Small query on distribution lists
by Timothy Murphy
I've recently set up a couple of distribution lists
using KMail/KAddressBook.
This works quite well;
but I wondered if there is any way
of making the To line give the name of the list
rather than the people on the list,
as for example Mailman does?
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Timothy Murphy
e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net
tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366
s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
13 years, 9 months
XSession help needed
by Anne Wilson
My laptop has Intel graphics. I have never been able to use Desktop Effects,
and have worked, since I got it a few months ago, in KDE Failsafe mode. After
updating this morning I decided to give it another try.
In the past I found that I could work for a minute or two, then I would be
dropped to the Login screen, so it must be an X failure, I guess. Today,
though, I went to SystemSettings to enable a few choice effects - none of the
eye-candy stuff, but dimming inactive windows and setting alt-tab to cover
switch. I completely lost keyboard input, although the mouse continued to
work. Gkrellm showed no activity whatsoever, although I suspect that just
means that it had lost connectivity, since mouse movement on the screen must
mean that it's not totally dead.
I know that .xsession-errors is where I should be looking, but I don't really
know where to start, so I've posted it at http://pastebin.ca/1897817. Could
someone please have a look and see if there are any suggestions for solving
the problem. (I have been working for more than 30 minutes now, without a
problem, so I'm hopeful that there is some improvement in the situation since
the update.)
Anne
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13 years, 10 months
debuginfo packages at different revision to main packages
by Roderick Johnstone
Hi
Fedora 12 x86_64:
linux> rpm -qa | grep kdelibs
kdelibs-debuginfo-4.4.5-1.fc12.x86_64
kdelibs3-3.5.10-21.fc12.x86_64
kdelibs-4.4.4-1.fc12.x86_64
kdelibs-common-4.4.4-1.fc12.x86_64
So, last nights yum update updated debuginfo packages for kdelibs (and
other kde packages) to 4.4.5 without updating the corresponding
non-debuginfo package.
Presumably my mirror was only partially up to date, but should there not
be dependencies to prevent this sort of thing happening?
Thanks
Roderick
13 years, 10 months
4 questions on KMail/KAddressBook 4.4.4
by Timothy Murphy
1. I keep my email on my desktop (my "home server"),
running CentOS-5.5 .
I run dovecot/IMAP on this desktop,
allowing me to access my email on one of several laptops,
all running Fedora-13.
[I do not normally access email directly on my desktop.]
I run an OpenLDAP server on my desktop,
with an LDAP address book.
I can use this with KMail, in the sense that
if I start a "To" line in New Message,
possible completions in the LDAP address book are listed.
As far as I can tell, this LDAP address book
is not copied to my laptop;
the information is all stored on the desktop.
Is this setup compatible with using KAddressBook-4.4.4
on my laptop?
2. If I go to KMail/KAddressBook on my laptop,
I see one contact listed in ~/.kde/share/apps/kabc/
and also in ~/.local/share/contacts/ .
However, I do not see any of the (many) contacts
in my LDAP address book,
although this source is listed in
KAddressBook=>Settings=>Configure KAddressBook=>LDAP Server Settings
Does KMail access the LDAP server directly?
Or must it go through KAddressBook?
If the latter, why do I not see these entries in KAddressBook?
3. Must I run mysqld on my laptop for KAddressBook?
I'm presently running a MySQL server on my desktop.
Can I use this?
[I'm not clear what is meant by saying that one must be running MySQL.
Does it mean mysql-client or mysqld ?]
4. I have two different System Settings icons in my f-menu:
a) A System Settings icon at the top level (with Development, Education,
etc)
b) An entry at level 2 under Settings=>System Settings
Is this unusual?
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Timothy Murphy
e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net
tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366
s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
13 years, 10 months
KDE-SIG meeting report (29/2010)
by Jaroslav Reznik
This is a report of the weekly KDE-SIG-Meeting with a summary of the
topics that were discussed. If you want to add a comment please reply
to this email or add it to the related meeting page.
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= Weekly KDE Summary =
Week: 29/2010
Time: 2010-07-20 14:00 UTC
Meeting page: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/KDE/Meetings/2010-07-20
Meeting minutes: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-
meeting/2010-07-20/kde-sig.2010-07-20-14.04.html
Meeting log: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-07-20/kde-
sig.2010-07-20-14.04.log.html
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
= Participants =
* Jaroslav Reznik
* Kevin Kofler
* Rex Dieter
* Steven Parrish
* Than Ngo
* Radek Novacek
* kalev
* nucleo
* dgilmore
and KDEPIM guests ;-)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
= Agenda =
* topics to discuss:
o F-14: to kdepim-4.5 or not to kdepim-4.5, that is the question
o include both plasma-nm and nm-applet on kde spin?
o cmake macros: drop -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS:BOOL=ON (by default)?
* recent bugs:
o fedora-kde-icon-theme : Inherits=oxygen not working as expected
[1]
= Summary =
F-14: to kdepim-4.5 or not to kdepim-4.5, that is the question
* AGREED: kde-sig (majority) agrees to not include kdepim-4.5 in F-14
o but we need strong statement from upstream
+ release schedule
+ stable datastorage (so no data loss while updating)
+ data migration issues solved
include both plasma-nm and nm-applet on kde spin?
* AGREED: revert recent change to spin-kickstarts, do not include nm-
applet on kde spin
o it's a non sense to ship both (not easy to switch, space etc.)
* more testing needed for plasma-nm
o HELP: kde-sig'ers test test & test plasma-nm
* what's the minimal functionality?
cmake macros: drop -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS:BOOL=ON (by default)?
* AGREED: (majority) NACK'd cmake proposal to drop -
DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS:BOOL=ON
fedora-kde-icon-theme : Inherits=oxygen not working as expected
* several reports recently about mimetypes with '?' icons
o problem with inherit code loading
o suspect: kdebase-runtime-4.1.1-iconthemes-inherit.patch
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= Next Meeting =
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/KDE/Meetings/2010-07-27
= Links =
[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/615621
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Jaroslav Řezník <jreznik(a)redhat.com>
Software Engineer - Base Operating Systems Brno
Office: +420 532 294 275
Mobile: +420 602 797 774
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13 years, 10 months
linewrap with Kompare
by Armelius Cameron
Hello,
Does anyone know if Kompare can be set to wrap long lines ? I use it to
compare diffs of (la)tex files (with kdesvn) where lines are long, and it's very
tedious to scroll horizontally just to find one or two words that has been
modified.
Thanks.
AC
13 years, 10 months
Fwd: Re: [Fedora-spins] [spin-kickstarts] +nm-applet
by Rex Dieter
Rahul shared some of the same concern that Kevin did about this recent
change I made.
I have to admit, I share some of the same pragmatic sentiments that
Rahul does (esp in areas where stability/features are even wider, like
with kpackagekit).
Comments?
-- Rex
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [Fedora-spins] [spin-kickstarts] +nm-applet
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 02:33:52 +0530
From: Rahul Sundaram <metherid(a)gmail.com>
To: The Spin Special Interest Group mailing list
<spins(a)lists.fedoraproject.org>
CC: Rex Dieter <rdieter(a)fedoraproject.org>
On 07/19/2010 01:18 AM, Rex Dieter wrote:
> +# provide nm-applet as fallback in cases where knm/nm-plasmoid fails
> +NetworkManager-gnome
>
I assume this requires manual reconfiguration by the user. Couldn't knm
or nm-plasmoid whichever one is the future for KDE just be fixed to
support everything nm-applet does? If you don't have feature parity,
you should just bite the bullet and continue to include nm-applet by
default and ignore the purity angle. Including both is not the right
approach IMO.
Rahul
13 years, 10 months
How to stop thunderbird causing kde notification popups?
by Roderick Johnstone
Hi
One of my users has a problem with thunderbird popping up loads of empty
notifications in the kde notifications thing, (i) icon in system tray.
Can anyone suggest how I switch these off.
Thanks
Roderick
13 years, 10 months
