plasma5 install removes kontact

2015-08-01 Thread Rob Brewer
I installed kde-plasma-desktop today with synaptic on sid and plasma seemed to be working OK until I carried out a dist-upgrade which seems to have removed kontact. All my attempts to re-install kontact seem to result the error "Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages". Any

Re: plasma5 install removes kontact

2015-08-01 Thread Rob Brewer
Diederik de Haas wrote: > On Saturday 01 August 2015 20:42:57 Rob Brewer wrote: >> I installed kde-plasma-desktop today with synaptic on sid and plasma >> seemed to be working OK until I carried out a dist-upgrade which seems >> to have removed kontact. >> >&

Re: plasma5 install removes kontact

2015-08-01 Thread Rob Brewer
Gary Dale wrote: >> > I do not recommend using sid packages if you aren't comfortable with > losing packages, data, etc.. Stick to the stable or testing branches > instead.Testing is fairly recent but with the advantage that the > packages have passed some basic testing so they should work with t

KDE Pim 17.08.3 wants to remove knode

2017-12-25 Thread Rob Brewer
I'm aware its been some time since knode has been supported but until to- days kdepim unstable upgrade knode has worked alongside kmail without problems, but now want's to remove knode. As I read all my mailing lists through a mail2news gateway (including this one) and numerous other newsgroups

Re: KDE Pim 17.08.3 wants to remove knode

2017-12-27 Thread Rob Brewer
Sandro Knauß wrote: > Hey, > > well knode is not shipped anymore form upstream, so it will only be a > "temporally" solution. It got unmantained, because nobody cared about the > program anymore. So if you are interested in that software upstream is > happy tp get new maintainers... Me also as pa

Re: KDE Pim 17.08.3 wants to remove knode

2018-01-04 Thread Rob Brewer
Pino Toscano wrote: > On martedì 26 dicembre 2017 10:49:12 CET Pino Toscano wrote: > > After the uploads I did yesterday, I see that knode should be > installable again together with the rest of kdepim. Can you please > confirm the same as well? > Many thanks Pino after yesterdays upgrade I w

Re: KDE Pim 17.08.3 wants to remove knode

2018-01-04 Thread Rob Brewer
Pino Toscano wrote: > Some of these (dolphin4, kdepim-doc, libkc*, libqmobipocket1) are old, > and should appear in the > The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer > required: section in the output of apt. Can you please paste/attach the > full outputs of > - LANG=C ap

Re: KDE Pim 17.08.3 wants to remove knode

2018-01-04 Thread Rob Brewer
Pino Toscano wrote: > Hmm, I fear I might have accidentally broken it -- can you please run > as root: > > # ln -s libkdexoauth2.so.3 > # /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/sasl2/libkdexoauth2.so > > then restart akonadi, and see whether the gmail IMAP account works > again? > Yes it's working again no

Re: KDEPIM 17.12: pane that show message structure missing?

2018-04-12 Thread Rob Brewer
Xavier Brochard wrote: > Le jeudi 12 avril 2018, 09:33:43 CEST Martin Steigerwald a écrit : >> Hello. >> >> With KDEPIM prior 17.12 I always had a pane that shows the message >> structure where I could select which part of the message to view in the >> message content display area. So with messag

Re: KDEPIM 17.12: pane that show message structure missing?

2018-04-12 Thread Rob Brewer
Diederik de Haas wrote: > The following was posted to debian-qt-kde ML, I assume by accident: > > Use Settings, Configure Toolbar, > Move Show Message Structure > > Reinhard Yes that adds a "Show Massage Structure" item to the Main Toolbar from where I can toggle the lower pane on and off.

Arabic characters in kmail

2018-05-11 Thread Rob Brewer
After the recent upgrade to kmail 4:17.12.3-1 I am seeing Arabic characters replacing punctuation marks in the kmail message pane. For instance " (utf-8 E2 80 A6) is being replaced by ق and ' (utf-8 E2 80 99) is also replaced by ق Locale seem to be correct: €LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 LAN

Re: Arabic characters in kmail

2018-05-11 Thread Rob Brewer
inkbottle wrote: > On Friday, May 11, 2018 12:50:30 PM CEST Rob Brewer wrote: >> After the recent upgrade to kmail 4:17.12.3-1 I am seeing Arabic >> characters replacing punctuation marks in the kmail message pane. >> >> For instance " (utf-8 E2 80 A6) is bei

Re: Arabic characters in kmail

2018-05-11 Thread Rob Brewer
Rob Brewer wrote: OK I have found the problem > > Not sure how quoted-printable is handled in kmail. Maybe the problem is in > the sending software but this is happening on at least 2 different email > sources. > The "Override character encoding:" in the Appear

Re: Some information about the removal of Qt 4 and remaining KDE SC 4.14

2019-08-26 Thread Rob Brewer
Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: >> Also most of the stuff above is RM'd from Debian archive already and >> *won't* receive any security updates from now on anymore. > As usual, you can find such packages with > $ apt-show-versions | fgrep 'No available' > " knode:amd64 4:4.14.10-7+b3 installed: No ava

Re: Some information about the removal of Qt 4 and remaining KDE SC 4.14

2019-08-26 Thread Rob Brewer
Hi Martin, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Hmmm… yes. KNode is not maintained by upstream anymore: > > https://kde.org/applications/unmaintained/org.kde.knode > > See also: > > [kdepim4] Future Qt4 removal from Buster > > https://bugs.debian.org/874947 > > There has been thoughts to integrate ne

Something broke

2020-01-18 Thread Rob Brewer
Hi I am running up-to-date Sid and during the latest dist-upgrade kde plasma fails to initialize correctly with symptoms similar to bug #907301 (no system tray with task bar and no context menu of desktop). I have tried downgrading the recently upgraded packages to plasma-workspace 4:5.14.5.1

Re: Something broke

2020-01-18 Thread Rob Brewer
Martin Steigerwald wrote: > You symptoms look like Plasma Shell can not start. What happens if you > start "plasmashell" from a shell window? Are there any error messages? > If so, please post them. You can use KRunner by pressing Alt-Space to > start Plasma Shell, in case KRunner still runs on yo

Re: Something broke

2020-01-18 Thread Rob Brewer
luca.pedrielli wrote: > Hi, > did you try with a new user? It's difficult as this is a single user box. > > are you using some strange plasmoid? > Not as far as I am aware. The desktop hasn't changed for quite some time. > Best, Luca. Thank you for the suggestions. Rob

Re: Something broke

2020-01-18 Thread Rob Brewer
Achim Schaefer wrote: > rm ~/.xession-errors > is the easiest way. > done.. thanks.. Rob

Re: Something broke

2020-01-18 Thread Rob Brewer
luca.pedrielli wrote: > plasmashell seems crashing after printer-manager activity > > can you stop cups service and restart plasmashell? > Yes I killed cups-browsed and cupsd and plasmashell now runs gdb plasmashell (gdb) run snip Plasma Shell startup completed libkcups: 5 "EPSON_Stylus_Pho

Re: Something broke

2020-01-18 Thread Rob Brewer
Rob Brewer wrote: > Not sure if this is a cups issue or a plasmashell issue though. > On further checking /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libkcupslib.so is in the print-manager package. Rob

Re: Something broke

2020-01-18 Thread Rob Brewer
luca.pedrielli wrote: > maybe it is only a cache problem. try to clear it. > > or a configuration problem. try to remove/add printers. > It would seem to be a problem with the system tray settings. Removing the "Printers" item from the tray allows cupsd and cups-browsed to run without killing

Re: Something broke

2020-01-19 Thread Rob Brewer
luca.pedrielli wrote: > maybe it is only a cache problem. try to clear it. > > or a configuration problem. try to remove/add printers Had another look today and found an outstanding print job on a switched off network printer. I deleted that job and was able to add the 'Printers' item again to

Re: Something broke

2020-01-21 Thread Rob Brewer
Hi, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: > Interesting, I saw the same behavior in one (but just one) machine running > stable. I still need to dig further into this I will help if I can but the problem is not currently occurring. I suspect it was caused by plasmashell interaction with an

Re: Something broke

2020-01-22 Thread Rob Brewer
Rik Mills wrote: > Sounds like? > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/plasma-workspace/+bug/1770044 > > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=326289 Yes I think this was the same bug. Thank you for finding the references. > > If so, it is fixed in print-manager 19.12.0. Looks like thi

Re: Something broke

2020-01-25 Thread Rob Brewer
Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: > On Sat, 25 Jan 2020 at 15:43, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer > wrote: >> >> On Sat, 25 Jan 2020 at 15:30, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer >> wrote: >> > >> > I'm on it now. >> >> I have just uploaded print-manager_19.08.1-2 to unstable. I'm n

4:22.08 Mouse middle button paste

2022-09-12 Thread Rob Brewer
Hi, The upgrade to 4:22.08 in unstable seems to have lost the ability to paste with the middle mouse button. Also the mouse middle button option is no longer available in the Desktop Settings Plasmoid. Do we know if there is a fix for this. Rob

Re: 4:22.08 Mouse middle button paste

2022-09-13 Thread Rob Brewer
On Mon, 12 Sep 2022 13:33:07 - (UTC), Rob Brewer wrote: > Hi, > > The upgrade to 4:22.08 in unstable seems to have lost the ability to > paste with the middle mouse button. Also the mouse middle button option > is no longer available in the Desktop Settings Plasmoid. >