.  I
 think the upstream KDE team was quite premature in calling it stable
 given some relatively basic stuff like configuring the panel are still
 missing.

Have you read Aaron Seigo's blogs on this topic?  There is a reason
they believe they had to do it now otherwise KDE 4.0.0 would remain an
ongoing Beta much like the GNU HURD.  Some things just don't happen
until there is an actual .0 release.  Friday's release has set a lot of
good things in motion that wouldn't have happened, even though they
readily admit that it is not feature complete and buggy.

I accept their explanation at face value.  I can play with 4.0.0 via
live CD distributions and when it stabilizes I'll look forward to
seeing it in Sid.  Until that point, perhaps 4.1.x or even 4.2.x, I'm
not quite ready for it to replace 3.5.8, at least just yet. Kernel
2.6.x was out almost two years before I began using it on a daily
basis.

The state of F/OSS software is much better now than a decade ago when I
made the commitment to Linux full time.  My thanks to all involved for
a decade Microsoft Free!

- Nate 

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Re: KDE for Etch

2007-11-08 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Tomas Nykung [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007 Nov 08 03:34 -0600]:

 Download the iso whose name ends with kde-CD-1.iso (or xfce-CD-1.iso
 if you want xfce installed by default) and install from that.
 (For the newcomers: you just need the first CD, the rest is
 automatically installed over the net, so no need to download all the
 21 iso files :)

That's good to know.

I had bought DVD ISOs from a 3rd party and don't recall a choice of DE.
Ordinarily I would have chosen Net install, but I was going to update
some machines whose only access is dialup.  Since they already had KDE
installed, the upgrades went off without a hitch.

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Re: KDE for Etch (updates on the website)

2007-11-08 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Ana Guerrero [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007 Nov 08 07:10 -0600]:
 
 Hi,
 
 After read the last thread I have added to the pkg-kde's website a brief 
 howto about get KDE on Debian easily:
 
 http://pkg-kde.alioth.debian.org/installkdedebian.html
 
 Suggestions/patches/english fixes are welcome.

That looks very good, Ana.  The only downside I see is that the page
may not be easy to find,  There is mention of the boot option in the
Installation Manual:

http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch06s03.html.en#di-install-software

which I, of course, don't bother to look at since I've been using
Debian for 8+ years.  :-)

However, having to perform the procedure on the page linked above
really makes it seem like KDE is a second class citizen (I don't want
to start or further a flame warm, it's just an observation).  For as
good as the Etch installer is, when it gets to the taskselect stage,
not having a choice of desktop-kde, desktop-gnome (default),
desktop-xfce, etc. seems like quite an oversight.

 We try to put all the information related to KDE on Debian there, but there is
 stuff we procrastinate to publish... 

Thanks for the work the KDE team does.  I, for one, really appreciate
it.

- Nate 

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Re: KDE for Etch

2007-11-07 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Curt Howland [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007 Nov 07 15:25 -0600]:
 -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
 Hash: SHA1
 
 On Wednesday 07 November 2007, Thierry Chatelet was heard to say:
  If it's a new install he could re-install going to expert with the
  following: expert tasks=standard, kde-desktop
  he then will have an install with only KDE.
  If he doesn't want to re-install he can run:
  tasksel install kde-destop
  Thierry
 
 It's too bad that the option to install KDE is so far back from the 
 point of obvious choice, and that the only place I've seen 
 the expert tasks=standard, kde-desktop is in posts telling me, 
 now Philip, what we should have done.

That was the only thing I groused about when Etch was released as I did
a couple of practice installations.  The consensus over on Debian-User
seemed to be that no real problem exists since a working (open to
interpretation, I guess) GUI was installed.  Installing KDE was easy
enough for me since I'm quite familiar with Aptitude.  Ridding the
system of GNOME to recover space was not so easily accomplished.

The argument went that *something* had to be the default and since
Debian had committed to GNOME years back, it was the default.  Others
cited confusion on the part of a newbie presented with a choice. 
Yeah, right.  Newbie selects Debian out of a few hundred distros and
only *then* during installation is confused by a choice?  :-D

I guess the standard answer is to file a bug report.

 Until tasksel has desktop-Gnome and desktop-KDE as separate 
 options, I will be stuck with seeminglt endless dselect sessions.

Egad, I haven't touched dselect in *years*.  I use Aptitude in
interactive mode (which I gather a lot of other people don't do since I
see references to its commandline invocations).

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Re: KDE4 beta4 live CD

2007-11-01 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Fathi Boudra [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007 Nov 01 03:11 -0500]:
 Hi,
 
 Thanks to the efforts of the Debian Live project, we have created live CDs 
 with current KDE4 beta4 for i386 and amd64 architectures:
 
 http://pkg-kde.alioth.debian.org/kde4livecd.html

Nice preview in qemu,  Now I need to try it on some real hardware. 

Thanks!

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Re: libgtk2.0-0 and flashplugin-nonfree

2007-09-29 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Benjamí Villoslada [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007 Sep 29 08:19 -0500]:
 From one week ago, the libgtk2.0-0 upgrade (Sid) freezes Konqueror when this 
 browser opens Flash contents: nspluginviewer goes to 100% CPU consumption.
 
 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=440165
 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=443399
 
 The solution was downgrade libgtk2.0-0:
 
 $ sudo aptitude install libgtk2.0-0=2.10.13-1
 
 but now is not possible this downgrade because GIMP and Iceweasel needs the 
 last libgtk2.0-0.
 
 Any workaround?

I simply disabled plugins globally.  :-(

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Odd behavior, multiple menu and toolbar entries

2007-08-28 Thread Nate Bargmann
This has been vexing me for several months.  I have used KDE on my
desktop machine for about two years and it has been Sid the whole time
and upgraded from somewhere in the 3.4 days to 3.5.7.

Some time back I noticed that some applications would show duplicate
menu entries, as though the entire menu was repeated.  In other apps,
or maybe the same one, a menu in the menu bar will be lost or say No
Text! and in some cases the menu will be empty.  Some apps have
toolbar button entries duplicated as well.  I've noticed Konqueror and
KControl affected.

Also, I can't keep KOrganizer from starting.  It is disabled each time,
but right clicking on it shows the Reminders Enabled unchecked but
the Start Reminder Daemon at Login is checked each time.  Even if I
uncheck the latter option and stop the daemon, it will startup on the
next login.

I renamed my ~/.kde directory temporarily and that solved the
KOrganizer issue, but the odd menu and toolbar issues remained.  This
is truly odd, unless some old config file didn't get purged in /etc and
that is causing my issues.

Maybe a year back I tried purging the entirety of KDE and starting over
with no change of the results.  I've got this thing configured as I
like it and I really don't relish the idea of starting over.

Ideas?

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Bug#439411: kdelibs4c2a 4:3.5.7.dfsg.1-6 is unavailable on i386

2007-08-26 Thread Nate Bargmann
Package: kdelibs4c2a
Version: 4:3.5.7.dfsg.1-5
Followup-For: Bug #439411


I just performed an update and kdelibs4c2a 4:3.5.7.dfsg.1-6 is shown as
UNAVAILABLE in aptitude for the kdelibs 4:3.5.7.dfsg.1-6 package.  Looking 
at the experimental pool I see that 4:3.5.7.dfsg.1-6 is available for amd64, 
arm, hppa, ia64, and s390, but 4:3.5.7.dfsg.1-6 for i386 and several other 
architectures is absent.

I am still getting the failed to start kstartupconfig message upon KDE
start.

- Nate 

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Debian Release: lenny/sid
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  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

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Panorama scannind with Kooka?

2007-03-06 Thread Nate Bargmann
I really like Kooka and it works flawlessly.  I want to do something
extra.

I am trying to scan a two-page advertisement from a magazine with my
flatbed scanner.  I have no problem with selecting one page at a time,
but does Kooka support scanning a page and then a second so that the
two are merged side-by-side?

I tried Hugin, but I'm not an image geek so spending days learning to
tweak it for a one-off scan merge is not in my schedule (my attempt
came out horribly distorted on the righ side).

Thanks!

- Nate 

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Re: Konqueror cannot connect to local LAN IP address, firefox (and others) can

2006-07-30 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Gerrit Jan Baarda [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006 Jul 30 07:49 -0500]:
 On Saturday 29 July 2006 11:58, Josep Febrer wrote:
 
  Have you tried to disable IPv6 for Konqueror?
 
  To do it you just have to export this variable:
 
  export KDE_NO_IPV6=true
 
  To make it permanent across reboots, you can insert that line
  on /etc/environment
 
 Thanks, unfortunateley, this also made no difference.

Since you're forcing HTTPS, is it possible that there is some problem
with the SSL certificates?  (I don't know and I've already offered more
than I know.  :)

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Re: Konqueror cannot connect to local LAN IP address, firefox (and others) can

2006-07-27 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Gerrit Jan Baarda [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006 Jul 27 13:19 -0500]:
 Hi all,
 
 I have a strange problem on my notebook running unstable. For some time, I 
 cannot access my router web interfaces with konqueror, it complains cannot 
 connect to 192.168.xx.xx when I enter an URL https://192.168.xx.xx in the 
 location box. 

Is it really https?  Maybe it needs http initially.  The two protocols
use different ports AIUI.  How about if you just type in the address
without http[s]:// preceding it?

- Nate 

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Re: Multi-tasking

2006-06-28 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Leopold Palomo Avellaneda [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006 Jun 28 06:53 -0500]:
 A Dimecres 28 Juny 2006 12:54, Anders E. Andersen va escriure:
  Matej Cepl skrev:
   on the background. Whenever I run something more complicated in Linux
   (gcc, update of slocate dbase), whole computer goes almost to halt (and
   it is not that bad computer -- Dell Inspiron 2200 notebook w/ Celeron
   1.4GHz, 512MB RAM). I believe that Linux should have perfect
   multi-everything, but apparently there is some problem with my
   configuration.
  
   Can anybody kick me in the right direction?
 
  Pretty much the only thing that comes to my mind is if you are running a
  kernel that has been compiled with the 'preemptible kernel' option.
 I think that's not right, 
  Without a preemptible kernel, the desktop experience is not as good.
 
 Desktop -- preemtive
 Server -- no preemtive 

Okay, so my stock Debian kernel config shows the following:

CONFIG_PREEMPT_NONE=y   
# CONFIG_PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY is not set   
# CONFIG_PREEMPT is not set 
# CONFIG_PREEMPT_BKL is not set 

So, I presume they are not compiled for desktop use then?  Has anyone
filed a wishlist bug to get a set of kernels that are pre-emptive?

- Nate 

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Re: Re: Multi-tasking

2006-06-28 Thread Nate Bargmann
 So, I presume they are not compiled for desktop use then?  Has anyone
 filed a wishlist bug to get a set of kernels that are pre-emptive?

I filed a wishlist bug against linux-source-2.6.17 so we shall see what 
happens.

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Re: Re: Multi-tasking

2006-06-28 Thread Nate Bargmann
 So, I presume they are not compiled for desktop use then?  Has anyone
 filed a wishlist bug to get a set of kernels that are pre-emptive?

I filed a wishlist bug against linux-source-2.6.17 so we shall see what 
happens.

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Re: Re: Multi-tasking

2006-06-28 Thread Nate Bargmann
 So, I presume they are not compiled for desktop use then?  Has anyone
 filed a wishlist bug to get a set of kernels that are pre-emptive?

I filed a wishlist bug against linux-source-2.6.17 so we shall see what 
happens.

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Re: Re: Multi-tasking

2006-06-28 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Matej Cepl [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006 Jun 28 15:02 -0500]:
 Nate Bargmann wrote:
  So, I presume they are not compiled for desktop use then?  Has anyone
  filed a wishlist bug to get a set of kernels that are pre-emptive?
  
  I filed a wishlist bug against linux-source-2.6.17 so we shall see what
  happens.
 
 And if they add to this version of kernel also suspend2 patch and call it
 desktop (or laptop) I could abstain from compiling my own kernel.
 
 What is the number of the bug?

375845  Here is the report:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=375845

- Nate 

P.S. Those other two duplicates were me trying to get kmail working with
Firefox...  Don't ask!

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Re: Changing konqueror menu font size.

2006-06-08 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Glenn Meehan [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006 Jun 08 19:37 -0500]:
 Hi,
 
 The menu font size in konqueror is about 15 this is too big and I would
 like to reduce it down to font size 10. I am also using
 gnome-settings-daemon. I am running at a resolution of 1024*768. All of
 my fonts in control center are set to 10. 
 
 How do I change the konqueror menu font size?

Have you tried kcontrol?

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Re: Changing konqueror menu font size.

2006-06-08 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Glenn Meehan [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006 Jun 08 22:03 -0500]:
 On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 21:36 -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote:
  * Glenn Meehan [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006 Jun 08 19:37 -0500]:
   Hi,
   
   The menu font size in konqueror is about 15 this is too big and I would
   like to reduce it down to font size 10. I am also using
   gnome-settings-daemon. I am running at a resolution of 1024*768. All of
   my fonts in control center are set to 10. 
   
   How do I change the konqueror menu font size?
  
  Have you tried kcontrol?
 
 kcontrol just loads the control center, so in effect I have tried it. I
 am running etch and kde 3.5. It has been a while since I have done an
 apt-get upgrade.

Okay then.  I just read a reference to GNOME and I know that kcontrol
has a global font selection screen for KDE apps.

Carry on.

- Nate 

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Re: New update, new fonts

2006-05-24 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Grégoire Druant [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006 May 24 04:08 -0500]:

 How can I know what dpi is set on my system ?

xdpyinfo | grep resolution

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Re: New update, new fonts

2006-05-23 Thread Nate Bargmann
* D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006 May 22 18:05 -0500]:
 On Monday 22 May 2006 4:32 am, Grégoire Druant wrote:
 
  I have the same problem, and thanks for your solution, it works.
 
  But what's strange is that my wine fonts are bigger than before, whatever
  the hinting style is set to.
 
  Does anybody have an idea ?
 
 Did it perhaps have something to do with the recent change in X that caused 
 the window system to report the actual dpi of your display, instead of 
 picking either 75x75 or 100x100?  That changed a lot of my font sizes in 
 strange ways, because my real resolution is 83x82 or something like that, and 
 I had had it at 100x100 before.
 
 Just a thought.

I was already using display size and on this 1280x1024 display the font
size is 95x95.  I found that when configuring the anti-aliasing in KDE
Control Center and resetting the Excluded Range did help.  I think it is
set to 8 to 15 pt and even though the selection is greyed out, checking
it and resetting the values to 1 to 6 restored AA on the smaller fonts I
encounter on the Web.

- Nate 

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Re: pmount/hal/usb issue

2006-05-17 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Robert Gomu?ka [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006 May 17 17:09 -0500]:

 Sad to hear that it's not something obvious and/or trivial.
 Yes, I am a member of plugdev group.
 And I have 2.6.14 kernel. I am not going to upgrade it in the near future, so 
 I'm stuck with manual operating for now...
 I can't see any clues in xsession-errors file.

I couldn't find any clues either in any log files.  Whatever the failure
is it is apparently silent.  This is where it's good to have two
machines that I can track Sid slightly differently and why I have
Slackware, KANOTIX, and anything else that strikes my fancy installed in
another partition on my laptop.  Often by comparing differences I can work 
through a problem.

Good luck!

 Thank you for your answer.

You're welcome.

- Nate 

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Re: pmount/hal/usb issue

2006-05-15 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Robert Gomu?ka [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006 May 15 13:23 -0500]:
 Hello,
 I remember a discussion some time ago here about behaviour of KDE after 
 inserting e.g. USB stick. I cannot find it now and I'm not sure if this issue 
 is relevant, so don't bite me in case of redundant post.
 Problem: I insert (plug) USB stick. Dialog box appears (what to do). I 
 choose upload pictures to digikam (yes, those were pictures in fact).
 Then digikam cannot download the pictures. I go to /media and cannot see any 
 directories under it. Then I do pmount /dev/sda1 and digikam is happy (yes, 
 previously it wanted to download pictures from the same, right location). 
 Which part of customization am I missing? What should I do - report a bug or 
 just set up something?

I just wrestled with this over the weekend and today.  Firstly, I
presume that your user is a member of the plugdev group?  If not, it
needs to be added.  

Second, I had been unable to convince KDesktop or Konqueror that the USB
device was in fact being mounted by pmount (as the output of mount showed 
and I could access the drive with Midnight Commander).  I had everything up 
to date from Sid and still no joy.  This morning I installed Linux image 
2.6.16 and whadda-ya-know, everything works fine.  I had been running
2.6.14 since January or so.

Since udev, dbus, and hal are involved and closely related to the
kernel, there was probably some caveat somewhere that I didn't find that
warned about this very thing.  It was strange that the device was being
mounted correctly under /media, but KDE was never getting the message.
I couldn't find any remarkable configuration between my Sid partition
and a recently installed Kanotix version from mid April 2006.

HTH,

- Nate 

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Re: Konqueror's location toolbar jumps to the first row

2006-02-06 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Alejandro Exojo [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006 Feb 06 03:56 -0600]:
 Hi.
 
 I'm recently noting something weird with the location toolbar in konqueror. 
 When I open a new konqueror, I have two rows of toolbars; the first with the 
 previous, next, up, etc. buttons, and the second with the location 
 toolbar.
 
 But if I maximize the window, the location row is merged with the above one 
 (like firefox), and I'm unable to put it again in a second row.
 
 I think this happens since I upgraded kdebase to 3.5.1. Anyone can confirm 
 it, 
 please?

I went into customize toolbars and removed the merge button or
function and it removed the duplicate toolbar functions.

- Nate 

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Window mini-icon (kwin)

2006-01-28 Thread Nate Bargmann
This is probably a silly (read obvious) question, but how does one change
or specify the mini-icon of windows kwin only uses the generic X for? 
I've Googled and read some KDE docs, but I've not figured out the
answer.  I use several apps, Mutt in a xterm and xfte that I would like
to use their icons on their respective windows.

Ideas?

- Nate 

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Re: Akregator does not update feeds after Etch to Sid upgrade

2005-12-18 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Olivier Trichet [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005 Dec 18 13:53 -0600]:
 
 It seems that the 3.4 version introduces an option which askes if you want 
 to use the cache or not (before, it was using the konqueror's setting).
 So go in configuration--general--network and uncheckes use cache.

That seems to have fixed my problem.

Thanks much.

- Nate 

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Akregator does not update feeds after Etch to Sid upgrade

2005-12-17 Thread Nate Bargmann
I've been using Akregator for a few weeks on a laptop that has been
running Sid for a few months.  The first version of KDE installed on it
was 3.4.x.  

Since I like Akregator and since the migration of KDE 3.4.x into Etch
is taking some time, I upgraded this box to Sid on Thursday evening and
starting using Akregator.  After yesterday and into this morning, it
was obvious that the feeds are not being updated.  I deleted all of the
Akregator config fils from my home directory and added all of my feeds
again.  After an initial load of feeds from the various sites, they
have not updated all afternoon even though Firefox shows that feeds
like Slashdot have updated.

Is anyone else seeing this?  Any troubleshooting ideas?  Can this in
some way be related to upgrading from KDE 3.3 to 3.4?

- Nate 

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Re: KDE 3.5 Release Candidate 1 packages available on alioth

2005-11-30 Thread Nate Bargmann
With the announcement that KDE released 3.5 yesterday, does this mean
that the packaging work of 3.5RC1 will cease immediately and attention
will turn to 3.5?  If so, is there a chance that 3.5 will make it into
Unstable by Christmas?  :-)

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Re: KDE 3.5 Release Candidate 1 packages available on alioth

2005-11-30 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Josh Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005 Nov 30 16:48 -0600]:
 On Wednesday 30 November 2005 03:47 pm, André Wöbbeking wrote:
  On Wednesday 30 November 2005 20:26, Josh Metzler wrote:
   On Wednesday 30 November 2005 02:17 pm, Yves Glodt wrote:
why not stop wasting resources and halt work on 3.4.3 and go with
3.5 immediately, anyway etch will come with 3.5 I guess... no?
  
   The release team asked us not to do that.  They want the g++
   allocator transition to go quickly, which means not uploading major
   new versions of large packages like KDE.
 
  But for the g++ allocator transition all KDE packages must be updated
  anyway. Now you want to update all KDE 3.4 packages to update them some
  days later again with 3.5 packages. Isn't that more work than to go to
  3.5 directly?
 
 It is more work for us, but not too much.  It is basically just running a 
 couple of scripts and then rebuilding each package, as KDE 3.4.3 was 
 already packaged for experimental, and not much has changed since then.
 
 The release team is concerned with both the transition in unstable, and the 
 transition in testing.  The concern is that uploading KDE 3.5 to unstable 
 right now might cause a longer delay in getting the g++ allocator 
 transition (which affects much more than just KDE) into testing.  The 
 release team doesn't want unstable-testing migrations to stop for any 
 longer than is necessary.  Hopefully the transition will go quickly and KDE 
 3.5 can go into unstable soon.

Thanks for the update, Josh.  I shall be patient although this C++
thing is getting on my nerves!

- Nate 

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Re: KDE 3.4 Update

2005-11-18 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Tatu Portin [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005 Nov 18 15:40 -0600]:
 I understand that while the ABI transformation from vers. 1 to version 
 2 is in progress, you cannot successfully update whole KDE system. I 
 tried with aptitude, but some programs would be left broken because 
 they don't yet have newer versions available in testing.
 
 Does anybody know, how long the transformation is going to take?

In Unstable it was several weeks, at least a month, before most of the
packages made the transition.  For some reason, since everything was
now working in Sid, I thought that it would all dump into Etch at once.
Apparently, this is not the case so I would expect the same time table.

Except for k3b the deleted packages didn't affect me.  I'm getting by
with XCDRoast which must now use GTK2 since my KDE fonts and style were
active in it.  Yea!

- Nate 

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Bug#338968: kmail: KMail uses ~/Mail on first run without informing user

2005-11-13 Thread Nate Bargmann
Package: kmail
Version: 4:3.3.2-3
Severity: wishlist


I have been a long term Mutt user and have stored my mail in ~/Mail 
which is apparently special to KMail (unbeknownst to me until today).   
I opted to use KMail today for a second POP account and noticed it  
took a long time to open and once it did all of my current Mutt folders 
were displayed.  Worse yet, it created several new directories under
~/Mail and reset all of the access times on the Mutt folders which  
really messed up Mutt's ability to tell me of new mail for a time.  

At the very least, KMail should notice when it is run for the first 
time that ~/Mail already exists (especially if KMail's private  
directories are not yet created) and prompt the user whether to use 
~/Mail or offer to create a new directory and warn the user of the  
consequences.   

KMail should not assume that it is the only mailer used.  Right now the 
only way I can use KMail is to rename ~/Mail to something else and  
reconfigure Procmail and Mutt.  

- Nate

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Versions of packages kmail depends on:
ii  kdelibs4  4:3.3.2-6.1KDE core libraries
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ii  libgcc1   1:4.0.2-2  GCC support library
ii  libice6   6.8.2.dfsg.1-7 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libkcal2a 4:3.3.2-3  KDE calendaring library
ii  libkdenetwork24:3.3.2-3  KDE Network library
ii  libkdepim14:3.3.2-3  KDE PIM library
ii  libkleopatra0a4:3.3.2-3  KDE GnuPG interface libraries
ii  libkpimidentities14:3.3.2-3  KDE PIM user identity information 
ii  libksieve04:3.3.2-3  KDE mail/news message filtering li
ii  libmimelib1a  4:3.3.2-3  KDE mime library
ii  libpng12-01.2.8rel-1 PNG library - runtime
ii  libqt3c102-mt 3:3.3.4-3  Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v
ii  libsm66.8.2.dfsg.1-7 X Window System Session Management
ii  libstdc++51:3.3.6-7  The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libx11-6  6.8.2.dfsg.1-7 X Window System protocol client li
ii  libxext6  6.8.2.dfsg.1-7 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii  perl  5.8.7-6Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  xlibs 6.8.2.dfsg.1-7 X Window System client libraries m
ii  zlib1g1:1.2.3-4  compression library - runtime

Versions of packages kmail recommends:
ii  kdebase-kio-plugins   4:3.3.2-1  KDE I/O Slaves
ii  kdepim-kio-plugins4:3.3.2-3  KDE pim I/O Slaves
ii  procmail  3.22-11Versatile e-mail processor

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Re: KDE and IPv6

2005-11-07 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Kevin Krammer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005 Nov 07 16:44 -0600]:
 On Monday 07 November 2005 22:34, Curt Howland wrote:
  On Monday 07 November 2005 16:21, Kevin Krammer was heard to say:
   did you write
   ftp://::192:168:1:20/
 
  Actually, what I wrote was ftp://corwin6/
 
  With /etc/hosts:
  ::192:168:1:20 corwin6
 
  But I also did try the addressing as you suggest. No difference.
 
 Hmm.
 
   Googling brought some URLs in this form
   ftp://[::192:168:1:20]/
 
  Let me see... Nope. could not connect to host ::192:168:1:20
 
 Yeah, sorry.
 IPv addresses are in hexadecimal notation, so this is a very different 
 host ;)
 
 I think a valid appreviation is
 ::192.168.1.20
 some kind compatability mode
 
 or
 ::C0A8:0114

Well, ipv6calc shows me:

ipv6calc --ipv4_to_6to4addr 192.168.1.20
2002:c0a8:114::

Not that I understand IPV4 to IPV6 conversion or anything, but I'm not
sure if the 2002 at the head of the output is significant or the double
colons at the tail.

I wonder if IPV6 is going to actually happen.  I read somewhere in the
past couple of days (might have been a Slashdot post :-/ ) that IPV6 is
overkill and some are proposing a reassignment of sorts for IPV4
addresses.  Personally, I like the dotted quad notation of IPV4 over
the MAC address like format of IPV6 and I'm still getting used to
seeing adjaceant colons.

- Nate 

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Re: Using reportbug with kmail

2005-11-07 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Ana Guerrero [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005 Nov 07 21:28 -0600]:

  PS: I do not want (although I know how) to configure exim because there is
  no easy way out: only with TLS and authentication. Both is a pain to hack
  into the exim configuration. Additionally, I do not want to save the
  password as clear text in the exim configuration.
 
 Yeah, i understand you.
 A fast solution is execute reportbug and when you get the mail ready to send, 
 cut and paste it in kmail, then, send it to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

I threw out Exim about a year ago and setup esmtp which is quite small,
easy to configure (five or six lines a couple of which are optional),
works with Procmail, and works with Mutt and reportbug.  Exim is
overkill when esmtp works just fine for me.

- Nate 

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Re: usb storage problems

2005-09-18 Thread Nate Bargmann
I had a similar question maybe ten days ago and it is now working
flawlessly.  I have:

Linux 2.6.12
udev
pmount
hal
KDE 3.4.2

All I had to do was configure the desktop and select Behavior then the
Device icons tab and enable Show device icons.  From there I selected
the ones I want to show.  My CDs and DVDs appear as well as my USB
stick and camera (USB mass storage).  None of them mount automatically
which is what I prefer as it is easy enough to right click the icon and
mount the device.

This functionality rocks!

- Nate 

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Re: usb storage problems

2005-09-18 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Henk Loke [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005 Sep 18 15:28 -0500]:
 
 There is no need to right click, (double) left click and it gets mounted and 
 opened automagical...

True, but I don't normally use Konquerer.  I'm still a Midnight
Commander fan.

- Nate 

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Re: Thanks

2005-09-16 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Jean-Damien Durand [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005 Sep 16 05:00 -0500]:
 Hmmm, I have not seen many messages to thank you all very much for the big
 efforts concerning kde packages following the g++ + xorg transitions, and
 that was a big task for sure - in summer in addition!
 So here we go - as many other users I have successfully upgraded (never mind
 for the very few remaining packages not yet transitionned - that will come),
 and all looks so good that I wanted to say so on that list...
 Well done;
 Cheers, JD.

Add my second as thanks to the team.  I transitioned to 3.4.2 a bit
over a week ago and it has been a typically smooth Debian upgrade. 

Your hard work is much appreciated.

- Nate 

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Removable media icon(s) on desktop?

2005-09-07 Thread Nate Bargmann
Hi All.

I transitioned to KDE 3.4.2 yesterday evening (I just couldn't wait
anymore) on my Sid partition--so far very good!  Based on my limited 
experience with KNOPPIX 3.9, I know that KDE can dynamically add an 
icon to the desktop when a memory stick or other USB mass-storage 
device is inserted.

I installed the dbus, hal, and pmount packages and Konquerer
dynamically displays icons for my memory stick and camera upon
insertion and removal.  Now, I would like these icons to pop up on the
desktop instead of just in Konquerer.  I know KNOPPIX does some
interesting stuff with UNIONFS and I'm not sure if that is involved
here.

Also, it seems as though Konquerer uses an internal mount point as I
was unable to find a traditional mount point with the mount command. 
How then might I be able to access the device such as through Midnight
Commander?

Thnaks!

- Nate 

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Re: Removable media icon(s) on desktop?

2005-09-07 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Jan De Luyck [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005 Sep 07 13:03 -0500]:
 On Wednesday 07 September 2005 19:40, Sven Krahn wrote:
  Hi Nate -
 
   I installed the dbus, hal, and pmount packages and Konquerer
   dynamically displays icons for my memory stick and camera upon
   insertion and removal. Now, I would like these icons to pop up on the
   desktop instead of just in Konquerer. I know KNOPPIX does some
   interesting stuff with UNIONFS and I'm not sure if that is involved
   here.
 
  just recently I figured that out for myself and documented it for my files.
  Have a look here:
  http://www.svenkrahn.de/linux/my_debian/ar01s03.html#d0e659
 
  Based on hal, udev, and hotplugging I use the usb-storage script of hotplug
  to copy the icons on my Desktop (on plugin of camera, stick etc.) and
  remove the icon upon unplug. This even allows me to display different
  icons, e.g. camera, USB stick, external drive.
 
 Weird. I didn't have to do any of this - i just have the packages installed 
 (hal/udev/dbus/...) and KDE automagically pops up an icon if i plug in my 
 stick, and removes it when i remove it.

Jan, did you have an earlier version of KDE installed?  Or did you just
install it from the 3.4.2 packages within the past day or so?  I wonder
if there is some configuration issue here.

- Nate 

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Re: Removable media icon(s) on desktop?

2005-09-07 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Sven Krahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005 Sep 07 12:42 -0500]:
Hi Nate -
 
  I installed the dbus, hal, and pmount packages and Konquerer
  dynamically displays icons for my memory stick and camera upon
  insertion and removal.  Now, I would like these icons to pop up on the
  desktop instead of just in Konquerer.  I know KNOPPIX does some
  interesting stuff with UNIONFS and I'm not sure if that is involved
  here.
 
just recently I figured that out for myself and documented it for my
files. Have a look here:
http://www.svenkrahn.de/linux/my_debian/ar01s03.html#d0e659

Thank you, Sven.

Very nicely done.  I will definitely give your pages some serious
study.

- Nate 

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Re: Removable media icon(s) on desktop?

2005-09-07 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Jan De Luyck [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005 Sep 07 13:48 -0500]:
 On Wednesday 07 September 2005 20:37, Nate Bargmann wrote:
 
   Weird. I didn't have to do any of this - i just have the packages
   installed (hal/udev/dbus/...) and KDE automagically pops up an icon if i
   plug in my stick, and removes it when i remove it.
 
  Jan, did you have an earlier version of KDE installed?  Or did you just
  install it from the 3.4.2 packages within the past day or so?  I wonder
  if there is some configuration issue here.
 
 I've been a steady upgrader, now coming from the alioth 3.4.1 packages. The 
 only things i can see is that I have enabled Show device icons and checked 
 all the devices listed in the list below. They show up when I plug them in.

Yeah, whaddayaknow!  I got back to my laptop and found that option as
well.  Everything works perfectly.  D'oh!!

Thanks for all the info everyone.

- Nate 

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Bug#324867: KPPP should direct user to /usr/share/doc/kppp/README.Debian

2005-08-24 Thread Nate Bargmann
Package: kppp
Version: 4:3.3.2-6
Severity: wishlist


In the default configuration of both kppp and pppd, kppp will fail with the
following mysterious output:

Aug 24 09:17:06 localhost pppd[10347]: The remote system is required to 
authenticate itself
Aug 24 09:17:06 localhost pppd[10347]: but I couldn't find any suitable secret 
(password) for it to use to do so.
Aug 24 09:17:06 localhost pppd[10347]: (None of the available passwords would 
let it use an IP address.)

In the lower pane of the window titled kppp's diagnosis (just guessing):
it says, Unable to provide help.  At the very least, it would be
useful for kppp to direct the user to /usr/share/doc/kppp/README.Debian 
for an explanation of the (likely) problem.


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Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-686
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages kppp depends on:
ii  kdelibs44:3.3.2-7KDE core libraries
ii  libc6   2.3.5-4  GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libgcc1 1:4.0.1-6GCC support library
ii  libqt3c102-mt   3:3.3.4-3Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v
ii  libstdc++5  1:3.3.6-9The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  ppp 2.4.3-20050321+2 Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) daem

kppp recommends no packages.

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Bug#324867: acknowledged by developer (closing bugs due to pre-announced gcc transition)

2005-08-24 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Debian Bug Tracking System [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005 Aug 24 13:53 -0500]:
 This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report
 #324867: KPPP should direct user to /usr/share/doc/kppp/README.Debian,
 which was filed against the kppp package.
 
 It has been closed by one of the developers, namely
 Josh Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED].
 
 Their explanation is attached below.  If this explanation is
 unsatisfactory and you have not received a better one in a separate
 message then please contact the developer, by replying to this email.
 
 Debian bug tracking system administrator
 (administrator, Debian Bugs database)
 
 Most of kde is uninstallable in sid right now due to the gcc transition.
 
 Read this mail for more info:
 
  http://lists.debian.org/debian-kde/2005/08/msg00089.html
 
 I'm closing these bugs.
 
 Josh

When would be a good time to go to the trouble of resubmitting the bug
(assuming I don't forget about it)?

- Nate 

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