Re: [kde] interesting comment from a poster on phoronix

2015-08-20 Thread John Layt
On 20 August 2015 at 16:15, J. Leslie Turriff wrote: > > Another of the many good reasons to stay on KDE3. Now that is just trolling :-) John. ___ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailma

Re: [kde] interesting comment from a poster on phoronix

2015-08-20 Thread John Layt
On 20 August 2015 at 14:47, ianseeks wrote: > Would it be an idea to prefix all sub projects of KDE with a unified number > relating to the framework it depends on so as an example, KDE 5 is made up of > Plasma 5.5.4., Frameworks 5.13, KDE Applications 5.15.08. This will make it > easier for us

Re: [kde] interesting comment from a poster on phoronix

2015-08-20 Thread John Layt
On 20 August 2015 at 10:37, ianseeks wrote: > http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=KDE-Applications-15.08 > >>> "Ahead of the Plasma 5.4 release later this month and after last week's KDE >>> Frameworks 5.13 release is KDE Applications 15.08." >>> >>> How am I supposed to keep track

Re: [kde] Calendar like Christmas garland

2014-06-25 Thread John Layt
On 25 June 2014 16:00, Aleksey Midenkov wrote: > On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 6:15 PM, John Layt wrote: > So, how did you guessed my colors (Blue is today, Red is a day off, > Green is any other holiday) if you don't know my theme? I just want to > stress that such kind of decor

Re: [kde] Calendar like Christmas garland

2014-06-25 Thread John Layt
On 25 June 2014 16:00, Aleksey Midenkov wrote: > On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 6:15 PM, John Layt wrote: >> Blue is today, Red is a day off, Green is any other holiday or >> calendar event. The color or shape or any other highlighting or >> backgrounds are set by the theme you

Re: [kde] Calendar like Christmas garland

2014-06-25 Thread John Layt
On 25 June 2014 14:29, Aleksey Midenkov wrote: > My calendar is like colorful garland: I have about 10 green boxes, 1 > red and 1 blue. Which day is today??? I need to figure out each time > when I open calendar! Who invented such > untalented decoration?! You would better make a different backgro

Re: [kde] Cursing on Planet KDE

2012-08-12 Thread John Layt
On 12 Aug 2012 06:32, "Dotan Cohen" wrote: > > Where are the guidelines for proper behaviour for blogs in Planet KDE? > I would like to review them to see how they handle off-topic and > vulgar posts. I don't see a link to any guidelines or code of conduct > from the http://planetkde.org/ website.

Re: [kde] kde application for users to set printer options?

2012-05-11 Thread John Layt
On Tuesday 08 May 2012 16:09:06 John McMonagle wrote: > We have many printers and people need to set their default printer. > > Also we have large multifunction printers that need account codes and a lot > of other options. > To make it manageable people set up instances with sets of options for >

[kde] Re: Okular does not print

2011-07-17 Thread John Layt
On Saturday 16 July 2011 21:54:32 gene heskett wrote: > Hijacking a thread here, but it sure needs help. When okular is set to > auto-scale, it sends to a US letter printer about 9" wide, so the right > hand inch is missing. Whomever decided it should be FF's default pdf reader > needs a very clos

[kde] Re: Calendar widget broken in 4.7?

2011-07-16 Thread John Layt
On Wednesday 13 July 2011 19:54:19 Duncan wrote: > Too bad. I had the idea to enable nearly all of them so I could learn > about the holidays of different cultures (at least for the Latin/Roman > Alphabet, Russian and Chinese look really cool, but don't help me know > what to wikisearch/google, b

[kde] Re: Calendar widget broken in 4.7?

2011-07-16 Thread John Layt
On Wednesday 13 July 2011 13:17:18 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 07/13/2011 03:01 PM, Dominik Cermak wrote: > > Am Mittwoch, 13. Juli 2011, 12:52:08 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: > >> The calendar widget is too big and nothing is displayed in the right > >> part. Also, the corners to the right are cu

[kde] Re: android phone and sync with kontact

2011-07-16 Thread John Layt
On Tuesday 12 July 2011 11:44:01 BasaBuru wrote: > Do you know a howto on how to connect and sync with kontact an android > phone?? > > I bought a phone a samnsung galaxy mini whith android 2.2 > > I'm an absolute newbie with android but i need sync me calendar and > contacts. Device syncing is

[kde] Re: question about printer default settings

2011-07-16 Thread John Layt
On Monday 11 July 2011 12:14:09 Harald Baumgartner wrote: > printing from a kde-application, for example: kmail - standard-printer i'm > able > to define with ~/.cups/lpoptions : Default printername > > but how to define the standard properties - Duplex...? You're wanting to configure your Cups

[kde] Re: Okular does not print

2011-07-16 Thread John Layt
On Saturday 09 July 2011 10:24:59 BasaBuru wrote: > hello: > > I don't now why the okular does not print. > > When put for print okular not send anything to the printer. I assume you are printing a PDF file, and that printing from other programs does work? Okular cheats with PDF's, calling the

[kde] Re: KDEPIM 4.6 prob^Wimpressions

2011-06-29 Thread John Layt
On Wednesday 29 Jun 2011 20:59:30 Alex Schuster wrote: > I had upgraded to KDEPIM 4.6 in February already, when it had been > unmasked accidentally for a day or so, and I also had lots of problems. > Fortunately, after the downgrade all was fine again. Ah, I wonder if that's the problem? Did you

[kde] Re: KDEPIM 4.6 prob^Wimpressions

2011-06-29 Thread John Layt
On Wednesday 29 Jun 2011 18:40:32 Jerome Yuzyk wrote: > All this talk about trashed mail and such isn't very encouraging. Is there > somewhere that explains what changes are afoot for this new release? Right > now it sounds like KMail is going to some big binary blob for all my mails > a la Outlook

[kde] Re: KDE Quality (problems)

2011-04-14 Thread John Layt
On Thursday 14 Apr 2011 15:29:17 Billie Walsh wrote: > On 04/14/2011 08:59 AM, Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Thursday 14 April 2011 13:23:33 Billie Walsh wrote: > >> I suppose we all have our favorite parts of KDE. For me it's Quanta. For > >> whatever reason the devs at wherever have pretty much decid

[kde] Re: "Copy" in KMail picks up HTML formatting

2011-03-02 Thread John Layt
On Wednesday 02 March 2011 02:51:08 John Phillips wrote: > Hi, > > Running KMail 1.13.5 on Ubuntu 10.04. > > Ctrl C (copy) of part of an email picks up also the HTML formatting; even > when I copy an address and paste it into a filter. > > Never seen this happen elsewhere; how do I just copy t

[kde] Re: How do I restart KDM?

2011-02-18 Thread John Layt
On Friday 18 February 2011 06:59:51 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 02/18/2011 07:53 AM, Linus Östberg wrote: > > It is possible to reactivate the shortcut in xorg.conf. > > Yes, I've read that if I put: > >Section "ServerFlags" >Option "DontZap" "false" >EndSection > > in xorg.con

[kde] Re: How to make panel automatically adjust to screen size?

2011-02-02 Thread John Layt
On Wednesday 02 February 2011 01:16:24 Clemens Eisserer wrote: > With KDE-4.6 I get the following behaviour: > - Panel is no longer shrinked if panel-size > monitor. > This makes it quite uncomfortable to work with, e.g. when using the > laptop's builtin display I systray is outside the visible are

[kde] Re: Are parallel KDE sessions safe?

2011-01-29 Thread John Layt
On Saturday 29 January 2011 12:55:33 Alex Schuster wrote: > Hi there! > > Is it okay to run two or more parallel KDE sessions with the same user? > > Our multimedia PC runs KDE4 now, but the only display is a TV, and > things are not so easy to read. So I configured the desktop by starting > KDE4

[kde] Re: Konqueror/Dolphin file managers very unstable

2010-12-07 Thread John Layt
On Wednesday 08 December 2010 00:16:49 Duncan wrote: > Jerome Yuzyk posted on Tue, 07 Dec 2010 14:59:14 -0700 as excerpted: > > I've always liked Konqueror's file manager, but it's been completely > > unstable ever since I moved to KDE4. Many operations seem to hang doing > > nothing and then sudde