[kde] Does kate have an auto-replace function, perhaps a plugin
Can kate do auto-replacement? I don't mean auto-completion, but something along the lines of bash aliasing. If activated in the windows text editor I used, pressing any word boundary key caused the editor to check the immediately preceding word against its abbreviations list and replace any such abbreviation with its expanded form. ___ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
[kde] Re: Can I build the latest version of KDE on Redhat 6?
Mark London posted on Tue, 05 Jul 2011 20:22:42 -0400 as excerpted: Is it possible to build the latest version of KDE on Redhat 6, using the KDE sources? I started to do so, and then saw it needed the latest version of QT, so I would have to build that also. Thanks. - Mark Check the threads started by David Doria on June 17, Building kdelibs, then later Building DBusMenu-Qt, and then on the 21sth, PKG_CONFIG_PATH Question. He's on RHEL 5.6, and only needed kdelibs and then parts of kdedevel (IIRC), not all of kde. However, if he can get it building on 5.6, surely you can on 6.x, and once kdelibs is built, I believe you've solved most of the hardest dependencies already. Yes, you'll need to build Qt too. He needed to build a lot more, but you will probably already have the minimum required versions of some of the stuff he built so won't have to, since you're on 6 and he was on 5.6. But even with qt built he ran into a lot of problems with missing packages and the like that Kevin and I helped him work thru, and his persistence apparently paid off eventually. Reading thru those threads should give you a preview of what lies ahead if you try that route, tho as I said you're on 6 so it won't be /quite/ so bad. I know the list archives are available on gmane.org (as gmane.comp.kde.general) as I do this list thru their list2news server, but they have it in web form as well. I believe kde has the official list web archives, of course, and I think there are a couple other sites that have them too. So you should be able to find those threads one one or the other web archives even if you just joined the list and therefore don't have back that far, yourself. Alternatively, you may be able to get many of the packages you need as prebuilt rpms from rpmfind.net. (FWIW, I'm on Gentoo now, but used rpmfind quite regularly years ago when I was on Mandrake.) Probably Fedora rpms will be closest to RHEL, and if they need other things updated too, you should be able to pull the fedora rpms for those things too. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master. Richard Stallman ___ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
[kde] Another Dolphin failing
Hi . Just had to rescue a friends netbook running opensuse 11.3 and kde 4.6.0 32 bit he managed to get a lot of it right but pointed out a failing with Dolphin a set as wall paper function when you right click on an image something i believe that windBloWs already does cant say from first hand knowldge cus i aint a windBloWs person It would be a nice touch esp for the not so knowledgeable users. Pete . -- Powered by openSUSE 11.3 (x86_64) Kernel: 2.6.34.8-0.2-desktop KDE Development Platform: 4.6.00 (4.6.0) 14:47 up 1 day 23:50, 4 users, load average: 0.10, 0.16, 0.17 ___ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
[kde] Re: Another Dolphin failing
On mercredi 06 de juillet 2011 15:52:05 Peter Nikolic wrote: Hi . Just had to rescue a friends netbook running opensuse 11.3 and kde 4.6.0 32 bit he managed to get a lot of it right but pointed out a failing with Dolphin a set as wall paper function when you right click on an image something i believe that windBloWs already does cant say from first hand knowldge cus i aint a windBloWs person It would be a nice touch esp for the not so knowledgeable users. Pete . Hi, Please use punctuation, it will make your posts a lot easier to read. You can set an image as wallpaper by simply dragging the icon anywhere on the desktop. For now it is not possible to change the wallpaper using a remote call (dbus). The configuration module and the dragdrop are your only options for now. Martin ___ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
[kde] Re: Another Dolphin failing
On Wednesday 06 July 2011 19:00:59 Martin Bednár wrote: On mercredi 06 de juillet 2011 15:52:05 Peter Nikolic wrote: Hi . Just had to rescue a friends netbook running opensuse 11.3 and kde 4.6.0 32 bit he managed to get a lot of it right but pointed out a failing with Dolphin a set as wall paper function when you right click on an image something i believe that windBloWs already does cant say from first hand knowldge cus i aint a windBloWs person It would be a nice touch esp for the not so knowledgeable users. Pete . Hi, Please use punctuation, it will make your posts a lot easier to read. You can set an image as wallpaper by simply dragging the icon anywhere on the desktop. For now it is not possible to change the wallpaper using a remote call (dbus). The configuration module and the dragdrop are your only options for now. Martin ___ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html. Hi . Ok so you can just drag an image onto the desktop and it becoms the wallpaper Ok just tried that on this version of kde which i believe is the same great Thanks .. Pete . -- Powered by openSUSE 11.3 (x86_64) Kernel: 2.6.34.8-0.2-desktop KDE Development Platform: 4.6.00 (4.6.0) 19:17 up 2 days 4:20, 4 users, load average: 0.25, 0.14, 0.10 ___ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
[kde] Re: KDEPIM 4.6 prob^Wimpressions
A little update on the KDEPIM situation. Kontact sort of works now, but it feels slower than before. Even changing between Kontact's different modules is slower now. I think about not using Kontact at all, but its individual components, with their windows grouped together (a really cool feature of KDE4 which I often use). Well, it's not _really_ bad, switching takes 1-2 seconds, but it used to be instantaneous before, and I like to quickly peek into Akregator and back to see if there are new messages. Kontact's summary shows an over-due to-do item, but when I click on it, the to-do list is empty. Probably a migration problem, but why does it show up in the summary then? But I did not use this feature much, so I don't care about the lost entries. Quite often an IMAP folder still shows unread mails when I already had read them all. Selecting another folder and again the one with the unread mails usually fixes this. What I liked about the old KMail was that I could open folders in tabs. The problem with this was that folders opened in tabs did not get checked for new mail, I hoped this would be fixed. But it seems this feature is gone now. I wanted to see if distribution lists work with the new Kontact - they did not with the old one, a mail to TESTGROUP would not go to the email addresses of this group's members, but TESTGROUP@myserver.mydomain. But when I open the address book and enter a new group, the new KMail does not know about this group and will not autocomplete. Seems like KMail does not know about any of my contacts. I do not understand at all how this works. I still have the contacts in my address book, so the migration has worked for them, but when I open the settings, they show the location as ~/.kde4/share/apps/kabc/stdvcf, and this directory is empty. So all this stuff is in Akonadi's mysql database now? What's the purpose of this empty directory? When moving messages from my inbox to another folder, they often (but not always) still show up, but grayed out. I already know this behavior from some other mail clients I tried, except for the old KMail and Thunderbird, it can be fixed by logging into my IMAP server and running mutt. When quitting, I am asked whether to purge the deletes messages. I wonder what I could do if I had not shell access to the server. Today I unsubscribed from the ubuntu-users list which I do not read anyway, and because of the 250M this folder takes on the IMAP server, I decided to delete it. I also wanted to verify if bug 239859 still happens, KMail used to crash when deleting IMAP folders while still having it open. Well, what do you think happened? Right, Kontact took ages deleting this, became unresponsive, after half an hour I killed the process. akonadi_imap_re still was quite busy. When starting Kontact again, a composing window with an unfinished mail opened, but not the main window. So I killed Kontact again. I stopped the Akonadi server, restarted it, and now Kontact was working again. Again, I tried to delete the huge mailing list folder, and this time I waited for about two hours. Kontact was still usable, but very slow, and the KMail part did not display mails. akonadi_imap_re used about 40% of CPU resources, having an accumulated total time of an hour now. This process uses a lot of CPU resources even when I do nothing with Kontact, same goes for mysql. Finally, I got an error message, the folder could not be deleted. So I deleted it with Thunderbird, which did the job in seconds. KMail still showed the folder and its contents, but after a restart it is finally gone. Sometimes I get notifications like this from my IMAP server: server: Saving failed, server replied: A015537 BAD Invalid system flag \RECENT. This just happened when changing into a folder that has a new mail. This morning, I had some similar message, but it told me about some conflicting flags on the IMAP server, and asked whether to keep version A, version B or both. I was in a hurry so I did not notice what the problem was exactly. I think I kept both. Now, when I select this folder again, I get this message, every time: server: Remote id is empty or invalid. And the folder has no entries. Restarting KMail and Akonadi does not help. At least I can still view it with Thunderbird. Oh, and after this last restart, the folder view shows one unread mail in the drafts folder. When I select this folder, there is only one mail, grayed out, it's the former draft of this mail I am just composing now. There are other drafts, but they only show up in Thunderbird, not in KMail. I logged out and in, and now my drafts are back. The other folder is still empty, but I do no longer get the 'Remote id is empty or invalid' when selecting it. Wow, this became longer than I thought. Now I just read that KDEPIM 4.6.1 has been released, let's see if this will improve things, I guess Gentoo will have it soon. If not, I will delete my account
[kde] Re: KDEPIM 4.6 prob^Wimpressions
Alex Schuster posted on Thu, 07 Jul 2011 02:33:56 +0200 as excerpted: A little update on the KDEPIM situation. Kontact sort of works now, but it feels slower than before. Even changing between Kontact's different modules is slower now. I think about not using Kontact at all, but its individual components, with their windows grouped together (a really cool feature of KDE4 which I often use). Well, it's not _really_ bad, switching takes 1-2 seconds, but it used to be instantaneous before, and I like to quickly peek into Akregator and back to see if there are new messages. FWIW, I use neither grouped windows (which don't seem to work with my chosen window decoration, kde2) nor kontact. I don't use knode or korganizer at all (along with kontact, not installed at all, except that korganizer is a gentoo dep of kmail, as covered earlier in the discussion, so it's installed), tho I do use kmail and akregator... but as separate apps, generally opening the one I want from its tray icon. So I won't say anything about kontact/korganizer/knode. And no IMAP, they're all POP3 (plus a sysmail local maildir folder), so I won't say anything about imap. What I liked about the old KMail was that I could open folders in tabs. The problem with this was that folders opened in tabs did not get checked for new mail, I hoped this would be fixed. But it seems this feature is gone now. The feature isn't dead, just resting! =:^) Really. Unlike the parrot, you can wake this one up (or resurrect it, if you prefer! =:^). I didn't initially see the tabs either, and might have concluded they were gone, but remember, the initial version of the new kmail was designed to be very close to feature parity with the old one, no fancy new features yet, just something very similar to the old one, but akonadified. And tabs are a big enough deal to some that I couldn't imagine them trying to bill a no-tabs version as feature parity. The answer, at least here, is to remember that in the conversion, some of the config might have been lost, too, and in this case, apparently was. I had the tab-bar set to always show, previously, and when you mentioned it and verified I didn't see it, I decided to check kmail settings. Sure enough, I found the option I was looking for there in short order. As I expected, it's under the appearance icon. Look on the message list tab, second option down under General. There it was, hide tab bar when only one tab is open was checked. After unchecking it and hitting apply, the old and familiar tab bar was visible once again, complete with the new-tab icon on the left and the close-tab icon on the right. But as I said I don't do IMAP, so haven't the foggiest if the tabs work with it, tho I don't see why they wouldn't. After figuring out about the tabs, I checked the other settings and had to reset a few more, too, all under the appearance icon, I think. Seems like KMail does not know about any of my contacts. I do not understand at all how this works. I still have the contacts in my address book, so the migration has worked for them, but when I open the settings, they show the location as ~/.kde4/share/apps/kabc/stdvcf, and this directory is empty. So all this stuff is in Akonadi's mysql database now? What's the purpose of this empty directory? mysql? That could well be your problem, both here and for some of the others. But there's other alternatives. See below. Today I unsubscribed from the ubuntu-users list which I do not read anyway, and because of the 250M this folder takes on the IMAP server, I decided to delete it. I also wanted to verify if bug 239859 still happens, KMail used to crash when deleting IMAP folders while still having it open. Well, what do you think happened? Right, Kontact took ages deleting this, became unresponsive, after half an hour I killed the process. akonadi_imap_re still was quite busy. [etc] Finally, I got an error message, the folder could not be deleted. So I deleted it with Thunderbird, which did the job in seconds. KMail still showed the folder and its contents, but after a restart it is finally gone. At least part of this is very likely mysql. The problem, IMO, is that while mysql might be a very reasonable backend for professional database administrators who have the knowledge to set it up correctly, it's altogether unsuited for ordinary users, who would vastly prefer that it just work, without them having to set it up for best performance, etc -- which mysql pretty much requires. Further, it's not a one-time thing, either. Due to mysql's version incompatibility policies, there's also potential format update issues, etc, every time a user upgrades from one stable series to the next. This sort of thing is NOT something even most non-database-oriented /technical/ users (like us, running kde on gentoo) wish to have to deal with, let /alone/ the average just so it works user. Since we're both
