kde August 2011

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Server-based contact list
by Timothy Murphy 25 Aug '11

25 Aug '11

I've been looking for some time for a way (hopefully KDE) of keeping an address-book/contact list on a server, so that it can be accessed, and edited, from a laptop. Presently I'm running OpenLDAP on my server, but this is not entirely satisfactory. I use KMail on my laptop, but the interface with the OpenLDAP server is not very good (to put it mildly). The features I would like are: 1. There should be a simple web interface for accessing and editing the contact list on the server. 2. It should also be possible, and relatively easy, to access and edit the contact list through KMail/KAddressBook. 3. There should be a simple interface to mobile phones to allow contacts to be added to, and copied from, the phone. 4. The information stored with each contact should be as flexible as possible; there might or might not be an email address, and there might or might not be a phone number. I'd be interested to learn how KDE experts set up their address book(s)? -- 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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Mail popups in KDE 4.7.0
by Lester M Petrie 24 Aug '11

24 Aug '11

Hi Since I updated to KDE 4.7.0 (except for kdepim, which is 4.4.11), I am being driven crazy with popup notifcations whenever email is delivered (or sent). There are 2 different popups that are generated for each instance, and each time they are displayed, a sound is produced. I would really like to turn the popups off, but if that is not possible, then suppressing the sound alert would be better than nothing. The first popup is: USER: The MBox file was changed by another program. A copy of the new file was made and pending changes are appended to that copy. To prevent this from happening use lockin... where USER is my user id. There looks to be more to this message, but I can't find it. The second message is: USER: The file 'file:///var/spool/mail/USER' was changed on disk while there were still pending changes in Akonadi. To avoid data loss, a backup of the internal changes has been crea... Again I am unable to find the rest of this message. I had to downgrade kdepim because the mail migration failed, and kmail2 would not start. It complained about an invalid mailbox, but I created a new user with no mailbox, and it wouldn't start there either. KDE 4.7 solved some other problems I was having, so I really don't want to have to backup to what I was using before, but these popups are very distracting, and when a couple of hundred Fedora 16 update emails show up, the bottom right corner of my screen is essentially worthless until they have all been delivered. Once they came so close together they caused knotify to go into a loop. -- Lester M Petrie 865-574-5259 petrielmjr(a)ornl.gov

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git analog for kdesvn?
by Tomas Straupis 23 Aug '11

23 Aug '11

Hello Can you suggest something similar to kdesvn to work with git? Thank you -- Tomas Straupis

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KDE47 - strange behavior in conversion of mail files
by Claude Jones 22 Aug '11

22 Aug '11

No one else is reporting this, but I've had a bizarre experience after updating to KDE4.7 with my KMail email. Where previously the root of my folder tree started with "Local Folders" and all my sub-folders were listed below, what's occurred is that a new root folder "KMail Folders" was created; below this new top-level folder was replicated the entire folder structure of my previous "Local Folders" folder; at the same time, "Local Folders" remained at the same root level as "KMail Folders" with its sub-folder structure intact - so now I have these two top-level folders with identical sub-folder structures below them; now, it gets even stranger - in this dual/parallel folder structure my emails were found with no sense or seeming reason for which emails ended up in which. For example my sub-folder "Fedora-list" had about two thousand messages in each folder, some in the new "KMail Folders" structure, and some in the old "Local Folders" structure... These are not duplicates, they just got randomly sorted, some remaining in the original folder, and some moved into the new. Since I have over 30k messages in my archive, this is not an insignificant deal. Some mail is very, very, old stuff that I definitely don't want to lose. Looking at my filters, I see that all the filters that had previously been set to "Local Folders\some sub-folder\etc" had been converted to "KMail Folders\some sub-folder\etc" - now, I'm in the process of hand-copying everything from the old structure into the new, but, it's very tedious, taking sometimes several minutes to list the messages in a folder, and taking a very long time to perform the actual copy. Before I started doing this, I gave the machine a very long time, over 24 hours, thinking maybe it was just a long involved conversion that was going on, but, that theory didn't hold out, so now I'm doing this by hand... Anyone else see anything like this? -- Claude Jones Brunswick, MD, USA

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No official kde-4.7 updates for fedora 15
by Rex Dieter 20 Aug '11

20 Aug '11

In this past week's kde-sig meeting, we came to the hard decision to opt not to provide kde-4.7 as an official update to fedora 15. Full meeting logs here, http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/teams/kde-sig/kde-sig.2011-08-16-15.06.log… We will, however, continue to dedicate efforts to provide kde-4.7 in a dedicated feature repository for those who want it, as mentioned previously, http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/kde/2011-August/010008.html -- rex

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dedicated fedora-kde47 yum repo
by Rex Dieter 20 Aug '11

20 Aug '11

since so many folks seem to be asking for it, I threw together a dedicated kde-4.7-for-fedora15 yum repo today. http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/rdieter/kde47/ Enjoy. Please do spread the word that folks looking for kde-4.7 should use this rather than kde-unstable. -- rex

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krunner --graphicssystem raster = unhappy
by Rex Dieter 19 Aug '11

19 Aug '11

fyi for those of you tracking kde-unstable repo. qt-4.8.0-0.9.beta1 builds with -graphicssystem raster now, and I found that krunner is unhappy now. See also, http://bugzilla.redhat.com/732066 http://bugs.kde.org/280390 And, if you happen to run into any other raster-related issues, please file bugs and block our tracking bug, http://bugzilla.redhat.com/732065 aka http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=qt-raster -- rex

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pkg reviews needed, call to arms!
by Rex Dieter 19 Aug '11

19 Aug '11

we're getting quite a backlog of items on our kde-reviews tracker, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/showdependencytree.cgi?id=kde-reviews&hide_reso… (many submitted by me, so I can't help with the review work directly) items of particular interest to me include: * libalkimia (blocking kmymoney-4.6 update) * kcm-qt-graphicssystem * anything in the telepathy-kde stack so, folks with packaging/reviewing experience, please do take a look and help knock some of these out. And, please do feel free to poke me if you're interested in review swaps. thanks, rex

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power applet - is this bug fixed in 4.7 ?
by Genes MailLists 18 Aug '11

18 Aug '11

After my laptop has been using sleep - then later its on A/C - unplugging and going on battery - the power applet switches to 'powersave' from 'performance'. However - it really has not changed - and the screen is bright. In the applet if I toggle to performance (no visible change) and then back to powersave - then screen dims .. Anyone know if this is fixed in 4.7? thanks. gene/

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Undoing a maximize
by Lester M Petrie 17 Aug '11

17 Aug '11

I am using uptodate KDE on Fedora 15 (x86_64). I skipped Fedora 14, and went directly from Fedora 13 to 15. I am generally quite happy with the changes to KDE in F15, espcially being able to bring up a useable menu with a middle mouse button click on the background. There is one change from F13 that I am not happy about, however. I have defined a key combination to maximize a window. In F13, a second use of this combination would undo the maximize. In F15, a second use only does an undo for a motif window. Simple X windows ( and others ) seem to ignore the second use. Is something not configured correctly? Is there someother way to undo the maximize? -- Lester M Petrie 865-574-5259 petrielmjr(a)ornl.gov

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