kde February 2009

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Kicker and panel not responding when starting konsole
by Gerwin Krist -|- Digitalus Webhosting & Webdesign 26 Feb '09

26 Feb '09

Hi Guys/Girls, I'm facing odd problems when openening Konsole. After opening Konsole Kicker does not respond nor the panel is responding. Anyone has a clue? BTW using Nvidia 180.35 driver ... -- Met vriendelijke groet / With kind regards, Gerwin Krist Technical Manager Digitalus Webhosting First-class Internet Webhosting Web: http://www.digitalus.nl E-mail: gerwin at digitalus.nl Tel.: +31 (0) 598 630000 Fax: +31 (0) 598 631860 BOFH Wisdom: Collapsed Backbone *************************************************************************************** This message may contain information which is confidential or privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please advise the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete this message and any attachments without retaining a copy. ***************************************************************************************

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KNode: Followup Groups etiquette
by Timothy Murphy 26 Feb '09

26 Feb '09

Someone complained when I replied to a posting with KNode that I had not set Followup Groups correctly; they said I was contravening usenet etiquette. Someone else said that this was a long-standing bug in KNode. Is that true? -- 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

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KDE-SIG weekly report (9/2009)
by Jaroslav Reznik 26 Feb '09

26 Feb '09

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. Sorry for not delivering last two reports :-) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- = Weekly KDE Summary = Week: 9/2009 Time: 2009-02-24 16:00 UTC Meeting page: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/KDE/Meetings/2009-02-24 Meeting log: https://fedoraproject.org/w/uploads/c/c2/KDE-SIG-2009-02-24.txt ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- = Participants = * Than Ngo * Rex Dieter * Jaroslav Reznik * Kevin Kofler * Sebastian Vahl * Lukas Tinkl ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- = Agenda = * (revisit) enabling desktop effects by default for F11 * package split status: -akonadi, -python * kde 4.2 feature status - koffice2? upstream seems luke-warm about it: see thread starting at http://lists.kde.org/?l=koffice-devel&m=123506215729644&w=2 recent bugs: * kdelibs/kdelibs3 conflicts: * qt45 issues - kmail selection - poxml - acpid, reopen, kded hack not a solution? = Short summary = * (revisit) enabling desktop effects by default for F11 o effects are disabled by default for F11 o kde-settings need to be updated o kde-sig is praying for KPersonalizer comeback ;-) * package split status: -akonadi, -python o -akonadi splits by rdieter and -python splits by than o we need more space for live CD => more splitting? o thans split of -googlegadgets subpackage from kdebase-workspace o kdeartwork goes away from live CD o system-config-printer is going to be replaced by system-config- printer-kde o PolicyKit-gnome is going to be replaced by PolicyKit-KDE o system configs and PolKit-gnome dragging too many deps * kde 4.2 feature status o koffice 2 + for F12 or ship it in F11? or ship some parts of KOffice 1 & KOffice 2? even without 100% support from upstream? o nm-plasmoid + still under review, we need it ASAP to test it o PolicyKit-kde + bug report for alternative PolicyKit frontends [1] + Bug tracker for the hardcoded PolicyKit-gnome deps [2] * bugs o acpid again + we don't have better solution now how to check for PowerDevil o duplicate files with kdelibs3 [3] o qt 45 bugs + kmail crashes when text is selected in composer window [4] # already fixed in Qt-4.5 snapshot - closing as upstream + requires XML parser feature qt has renamed [5] # hight priority, breaks builds # qt & kdesdk fixes ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- = Next Meeting = http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/KDE/Meetings/2009-03-03 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- = Links = [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=484945 [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=487188 [3] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=487104 [4] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=487106 [5] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=487075

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Feature Freeze next week
by Jaroslav Reznik 26 Feb '09

26 Feb '09

Hi, Feature Freeze is next week so we have to make final decision what to ship in F11 to complete feature. The most important part of feature is KDE 4.2 - I think, we can mark it as 100% done even there are still a few open issues. So lets look at KOffice 2, PolicyKit-kde and nm-plasmoid. KOffice 2 The question is to ship or not to ship - quite obvious :-) Without 100% support from upstream even they say it's going to be ready in the end of year? PolicyKit-kde We can ship it on live CD but there are still many deps on Gnome one. But we can deal with it. More problematic is after installation - how to select PolicyKit agent - solution should be PolicyKit 1 (but it missed F11). So I think we can state that's only aimed for live CD (or clean KDE installation). nm-plasmoid Is still under review - we need it ASAP to test it. User guide We need basic topics - display manager, plasma desktop and working with media. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/KDE/Docs/DesktopUserGuide Help appreciated :) Deadline is 2009-04-14 (Final Feature Freeze) so we have two weeks to finish all the work. Jaroslav -- Jaroslav Řezník <jreznik(a)redhat.com> Associate Software Engineer - Base Operating Systems Brno Office: +420 532 294 275 Mobile: +420 731 455 332 Red Hat, Inc. http://cz.redhat.com/

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Message expiry problem
by Anne Wilson 25 Feb '09

25 Feb '09

I use Expiry on most of my (IMAP) folders. On less important ones, expiry permanently deletes messages. That works fine. More important folders, I set the expiry to move them to server/Trash, where they stay a little longer before being permanently deleted. At least, that has always worked before. Now I'm seeing, on the F10 netbook "Moving old messages from folder KDE-fedora to folder Trash failed". My 4.1.3 laptop can still expire them, so although I've not been aware of when this started it's probably quite recent. Anne

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Icons missing in system tray
by Patrick Boutilier 25 Feb '09

25 Feb '09

In case anybody else runs across this. KDE 4.2 from rawhide. For the longest time all of the icons except ksynaptic's would be invisible in my system tray on my laptop. You could click on where the icons were supposed to be, or hover over them to see tooltips, but the icon itself was invisible. The odd thing was that my machine at work (also rawhide) did not have this problem. At first I thought it might be an nvidia issue (both laptop and work machine use the nvidia drivers) but I was also having overheating issues with the laptop so I borrowed another Dell laptop while mine was being repaired. Just put the hard drive in this newer Dell with an intel video card and the problem persisted. This morning I updated kdelibs and noticed that /etc/profile.d/kde4.sh was created as /etc/profile.d/kde4.sh.rpmnew which meant I had modified /etc/profile.d/kde4.sh . I had added export KDE_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1 a while back and this was the cause of the problems. Removed export KDE_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1 and logged back in again and now all icons appear in the systray. :-)

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Display problem with plasma news widget
by Eelko Berkenpies 25 Feb '09

25 Feb '09

Before I submit it as an issue to bugs.kde.org I would like to know if I'm not the only one having this problem. The plasma news widget is displaying an awful large whitespace between items for me. And I can't seem to get it away, I tried disabling timestamps, titles and descriptions. And I don't know if it's the feed either because I've got this issue with multiple feeds (even the standard one). Below you will find an example of what I mean, after all a picture says more then a thousand words. :) http://berkenpies.nl/pic/news_widget.png -- Eelko Berkenpies

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None
by w bugar 24 Feb '09

24 Feb '09

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weird artifact appearing in my upper right screen
by Claude Jones 24 Feb '09

24 Feb '09

This is a screen grab of a weird visual artifact that started appearing in the upper right of my screen in the past few days. This is on an ASUS laptop running F10 with all the latest software from testing and kde-redhat-unstable http://www.eelpotflats.com/files/artifact.jpeg While this is a static grab, the vertical lines that almost resemble waveforms, short and green on the lower left side, and tall and gray on the right side, are actually in motion from left to right, and the number that you see is constantly changing appearing to vary between 57-62 continuously -- can anyone think of what this might be? I have gone through all the plasmoids I have turned on, and tried turning them off, and I've looked through the list of running programs in system monitor, but nothing jumped off the page... -- Claude Jones Brunswick, MD

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Problems with Kopete in 4.2
by Arthur Pemberton 24 Feb '09

24 Feb '09

First of, kopete apperently changed the plugin name for MSN, and didn't provide any way to migrate. So anyone with an MSN account would have essentially lost it due to the update to 4.2. On the console, one just sees: kopete(4980)/libkopete Kopete::PluginManager::loadPluginInternal: Unable to find a plugin named ' "kopete_msn" '! kopete(4980)/libkopete Kopete::PluginManager::loadPluginInternal: Unable to find a plugin named ' "" '! Also, Kopete can't seem to start kwallet ---- console output : start ---- $ kopete Calling appendChild() on a null node does nothing. Calling appendChild() on a null node does nothing. Calling appendChild() on a null node does nothing. kopete(4980)/libkopete Kopete::PluginManager::loadPluginInternal: Unable to find a plugin named ' "kopete_msn" '! kopete(4980)/libkopete Kopete::PluginManager::loadPluginInternal: Unable to find a plugin named ' "" '! Calling appendChild() on a null node does nothing. [pembo13@Watson ~]$ kopete(4980): Couldn't start kwalletd: "KDEInit could not launch '/usr/bin/kwalletd'." kopete(4980): Couldn't start kwalletd: "KDEInit could not launch '/usr/bin/kwalletd'." kopete(4980): Couldn't start kwalletd: "KDEInit could not launch '/usr/bin/kwalletd'." kopete(4980): Couldn't start kwalletd: "KDEInit could not launch '/usr/bin/kwalletd'." kopete(4980): Couldn't start kwalletd: "KDEInit could not launch '/usr/bin/kwalletd'." kopete(4980): Couldn't start kwalletd: "KDEInit could not launch '/usr/bin/kwalletd'." kopete(4980): Couldn't start kwalletd: "KDEInit could not launch '/usr/bin/kwalletd'." kopete(4980): Couldn't start kwalletd: "KDEInit could not launch '/usr/bin/kwalletd'." kopete(4980): Couldn't start kwalletd: "KDEInit could not launch '/usr/bin/kwalletd'." kopete(4980): Couldn't start kwalletd: "KDEInit could not launch '/usr/bin/kwalletd'." kopete(4980): Couldn't start kwalletd: "KDEInit could not launch '/usr/bin/kwalletd'." kopete(4980): Couldn't start kwalletd: "KDEInit could not launch '/usr/bin/kwalletd'." ---- console output : stop ---- -- Fedora 9 : sulphur is good for the skin ( www.pembo13.com )

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