On Fri, Oct 08, 2010 at 11:43:06PM +0200, Will Stephenson wrote:
On Friday 08 October 2010 20:45:44 Oliver Kullmann wrote:
with Suse 11.3 it seems impossible that Konqueror stores passwords? I have heard about the "theory" that a window should pop up and asking about whether I want to store the password? Doesn't seem to happen.
And then there is KWallet. Opening it one "wallet" seems to be there, saying
"The name org.kde.kwalletd was not provided by ans .service files."
Hi Oliver
See if it works if you logout of KDE,
old ~/.kde4/share/config/kwallet*rc
and log back in again.
HTH
Will
Hi Will, thanks, meanwhile I got it working. The main problem is the rather weak documentation: no attempt anywhere to explain what is the underlying *concept*, only some entries regarding supposed menu-entries, which, as usual, do not really match the reality (this problem does not exist for *conceptual documentation* --- the underlying concepts are much more stable!). I assume that "The name org.kde.kwalletd was not provided by any .service files." is the default name of such a "wallet", which does add to the confusion. If I may add a general remark: I think the most important problem with any kind of software, and especially with such complex and fuzzy systems like "desktops", is that apparently nobody dares to create, discuss and document the general *abstract* concepts, the underlying ideas, the "mental images". Instead one only finds attempts at "enter this string", without even explaining what would be the result (gain). And without such underlying structures the whole KDE desktop (like any other software out there) is just a bag of hacks, assembled at random, and "discovered" by the user at random. I teach computer science, and so I know that today those which still have some sort of technical interest (not just a business interest) tend to be half-autistic, and so the links to language and meaning are broken. There used to be some attempts at some form of overviews on the Suse-distribution, as provided by Suse (back in the good olden days). This needed to be revived, but not the usual collection of hacks ("enter this"), but a kind of dictionary (all these strange KDE-notions!) with abstract explanations (of course not technical, but in some sense philosophical), which enable the reader to create a conceptual landscape, to create a mental model of the desktop, and thus enabling him to guess/conjecture how things should be: To understand anything, we constantly need to guess in advance where the flow of thought is going, and broken communication always means that the "other" (in this case the desktop) becomes a black box, where all I can do is to store input/output relations, without some underlying structures. The desktop is a permanent source of frustration. And how many hours per day are we spending on it. And it didn't need to be like that ... Sorry for the general remarks, but actually this is a kind of attempt to improve the situation. ;-) Thanks again for your answer. Oliver -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org