July 2010 - openSUSE KDE - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-kde] KDE Branding HOWTO
by Will Stephenson 06 Jun '11

06 Jun '11

I've been finishing the branding work for 11.3 this week, and have been documenting how to do it as I go. The first draft is attached. Comments? If I was hit by a bus tomorrow, could you do openSUSE 11.4 branding? (Lubos doesn't need to answer that ;)). Will -- Will Stephenson, KDE Developer, openSUSE Boosters Team SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - Nürnberg - AG Nürnberg - HRB 16746 - GF: Markus Rex

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[opensuse-kde] KDE:Extra Repository
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 30 Aug '10

30 Aug '10

Hello Mates, i have some Questions about that Repository. 1.) I have 3 Packages (assuma, skrooge and kpassgen). Have i full control in this package? So i can use osc co and ci, or must i use submitrequest? 2.) I've seen that the publish is diabled. Can i enable this? Have a nice day... -- Sincerely yours Sascha Manns open-slx GmbH openSUSE Community & Support Agent openSUSE Marketing Team Blog: http://saigkill.wordpress.com Web: http://www.open-slx.de (openSUSE Box Support German) Web: http://www.open-slx.com (openSUSE Box Support English)

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[opensuse-kde] Transfer your packages from KDE:KDE4:Community to KDE:Extra
by Stephan Kleine 10 Aug '10

10 Aug '10

Hi guys, you either receive this email because you are listed as maintainer for KDE:KDE4:Community or are subscribed to opensuse-kde (and I couldn't be bothered to sort out the emails so my apologies if I'm telling you the obvious). Point being: KDE:KDE4:Community will get nuked soon and the new place is KDE:Extra See recent threads on opensuse-kde or http://old- en.opensuse.org/KDE/Extra_Repository for details. Therefore please be so kind to review the packages you are interested in and submit them to KDE:Extra. Also please get rid of the "kde4-" prefix and add some proper Provides and Obsoletes in the specs header. For any question just ask on the opensuse-kde or opensuse-buildservice MLs or IRC. Following the new policy you either have to use SRs to submit your packages and normally will get only maintainership for your single package. If you would like to become repo wide maintainer of KDE:Extra please apply on the opensuse-kde ML and read the above wiki link before to make sure you understand what that would mean (as in responsibilities). Also please make sure to remove any transferred packages from KDE:KDE4:Community since this makes it much easier to see what already got transferred. Thanks a lot & best regards, Stephan -- 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 11.3 kde hibernate/suspend only locks screen
by Andrew Colvin 02 Aug '10

02 Aug '10

Hi all, I have upgraded my laptop to 11.3 from 11.1 and everything works fine except hibernate and suspend options in the kicker menu only locks the screen and not do suspend/hibernate. If i run pm-hibernate or pm-suspend then everything works correctly and restarts correctly. Any ideas? -- 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] Different vendors fo Extra and Playground
by Christian Trippe 02 Aug '10

02 Aug '10

Hi, it would be nice if you could enable again to have different vendors for KDE:Extra and KDE:Unstable:Playground then the one for the main repos like KDE:Distro:* Christian -- 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] Further changes for KDE:Unstable:SC repository
by Raymond Wooninck 02 Aug '10

02 Aug '10

As that the renaming of the openSUSE KDE related repositories has been completed, it is time to introduce the second step for the KDE:Unstable:SC repository. The intention is to minimize this particular repository to the pure KDE SC weekly snapshots from trunk and the required libraries/applications for building and running the Unstable desktop. All other applications (e.g. Amarok, Konversation, etc) will be moved out to the other repositories. With the new snapshot 4.5.62 a couple of them have already been moved to KDE:Unstable:Playground. These are the packages for Amarok, Choqok, Konversation and Rekonq. I also updated these applications to their respective latest svn/git snapshots. Regards Raymond -- 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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Re: [opensuse-kde] Further changes for KDE:Unstable:SC repository
by Raymond Wooninck 01 Aug '10

01 Aug '10

On Saturday 31 July 2010 17:48:38 todd rme wrote: > I stated this before, but this really concerns me. When we get around > to beta/RC stage of KDE SC, people will be able to use a mostly stable > KDE SC, but they will be forced to use it with perhaps the pre-alpha > level versions of popular programs like amarok that will be found in > the playground repository. This could very well be the case for any > KDE-based software that does not synchronize with KDE SC release > cycle. I think people using the unstable repository need to have a > way to install stable versions of KDE software that is not part of KDE > SC, or there will be a very serious risk of making the Unstable > repository nearly much unusable in practice (since no remotely stable > version of key software will necessarily be available). Dear Todd, I believe that with the Beta cycle for KDE 4.5 it was the frst time that people switched over to the Unstable repository to get their hands on KDE 4.5. What must not be forgotten is that the Unstable Repository doesn't have most of the openSUSE patches in place, nor does it come with any warranty. Since already a couple of months we had the situation where the Amarok and Konversation packages in this repository were updated from trunk in the same frequency as the KDE desktop itself. The intention for the Unstable repository is that it would be co-installable besided the normal supported KDE desktop (KDE:Distro:Factory). This in the same manor as we had with KDE3 and KDE4. Regards Raymond -- 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] qca-ossl
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 31 Jul '10

31 Jul '10

Hello Mates, just a question. In the kde-extragear List gdebure says, that skrooge in the last version needs qca-ossl as runtime depency. Has anyone this build in the OBS, or planned? Have a nice weekend. -- Sincerely yours Sascha Manns open-slx GmbH openSUSE Community & Support Agent openSUSE Marketing Team Blog: http://saigkill.wordpress.com Web: http://www.open-slx.de (openSUSE Box Support German) Web: http://www.open-slx.com (openSUSE Box Support English)

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[opensuse-kde] PulseAudio for KDE in 11.4
by Will Stephenson 30 Jul '10

30 Jul '10

After management found some loose change down the back of the sofa at the end of the quarter I spent it on some Bluetooth kit including a headset to test the new Bluedevil KDE Bluetooth UI. This morning I got the headset working with KDE SC 4.5. I would like to discuss testing PulseAudio for KDE in openSUSE 11.4. I hope that by then our crash test dummies who are already using PA will have run over all the major, frequent bugs in implementation and deployment for us. The advantage over plain ALSA that appeals to me is allowing the user to do some useful configuration of her audio environment with UI tools, as this covers the (for example) Bluetooth case of configuring music/effects to come out of the speakers while VOIP calls are handled by a headset. I guess you can do that with ALSA but it will probably be a static setup and there is no KDE UI for it. Since KDE SC 4.5 there is a nice UI for configuring PulseAudio's Phonon backend, and KMix supports dynamic PA mixers and application audio streams. When 4.6 is released there will be a speaker setup System Settings module that can let you select audio processing depending on your speaker setup and configure audio profiles for devices. The other reason for embracing PA is that it's not going away from the distribution. At the moment (11.3) we have kept the zombies away from our sound cards on the KDE CD by removing anything that uses it, but this is fragile - most users will soon install other software that pulls in PA as a dependency. By testing out PA now we can help fix bugs in the KDE infrastructure and discover problems with the rest of openSUSE's KDE multimedia stack (eg see how Phonon VLC works with PA. FWIW, the steps I had to take to get the headset working with KDE:Distro:Factory on 11.3 are: (steps we would preconfigure OOTB for 11.4) * install pulseaudio, pulseaudio-module-bluetooth and pulseaudio-module-x11 * register KDE:Unstable:Playground repo * install bluedevil and start it with Service Manager (or relogin) * uninstall kbluetooth (not necessary but removes confusion due to 2 bluetooth icons) * start pulseaudio manually (or relogin) * execute start-bluetooth-x11 and start-bluetooth-kde * from the Bluetooth system tray, Manage Devices... * Put the headset into pairing mode * Add Device and run through the wizard with default settings. * Click 'trust' in the Bluetooth Device Manager. * restart kmix (or relogin) * Play some music * In kmix, open the mixer window and go to playback streams, right click the eg amarok stream and select 'Move' to the headset device. Make sure the stream and the headset playback device are not muted. The last step won't be necessary once we rebuild kdebase4-runtime with PulseAudio support, since then the Phonon KCM allows phonon sound categories to be routed to specific devices. Thoughts? More info and debugging tips at http://pulseaudio.org/wiki/KDE Will -- 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] Team reports & other stuff
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 30 Jul '10

30 Jul '10

Hello Mates, i would like to invite you to publish your weekly review in our Weekly News. Maybe you have seen, that we have a special place for team reports there. You can send news, suggestions and other stuff to: own- submit(a)opensuse.org. Thanks a löt for your work, :-) -- Sincerely yours Sascha Manns open-slx GmbH openSUSE Community & Support Agent openSUSE Marketing Team Blog: http://saigkill.wordpress.com Web: http://www.open-slx.de (openSUSE Box Support German) Web: http://www.open-slx.com (openSUSE Box Support English)

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