Re: [kde] Should I open a bug or would I be wasting my time

2013-03-31 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Sun, 31 Mar 2013 00:52:17 + (UTC) Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net wrote: Correct. I still think blame for this problem could be aimed at polkit and KDE rather than debian, though I take the point that Gentoo can avoid these issues in the best way possible and appreciate the explanation. So

[kde] Should I open a bug or would I be wasting my time

2013-03-30 Thread Kevin Chadwick
Considering my last mail on the subject got zero response except from one very helpful someone who has removed polkit by using gentoo, perhaps because it invited too much discussion. Would I be wasting my time If I opened a bug as to why you can disable polkit with the whole of KDE working just

Re: [kde] Yet another failed KDE release?

2013-03-29 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Fri, 29 Mar 2013 19:28:37 +0530 dE . de.tec...@gmail.com wrote: On the other hand, look at Xfce. They're hesitant to add basic features like Thunar search, tabbed browsing, cause they say the don't have enough developers. On top of that look at their super slow release cycles (-bugfixes).

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?

2013-03-24 Thread Kevin Chadwick
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 moved to the might not be installed for anything else

Re: [kde] Yet another failed KDE release?

2013-03-24 Thread Kevin Chadwick
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 features during the porting, but I can obviously

Re: [kde] Yet another failed KDE release?

2013-03-19 Thread Kevin Chadwick
This mailing list is full of rants and complains and the KDE teams doesnt give a damn. +1 When I have gotten through, though I'm not sure this list actually works 100% of the time. Does it use greylisting or moderation? I sent a mail helping someone and it didn't get through. On the

Re: [kde] First time to use KDE

2013-03-13 Thread Kevin Chadwick
Kwin it's the you need to test. Normally kwin starts with KDE inyour case it seems it crashed. Just test it ,run it on konsole, terminal, typing: kwin --replace Then press enter. Yeah that shouldn't happen and as Fedora is really Gnome and enterprise orientated by default you might be

Re: [kde] Happier with kdesudo

2013-01-11 Thread Kevin Chadwick
Thankyou for all the info, you have been very helpful. Much more than these lists that can't even tell me if switching to kdesudo is possible. I assume because it isn't? This is the one that opened /my/ eyes. http://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.com/2011/04/linux-security-circus-on-

Re: [kde] Happier with kdesudo

2012-12-31 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Sat, 29 Dec 2012 00:46:16 + (UTC) Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net wrote: Kevin Chadwick posted on Fri, 28 Dec 2012 21:06:03 + as excerpted: How can I switch from polkit-kde-authentication back to kdesudo auth in KDE 4.9. I don't have a direct answer to your question, but I'm

[kde] Happier with kdesudo

2012-12-28 Thread Kevin Chadwick
How can I switch from polkit-kde-authentication back to kdesudo auth in KDE 4.9. I have installed kdesudo and ln kdesu to kdesudo but it keeps asking for roots password and not falling back to sudo. I am not a fan of polkit for various reasons and it is a fact that a properly setup and used sudo