kde April 2010

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Need help getting my address book back
by Arthur Pemberton 12 Apr '10

12 Apr '10

So in the major KDE update before the last, I seem to have lost the ability to add (or otherwise change) my address book (which had since been renamed to anaondi something). I did the most recent update in the hope that the problems had been resolved, now I can't use my Kontact address book at all, the window is blacked out with the message "Akonadi is not operational". Since I didn't do anything to break Akonadi, I'm unsure of what to do to fix it. Can anyone assist please? -- Fedora 11 (www.pembo13.com)

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Re: KDE questions.
by George R Goffe 12 Apr '10

12 Apr '10

Armelius, First of all, I want to thank everyone who responded. I can and will use EVERY tidbit of information! Thank you. You suggested that I look in "System-Settings --> Keyboard and Mouse --> Global keyboard Shortcuts" for keyboard mappings. This menu does exist; it's where I was looking for "raise" and "toggle raise/lower". I see settings for alt-up and alt-down. There is nothing about raise a window or toggle raise/lower a window as in 3.5. I'm not sure I understand how this works though. Did this get lost in the new development? Regards, George... Message: 2 Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2010 09:31:44 -0400 From: Armelius Cameron <armeliusc(a)gmail.com> Subject: Re: KDE questions. To: KDE on Fedora discussion <kde(a)lists.fedoraproject.org> Message-ID: <201004090931.44529.armeliusc(a)gmail.com> Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-15" On Thursday 08 April 2010 11:58:07 pm George R Goffe wrote: > Jaroslav, > > Thanks for your responses. > > When I say "widget" I think of the X11 term, is that the right word? Like > the xterm? Like the browser? Like any "thing" that is displayed by the > window manager. With KDE 3.5 I was able to map alt-up to raise a "thing" > (widget sounds so much more elegant) which isn't all that exciting, the > alt-down key sequence I had mapped to the toggle raise and lower. I used > this a lot. Is it gone now? I know that there are other ways to get a > "thing" to come to the top but I got used to the alt- sequences. Are they > gone now? What you called "widget" is much more commonly refered as "Window". "Widget" has different meaning in KDE 4. You can try to set that shortcut via System-Settings --> Keyboard and Mouse --> Global keyboard Shortcuts KDE Component: KWin you can search for Raise window (haven't tried this myself, but this seems to be what you want). Hope that helps. AC

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KDE Cosmetic glitch
by Mark Bidewell 12 Apr '10

12 Apr '10

Has anyone noticed that in the latest KDE updates the Konsole icon on the right click desktop menu is missing? -- Mark Bidewell http://www.linkedin.com/in/markbidewell

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Dolphin cause X high CPU usage
by Armelius Cameron 12 Apr '10

12 Apr '10

Hello, I have noticed that Dolphin can cause X process to use a lot of CPU on both my laptop and desktop running F12 with latest updates. I tried restarting, login to KDE, then just run Dolphin and top. All I need to do is just moving around mouse cursor on Dolphin window and I can drive X CPU usage to 40%, and Dolphin CPU usage to above 30% on my desktop (Athlon 64 3000 (1.8GHz CPU)). Similar thing happens on my laptop (a dual core machine). The desktop has NVidia GE Force FX 5500 with Nouveau driver. Laptop has Nvidia GeForce GT 220 with proprietary NVidia driver (installed from RPMFusion repository). Is anyone else seeing this ? Thanks. AC

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What is kio_http_cache_cleaner ?
by Marko Vojinovic 10 Apr '10

10 Apr '10

... and why is it throttling my processor for five minutes after every boot? Mainly halting one of the processors for I/O waiting (according to top and iotop). Yum says it belongs to kdelibs package. So what is it for? Is it necessary, can it be shut down or rescheduled or something, is it configurable, what is its purpose? I am not rebooting that often, but when I do, I am a bit annoyed by this. OS itself boots quite quickly and I am very happy with that, but when KDE starts up, it hogs the machine for several minutes before it becomes usable. So what's the story here? Best, :-) Marko P.S. F12/64bit/KDE4.4.1

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Re: KDE questions.
by George R Goffe 09 Apr '10

09 Apr '10

Jaroslav, Thanks for your responses. When I say "widget" I think of the X11 term, is that the right word? Like the xterm? Like the browser? Like any "thing" that is displayed by the window manager. With KDE 3.5 I was able to map alt-up to raise a "thing" (widget sounds so much more elegant) which isn't all that exciting, the alt-down key sequence I had mapped to the toggle raise and lower. I used this a lot. Is it gone now? I know that there are other ways to get a "thing" to come to the top but I got used to the alt- sequences. Are they gone now? Regards, George...

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Mouse button menu
by Lester M Petrie 09 Apr '10

09 Apr '10

I have just discovered that by left clicking on the background, and selecting "Desktop Activity Settings", I can enable an "Application Launcher" menu by clicking on the background with the selected mouse button. This was a feature from KDE 3 that I really missed when I transitioned to KDE 4. The application launcher menu looks rather like an old version of my standard application launcher menu, with pieces missing, and lots of rearrangement. What is the menu displayed, and how can it be edited? -- Lester M Petrie Oak Ridge National Lab 865-574-5259

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Re: KDE questions.
by George R Goffe 09 Apr '10

09 Apr '10

Jaroslav, I also used to be able to set the behavior of the left/right/center mouse buttons. Is this gone too? You can see now why I asked about a document about configuration. I don't want to ask the whole group every time I want to do something. "It's not what you know that hurts you, It's what you know that ain't so." Wil Rogers

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KDE questions.
by George R Goffe 08 Apr '10

08 Apr '10

Howdy, I'm a recent convert (shudder) to KDE 4.x and am looking for a way to do what I used to do with KDE 3.x. I have several questions: 1) Is there a conversion document that collects all this configuration information in one place by any chance? I chose KDE some time ago (several years) because of it's "Control Center" which gathered all the config options I wanted in ONE PLACE and not all over the landscape as Gnome was (maybe still is?). 2) I used to be able to map "alt up/down" arrows to raise/lower the "current" Widget. Apparently this capability no longer exists? Did it get overlooked? What else was overlooked? Any/all help/hints/tips/suggestions would be appreciated. Regards, George... "It's not what you know that hurts you, It's what you know that ain't so." Wil Rogers

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Re: Summer Coding Idea/Proposal -- KDE Netbook Edition Spin
by Ryan Rix 08 Apr '10

08 Apr '10

Looks like I'm going batty... I could've sworn I sent a reply to this :) On Mon 5 April 2010 4:32:22 pm Karsten Wade wrote: > On Sun, Apr 04, 2010 at 07:17:15PM -0700, Ryan Rix wrote: > > What are your thoughts? > > Rather than presuming ... which do you want to be, student doing the > work or mentor for another student (who does the work)? I hadn't really considered that to be completely honest... I'm kind of at some point in between needing a mentor for this, and wanting to mentor it. On the one hand, I know what needs to happen, and how to do it to make this spin happen so wouldn't really be sure what to do with a mentore... But on the other hand, I don't really feel that I am qualified to be mentor to someone else at the current time. I suppose we can just leave it as "an idea I'm throwing out right now" :) > It sounds like a well-thought out proposal, so far. What we need is a > KDE SIG mentor, who works on the support from the SIG overall. You > probably know more about that than I do :) and could likely fill the > mentor role, _if_ you weren't thinking for you to be the student. > > If you are the student, great idea, do you happen to know who could be > mentor? If so, please invite said person to this list. :) cc'd the KDE list. Any SIG member who is interested in mentoring or being mentored on this project is welcome to subscribe to the summer-coding list and join in on the discussion. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/summer-coding-discuss > Regardless, you are doing the right thing, let's keep on moving, and > get this in to the ideas page. I think we need to do some work to > make: > > 1. "Template" (layout) for an idea page, along with a category. > 2. Short list of ideas with link to invididual pages. > 3. [[Summer Coding 2010 ideas]] is comprised of the above. > > In fact, I just did that, also renamed [[Summer Coding ideas for > 2010]] to [[Category:Summer Coding 2010 ideas]]: > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Summer_Coding_2010_ideas > > If you look at the page source, it works now like this: > > [[Category:Summer Coding 2010 ideas]] > transcludes in [[Summer Coding 2010 idea - RHQ - shortinfo]] > which has a link to => > [[Summer Coding 2010 idea - RHQ]] > which transcludes in [[Summer Coding 2010 idea - RHQ - shortinfo]] > and links to [[Category:Summer Coding 2010 ideas]] > > I'll put this all together in a template page that is at the top of > [[:Category:Summer Coding 2010 ideas]]. (The ':' after '[[' is the way > to link to a category inline without putting the linking page _in_ the > category.) Annnnnd here we are: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Summer_Coding_2010_ideas_-_KDE_Netbook_Spin > - Karsten -- Ryan Rix == http://hackersramblings.wordpress.com | http://rix.si/ ==

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