kde September 2010

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knetworkmanager and plasmoid
by Eli Wapniarski 15 Sep '10

15 Sep '10

Hi I'm having a problem with knetworkmanager... the regular applet and the plasmoid. I cannot seem to find a way to connect to vpn using the applet and currently am forced to log out of kde and go to gnome when I need to access the vpn connection. Does anyone know if I need to configure something? Is there a previous bug report? Thanks Eli -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Weather Forecast widget never updates.
by linux guy 15 Sep '10

15 Sep '10

Hi people. I'm running KDE 4.5.1 from kde-tesing on a fully up to date F13 installation. I have several Weather Forecast widgets in my primary panel. I have them set to update every 30 minutes. However, they never update. The only time they update is when I log out and log back into a KDE session. Its been this way since the dawn of the Weather Forecaster application. Anyone else have this problem ? Do I have to enable a special port or something ? Networking in general seems to be very stable on my machine. I have no other issues. Thanks LG

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Releasing maintainership of packages
by Ben Boeckel 13 Sep '10

13 Sep '10

Hi, Since I've been out of the KDE scene for a while and haven't run it myself either, I'm taking myself off of the packages for those that I am a co-maintainer for (thanks to Jens Petersen for scripting it so I wasn't making even more mails with lots of checkbox clicking). For those that I am the primary maintainer for, I offer maintainership here first. Here are the packages I own: bilbo (should probably just be orphaned across the board since kdepim has it now) qca2 (comaintainers CC'd) krazy2 krename kdevplatform (comaintainers CC'd) kde-plasma-networkmanagement I learned lots of packaging tips and pitfalls to avoid from my work with the SIG and am grateful for it, but I've been using XMonad and other things of late and it doesn't appear as though I'll be returning to KDE as a user. It's great technology, I love it, and I recommend it to those who know their way around Linux or are looking into programming an application (KDE's libraries are still among the nicest I've seen around, and certainly top for GUI applications). Unfortunately, getting things to work as I've gotten my machines to run is probably still outside its scope. I'll probably still pop in the IRC now and then to help friends if they need it and I can't poke it into working. Hope to meet up with those of you who are going to be at FUDCon Tempe and at future conferences (hopefully I'll make it over to Europe one of these days). --Ben

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kmail rules, database, and filters gone haywire
by Claude Jones 12 Sep '10

12 Sep '10

I also let the recent kdepim update through and it has caused a lot of problems, some of which I don't see addressed in the various posts and replies here. The two biggest issues are these: Kmail keeps detecting mail on my ISP pop servers as new mail and re-downloading it so I end up with up to four copies of each message - then, it seems to figure something out and stops after 4 (I retrieve mail from multiple computers and only one is set to actually delete mail from the mail server and then only after 7 days - this allows various machines I work from to retrieve messages, even if one is turned off for a few days - this has worked well for years for me, but this is why it's also able to retrieve the same message multiple times) My Kmail filters work, but not consistently - usually upon downloading a batch of messages for the second time, it leaves everything in the inbox (if I highlight them all and use Ctl+j it applies the filters and the messages all get sorted in to their respective folders) I did revert Kdepim to ver kdepim-4.4.6-2.fc13.x86_64 Is this right, and should akonadi and kdepimlibs be at ver akonadi-1.4.0-0.2.fc13.x86_64 and kdepimlibs-akonadi-4.5.1-0.1.fc13.x86_64 ? I've some issues in the past, usually with new installs, where the database of downloaded messages would seem to get confused and Kmail would start downloading messages over and over, but this would generally clear up after a few days. Can anyone suggest a way to fix this? -- Claude Jones Brunswick, MD, USA

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Installing KDE on fedora 13
by Ken McFarlane 09 Sep '10

09 Sep '10

I'm a long-time computer user but i've failed to switch to KDE on my fresh fedora install. Is the help on this? I installed standard fedora 13 (gnome) and now want to use KDE. I followed the instructions in the http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/KDE#Using_KDE page down to the 'Graphical Interface" section. Whether I use the switchdesktop command from the command line or use the system-switch-displaymanager kdm as root, I still get the gnome desktop (with a lot of entries in the menu, some with duplicates, like 'System monitor'). I do get a message saying I have to restart the X system. (Of course, I'm supposed to know what that means.) Deciding that restarting fedora will surely restart the X system, I do that, looking forward to choosing a KDE session during login. After all, you say: "During the default login process, you can use the "Session" menu to choose a KDE login instead of a GNOME login. You will be asked if you wish to make KDE your default desktop." There is no "Session" menu during the login process, I just go straight to the gnome desktop, menus cluttered with KDE stuff. Is there a way of doing this (switching between desktops) that works with fedora 13 (maybe a KDE person can do a fresh install with gnome and step through the instructions to see if they work).

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Akonadi database clean up?
by Martin Airs 09 Sep '10

09 Sep '10

Good day all, I thought I'd give kmail2 a go, I didn't use the first kmail so there was no migration to do. then I thought "I wonder if I can import all my thunderbird mail" which of course you can. anyway when importing all the thunderbird mail it must have put all that email into the database, I then decided to delete the old thunderbird mail folder and just set up kmail2 from scratch. Now tho, when I Alt+F2 to open the krunner, when I type in pretty much anything, it finds an old email. however I don't want to now delete the whole database and start again, because I am now using it properly and all my current mail is being fetched into it by the akonadi pop3 service. can I synchronise the database with just what's currently in my kmail folders and drop the rest?? Thanks in advance Martin

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Plasmoid install fails
by Colin J Thomson 08 Sep '10

08 Sep '10

Hi, Anyone else seeing this: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=249980 I have tried the "workaround" of manually unpacking and running plasmapkg -i on the directory and that seems OK on a few random plasmoids tested here. F13/4.5.1/qt-4.7.0-0.27.rc1 Colin -- Fedora release 13 (Goddard) Registered Linux user number #342953

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KDE-SIG meeting report (36/2010)
by Jaroslav Reznik 07 Sep '10

07 Sep '10

This is a report of the weekly KDE-SIG-Meeting with a summary of the topics that were discussed. If you want to add a comment please reply to this email or add it to the related meeting page. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- = Weekly KDE Summary = Week: 36/2010 Time: 2010-09-07 14:00 UTC Meeting page: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/KDE/Meetings/2010-09-07 Meeting minutes: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-09-07/kde- sig.2010-09-07-13.58.html Meeting log: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-09-07/kde- sig.2010-09-07-13.58.log.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- = Participants = * Jaroslav Reznik * Kevin Kofler * Rex Dieter * Steven Parrish * Than Ngo * Thomas Janssen * Lukas Tinkl * Radek Novacek ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- = Agenda = * Fedora's Stability Policy Implementation - What do we need? * thomasj ACLs for KDE core packages * F14 artwork = Summary = thomasj ACLs for KDE core packages * AGREED: thomasj core kde acl's approved Fedora's Stability Policy Implementation - What do we need? * AGREED: kde-sig agrees to ask fesco for 1 update exception per fedora release * jreznik to set up a wiki page with supporting arguments for our request * we should ask upstream for more 4.x.y bugfix releases to properly support Fn-1 F14 Artwork * probably only a small changes of former Goddard theme o deadline tomorrow ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- = Next Meeting = http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/KDE/Meetings/2010-09-14 -- Jaroslav Řezník <jreznik(a)redhat.com> Software Engineer - Base Operating Systems Brno Office: +420 532 294 275 Mobile: +420 602 797 774 Red Hat, Inc. http://cz.redhat.com/

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Re: A question about sounds from Firefox while reading email
by George R Goffe 07 Sep '10

07 Sep '10

Kevin, Thanks for your information. It had occurred to me that this problem might be a KDE problem regardless of platform or "surrounding" distribution. Yes? No? Regards, George... "It's not what you know that hurts you, It's what you know that ain't so." Wil Rogers

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Beware of KDEPIM 4.4.93 in kde-unstable
by Radek Novacek 06 Sep '10

06 Sep '10

Hello, I have just a small warning for users of kde-redhat repo. If you installed kde 4.5.0 (or 4.5.1) from kde-unstable and let this repository enabled, the new kdepim (4.4.93) will arrive to you as an update. It is NOT stable release and MAY corrupt your PIM data (e-mails etc.). You should be aware that this can happened when you're using _unstable_ repo, but I think many people enabled unstable repo just for kde 4.5.* (like me) and don't want to risk to lost their PIM data (like me). Radek Novacek

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