Re: [gentoo-user] emerge @preserved-rebuild EVEN IF some needed package is masked

2010-01-08 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 08 January 2010 00:25:03 Dale wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thursday 07 January 2010 21:19:27 Stroller wrote: I hope my above statements don't sound nasty, but you want 3.5, Alan [1] wants KDE 4. The various developers upstream of you and Alan -

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge @preserved-rebuild EVEN IF some needed package is masked

2010-01-08 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 08 January 2010 10:06:27 Dale wrote: Yes, that's reasonable. RH shipped KDE-3.5 with fully supported versions of RHEL, and those versions are still current. So just like RH backport useful kernel code into their shipped versions, we can expect RH to at least deal with critical

Re: [gentoo-user] New application: app-portage/kportagetray

2010-01-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 8 Jan 2010 01:36:10 -0200, Ronan Arraes Jardim Chagas wrote: I think I forgot a dependency. Can you check your version of PyQt4 and if it was built with dbus USE-flag? I'll correct the ebuild, thanks for the help. [n...@grunthos ~ 0]% eix PyQt4 [U] dev-python/PyQt4 Available

Re: [gentoo-user] New application: app-portage/kportagetray

2010-01-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 8 Jan 2010 01:54:43 -0200, Ronan Arraes Jardim Chagas wrote: Can you check if knotify is also installed please? Yes, 4.3.85 (4.4 beta 2) from the kde overlay. -- Neil Bothwick Can vegetarians eat animal crackers? signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] New application: app-portage/kportagetray

2010-01-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 7 Jan 2010 16:40:04 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: 2) The idea of end-users installing ebuilds themselves from an unknown individual delivered through an email list is about as insane as it could be. Just what I need is an untested ebuild that I install and build myself stealing everything

Re: [gentoo-user] New application: app-portage/kportagetray

2010-01-08 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 7 Jan, Mark Knecht wrote: 2) The idea of end-users installing ebuilds themselves from an unknown individual delivered through an email list is about as insane as it could be. Just what I need is an untested ebuild that I install and build myself stealing everything on my system. As a

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge @preserved-rebuild EVEN IF some needed package is masked

2010-01-08 Thread Stroller
On 8 Jan 2010, at 08:06, Dale wrote: ... But KDE still dropped the support tho? That was my point. It wasn't Redhat, Gentoo, SuSe or some other distro or even me that dropped it, it was KDE that dropped it. 62% of KDE's developers are unpaid volunteers. [1] We program for the sheer joy

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge @preserved-rebuild EVEN IF some needed package is masked

2010-01-08 Thread Stroller
On 8 Jan 2010, at 08:23, Alan McKinnon wrote: ... The kde-sunset maintainer could even be you. I had my first patch accepted to an upstream project this week. It was only about 70 lines of Perl (and some of those were basically just refactoring what the author had already written into a

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge @preserved-rebuild EVEN IF some needed package is masked

2010-01-08 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 08 January 2010 12:34:39 Stroller wrote: On 8 Jan 2010, at 08:23, Alan McKinnon wrote: ... The kde-sunset maintainer could even be you. I had my first patch accepted to an upstream project this week. It was only about 70 lines of Perl (and some of those were basically just

Re: [gentoo-user] problem with aqua keyword

2010-01-08 Thread Xi Shen
So, using the aqua use flag is not possible on a normal pc, right? Thanks :) davidshe...@gmail.com send from mobile On Jan 8, 2010 11:51 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Xi Shen wrote: hi, i ran into a strange problem. i am using gentoo 2008 amd64, with kde 4 This was posted a bit

[gentoo-user] firefox 3.5.6 doesn't see my CUPS printers

2010-01-08 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, Firefox (www-client/firefox-bin-3.5.6) doesn't see my CUPS printers anymore. It just shows Any Printer and lateron Print to LPR What am I missing? Many thanks for a hint, Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany

Re: [gentoo-user] About gnash and swfdec

2010-01-08 Thread Keith Dart
=== On Wed, 01/06, Xianwen Chen wrote: === Hi guys and girls, Have you tried gnash or swfdec as alternatives to adobe flash player? I tried both of them. The high consumption of cpu resource and the lack of support to SWF version 8-10 are the main disadvantages in my opinion. And it seems

Re: [gentoo-user] New application: app-portage/kportagetray

2010-01-08 Thread Ronan Arraes Jardim Chagas
Thanks :) -- Ronan Arraes Jardim Chagas Control and Automation Engineer Gentoo Foundation Member Em Sexta-feira 08 Janeiro 2010, às 04:58:03, Zeerak Waseem escreveu: On Fri, 08 Jan 2010 07:55:47 +0100, Ronan Arraes Jardim Chagas roni...@gmail.com wrote: Hello James, That is my goal at

Re: [gentoo-user] New application: app-portage/kportagetray

2010-01-08 Thread Ronan Arraes Jardim Chagas
Ok, so you use QT 4.6. I'm using QT 4.5.3, I don't know if there are some incompatibility. But, I'm thinking that the problem is with KNotify, because I use org.kde.VisualNotifications DBUS service to display notifications at KDE system tray. This service wasn't found on your system. I'm not

Re: [gentoo-user] New application: app-portage/kportagetray

2010-01-08 Thread Ronan Arraes Jardim Chagas
If you mean to run the app only at the systray, than, yes, it is possible :) Regards, -- Ronan Arraes Jardim Chagas Control and Automation Engineer Gentoo Foundation Member Em Sexta-feira 08 Janeiro 2010, às 05:03:19, Stroller escreveu: On 7 Jan 2010, at 20:05, Ronan Arraes Jardim Chagas

Re: [gentoo-user] New application: app-portage/kportagetray

2010-01-08 Thread Ronan Arraes Jardim Chagas
Hum, good, a KDE 4.4 user. I don't know if anything has changed with KDE 4.4, like org.kde.VisualNotifications service. I'll try something here. Thanks! -- Ronan Arraes Jardim Chagas Control and Automation Engineer Gentoo Foundation Member Em Sexta-feira 08 Janeiro 2010, às 06:35:21, Neil

Re: [gentoo-user] [micro HOWTO] Adding custom mount options for gnome-mounted drives

2010-01-08 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 6:14 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: Does kde allow you to automount USB sticks and external hard drives? And customize the mount options? Apparently: http://kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=91517

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Laptop wifi find more than external antenna

2010-01-08 Thread Grant
I travel with a USB wifi dongle and one of these directional antennas: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833164110 Lately I've noticed there are some APs that my laptop's internal wifi connects to perfectly, but the external antenna can't find whatsoever, even after a

Re: [gentoo-user] kde-4.3 tweenview does not work

2010-01-08 Thread Xi Shen
On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 5:13 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Saturday 26 December 2009 19:29:10 Xi Shen wrote: hi, my system is gentoo amd64, kde-4.3, my graphic card is nvidia's. i use nvidia-settings to set up my two displayer to work in the tweenview mode. it supposed

[gentoo-user] 2.6.32 and FAT file names

2010-01-08 Thread felix
Oh dear. As I read all the stuff about 2.6.32 changing long filename handling for VFAT filesystems to avoid Microsoft patent problems, I didn't think it mattered much to me, since I only use FAT when getting pictures from a camera or USB stick. Now I find that filenames are all upper case where

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.32 and FAT file names

2010-01-08 Thread Xavier Parizet
Le 08/01/2010 17:09, fe...@crowfix.com a écrit : Oh dear. As I read all the stuff about 2.6.32 changing long filename handling for VFAT filesystems to avoid Microsoft patent problems, I didn't think it mattered much to me, since I only use FAT when getting pictures from a camera or USB stick.

Re: [gentoo-user] New application: app-portage/kportagetray

2010-01-08 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Freitag, 8. Januar 2010 schrieb Stroller: On 8 Jan 2010, at 04:44, James Ausmus wrote: ... This looks pretty awesome - I'm not in a position to test it right now, but can this be thrown in an overlay so I can get to it in the future easily, and get the updates easily? +1 ... I

Re: [gentoo-user] New application: app-portage/kportagetray

2010-01-08 Thread James Ausmus
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 11:01 PM, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.ukwrote: On 8 Jan 2010, at 04:44, James Ausmus wrote: ... This looks pretty awesome - I'm not in a position to test it right now, but can this be thrown in an overlay so I can get to it in the future easily, and get the

Re: [gentoo-user] problem with aqua keyword

2010-01-08 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag 08 Januar 2010 02:42:56 schrieb Xi Shen: hi, i ran into a strange problem. i am using gentoo 2008 amd64, with kde 4.3. i want to try the aqua gui with kde desktop. so i enabled aqua use flag, but when emerge kdelibs, it requires a tool named install_name_tool which is a apple dev

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Laptop wifi find more than external antenna

2010-01-08 Thread Stroller
On 8 Jan 2010, at 15:49, Grant wrote: ... That's a good idea, but I'm actually able to pick up the difficult AP's with the same dongle when its normal omnidirectional antenna is attached instead of the strong directional one. Could a failing antenna exhibit this behavior? I'm extremely

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.32 and FAT file names

2010-01-08 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 10:09 AM, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: Oh dear. As I read all the stuff about 2.6.32 changing long filename handling for VFAT filesystems to avoid Microsoft patent problems, I didn't think it mattered much to me, since I only use FAT when getting pictures from a camera or

[gentoo-user] Re: firefox 3.5.6 doesn't see my CUPS printers

2010-01-08 Thread walt
On 01/08/2010 04:18 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, Firefox (www-client/firefox-bin-3.5.6) doesn't see my CUPS printers anymore. It just shows Any Printer and lateron Print to LPR My cups printers are specified in /etc/cups/printers.conf. Does that file have appropriate printer info in it?

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox 3.5.6 doesn't see my CUPS printers

2010-01-08 Thread Michael Higgins
On Fri, 08 Jan 2010 13:18:38 +0100 (CET) Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: Hi, Firefox (www-client/firefox-bin-3.5.6) doesn't see my CUPS printers anymore. It just shows Any Printer and lateron Print to LPR What am I missing? WAG: Start cupsd? -- Michael Higgins

[gentoo-user] {OT} Akamai allowed through firewall?

2010-01-08 Thread Grant
I was going through some firewall rules today, and it looks like I allowed an IP address that resolves to akamai.com to be accessed for http from a restricted machine. Does that make sense to anyone? - Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Akamai allowed through firewall?

2010-01-08 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 08 January 2010 22:13:11 Grant wrote: I was going through some firewall rules today, and it looks like I allowed an IP address that resolves to akamai.com to be accessed for http from a restricted machine. Does that make sense to anyone? - Grant Yes. akamai is a download server

[gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Laptop wifi find more than external antenna

2010-01-08 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-01-08, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: On 8 Jan 2010, at 15:49, Grant wrote: ... That's a good idea, but I'm actually able to pick up the difficult AP's with the same dongle when its normal omnidirectional antenna is attached instead of the strong directional one.

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Akamai allowed through firewall?

2010-01-08 Thread Grant
I was going through some firewall rules today, and it looks like I allowed an IP address that resolves to akamai.com to be accessed for http from a restricted machine.  Does that make sense to anyone? - Grant Yes. akamai is a download server used by many commercial vendors to host package

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Laptop wifi find more than external antenna

2010-01-08 Thread Grant
That's a good idea, but I'm actually able to pick up the difficult AP's with the same dongle when its normal omnidirectional antenna is attached instead of the strong directional one.  Could a failing antenna exhibit this behavior? I'm extremely sceptical of these cheap external aerials. If

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Laptop wifi find more than external antenna

2010-01-08 Thread Grant
That's a good idea, but I'm actually able to pick up the difficult AP's with the same dongle when its normal omnidirectional antenna is attached instead of the strong directional one.  Could a failing antenna exhibit this behavior? I'm extremely sceptical of these cheap external aerials.

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Laptop wifi find more than external antenna

2010-01-08 Thread Robert Bridge
On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 5:37 PM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: I travel with a USB wifi dongle and one of these directional antennas: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833164110 Lately I've noticed there are some APs that my laptop's internal wifi connects to

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.32 and FAT file names

2010-01-08 Thread felix
On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 02:01:08PM -0600, Paul Hartman wrote: I haven't noticed any difference with any of my vfat devices in 2.6.32. Filenames have mixed-case and seem usual. Where did you read about 2.6.32 changing long filename handling? I can't find any info about it. I have read it in

Re: [gentoo-user] New application: app-portage/kportagetray

2010-01-08 Thread Stroller
On 8 Jan 2010, at 18:32, James Ausmus wrote: ... Use eix-sync instead of emerge --sync, and, at the end of the sync process, eix automatically does an eix db update, and shows you the diff between the old db and the new db - updated packages, updated packages you have installed, new

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox 3.5.6 doesn't see my CUPS printers

2010-01-08 Thread Stroller
On 8 Jan 2010, at 20:10, Michael Higgins wrote: On Fri, 08 Jan 2010 13:18:38 +0100 (CET) Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: Hi, Firefox (www-client/firefox-bin-3.5.6) doesn't see my CUPS printers anymore. It just shows Any Printer and lateron Print to LPR What am I

Re: [gentoo-user] problem with aqua keyword

2010-01-08 Thread Dale
Hi, Based on that earlier reply and Dirk's reply, I would assume this is a Mac only USE flag. So, this is not possible on a normal PC, old IBM compatible. Dale :-) :-) Xi Shen wrote: So, using the aqua use flag is not possible on a normal pc, right? Thanks :)

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge @preserved-rebuild EVEN IF some needed package is masked

2010-01-08 Thread Dale
Stroller wrote: On 8 Jan 2010, at 08:06, Dale wrote: ... But KDE still dropped the support tho? That was my point. It wasn't Redhat, Gentoo, SuSe or some other distro or even me that dropped it, it was KDE that dropped it. 62% of KDE's developers are unpaid volunteers. [1] We program

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge @preserved-rebuild EVEN IF some needed package is masked

2010-01-08 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 09 January 2010 00:04:28 Dale wrote: Honestly, I don't care if it is 100% volunteers. They dropped the support and a LOT of people, including me, are at the very least not happy about it. Dale, FFS, please stop whinging about KDE-3 This is getting like an old record stuck in

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge @preserved-rebuild EVEN IF some needed package is masked

2010-01-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 08 Jan 2010 16:04:28 -0600, Dale wrote: So, as I have been saying all along, repeatedly, Gentoo did not drop the ball here, KDE did. It's their ball, they can do whatever they like with it. It doesn't matter how much you complain, if unpaid, volunteer developers want to work on the

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.32 and FAT file names

2010-01-08 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 3:39 PM, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 02:01:08PM -0600, Paul Hartman wrote: I haven't noticed any difference with any of my vfat devices in 2.6.32. Filenames have mixed-case and seem usual. Where did you read about 2.6.32 changing long filename

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge @preserved-rebuild EVEN IF some needed package is masked

2010-01-08 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Saturday 09 January 2010 00:04:28 Dale wrote: Honestly, I don't care if it is 100% volunteers. They dropped the support and a LOT of people, including me, are at the very least not happy about it. Dale, FFS, please stop whinging about KDE-3 This is getting

[gentoo-user] Xterm start-up delay: solved

2010-01-08 Thread Philip Webb
I have found a solution to the delayed start of Xterm. See http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=293933 . -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge @preserved-rebuild EVEN IF some needed package is masked

2010-01-08 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 08 Jan 2010 16:04:28 -0600, Dale wrote: So, as I have been saying all along, repeatedly, Gentoo did not drop the ball here, KDE did. It's their ball, they can do whatever they like with it. It doesn't matter how much you complain, if unpaid, volunteer

[gentoo-user] is ddrescue this slow?

2010-01-08 Thread Valmor de Almeida
Hello, I am trying to recover data from a failed drive. An initial attempt with dd took over 12 hours and it was not even at half of the 80GB damaged drive; so I quit. Info on the web pointed me to ddrescue ddrescue -n /dev/sda /dev/sdc rescued.log which has taken over 6 hours so far Press

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.32 and FAT file names

2010-01-08 Thread felix
On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 05:17:44PM -0600, Paul Hartman wrote: In the 2.6.32 kernel ChangeLog this is the only thing that looks to address it, and if anything it sounds like it should be the opposite of your problem (fixing it instead of causing it)... weird. Maybe try to add shortname=mixed to

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Laptop wifi find more than external antenna

2010-01-08 Thread Stroller
On 8 Jan 2010, at 21:09, Grant wrote: ... I'm extremely sceptical of these cheap external aerials. If it were an expensive one from a specialist supplier then I might have higher expectations, but I'm pretty sure a customer of mine used one similar to yours, and they used to use a book to

[gentoo-user] Re: is ddrescue this slow?

2010-01-08 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 3:33 AM, Valmor de Almeida val.gen...@gmail.comwrote: Hello, I am trying to recover data from a failed drive. An initial attempt with dd took over 12 hours and it was not even at half of the 80GB damaged drive; so I quit. Info on the web pointed me to ddrescue

Re: [gentoo-user] Installation (or not) of Perl Getopt::Long

2010-01-08 Thread Stroller
Thanks for your reply, Stefan, and sorry not to have responded sooner. By the time you replied, I had already committed some to grappling with Getopt::Long and had worked through some examples. I won't bore you with the explanation of why getopts became no longer relevant. Stroller. On