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video result (recordmydesktop) is bad when KWin Compositing is enabled (was Re: [opensuse-kde] KWin's Video Record Effect)
by Andi Sugandi 14 Jun '10

14 Jun '10

On 6/8/10, Lubos Lunak <l.lunak(a)suse.cz> wrote: > Just use recordmydesktop or similar tool, they should work too. As i noticed in last thread[0] (sorry about double posts, it was an accident of pressing 'Enter' button on no purpose), I would not choose recordmydesktop to capture KDE desktop because the video result is bad[1] when capturing the desktop if KWin Compositing is enabled. The video will be good enough if this feature is disabled[2]. I'm using KDE SC 4.5 Beta2 on openSUSE 11.2 (fglrx), I also test it on openSUSE 11.3 M#7 with radeonhd driver but the result is not better than the previous one (11.2). Is it about my poor video adapter[3] or the driver[4] itself? Thanks in advance. [0] http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-kde/2010-06/msg00009.html [1] http://andi.opensuse-id.org/uploads/out-7.ogv [2] [3] 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS780M/RS780MN [Radeon HD 3200 Graphics] [4] http://andi.opensuse-id.org/2010/06/03/opensuse-11-2-ati-catalyst-linux-dis… Best regards, -- Andi Sugandi. Bandung, Indonesia. openSUSE-id Team, openSUSE Community Member. http://wiki.opensuse.org/User:Andisugandi -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help(a)opensuse.org

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(was Re: [opensuse-kde] KWin's Video Record Effect)
by Andi Sugandi 14 Jun '10

14 Jun '10

On 6/8/10, Lubos Lunak <l.lunak(a)suse.cz> wrote: > Just use recordmydesktop or similar tool, they should work too. -- Andi Sugandi. Bandung, Indonesia. openSUSE-id Team, openSUSE Community Member. http://wiki.opensuse.org/User:Andisugandi -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-kde] System Settings Displaying the Name of the Monitor
by Roman Bysh 10 Jun '10

10 Jun '10

Dear Listmates, What are your thoughts on displaying the name of your monitor so that it shows up in Monitor - similar to the way it is done on GNOME? Cheers! Roman -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-kde] openSUSE KDE Team Meeting - Thursday 10th June, 1600UTC
by Will Stephenson 10 Jun '10

10 Jun '10

The next openSUSE KDE Team meeting will be held today, Thursday 10th June, at 16:00 UTC. The current list of scheduled topics is: * old action items *review KDE defaults on 11.3 (mime types especially, the screensaver, Nepomuk (bug#575149)) ** Who wants to open torrents with KGet or iso files with Ark? :-) Amarok's .desktop file has a "InitialPreference" to ensure it's the default app for the types it supports, but Kaffeine doesn't ** Progress regarding font rendering on Konqueror ** InitialPreference system is broken. If/once Amarok starts supporting video you can't set Amarok as the default audio player and Kaffeine as the default video player since both support audio and video. mimeapps.list can't be used because also has effect on Gnome. Add extra, KDE-specific, mimeapps.list file? evaluate increased visibility in general kde community * conclusion of repository reorganization * Is openSUSE/KDE doing anything regarding the dbus thread bug? (see [1] for patch+bug reports) * openSUSE KDE Netbook edition - (https://features.opensuse.org/308401) should we make it easier to select plasma-netbook in 11.3 (AJaeger) * discuss the posibility of building KDE Unstable Live CDs from time to time (helps testing KDE, increases openSUSE/KDE visibility; on the other hand, it requires some resources). * status report * Q&A, misc Further items are welcome; please add them http://en.opensuse.org/KDE/Meetings Please use http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=10&month=6&year=20… to get the time of the meeting in your time zone. The meeting will happen in #opensuse-kde IRC channel on irc.freenode.net You are welcome to join the meeting and participate! -- Will Stephenson, KDE Developer, openSUSE Boosters Team SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - Nürnberg - AG Nürnberg - HRB 16746 - GF: Markus Rex -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-kde] Re: [opensuse] 11.2 KDE3 repo(s?)
by Felix Miata 09 Jun '10

09 Jun '10

On 2010/01/26 02:34 (GMT-0800) Curtis Rey composed: > Here are the basic links to SuSE kde 3 repos: > kde community > http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Community/openSUSE_11.2 > kde core > http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/KDE3/openSUSE_11.2/ > kde backports > http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Backports/openSUSE_11.2/ > There are others and soon to be added independent kde v3 repo to maintain it after > discontinuance of v3 support. Tool around the openSUSE site - they're there. Can anyone confirm the validity of the above? Yesterday I updated from 11.1 to 11.2 using zypper dup after zypper ref after changing the standard repos to 11.2 and adding the middle link above. I wound up with virtually no KDE3, and a non-functional KDE4 (due to only 192M RAM probably). When I get YaST2 software open and search KDE I see virtually no KDE3 anything. Has KDE3 for 11.2 been moved? Is http://en.opensuse.org/KDE3 obsolete? -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-kde] Repo re-structuring: idea for the second step
by Sven Burmeister 08 Jun '10

08 Jun '10

Hello everyone! I'd like to share an idea I had when looking at other distro'S update mechanisms for KDE repos. This idea is not necessarily changing the plans for the repository restructuring but a second step in order to solve the issue of users getting confused by the repo structure, no matter which repo structure is agreed upon. There are just too many bits that cannot be solved or explained via the structure of the repos but need some more guidance. Sven --------- Proposal: Hide the repository structure from the user. There are two types of users, update users and testing users. Update users might want: - Only security updates (recommended) - Backports only (minor risk) - minor KDE version updates (minor risk of regressions) - major KDE version updates (normal risk of regressions) + revert to KDE packages that came with [user's distro] Test users might want: (- help testing security updates) - help testing the next openSUSE version (risky) - help testing the next KDE version (very risky) The above options could be put into a systemsettings module. The user would not need to know anything about the repo structure, he just needs to know what he wants to do. The GUI enables the KDE Team to add more information and warnings while easing the testing and usage of KDE packages. And it does not have to worry about the repo structure being understandable by users. The systemsettings module would use kupdateapplet to check for changes and notify the user on KDE login. The actual repository structure could then be something like: (STABLE) KDE43 -- 11.1 -- 11.2 KDE44 -- 11.1 -- 11.2 KDE45 -- 11.1 -- 11.2 Backports -- 11.1 -- 11.2 Factory -- 11.1 -- 11.2 The module automatically picks the correct repo according to the user's settings and distro, i.e. it knows that openSUSE 11.2 was released with 4.3.5 and thus "minor updates" will always stay within KDE43 (unless the user picks scenario c)). A few scenarios: a) A 11.2 user picks "major updates", so currently he would get KDE44 and that repo would hold the 4.4.4 packages. As soon as KDE 4.5 is released, the systemsettings module package in KDE44 -- 11.2 is updated to regard KDE45 as the new repo for "major updates" and notify the user about this change on the next KDE login. If the user does not update he will stay on KDE44, i.e. be safe. b) Let's say KDE 4.5 will not work on openSUSE 11.1. Then the system settings module package in KDE44 -- 11.1 will never get updated to regard KDE45 as the repo for "major updates" and the user would be safe as well. c) A 11.2 user picks "major updates" and thus updates to KDE 4.4.4 from the KDE44 repo. After that he changes his choice to "minor updates". The systemsettings module now has to consider that although the user is on openSUSE 11.2 and has enabled "minor updates" he should still get the packages from KDE44. The same procedure would work if the user picks "help testing next KDE version" and thus updates to KDE45 but changes to "minor updates" before KDE46 is created. d) A 11.2 user wants to help testing the KDE packages for the next distro release without actually installing the new distro betas and thus picks "help testing the next openSUSE version" which will make the systemsettings module use the "Factory -- 11.2" repo. As soon as the KDE packages from Factory get released as part of a new distro version the systemsettings module package in that repo will also get updated and warn the user that the KDE version in Factory changed. e) A 11.2 user wants to help testing the next KDE version and thus picks the respective setting. He will then get KDE45 -- 11.2 and as soon as KDE SC 4.5 is released the systemsettings module package in that repo will get updated as well and warn the user. The systemsettings module cannot be part of 11.3 and I'm not sure it should be part of the distro because it might make "testing" packages too easy. So instead of it being part of the distro, the user can just install it via one- click. The GUI could look like this and include links to the wiki or another source of help and explanations: openSUSE KDE repository settings Current status and choice plus a button to execute that choice, e.g.: You are using KDE 4.4.4 and have enabled minor updates for KDE 4.4. [There are currently no new updates available] (This line depends on the user's choice below) or You are using KDE 4.3.5 and have enabled major updates for KDE [Click here to update to KDE 4.4.4] or You are using KDE 4.3.5 and have enabled updates for testing KDE for openSUSE 11.3 [Click here to update to KDE 4.4.3] or You are using KDE 4.5 RC1 and have enabled updates for testing the next KDE version. [Click here to update to KDE 4.5 RC2] or You are using KDE 4.5 RC1 and have chosen to revert to the packages that are part of openSUSE 11.2 [Click here to revert to KDE 4.3.5] If you want to update: [] Only security updates (recommended) [] Backports only, e.g. applications like amarok or digikam (minor risk) [] only minor KDE version updates, e.g. KDE 4.3.1 to KDE 4.3.5 (minor risk of regressions) [] inlcuding major KDE version updates, e.g. KDE 4.3 to KDE 4.4 (normal risk of regressions) [] revert to KDE packages that came with [user's distro] If you want to test KDE packages: ([] help testing security updates) [] help testing the next openSUSE version (risky) [] help testing the next KDE version (very risky) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-kde] KDE SC 4.4.4 packages for Open SuSE?
by Paul Hands 08 Jun '10

08 Jun '10

Hi, In the past, when a new SC is released, the binary packages for OpenSuse have been available pretty much instantly. The 4.4.4 SC has been out for a good few days now, and I don't see a download or 1 click install this time. Has something changed? Or am I just too impatient :-) Paul -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-kde] Default application
by Cristian Morales Vega 08 Jun '10

08 Jun '10

Hi, I would like to understand how the default application is selected in KDE4. I have two files, * An AVI file that "xdg-mime query filetype" says has MIME type video/x-msvideo * A Matroska file that "xdg-mime query filetype" says has MIME type video/x-matroska And, * My ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list file only has an entry for application/x-bittorrent, so it's irrelevant. I don't think there is any other mimeapps.list file in the system. * None of the app's .desktop files have an InitialPreference(1) entry Looking at the Matroska file it seems the priority of apps is based on: * First, the exact MIME type. If an app only supports application/x-matroska it will have a lower priority than other app that supports video/x-matroska * Second the InitialPreference value * Third... the alphabetical order ¿!? But then I fail to see a logic for the AVI file. Since the four apps that support it (VLC, gnome-mplayer, kaffeine and MPlayer) support exactly video/x-msvideo I would expect them to be alphabetical ordered. And that's what happens with all of them but VLC, somehow VLC is the default app. So, could someone explain me the full logic to select the priority of apps? (1) that seems no documented... default value seems to be 1, not sure if it accepts non-positive values -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-kde] KWin's Video Record Effect
by Andi Sugandi 08 Jun '10

08 Jun '10

Hi Listmates, I wanted to make some KDE / openSUSE screencasts but losing the compositing when using recordmydesktop. It was known to use KWin's videorecord instead[0], but unfortunately, I could not find the KWin's viderecord effect on KDE System Settings[1]. Could it be somewhere else or the feature is gone now[2]? or is there any other such tool? Thanks in advance. [0] http://old.nabble.com/How-to-make-a-screen-cast--td20375447.html [1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPYudgqO-U8 [2] http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/KDE/kdebase/workspace/kwin/effects/ Best regards, -- en.o.o/User:Andisugandi. openSUSE-id Team, openSUSE Member. Bandung, Indonesia. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-kde] ksshfs
by Hans Krueger 08 Jun '10

08 Jun '10

is their a replacement for ksshfs in kde 4 ? not fish does not play nice openoffice and none kde stuff -- MAY THE SOURCE BE WITH YOU LINUX -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help(a)opensuse.org

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