Re: [kde] Kontact unable to create calendar
On Sunday 02 Mar 2014 09:50:09 huw wrote: On Saturday 01 Mar 2014 12:52:11 Kevin Krammer wrote: Hmm. Settings menu in the top menu bar has an entry Configure KOrganizer (or similar, translating from a German localized oned). It opens a settings window that has a General section. In that I have four tabs, the last one is labelled Calendar It list both of my two calendar sources and it has a three buttons, one labelled Add... Through that I get a list of possible calendar backends, one of the being ICal file. Selecting that lets me choose a .ics file as the calendar source. Help - About Kontact says Kontact shell 4.11.5 Debian unstable, but there might be a newer version in the archives now. Cheers, Kevin I seem to be on a really old version! That must be the reason. I wonder why that is - SolydXK is supposedly based on Debian Unstable, but Synaptic is not showing any updates for the Kontact suite. Hmm. I'll have to try installing a newer version somehow, but that's something I'll ask the distro's community about. Thank you, Kevin, for pointing me in the right direction, I appreciate it. (Incidentally, I'm not seeing my own messages to this mailing list for some reason) Kind regards, Huw I solved this, by the way. It turns out that the version of Kontact (and Kmail) I was using didn't have some kind of kdepim groupware metapackage installed. That also meant that it somehow doesn't use Akonadi; I thought that wasn't possible? Anyway, now I have the proper calendar application and I have been able to import my old calendar after a bit of fiddling with Akonadi's resource settings (which no ordinary desktop user should be expected to mess with in my opinion). Kmail still isn't using Akonadi for some reason, and that's absolutely fine with me, since Akonadi is the cause of nearly every bug I've ever had with Kmail. Kind regards, Huw ___ 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] FTP with different timezone on the server
Hi list Does anyone know of a way to tell the FTP KIO that the FTP server has a different timezone in place? My problem is with a webhoster’s FTP server which runs on UTC, so everytime I upload a file, it “ages” by one or two hours, depending on DST (I’m on GMT+1). For that reason I can’t use krusader’s sync feature (and probably any other sync tool like rsync) if I don’t want to upload all files every time. Can you recommend any solution? Thanks. -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla’ Please do not share anything from, with or about me with any Facebook service. while (!asleep()) ++sheep; signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ 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.
Re: [kde] copnfiguring KDE shutdown to be immediate
Kevin Wilson posted on Sat, 08 Mar 2014 18:16:16 +0200 as excerpted: When I go to the shutdow menu of KDE an press it, it waits 30 seconds (counting backwards) How can I copnfigure KDE so that shutdown will be immediate? kde system settings, system administration, startup and shutdown, session management. At the top under general, UNCHECK confirm logout. Alternatively, setup a keyboard shortcut for it. That /should/ be in kde system settings, shortcuts and gestures, global keyboard shortcuts, I think under session manager or the like, but I'm running kde4-live- sources, which ATM is what will be 4.13, and I don't seem to see it there ATM and I can't find it under options like kwin either. But from memory that's where it is. There should be a without confirmation or without delay option there. Here I set that to ctrl-alt-del quite some time ago, but I believe the default is ctrl-alt-shift-del, and ctrl-alt-del is I think the default shortcut for logout /with/ confirmation. Anyway, tho I can't find the config for it ATM, my setting still works, and that's what I normally use instead of the menu option. =:^) -- 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.
Re: [kde] copnfiguring KDE shutdown to be immediate
On Saturday 08 March 2014 18:16 Kevin Wilson wrote: Hello, When I go to the shutdow menu of KDE an press it, it waits 30 seconds (counting backwards) How can I copnfigure KDE so that shutdown will be immediate? Eh. click on Turn off computer in the popup? Or you will have to be more specific. I guess you mean something like System Settings=Startup and Shutdown=Session Management. You know you can open System Settings and search for the settings. A search for Shutdown would have highlighted the entry. -- Med venlig hilsen / Best Regards Thomas Tanghus ___ 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.
Re: [kde] Kontact unable to create calendar
On Saturday 08 Mar 2014 21:43:03 Duncan wrote: FWIW, that's almost certainly why you were using such an old version. Kmail 1, as shipped with early kde4, wasn't akonadified yet. Kmail2 is the akonadified version, and first shipped with kdepim 4.6, tho kdepim version numbers weren't synced with the monthly kde releases until 4.7, and upstream support for kdepim 4.4 continued thru kde 4.7 and some distros continued to ship it for 4.8 as well. After 4.8 however, while a few distros continue to ship the old kdepim 4.4 in ordered to avoid the akonadification and yours is apparently one of them, it has gotten increasingly difficult to do so as kdelibs and etc move on and various minor bits break, plus it's old enough now few people consider it in support contexts any more, thus the situation we saw here. Anyway, if you're actually using the event calendar and etc, then a newer kdepim may eventually make sense for you, particularly a later one like kde 4.12, since (they claim, I won't touch kdepim at all these days so I wouldn't personally know) many of the bugs have been worked out by now, and the kdepim suite integration akonadi makes possible can be considered a bonus in that situation. But it still doesn't make sense for the people who pretty much only used kmail, and for whom the rest of the groupware is simply bloatware. That's why many of us have moved to other solutions. I and others have been quite happy with the gtk-based claws-mail (the migration was a pain but I've been very happy I did it), and others have switched to thunderbird. I've seen a few that switched to evolution, but since that's basically groupware too, particularly for people who prefer to stick with a kde desktop in general, that's a lot of extra bloat too, since it brings in much more of gnome. It raises a question in my mind. I will probably sound like yet another whiner and I'm sure it's been said before on this list, but why oh why have the KDE devs persisted with Akonadi? I know that I'm far from alone in having experienced multiple issues with it, when Kmail1 worked just fine. There's just bug after bug after bug, problem after problem. Every solution, every temporary workaround, has involved fiddling deep within config files for this most maligned of daemons. I strongly doubt they've had a single email from someone thanking them for the life-saving addition of this problematic, hellish...whatever Akonadi is. What benefit has it brought anyone? I've often criticised the Gnome team since Gnome 3.x for trying to make too many decisions for the users, but KDE's insistence on Akonadi makes me look rather hypocritical. With regard to groupware - apparently, wanting mail + calendar puts me in the category of people who need groupware. So be it, but again I have to ask why Akonadi is a must. Thunderbird apparently manages to integrate mail + calendar quite well. Whenever I've had a problem with Kmail I've switched to Thunderbird temporarily and always been quite pleased with it. However I'm something of a KDE fanboy - despite its ongoing issues - and I actually /want/ the semantic desktop experience or whatever they're calling it. Here's an example: the system clock, sitting right there in my systray. I /like/ that I can click on it and bring up a little calendar that has integrated perfectly with my Kontact calendar. Anyway. I just clicked About, and apparently I'm using Kmail 1.13.7 on KDE development platform 4.12.1, so it looks like SolydXK is managing to bundle Kmail1 rather than Kmail2. As long as they can keep it working, I'll be grateful. Akonadi seems capable (thus far) of handling my calendar, but the longer I can keep my mail out of its satanic clutches, the happier I will be. Huw ___ 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.
Re: [kde] Kontact unable to create calendar
On Saturday 08 March 2014 22:52 huw wrote: but the longer I can keep my mail out of its satanic clutches, the happier I will be. Do you really think your BS will encourage the developers to iron out the remaining bugs? Don't bother answering - it was a rhetorical question. -- Med venlig hilsen / Best Regards Thomas Tanghus ___ 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.
Re: [kde] Kontact unable to create calendar
On Sunday 09 Mar 2014 01:49:01 Thomas Tanghus wrote: On Saturday 08 March 2014 22:52 huw wrote: but the longer I can keep my mail out of its satanic clutches, the happier I will be. Do you really think your BS will encourage the developers to iron out the remaining bugs? Don't bother answering - it was a rhetorical question. Thanks for your fascinating contribution to the discussion. As a user, giving feedback and filing bug reports is all I can do, yes? Or would you prefer I sit quietly and just accept every single decision that's made for me, ignoring all the problems? Kindly keep the mailing list free of your idiocy in the future. Thanks. Huw ___ 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.
Re: [kde] FTP with different timezone on the server
On 2014-03-08 22:12 (GMT) Duncan composed: (There is one additional caveat, however. I've been all freedomware for over a decade so I haven't the foggiest if this still applies or not, but at least MS Windows 9x assumed the hardware clock was local time, and dual boots would thus have the time N hours off on the MS Windows side if you had the hardware clock set to UTC. One would hope they've fixed that by now, and of course it doesn't apply if you're not dual booting, but years ago at least, it was a problem with dual boot installations.) https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Configuring_the_clock is one place that explains how Vista SP2 and newer Windows versions can use a registry hack that enables use of UTC. AFAIK, DOS, XP older Windows versions, and OS2/eCS are all hard core local only. I'm frequently frustrated by the lasting inexplicable effect of the one hour DST changes on files transferred between Linux and eCS. I can reduce the effect by umounting eCS shares in Linux and shutting down eCS right before the clock change, but it only helps, is not a full cure those hours gained or lost copying or moving files across the network. -- The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive. Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ ___ 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.
