April 2012 - openSUSE KDE - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-kde] fix for fontsize in kaddressbook
by Cor Blom 19 Apr '12

19 Apr '12

Hi, Submitted SR 114509 to fix bko#221963 (The font size in which the contacts are displayed is to small). It is difficult to determine a right size. My patch is conservative and removed the resizing, but maybe making it a little bigger is even better. So if it is accepted, I would like some feedback whether is size is allright now. In my home project I have build kdepimlibs4 against KR:48 with a bigger size for the font.[1] I think it is a little too much, but that is on my screen. Regards, Cor [1] http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/cornelisbb/KDE_Release_48_o… -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-kde] Akonadi's ghost still lives on in this machine
by Bob Williams 19 Apr '12

19 Apr '12

despite removing everything KDEPIM and akonadi-related on this machine, I still get an error dialogue on every login: Executable: akonadi_kcal_resource PID: 10777 Signal: Segmentation fault (11) The machine has been up for 21 days. Would an old-fashioned, Windows-style reboot get rid of it? (which would mean stopping another user's currently running scripts, which is why I haven't tried it yet). Bob -- Bob Williams System: Linux 3.1.9-1.4-desktop Distro: openSUSE 12.1 (x86_64) with KDE Development Platform: 4.8.2 (4.8.2) "release 491" Uptime: 06:00am up 21 days 12:02, 3 users, load average: 0.12, 0.06, 0.05 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde+owner(a)opensuse.org

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RE: [opensuse-kde] 12.2 focus - the big list
by Will Stephenson 18 Apr '12

18 Apr '12

That looks like a really one to add a patch to and submit a request for in OBS, wanna take it?

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[opensuse-kde] An Unhappy User
by Malvern Star 17 Apr '12

17 Apr '12

Hi All, I've previously mentioned how I was concerned about the quality of openSUSE releases. Last Friday I got some written feedback from one of my most faithful Linux customers that she asked me to pass on to the openSUSE developers. The family have 4 computers, all running various versions of openSUSE, and they have been using it since openSUSE Pro 9.3. Here is what she sent: >To the openSUSE developers >In the past Linux has served us well, we were very pleased with the system, >but in recent times there have been issues with OpenSuse that have been frustrating >and we are strongly considering looking at another program. >Our computer technician, Malvern, has encouraged us to persevere with the >system in the hope the these issues will be resolved in the near future. >We hope that you can recify the problems in a timely fashion. I'm desperate for 12.2 to be a stable release, free of distro-breaking bugs. I'm doing my best to test and report, but my Linux users are going to start abandoning SUSE for Windows 7 if things continue the way they are. Malvern. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-kde] Idea: using print-manager / plasmoid for 12.2
by Luca Beltrame 17 Apr '12

17 Apr '12

Hello, (please CC me, I'm not subscribed) first of all a small introduction: a few of you know me as "einar77" on IRC, and I'm a member of the KDE community (random patches, official forum administration, some small promo work) upstream. Here and there I have contributed a few fixes also to openSUSE packages (mainly related to PyKDE4). I'm writing this to suggest using print-manager instead of printer-applet to keep track of printing jobs on KDE. For those who don't know, print-manager is a series of programs written by Daniel Nicoletti, of apper fame (which is used as updater applet for KDE oS). print-manager consists of a library to talk to CUPS, a KCM to manage printers (perhaps overlapping with YaST on that regard) and a plasmoid for print jobs / queues. Its main advantage over the default upstream provided by KDE are: - maintained (after a hiatus, dantti resumed working on it) - an actually sane code base (believe me... I looked through system-config- printer-kde and I even managed to fix a bug) - smaller footprint (doesn't require PyKDE4) I have been using it for a while and it's definitely nice: on the negative side there are a few layout bugs in the plasmoid when embedded in the system tray that might need fixing. Some references: - http://dantti.wordpress.com/2012/04/11/print-manager-is-now-low-latency-and- low-cpu-demanding/ - http://dantti.wordpress.com/2012/02/28/print-manager-improvements/ - http://dantti.wordpress.com/2012/02/22/say-hello-to-our-must-have-new- plasmoid/ I personally think it's much better to have this solution rather than system- config-printer-kde, which is bitrotting and hardly maintainable. Opinions?

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[opensuse-kde] An Unhappy User
by Malvern Star 16 Apr '12

16 Apr '12


Hi All,

I've previously mentioned how I was concerned about the quality of openSUSE releases. Last Friday I got some written feedback from one of my most faithful Linux customers that she asked me to pass on to the openSUSE developers. The family have 4 computers, all running various versions of openSUSE, and they have been using it since openSUSE Pro 9.3. Here is what she sent:

>To the openSUSE developers
>In the past Linux has served us well, we were very pleased with the system,
>but in recent times there have been issues with OpenSuse
 that have been frustrating
>and we are strongly considering looking at another program.

 >Our computer technician, Malvern, has encouraged us to persevere
 with the
>system in the hope the these issues will be resolved in the
 near future.

 >We hope that you can recify the problems in a timely fashion.

I'm desperate for 12.2 to be a stable release, free of distro-breaking bugs. I'm doing my best to test and report, but my Linux users are going to start abandoning SUSE for Windows 7 if things continue the way they are.

Malvern.
 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-kde] Clickable User Icons At Login
by Malvern Star 16 Apr '12

16 Apr '12

Hi All, As I'm sure most of you noticed, the clickable user list disappeared from the KDE Login screen in openSUSE 12.1, instead requiring users to type in both their username and password. As this was detrimental to user-friendliness, it was decided that 12.2 would once again include a clickable list of users at login. A fix was supplied by the community for 12.1, but it was decided not to merge it into the official update repository, with the promise that improving the login screen would be a focus for 12.2. However, we have now reached Milestone 3 and there is no sign of any progress on this front. Does anyone know when these changes will be made? You can read the relevant bug report here if you are interested: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=727821 Thankyou, Malvern. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-kde] kmail crash with KR:48
by Cor Blom 10 Apr '12

10 Apr '12

Hi, I have just submitted https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=295611 Regards, Cor -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-kde] keyboard focus seems weird after upgrade to 4.8.2
by phanisvara das 09 Apr '12

09 Apr '12

openSUSE 12.1 / KDE 4.8.2 from KDE:/Distro:/Factory since 4.8.2, i find that keyboard focus acts strange, in konqueror & dolphin at least. normally the focus jumps to the first file or directory name that starts with the letter when such a key is pressed. since 4.8.2, this happens only the first time. any further keys don't move the focus at all and i have to use the arrow keys (or home/end/pgup/pgdown) to navigate. there's other strange things happening on my system, like ktorrent freezes (different thread), so i'm not sure if i messed up something, or if others are seeing this, too? -- phani. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde+owner(a)opensuse.org

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Re: [opensuse-kde] Re: [opensuse-kde3] How to get Device Notifier working for CD's & DVD's
by Bob S 08 Apr '12

08 Apr '12

On Saturday 07 April 2012 22:53:19 Carlos E. R. wrote: > (Intentionally responding off-list) > > On 2012-04-08 04:19, Bob S wrote: > > I have been following this thread carefully because I have the exact same > > problem as Maurice, SuSE 12.1, KDE 3.5.10. Also tried all of the > > instructions with no result. > > I think you should ask in the kde3 mail list, not in the kde mail list, > which is dedicated to kde4. Youarecorrect Carlos. I follow both lists and use the same "reply to list" Forgot to add the "3" before I sent it. Will resend it properly. Thanks Bob S -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde+owner(a)opensuse.org

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