kde June 2009

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28 Jun '09

Currently when I log in I get the solar backdrop. How can I change this to leonidas? Anne -- New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org Just found a cool new feature? Add it to UserBase

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Automatic upgrade - incomplete kde?
by Anne Wilson 28 Jun '09

28 Jun '09

I allowed the automatic update on the netbook last night. All seemed to go well up to and including the message that it was finishing off the install. When next I looked I had a black screen with a white square cursor. I left this overnight, in case something was still running in the background, but it wasn't. A reboot brought the same display. I was able to get a level3 login, both as user and root. Can someone advise me where to look now? Thanks Anne -- New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org Just found a cool new feature? Add it to UserBase

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Re: Minor dovecot/KMail problem
by Kevin Kofler 26 Jun '09

26 Jun '09

Timothy Murphy wrote: > You are going to find this difficult to believe, > but I did not actually understand your reference to "upstream" > in response to my query (I was the OP). "Upstream" is literally where the water you're seeing in the river is coming from. For software, it means where the software is coming from. (Is that metaphor really that hard to comprehend? :-( ) So for KDE, that's the KDE project. Reporting bugs upstream means reporting them in their bug tracker, which is located at: https://bugs.kde.org/ Kevin Kofler

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system bell in konsole
by Orion Poplawski 26 Jun '09

26 Jun '09

How do I get konsole to output a system bell beep on a bell? In System Settings -> System Bell I've checked use system bell, and the test button makes a noise, but no effect on konsole. konsole -> settings -> configure notifications doesn't seem to give the option of using the system bell, and play sound -> browse just puts you in your home directory which is kind of useless if you are looking for system sounds. Thanks! -- Orion Poplawski Technical Manager 303-415-9701 x222 NWRA/CoRA Division FAX: 303-415-9702 3380 Mitchell Lane orion(a)cora.nwra.com Boulder, CO 80301 http://www.cora.nwra.com

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fc10 x86_64 missing packages
by John Pilkington 26 Jun '09

26 Jun '09

Hi Rex, I have 9 newish packages of 4.2.4 flavour that won't install - including kdebase, kdebase-libs, kdm, kdeartwork. They need matching kdebase-runtime and kdepimlibs, and ksysguardd looks more complicated. Are these in the pipeline? I have 'stable' and 'testing' enabled. Currently 'Upgrade all' proposes to revert some packages from 4.2.3 to 4.1.2 Thanks a lot, John P

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Re: Minor dovecot/KMail problem
by Rex Dieter 25 Jun '09

25 Jun '09

Anne Wilson wrote: > On Wednesday 24 June 2009 01:41:07 Kevin Kofler wrote: >> I know what distribution packagers do, I am a Fedora KDE packager. And we >> ask users to report their bugs upstream unless there is evidence that >> they're specific to Fedora. The vast majority of bugs which are reported >> to us are NOT specific to Fedora, they're upstream bugs. Also note that >> we don't even have that many patches, we try to stay as close to upstream >> as possible. > > This is contrary to what I've been told. It's not a black or white thing, and often depends on case-by-case factors, including who you're dealing with, the severity of the issue at hand, etc... > I always recommend trying to ascertain whether other distros also see the > problem, and to report it upstream if that seems to be so. If it is not > possible to ascertain that I was told that it should in the first instance > be reported to the distro, who will then pass it upstream if relevant. Here's my quick $0.02: When distro maintainers (fedora kde-sig) ask reporters to upstream issues, it is usually at the point where it is strongly believed to not be a distro-specific issue. For issues the team deams critical and reproducible, sure, we'll usually take the reigns from there. Otherwise, our usual sop is also, to ask reporters to upstream issues themselves. And even then "Upstream" here sometimes has varying meanings, from "ask on upstream mailing list" (similar to checking other distros) to reporting on upstream bug trackers. The moral of my story is to prevent issues languishing downstream indefinitely, to avoid the kind of comment "this bug has been around forever, why is it still a problem and not fixed?", which does no one any good, esp when upstreams aren't made aware of the issues (which, by all accounts so far, seems to be what happened here in this particular dovecot/kmail case). Hopefully this clarifies things, as I see it. I don't mind continuing to discuss the details of how all this happens, and how best to share the burdens of bug reporting, followup, reproducibility, triage, etc... Actually, I'd invite such dialog, to make things better for everyone involved.

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help
by Charles J Smith III 25 Jun '09

25 Jun '09

i'm new to fedora, let alone fedora 11. i've installed the full version of fedora 11 and by default got the gnome desktop. i've done teh yum install system-switch-desktopmanager and switched to kde i've gone to and downloaded the kde package i've restarted and get the kde login but when i log into my user i get only screen with a terminal box in the bottom right corner. i've logged into to su, and cd /etc/sysconfig and nano my desktop file and it has desktop=kde and displaymanager=kde. how do i get the kde desktop? when i log out and log in as root, it works fine. only as the user do i get the terminal box. please help. charles

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Are repo databases being regenerated
by Eli Wapniarski 25 Jun '09

25 Jun '09

Hi Rex Are you regenerating repo databases? No Presto metadata available for fedora http://apt.kde-redhat.org/apt/kde-redhat/fedora/10/x86_64/stable/repodata/r…: [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (111, 'Connection refused')> Trying other mirror. No Presto metadata available for kde-redhat-stable http://apt.kde-redhat.org/apt/kde-redhat/fedora/10/x86_64/testing/repodata/…: [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (111, 'Connection refused')> Trying other mirror. No Presto metadata available for kde-redhat-testing http://apt.kde-redhat.org/apt/kde-redhat/fedora/10/x86_64/unstable/repodata…: [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (111, 'Connection refused')> Trying other mirror. No Presto metadata available for kde-redhat-unstable -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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F10 update problem?
by Thomas Davis 25 Jun '09

25 Jun '09

[root@localhost ~]# yum update Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit http://apt.kde-redhat.org/apt/fedora/all/stable/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found Trying other mirror. ftp://apt.kde-redhat.org/apt/fedora/all/stable/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 4] IOError: [Errno ftp error] 550 Failed to change directory. Trying other mirror. Setting up Update Process Resolving Dependencies --> Running transaction check ---> Package kdeartwork.x86_64 0:4.2.4-1.fc10 set to be updated --> Processing Dependency: kdebase-workspace >= 4.2.4 for package: kdeartwork-4.2.4-1.fc10.x86_64 ---> Package kdeartwork-kxs.x86_64 0:4.2.4-1.fc10 set to be updated --> Processing Dependency: kdebase-workspace >= 4.2.4 for package: kdeartwork-kxs-4.2.4-1.fc10.x86_64 ---> Package kdeartwork-screensavers.x86_64 0:4.2.4-1.fc10 set to be updated ---> Package kdeartwork-sounds.noarch 0:4.2.4-1.fc10 set to be updated ---> Package kdeartwork-wallpapers.noarch 0:4.2.4-1.fc10 set to be updated --> Finished Dependency Resolution kdeartwork-kxs-4.2.4-1.fc10.x86_64 from kde has depsolving problems --> Missing Dependency: kdebase-workspace >= 4.2.4 is needed by package kdeartwork-kxs-4.2.4-1.fc10.x86_64 (kde) kdeartwork-4.2.4-1.fc10.x86_64 from kde has depsolving problems --> Missing Dependency: kdebase-workspace >= 4.2.4 is needed by package kdeartwork-4.2.4-1.fc10.x86_64 (kde) Error: Missing Dependency: kdebase-workspace >= 4.2.4 is needed by package kdeartwork-4.2.4-1.fc10.x86_64 (kde) Error: Missing Dependency: kdebase-workspace >= 4.2.4 is needed by package kdeartwork-kxs-4.2.4-1.fc10.x86_64 (kde) You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem You could try running: package-cleanup --problems package-cleanup --dupes rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest

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Dealing with fc10 packages in F11
by Anne Wilson 24 Jun '09

24 Jun '09

After the update I'm left with a number of fc10 packages. I can't find any way of getting them upgraded to fc11 packages. I tried to install libiodbc, to deal with the problems with akonadi and strigi, but that said that v. 3.52.6-4.fc10 would be installed from updates - after which it said that it couldn't be found. What do I need to do to sort this out? Anne -- New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org Just found a cool new feature? Add it to UserBase

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