May 2022 - openSUSE KDE 3 - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Building kvkbd
by Ray Vine 20 Jun '22

20 Jun '22

I've updated the KDE3 kvkbd build to include further patches developed for the TDE version. The URL is the same as for the Nov '20 posting - https://ray-v.github.io/KDE3-kvkbd-patches.tar.xz. Enhancements include: Added ColorDialog for user setting keyboard and key colours Tooltips I18n support Added levels 3 & 4 [AltGr AltGr+Shift] characters display On most physical keyboards there is a very limited number of level 3 & 4 characters shown [on the right of the key]. Kvkbd shows all the characters available when AltGr or AltGr+Shift is clicked. Keyboard selection is immediate using either the KDE keyboard tool or setxkbmap and can therefore be toggled to any other layout to insert any other character from an alternative layout. Alternatively, create your own symbols file with the characters you would want in the level 3 & 4 positions. This has been done with this mathematical symbols file which is the us [basic] layout with mathematical characters and level3(ralt_switch) added: https://github.com/CaptchaSamurai/Math-Unicode-keyboard-overlay-Linux-XKB/r… Loading this [mth] with the KDE keyboard tool or setxkbmap will enable the mathematical symbols to be seen by clicking on AltGR or AltGr+Shift, rather than having to know where they are on a physical keyboard. Kvkdb works with the physical keyboard, so the character can be printed from either. The patches have been mostly left as they developed and are commented so can be included or not for any particular feature.

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Killer! .xz support in konqueror! That's a pleasant surprise!
by David C. Rankin 28 May '22

28 May '22

All, In 15.4 beta, I had a number of .xz files and by chance I clicked one -- bingo, automatically opened and ready to navigate in tree-mode just like .gz, .bz2, .zip, etc.. Whoever applied or wrote the patch -- my hat is off to you. Cherry picking from TDE had been on my to-do since 42.3 and it is was quite a treat to see it was already done! KDE3 konqueror --profile file-management is by far the best file-manager ever devised. (totally borked in KDE4 and I wrote 4+ bugs against it in Plasma, and in Plasma it still doesn't work nearly as good as it does in KDE3. Still the best desktop available. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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15.4 Beta - Bug 1199643 Submitted for kmenuedit hang on New Item Select Icon
by David C. Rankin 20 May '22

20 May '22

All, Yasuhiko, I filed: Bug 1199643 - Leap 15.4 Beta - KDE3 kmenuedit crash - QGArray::at: Absolute index 42385864 out of range https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1199643 Summary: kmenuedit hangs when you add a new item and click to change the icon. The change icon dialog gets to 14% and then fills .xsession-errors with QGArray out-of-range errors, e.g. QGArray::at: Absolute index 42385920 out of range QGArray::at: Absolute index 42385920 out of range QGArray::at: Absolute index 42385920 out of range QGArray::at: Absolute index 42385920 out of range QGArray::at: Absolute index 42385920 out of range QGArray::at: Absolute index 42385976 out of range QGArray::at: Absolute index 42385976 out of range (**35 GiB** of same error as mremap occurs) A strace attached before the change icon button is clicked shows that it scans through /usr/share/icons as normal (about 34K of lines of checking for every icon under the sun), then mmap (mremap) enters an endless loop mremap'ing over and over again, e.g. writev(4, [{iov_base="5\1\4\0\257\t\0\3\353\2\0\0000\0/\0007\2\4\0\260\t\0\3\257\t\0\3\0\0\0\0"..., iov_len=15772}, {iov_base="\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., iov_len=9216}, {iov_base="", iov_len=0}], 3) = 24988 openat(AT_FDCWD, "/usr/share/icons/hicolor/symbolic/apps/goa-account-exchange-symbolic.svg", O_RDONLY) = 11 fstat(11, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2633, ...}) = 0 fstat(11, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2633, ...}) = 0 fstat(11, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2633, ...}) = 0 read(11, "<svg xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/20"..., 4096) = 2633 fstat(11, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2633, ...}) = 0 fstat(11, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2633, ...}) = 0 brk(0x565273c37000) = 0x565273c37000 brk(0x565273c20000) = 0x565273c20000 mmap(NULL, 233472, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7f886630a000 brk(0x565273c08000) = 0x565273c08000 mremap(0x7f886630a000, 233472, 237568, MREMAP_MAYMOVE) = 0x7f88662d0000 mremap(0x7f88662d0000, 237568, 241664, MREMAP_MAYMOVE) = 0x7f88662d0000 mremap(0x7f88662d0000, 241664, 245760, MREMAP_MAYMOVE) = 0x7f88662d0000 mremap(0x7f88662d0000, 245760, 249856, MREMAP_MAYMOVE) = 0x7f88662d0000 mremap(0x7f88662d0000, 249856, 253952, MREMAP_MAYMOVE) = 0x7f88662d0000 mremap(0x7f88662d0000, 253952, 258048, MREMAP_MAYMOVE) = 0x7f88662d0000 (millions of more mremap lines) First time I've ever seen something like this. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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15.4 Bug Filed for Missing Submenu Categorization
by David C. Rankin 15 May '22

15 May '22

All, KDE3 works fine on 15.4. There are still a few loose ends and some stray dependency issues from libpython 2.7, but other than a few hiccups, it is running great. One thing I immediately noticed was kmenu is no longer organized into convenient submenus (like the submenus under "Utilities", etc... All apps for Utilities are just dumped under Utilities with no submenus at all. I have opened a bug and will find time this weekend to look further. It is: Leap 15.4 Beta - KDE3 Menus No Longer Categorized - All Apps Dumped In Single Submenu https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1199473 -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Bug 1199544 - filed to add kde3-gtk-qt-engine to 15.4
by David C. Rankin 15 May '22

15 May '22

All, To fix the missing kde3-gtk-qt-engine package, I filed the following bug: https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1199544 -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Where is kde3-gtk-qt-engine for 15.4?
by David C. Rankin 15 May '22

15 May '22

All, The kde3-gtk-qt-engine package that helps coordinate font and size in gtk apps is missing from the 15.4 repository. the kde3-kch_gtk package is there, but that package with all prior releases was broken. It is still the same version: 0.7svn20070827-lp154.23.1. Why isn't the kde3-gtk-qt-engine package built? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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15.4 Beta - Configure Shortcut Bug (long delay, high CPU but eventually works)
by David C. Rankin 14 May '22

14 May '22

All, I have noticed a bug with any of the apps when you use the menu "Configure Shortcuts" command to set a new shortcut (like adding [Alt + .] for show hidden files in konqueror, or setting [Win + d] to show/hide the document list in kate) When sitting the shortcut when you click to modify it, there is a long delay (10-sec or so) and then the same long delay after you press the new key combination to set it, and then an even longer delay when you click Ok to save the new shortcut. I didn't load 15.3, but at least through 15.2 this was all instantaneous as it has always been. Can somebody confirm this behavior in 15.4, if so, then I'll write up the bug report. Other than nits like that and the menus not being categorized, KDE3 on 15.4 is otherwise great. There is a libreoffice-calc crash when you try and un-maximize the window, but I don't see that as KDE3 related, writer has no problem there, so that looks calc specific. Let me know if you can verify the shortcut set delay. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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still no 15.4 repos for KDE3
by Felix Miata 11 May '22

11 May '22

Is it ever going to happen? Less than 2 months left until public release. :p https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Roadmap Wed, March 2, 2022 Beta build is done Fri, April 20, 2022 Checkin Deadline for RC Wed, April 27, 2022 RC build is done Fri, May 14, 2022 Deadline for Documentation and Translations Wed, May 11, 2022 Gold Master code submission deadline Fri, May 27, 2022 Gold Master build is done Wed, Jun 8, 2022 Public Availability of the Release -- Evolution as taught in public schools is, like religion, based on faith, not based on science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata

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