kde December 2009

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Viewing attachments in KMail
by Anne Wilson 09 Dec '09

09 Dec '09

Re-sending - as no-one replied, and the problem is a big one for me - I don't recall having this problem until recently, but suddenly I have problem with viewing attachments. An attached .pdf, for instance, tells me Unable to run the command specified. The file or folder file:// does not exist. What could be causing this? It's not file associations - I checked that. It seems that whether the attachment is a .pdf or a .wmv, I am offered a context menu more suited to a URL. Anne -- KDE Community Working Group New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org

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KDE Desktop Search on F12 ?
by Reuben D. Budiardja 08 Dec '09

08 Dec '09

Hello, I am interested in having a desktop search of some kind and has been looking at what KDE has. I've been browsing on Nepomuk, Strigi, Virtuoso, Soprano, and I am bit lost as to what is available right now. So I am wondering if someone can tell me what's available now (working, beta, etc), and what I need to do to have this. Few more specific questions: 1. I try to go to System-Settings -> Advance Settings --> Desktop Search. A dialog with title "Nepomuk Server not running -- System Settings" shows up, freeze for a while (no text inside it), and the the text shows up : "The Nepomuk Server is not running. The settings will be used the next time the server is started.". How do I start the Nepomuk Server ? I did check the "Enable Nepomuk... " and "Enable Strigi.. " checkboxes. 2. How do I use the indexed file ? How do I Search it ? will it be able to show email, chat history, etc ? Does Dolphin for example use this indexing when I do Find Files --> Content [tab] ? (right now it seems that I can use that but I am not sure how Dolphin does the search itself if the Nepomuk / Strigi is not yet enabled). Thanks for any help RDB

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Fwd: Re: [kdepim-users] Kontact refuses to re-start
by Anne Wilson 07 Dec '09

07 Dec '09

A fix is on the way! :-) Anne ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Re: [kdepim-users] Kontact refuses to re-start Date: Monday 07 December 2009 From: Allen Winter <winter(a)kde.org> To: kdepim-users(a)kde.org On Monday 30 November 2009 3:14:54 pm Anne Wilson wrote: > Do you use KOrganizer? We are finding that there is a problem that sounds the > same in Fedora. For some reason Kontact simply will not start if your > korganizerrc is set to use the monthly view as current. If that line is > removed Kontact starts normally. Until this is resolved we have to make sure > that we don't stay in month-view when we shut kontact down. HTH > I just fixed the bug Anne reported where using the month view as the initial view in KOrganizer caused things not to work. You might want to report this back to your distro so they can patch kdepim. The relevant revisions are trunk => r1059603 4.3 branch => r1059605 Note that this seems to be a change in a behavior for recent versions of Qt, probably version 4.6.0 -- KDE Community Working Group New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org

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Icon categories disappear in Menu Editor
by Reuben D. Budiardja 06 Dec '09

06 Dec '09

Hello, If I open menu editor, and click on the icon for an item, usually it shows up with a "Select Icon" dialog, and option for "System icons" and "Other icons". On the "System icons" line, there's usually drop-down categories such as: Application, Action, etc. For some reason, this afternoon when I try to edit the menu, the drop-down category does not show anything, i.e. the drop down is still there but there is no options for the categories. If I right click on the Kick Off itself, then click "Application Launcher Settings" and click on Icon, the categories for System Icon is still there. How do I fix the missing categories ? Thanks. RDB

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Really Slow Navigating Files
by Eli Wapniarski 06 Dec '09

06 Dec '09

Hi Guys I'm still using Fedora 11 (x86_64) with Nvidia proprietary drivers from Livna. Suddenly, I've noticed a major slowdown when trying to naviagte folders with a large number of files and folders contained within. I was wondering if anyone else noticed that. I was also wondering if this was related in anyway to the slowness discussed a little while back regarding F12 and https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=533620 Thanks for any input. Eli -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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KDE 4.3.75 rather unresponsive
by Martin Kho 06 Dec '09

06 Dec '09

Hi, I'm using this version of kde for a while now, and experience in a lot of apps more or less severe slowness (e.g. dolhin, kmail, system settings). In .xsession-errors the following error appears many times: mmap failed for "/var/tmp/kdecache-martin/kpc/kde-icon-cache.index" A few weeks ago a similar issue was discussed in [1], causing slowness. It looks like it's somehow related to qt-4.6. The only bug report I could find is [2], but that related to a crash. I don't have any crashes. Does anyone else see slowness when using qt-4.6? Martin Kho [1] http://www.pubbs.net/kde/200911/33187/ [2] https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=182026

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newer phonon pkgs coming to kde-testing
by Rex Dieter 06 Dec '09

06 Dec '09

I'll be dropping newer phonon-4.3.50-based packages into kde-testing soon. These have been in -unstable for awhile, and by all accounts, should be better. These include the new pulseaudio-integration done by colin guthrie/mandriva. Along with phonon, the f12 repo, will include a newer pulseaudio-module-x11 package, which includes the device-manager pa module for enhanced enumeration of pa backend devices (with it, you'll get to see/specify the hardware pa is talking to, not just "PulseAudio"). See also, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=541419 -- Rex

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Changing default email client system wide in kde
by Roderick Johnstone 04 Dec '09

04 Dec '09

Hi I'd like to change the default email client in kde from kmail to thunderbird. I can change it for my pown account by using system settings / Default applications, and it seems to add a file emaildefaults in my .kde tree, but I'd like to be able to change it system-wide for all my users. Copying that emaildefaults to /usr/share/config doesnt seem to work. Can anyone suggest the correct way to effect this change of email client please. Thanks Roderick

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kate missing on kde 4.3.3 x86_64
by Jeremy Sanders 04 Dec '09

04 Dec '09

Hi - I've upgrade to KDE 4.3.3 and to Fedora 12 (x86_64). Does anyone know why the kate editor appears to be missing? I can't see any obvious package which should supply it. Jeremy

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F12 Glitchy on Activating Window border (Raise / Focus) w/ Nvidia driver
by Reuben D. Budiardja 03 Dec '09

03 Dec '09

Hello, I have a fresh install of F12. I use the Nvidia proprietary driver because I have to run some 3D visualization software. I use this proposed fix for the Xorg due to the reported problem with KDE: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=142860 I have compositing enabled. Everything seems to work fine, except some glitch on window border when it's activated. I have "Focus follow mouse" set. When my mouse hover to a window behind another window, the focus suppose to follow that mouse (and it does), and change the color or that Window's border to indicate it's now the active window. In a lot of cases, the newly active Window's border is either: 1. Not changed to active, or there are some delays before it gets changed, although the focus does seem to react immediately according to my preset delay time (e.g. I can immediately type on the supposedly active window) 2. The color change to active but has some glitch, some of the old inactive color remains and it gets mixed 3. The color of the newly active windows changes, but the color of the supposedly inactive windows remains "active", so now according to the window border color I seems to I have two active windows. Disabling compositing seems to remove this problem. Has anyone else seen this ? Is this related to the aforementioned problem of KDE + proprietary Nvidia driver ? Thanks. RDB

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