Theme configuration file?
by Gene Smith
I have been seeing this in 4.4. When I select system setting
"appearance" I immediately see a pop-up dialog saying "could not find
theme configuration file." But when I dismiss it, things seem to work
OK. Wondering if anyone else has seen this?
-gene
14 years, 2 months
My particular Nepomuk/Akonadi issue...
by Steven P. Ulrick
Hello Everyone
I am creating a new thread on this, because having followed the other
thread on this issue, I don't THINK I've seen it exactly like this. Even
if my situation IS the same as others that have been fixed on this list, my
problem has not been fixed. So, here goes...
I am using KMail 1.13.0 from within Kontact 4.4. This is all with the KDE
that ships with Fedora 12 (which recently came in with the normal updates.)
When I log in, I get the normal message about Akonadi starting up. It
seems to do this successfully:
http://www.afolkey2.net/~steve/kde-nepomuk-screenshot-002.jpg
After a few minutes (or less,) the following error/warning pops up:
http://www.afolkey2.net/~steve/kde-nepomuk-screenshot-001.jpg
The following screenshots show that mysqld is running under my name, and
the nepomuk related process that does start successfully:
http://www.afolkey2.net/~steve/kde-nepomuk-screenshot-003.jpg
http://www.afolkey2.net/~steve/kde-nepomuk-screenshot-004.jpg
This is what I THINK sets my situation apart from the others mentioned on
this list: other than Neopmuk indexing being disabled, I have absolutely
no other issues using KMail/Kontact. Receiving & Sending email works just
as well now as it did before the recent upgrade.
I just went to the appropriate section of "systemsettings" and checked the
two boxes shown on the following screenshot. Interestingly, indexing
seemed to be going on for a few minutes, then the error/warning that is
shown in the following screenshot came up:
http://www.afolkey2.net/~steve/kde-nepomuk-screenshot-005.jpg
After all of that, here is a screenshot of the nepomuk processes that are
currently showing:
http://www.afolkey2.net/~steve/kde-nepomuk-screenshot-006.jpg
Also, here is the output when I run "nepomukserver" from a terminal:
http://www.afolkey2.net/~steve/kde-nepomuk-output-001.txt
Of particular interest (I think) are these lines:
[steve@localhost .public_html]$ grep -i crashed kde-nepomuk-output-001.txt
ProcessControl: Application '/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub' stopped
unexpected (Process crashed)
Application '/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub' crashed! 4 restarts left.
ProcessControl: Application '/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub' stopped
unexpected (Process crashed)
Application '/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub' crashed! 3 restarts left.
ProcessControl: Application '/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub' stopped
unexpected (Process crashed)
Application '/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub' crashed! 2 restarts left.
ProcessControl: Application '/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub' stopped
unexpected (Process crashed)
Application '/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub' crashed! 1 restarts left.
ProcessControl: Application '/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub' stopped
unexpected (Process crashed)
Application '/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub' crashed! 0 restarts left.
ProcessControl: Application '/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub' stopped
unexpected (Process crashed)
Application '/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub' crashed to often. Giving up!
All of this is after following the advice located on this page:
http://userbase.kde.org/Akonadi#Troubleshooting_Tips
In particular, this:
qdbus org.kde.NepomukServer /nepomukserver org.kde.NepomukServer.quit
rm -r .kde/share/apps/nepomuk
nepomukserver
Also, in my case, "qdbus org.kde.NepomukServer /nepomukserver
org.kde.NepomukServer.quit" does NOT stop "nepomukserver" I have to do
that manually.
My system is as follows:
Fedora 12 (fully updated)
Processor: Intel Xeon 2.0GhZ Processor (QuadCore)
Memory: 8gigs of DDR3 RAM
Anyway, I need to go to work now...
Steven P. Ulrick
14 years, 2 months
Three simple user questions
by Tomas Straupis
Hello
Can somebody help me with these simple questions:
1. How do I disable functionality, that when I move a window close
to the top (possibly close to any edge) of the screen KDE maximises
it?
2. How do I switch to "standard" KDE mouse pointer (the one seen in
most KDE screenshot), to be more specific where can I download that
cursor theme (what is it's name)?
3. Is it possible to change the "glow" colour? The one "beneath"
active window. Currently it's blue.
Thank you
P.S. I did google but couldn't find any satisfying answers (I've
possibly used wrong search keywords/names).
--
Tomas Straupis
14 years, 2 months
kmail dying and killing my system - akonadi? or nepomuk? issue?
by Dave Stevens
A couple of days ago I was using my F11 gnome system where I use kmail
as pop client and ran some ordinary updates (including several kde
updates) from the usual Fedora repo. Subsequently I got progressively
slower and slower kmail and then my whole system bogged.
The current situation is that kmail is totally unusable, and as soon
as I fire it up my whole system is on the verge of unusability.
My mail is tied up in kmail boxes that I now cannot access. I of
course have work in progress that I can't get at.
There was a pretty good thread on this topic on the fedora-list and it
was suggested that people on this list might have more info.
So what I think is happening is that somehow akonadi and/or nepomuk
are fried, giving extremely slow (glacial) performance for programs
that depend on them. I was able to see from a nepomuk failure message
a link to a kde site where there were instructions for a workaround.
This helped a bit and I will no doubt need to find those instructions
again and get familiar with the process, because the fix is transient.
For unrelated reasons I've had to reboot and every time I do I'm back
in glacial terrain.
Can anyone (PLEASE) suggest a decent fix or provide more information
about this issue?
TIA
Dave
--
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."
Krishnamurti
14 years, 2 months
Regular users happy with KDE 4.4.0 SC?
by Martin Kho
Hi,
Today KDE 4.4.0 came in on my production system - fully updated FC12.
First, congratulations and thanks for the hard and mostly good work!
Next, I was hit by (1) errors during the start of akonadi and (2) a messagebox
that was telling me that nepumuk is disabled.
I've followed the discussions on fedora-kde, so I knew what could happen. But
what would a regular user think? Is KDE 4.4.0 some what to early pushed? How
can we be - a little more - sure this won't happen in the future? Any thoughts
on this? (I tried kde 4.4.0 on rawhide and not on my production system for
obvious reasons :-))
Martin Kho
Note 1: trying to start nepomuk caused abrt to kick in. I'll see if I can get
a decent bug report.
Note 2: don't understand me wrong, It's not my intention to start a flamewar
:-)
14 years, 2 months
packaging rant
by John Aldrich
I don't know if this is the proper list to post this to or not. However,
there seems to be a problem with the way that, at least KDE apps are
packaged as monolithic packages. That is, if you want some aspects of KDE
Multimedia, you have to get *all* of KDE-MultiMedia, you can't just pick
and choose what parts you want.
It would seem to me that it would be simpler to have the "basic" required
sub-systems as one package and then package all the individual apps that
depend on that basic sub-system as separate packages. I'm not a programmer,
but it doesn't seem to me that it should be that hard.
Other distributions seem to be able to get away with this, so why not
Fedora? I posted on a local LUG list about the problems I was having
yesterday and earlier this morning with KMail and one of my fellow geeks on
that list pointed out that Debian (I think it was) allows one to
selectively install apps.
I don't want to completely revamp the whole distribution, but in my not-so-
humble opinion, there need to be some changes so that things aren't
packaged as huge, monolithic packages. I mean, come on... you shouldn't be
required to have all of KDE-Multimedia if you just want KMixer. Sure there
are going to be major sub-systems that KMixer requires, but why should
someone be forced to take every Multimedia app that KDE has just to get
KMixer?
Is this something that can be looked into?
14 years, 2 months
Panel transparency in 4.4
by Patrick O'Callaghan
I use the auto-hide feature for the panel, so I'd prefer that when it
appears it not be transparent, since it can be quite hard to read with
text shoing through from underneath (I'm using Oxygen BTW). Does anyone
know where to configure this? It isn't among the panel settings as far
as I can see.
poc
14 years, 2 months
On Nepomuk
by Timothy Murphy
I've been reading about the aims of Nepomuk
at <http://userbase.kde.org/Nepomuk>
and at the Wikipedia pages mentioned there.
To me, the aim seems excessively wide,
and therefore rather vague.
There are different kinds of classification,
and I'm doubtful if you can bring them all
under one umbrella.
Searching for a lost photo,
and integrating AddressBook into KMail,
are very different activities;
and I suspect that if you try to use the same program
for both you will simply make both tasks more difficult.
I'm not convinced that there will be adequate recompense
for the added complication.
To my cynical eye, someone (probably in Denmark)
put forward an attractive sounding project
and got a good tranch of EU funding,
and now the project is complete it has to be "sold" to someone,
in this case KDE.
--
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
14 years, 2 months
QT-4.6 updates make font larger ?
by Armelius Cameron
Hello,
I haven't done a full update that includes kde-4.4 (I was going to wait until
I get on LAN at home). But I had to update qt-4.6 since a proprietary app
needs it.
Now on KDE all fonts appear slighly larger and/or bolder. It's rather obvious
on Kontact/Kmail message & folder lists. But also visible difference shows on
the message pane / kmail compose windows. The text on the Kile editor are
bolder & slightly larger. The only thing I did was "yup update qt". I didn't
change any configuration at all.
Anyone else seeing this ?
--
AC
14 years, 2 months
