kde August 2009

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Using hard links in Dolphin
by Patrick O'Callaghan 27 Aug '09

27 Aug '09

My main use of Dolphin is to copy bunches of files to removable devices such as pendrives. Often the files will come from different parts of the filesystem and hence can't be selected all at once for drag-and-drop. Furthermore, the copy itself is fairly slow (large files and USB devices), but if I start several copies in parallel the process becomes even slower. I haven't measured it but it definitely looks much slower than copying the same set of files one after the other, which could well be a bug but that's another matter. One way to make all this a bit easier would be to create a Staging directory and link the candidate files into it, then copy them all in one swell foop and remove them when done, but there doesn't seem to be a way to do this in Dolphin. Drag-and-drop offers a menu of options: Copy, Move or Link, but the Link is a symbolic link. Thus the linking phase works fine, but on copying the Staging directory Dolphin simply copies the links and not the targets, which is useless (and doesn't even work when the destination doesn't support symlimks). Since all the candidate files are on the same filesystem, hard links would solve the problem, but there doesn't appear to be a way of creating them from Dolphin (and the online Help says *nothing* about the pop-up menu on right-click, such as whether it's configurable). Any thoughts? poc

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Konqueror sftp and history sidebar
by Ariel Constenla-Haile 27 Aug '09

27 Aug '09

Hi all, can you confirm the following on 4.3.0: * the History on the Sidebar shows no history at all, but if you go to "Go - Show History" there is actually your history * sfpt protocol does not work, at least tested with fedorapeople.org Regards -- Ariel Constenla-Haile La Plata, Argentina

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Fwd: Re: website mockups, what is fedora?
by Jaroslav Reznik 27 Aug '09

27 Aug '09

We should comment this and answer. ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Re: website mockups, what is fedora? Date: Monday 24 August 2009 From: Máirín Duffy <mairin(a)linuxgrrl.com> To: fedora-advisory-board(a)redhat.com I just wanted to bump this because I would love to see a response to this... Also note I'm currently running an informal survey about when/why - how - what users download to help inform this. But I need to hear from KDE folks too so I can understand your goals. ~m On Fri, 2009-08-21 at 22:33 -0400, Máirín Duffy wrote: > KDE folks, please tell me HOW not having a link to the KDE spin on the > main download page is going to hurt you. Please. Tell me the problems it > will cause that I need to solve and I am sure they can be solved in > other and potentially better ways. > > I cannot solve the problems it will cause you in my designs if I do not > know what they are. I have tried to tell you in many different ways why > the link has been removed - along with 20 other links - because we are > targeting a new class of users. > > Tell me what you really want - what are the KDE spin's goals? > > - Do you want to grow users of Fedora KDE? What users are you looking to > attract? How do they differ from the target users of the Desktop spin? > How would you market to them? > > - Do you simply want KDE to be recognized as an important part of the > Fedora project? There are many, many, many potential ways of doing that, > that do not involve the 'Get Fedora' page at all. > > - Do you just want KDE to be easy to find for the experienced KDE users > that know what they're doing? There must be modifications we could do to > address this case. > > I'm trying to reverse-engineer your intentions. But I have NO CLUE what > it is you're wanting. My blog has been flooded with complaints that > there is no KDE link, and I've even been subject to rather harsh and > unfair berating in IRC over this. Let's fix this by talking about your > goals and your concerns about the problems this change is going to cause > rather than demanding via multiple forms of communication that it should > be added back without rationale. > > No matter how many times I repeat it I do not think it is going to > change - adding a KDE link to that page not only completely goes against > the requirement of having one main default download on the page, but it > really also goes against my professional opinion as a designer as what > is best for making a page that will attract the types of users that the > Board has told me they would like to make a try at. > > So please tell me what problems removing that link is going to cause > you, and please tell me what your goals as a project are. I will do my > very best to come up with something that you can at least be amenable to > (and I am hoping you would rather be delighted with it), I have > absolutely nothing against you and anytime I've needed help with > something KDE, KDE SIG members have been extremely responsive and > helpful. So, please don't take this or make this personal. Help me and > you have a right to complain if you don't like the results. > > If the goal is to 'show KDE as a prominent and valued member of the > Fedora community', again, there are far better ways of doing that than > cluttering up the main download page. For real. Fedora KDE is not just > an ISO file. Fedora KDE is a SIG, Fedora KDE is a community, Fedora KDE > is a group of really cool (well at least not when they're berating me in > IRC ;-) ) and smart people who put out one of the best versions of KDE > for a distro out there. So why do you sell all of Fedora KDE short by > considering it just to be an ISO file? _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board(a)redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board ------------------------------------------------------- -- Jaroslav Řezník <jreznik(a)redhat.com> Associate Software Engineer - Base Operating Systems Brno Office: +420 532 294 275 Mobile: +420 731 455 332 Red Hat, Inc. http://cz.redhat.com/

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Amarok cover download problem.
by Diego 27 Aug '09

27 Aug '09

Hi! I'm experiencing a problem when downloading covers inside Amarok. I'm not 100% sure, but I don't remember having this issue before the update KDE 4.2.4 -> 4.3.0 and Amarok 2.1.1-1 -> 2.1.1-4. https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=183178#c9 I have this issue in two different Fedora 10 installations. Anybody else with the same problem? Regards, and thanks for 4.3 packages! Diego

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Thanks for KDE 4.3
by Arthur Pemberton 27 Aug '09

27 Aug '09

I am very greatful for KDE 4.3 -- it finally brings the ability to show applications in the default application launcher by specific name, instead of the Gnomey generic name. I very much appreciate this 3.5 feature that has returned. There is one regression : KMail has again lost essential shortcuts such a Ctrl+C , am I a going to have to manually set basic keyboard shortcuts every kdepim update? -- Fedora 10 (www.pembo13.com)

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Leonidas splash screen on dual-head looks bad
by Mary Ellen Foster 27 Aug '09

27 Aug '09

I suppose I should bugzilla this, but I just wanted to check if this was just me ... when I boot my computer in dual-screen mode and start KDE, the Leonidas splash screen comes up in the following configuration: - Monitor 1 (internal laptop display): background image only, in the (smaller) size of my external display - Monitor 2 (external): a distorted version of the background, plus the Fedora word and "ribbon", both with pure black background (so they look like cut-outs on the screen) I think this has got worse with KDE 4.3 -- before, I had the same background-image issues, but at least the Fedora and ribbon were on the internal screen too. Does anyone else run KDE in this configuration and do they see this too? MEF -- Mary Ellen Foster -- http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/mef/ ICCS, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.

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Critical problem with all F11 LiveCDs
by Arthur Pemberton 26 Aug '09

26 Aug '09

I recently purchased a "Acer - Aspire One Netbook AO751H-1346" which comes without an optical drive. The following installation methods via USB drive failed: - Live (gnome) - Live-KDE - Live-XFCE - netboot.iso to disk as live image I eventually got an 8GB usb drive, and following instructions to create two partitions, installing boot.iso to the first, and placing the DVD iso on the second partition -- I'm not a big fan of the DVD install -- but it worked. Definition of "failed" : BIOS seems to successfully pass off execution to the boot loader on the USB drive, then display goes white. Pressing any key causes "press [Tab] key to change options" message to scroll by under the white screen. Booting of Live image shows no sign of continuing to boot. And everything is unresponsive until restart. I tried 3 USB drives of various ages. This is currently the only Fedora list that I am on, and I am not sure what component I should file a bug against, yet I think that this is an important enough problem to follow up on. -- Fedora 10 (www.pembo13.com)

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Re: Critical problem with all F11 LiveCDs
by Adam Miller 26 Aug '09

26 Aug '09

I've successfully installed via usb using both the gnome and xfce live cd on my acer aspire one so I'm relatively certain this is not a bug. -Adam (From Android) On Aug 26, 2009 1:12 PM, "Arthur Pemberton" <pemboa(a)gmail.com> wrote: I recently purchased a "Acer - Aspire One Netbook AO751H-1346" which comes without an optical drive. The following installation methods via USB drive failed: - Live (gnome) - Live-KDE - Live-XFCE - netboot.iso to disk as live image I eventually got an 8GB usb drive, and following instructions to create two partitions, installing boot.iso to the first, and placing the DVD iso on the second partition -- I'm not a big fan of the DVD install -- but it worked. Definition of "failed" : BIOS seems to successfully pass off execution to the boot loader on the USB drive, then display goes white. Pressing any key causes "press [Tab] key to change options" message to scroll by under the white screen. Booting of Live image shows no sign of continuing to boot. And everything is unresponsive until restart. I tried 3 USB drives of various ages. This is currently the only Fedora list that I am on, and I am not sure what component I should file a bug against, yet I think that this is an important enough problem to follow up on. -- Fedora 10 (www.pembo13.com) _______________________________________________ fedora-kde mailing list fedora-kde(a)lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fedora-kde New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org

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scidavis segfault on startup on kde4.3
by Neal Becker 26 Aug '09

26 Aug '09

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=519377

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KNode in different places
by Timothy Murphy 26 Aug '09

26 Aug '09

I use KNode to access the same newsgroups with different news servers in different locations. At present I have different accounts, each listing the same newsgroups. 1) Is there any simple way of "sharing" a newsgroup between different accounts, so that the list of read messages is the same in the two cases? 2) Is there any way of disabling an account that is not in use without actually removing it, so that it is easy to re-instate it? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland

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