[kde] MOSSCon in Louisville in May! Submit your proposal this week!

2013-03-27 Thread John List
You are invited to be a speaker/presenter at MOSSCon. Preparations are in full swing for the very first Midwest Open Source Software Conference (MOSSCon), to be held in Louisville on May 18-19. Your help in spreading the word and helping us fill out our schedule of presentations and workshops

[kde] kdm multiple keyboard layouts

2013-03-27 Thread zoolook
Hello, First, is there a kdm-users dedicated mailing list? Now my question. I'm learning Dvorak keyboard layout but I share this computer with my wife. She doesn't like the layout so I need kdm to default to latam layout and have dvorak as a option (either a keyboard shortcut or a menu option)

[kde] Research Study: Open Source Developers on the fence between company and community

2013-03-27 Thread Thomas Zerbach
Dear ladies and gentlemen, my name is Thomas Zerbach, I'm a research assistant at the University of Koblenz-Landau (Germany) currently working on an empirical research study which revolves around the job situation of (professional) open source developers. The goal

Re: [kde] kdm multiple keyboard layouts

2013-03-27 Thread Bogus Zaba
On 03/27/2013 10:18 AM, zoolook wrote: Hello, First, is there a kdm-users dedicated mailing list? Now my question. I'm learning Dvorak keyboard layout but I share this computer with my wife. She doesn't like the layout so I need kdm to default to latam layout and have dvorak as a option

Re: [kde] Yet another failed KDE release?

2013-03-27 Thread Kevin Krammer
On Sunday, 2013-03-24, Kevin Chadwick wrote: On Sun, 24 Mar 2013 16:41:35 +0100 Kevin Krammer kram...@kde.org wrote: There were a couple of newly developed programs but they were almost always components of the workspace product. I am currently not aware of any application which dropped

Re: [kde] Yet another failed KDE release?

2013-03-27 Thread Kevin Krammer
On Sunday, 2013-03-24, Kevin Chadwick wrote: On Sun, 24 Mar 2013 14:16:34 + (UTC) Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net wrote: Of course they'll with a near-certainty still continue to work on xorg for a few years anyway, but once the general desktop moves to wayland, the X dependency gets

Re: [kde] Yet another failed KDE release?

2013-03-27 Thread Kevin Krammer
On Monday, 2013-03-25, Duncan wrote: Kevin Krammer posted on Sun, 24 Mar 2013 16:41:35 +0100 as excerpted: And in fact that was what I guess kubuntu and some others were (rightly, it turned out) predicting, the reason they didn't do an LTS at the time, because they didn't believe the upstream

Re: [kde] kdm multiple keyboard layouts

2013-03-27 Thread zoolook
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 5:11 PM, Bogus Zaba bog...@bogzab.plus.com wrote: On 03/27/2013 10:18 AM, zoolook wrote: Hello, First, is there a kdm-users dedicated mailing list? Now my question. I'm learning Dvorak keyboard layout but I share this computer with my wife. She doesn't like the

Re: [kde] kdm multiple keyboard layouts

2013-03-27 Thread Bogus Zaba
On 03/27/2013 09:16 PM, zoolook wrote: On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 5:11 PM, Bogus Zaba bog...@bogzab.plus.com mailto:bog...@bogzab.plus.com wrote: On 03/27/2013 10:18 AM, zoolook wrote: Hello, First, is there a kdm-users dedicated mailing list? Now my question.

Re: [kde] Yet another failed KDE release?

2013-03-27 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Wed, 27 Mar 2013 21:21:47 +0100 Kevin Krammer kram...@kde.org wrote: I certainly think freedesktop.org should change it's name perhaps to enterprisedesktop.org or maybe cloudesktop.org I didn't get the context of that one. Various projects have shown their disregard for the user base

Re: [kde] Yet another failed KDE release?

2013-03-27 Thread Duncan
Kevin Krammer posted on Wed, 27 Mar 2013 21:54:28 +0100 as excerpted: Which leaves amarok. Amarok's kde3 - kde4 conversion was for me a microcosm of the larger kde3 - kde4 debacle. The devs tried switching to mysql as akonadi was at the time, but in the process, they used mysql

Re: [kde] kdm multiple keyboard layouts

2013-03-27 Thread zoolook
First, I didn't noticed gmail was sending HTML. Please excuse me. This one _should_ be plain text. On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 7:48 PM, Bogus Zaba bog...@bogzab.plus.com wrote: On 03/27/2013 09:16 PM, zoolook wrote: On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 5:11 PM, Bogus Zaba bog...@bogzab.plus.com

Re: [kde] Yet another failed KDE release?

2013-03-27 Thread dE .
On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 6:42 PM, Leon Feng rainofch...@gmail.com wrote: 2013/3/23 Kevin Krammer kram...@kde.org On Saturday, 2013-03-23, dE . wrote: Cause of this behaviour of distros, KDE gets less chance to get tested. The only solution is to elongate the release cycles, that way, each

Re: [kde] Yet another failed KDE release?

2013-03-27 Thread dE .
On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 10:42 PM, Anne Wilson cannewil...@googlemail.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 23/03/13 13:08, dE . wrote: There's very less time focused on testing; that should be increased, and there's really no reason to hurry releases, no one complained