kde November 2011

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yaWP weirdness (shrinking size on every kde login)
by José Abílio Matos 25 Nov '11

25 Nov '11

Hi, we all know that after the Americans went to the Moon the weather is changing. ;-) Nothing new there. :-) What is new, at least to me, is that after the last update the y aWP applet is shrinking every time I restart kde, at a constant rate (unlike the universe expansion that is accelerating). Every time I open kde the applet gets smaller. This happens on two different machines so it does not seems to be something specific to this computer. Is there any else seeing this? This is really bizarre by any account. :-) -- José Matos

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QML Plasmoids
by Sven Lankes 24 Nov '11

24 Nov '11

Hi, while updating the skrooge rpm to the current release I found the following two files: /usr/share/kde4/apps/plasma/plasmoids/adviceapplet-qml/contents/ui/main.qml /usr/share/kde4/apps/plasma/plasmoids/adviceapplet-qml/metadata.desktop Looks like skrooge would have the first qml-plasmoid that would be shipped by a fedora package (unless I'm searching in the wrong places). Two questions: - I guess we need to /usr/share/kde4/apps/plasma/plasmoids owned by the right rpm (kde-filesystem?) Could someone with the appropriate commit-rights add that for me? - Would it make sense to split the two files above out to a separate rpm? -- sven === jabber/xmpp: sven(a)lankes.net

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kde-freezes while large USB copy
by Reindl Harald 24 Nov '11

24 Nov '11

am i the only one who has the problem that while i copy large files (vmware-images) on an external USB disk that kde most of the time stucks for some seconds? switch to a terminal with CTRL+ALT+F2 works fine without any delays, switching back to GUI also but it does not get refreshed - only the mouspointer is available ehis feels like with F14 on this hardware where this freezes happnde dpermanently without any reason really frustrating on a Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2600 CPU @ 3.40GHz with 16 GB RAM because on this hardware freezes are unexpected [root@srv-rhsoft:~]$ smbios-sys-info Libsmbios version: 2.2.28 Product Name: HP Compaq 8200 Elite CMT PC Vendor: Hewlett-Packard BIOS Version: J01 v02.14 [root@srv-rhsoft:~]$ lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family DRAM Controller (rev 09) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200/2nd Generation Core Processor Family PCI Express Root Port (rev 09) 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09) 00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82579LM Gigabit Network Connection (rev 04) 00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #2 (rev 04) 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 04) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev b4) 00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 5 (rev b4) 00:1c.6 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 7 (rev b4) 00:1c.7 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 8 (rev b4) 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #1 (rev 04) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev a4) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Q67 Express Chipset Family LPC Controller (rev 04) 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family 6 port SATA AHCI Controller (rev 04) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family SMBus Controller (rev 04) 01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82574L Gigabit Network Connection 02:00.0 USB Controller: NEC Corporation uPD720200 USB 3.0 Host Controller (rev 03) 03:00.0 Mass storage controller: Silicon Image, Inc. SiI 3132 Serial ATA Raid II Controller (rev 01)

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Display issues
by John Aldrich 24 Nov '11

24 Nov '11

Help! My system thinks the highest resolution I can get is 1024x768, but I *know* my system can do 1280x1024 as I did it back when I ran Fedora 15. I've got an nVidia Geforce card (built into the motherboard) and I have installed the nVidia drivers in place of the Noveau drivers, but I still can't boost the screen resolution. Can someone PLEASE help me figure out why this changed and how to fix it? Thanks!

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Freshclam problems
by Anne Wilson 22 Nov '11

22 Nov '11

On my server, running CentOS 6, I've started getting messages like No updates detected in the log for the freshclam daemon (the ClamAV update process). If the freshclam daemon is not running, you may need to restart it. Other options: etc... and /etc/cron.daily/freshclam: ERROR: Problem with internal logger (UpdateLogFile = /var/log/clamav/freshclam.log). ERROR: Can't open /var/log/clamav/freshclam.log in append mode (check permissions!). This began after an update, and I've changed nothing in the configs. Freshclam ran without problems before the update, but I'm struggling to sort this out. First, then, can you tell me what permissions freshclam.log should have? Currently it is owned clamav:clamav with rw access for clamav. I read that freshclam is launched by root, but then drops to an unprivileged user - is clamav that user? What other checks should I be making? Anne

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Amarok not playing mp3
by Tayfun Kayhan 21 Nov '11

21 Nov '11

I've the problem that Amarok cannot play mp3 files and claims that phonon-backend installation must be fixed. It tries to load the package MPEG-1 mp3 decoder but cannot do it. However, all necessary libs are installed and VLC player can play mp3 files without problem. I've googled and tried everything suggested, but could not achieve this one. Any help is appreciated. I'm on Fedora 16 - KDE, fully updated. Thanks in advance.

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Thanks
by Roy Smith 21 Nov '11

21 Nov '11

Hi All Apologies if this an inappropriate forum to post this. I just want give a shout out to the chaps responsible for KDE/Fedora 16. After years of being a happy Gnome user (initially on Fedora and for the last few years on Ubuntu), I had two rugs pulled from under me by Ubuntu's half baked Unity and Gnome's fully baked, but ill-conceived Gnome 3. I was in a real quandry, and spent a lot of hours trying to cling on to Gnome 2, but to no avail. I turned to Kubuntu, which seemed to fit the bill, but felt ponderous and laggy. This week I gave KDE/Fedora a go, and I absolutely love it. Everything I liked about Gnome 2 with Compiz, plus a whole bunch of intelligent optional extras. And it totally flies. I predict a stampede of interest towards KDE/Fedora over the coming months. In fact I'll even bet a friendly fiver that KDE will be more popular than Gnome within a few months. Thanks guys for a job well done. best Roy

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KMail "Find messages" failure
by Timothy Murphy 19 Nov '11

19 Nov '11

Fedora-16 KMail2 is 98% OK for me now, but there is one small problem. I wonder if anyone else has met it? When I use Tools=>Find Messages this works fine if I specify the Subject, but not if I specify From, which seems to give random answers. Usually it doesn't find any instances, but sometimes it finds a subset. I checked with Fedora-15. and that always gives the correct response. It may be connected with the fact that >From (the message sender) was not shown on my email lists when I first upgraded to Fedora-16; I had to add it - with Anne Wilson's help - by right-clicking on the bar at the top of the email list. -- 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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Quick review of Plasma Active 1.0 patches
by Juan Carlos Torres 19 Nov '11

19 Nov '11

Greetings, As suggested by Rex Dieter, I'm sharing my notes about the patches for Plasma Active 1.0 [1] and whether they can be possibly be included in the KDE packages. Patch for kde-runtime: active-development-4.7-diff.patch - basically removes ActivityManager. Unfortunately it also lumps together some (binary) changes to the docs and localization changes to .desktop files. - We already have this change in Fedora so this can safely disregard this patch. Patches for kde-workspace: Patches already in KDE git master (for 4.8 release). These can probably be safely included. fix-wetab-power-button-freeze.patch - single patch that combines Revision 94b134f9, Revision 098b163b, and Revision f5162387 in master nepomuksearch-566052f0.diff - Revision 566052f05846735777a091cf791639428597b40e Patches in KDE git but in specific branches. ksplash-qml.diff - adds a QML-based KSplash engine. It's in the Active/1.0 branch, Revision d190b6e78757a8c23faaaf09b97c482d91c1ba5f - From a cursory reading, it looks safe to add in. wac-html-widgets.patch - from plasma/mart/wac-appletscript branch only, Revision 91e1d8bb5a1c69bb2c0e671c680a03685c3b4254 - seems to be ok, but not really overly important I guess. Can be skipped. kwin-screenlocker.diff - also from Active/1.0 branch, Revision 94e2aeae6d757d029f4900f5150feb8a9ac5473b. Unfortunately, this is still being discussed and is a bit problematic. It might be safe to skip this for now. Other patches, not in KDE git. kwin-check-opengl.diff - not really sure what this does. Haven't gotten a reply yet from the #active channel on IRC. disable-infocenter-pci.diff disable-kcontrol-keys.diff - disables building of the PCI Module in KInfoCenter and kcm_keys KControl module respectively. I'm still not sure why it's done for Plasma Active, but definitely doesn't make sense for a regular desktop. Seems safe to skip. Hope that helps a bit. :) 1. ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/active/1.0/src/ -- Regards, Juan Carlos Torres Jucato

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Kmail Crash on Selecting Some html Messages
by Eli Wapniarski 18 Nov '11

18 Nov '11

Hi Just reported this bug upstream: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=286307 Eli -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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