nntp (aka, usenet) client in kde?
by Gene Smith
I currently use t-bird with an nntp account pointing to gmane to read
this list and sereral others. Does kde have an nntp client program of
any sort? I don't see it as a possible new account type in kmail. Also,
search with kpackagekit yields nothing with "usenet" or "nntp" that is
kde specific.
-gene
3 years, 7 months
time to orphan/retire unmaintained uncommon kde4 language bindings?
by Rex Dieter
Looking over some broken deps reports, I came across some old packages:
kdebindings
smokeqt
smokekde
qyoto (csharp/mono)
kimono (csharp/mono)
ruby-qt
ruby-korundum
perl-Qt
Of these, the only one that's not a pure leaf package is perl-Qt (debconf-
kde depends on it).
any comment or objection to considering orphaning most (all minus
smokeqt/perl-Qt) or all of these ?
-- Rex
4 years, 4 months
F26 Talking Points
by Eduard Lucena
Hi team,
I'm Eduard Lucena, and I'm here in the behalf of the Marketing team. As you
should know, we prepare a lists of highlights about each release, called
Talking Points:
Talking points are key highlights of the new release. There are different
> types of talking points for different types of people: general desktop
> users/everyone, developers, and sysadmins. They are meant to provide a
> short, effective answer to the question "What cool stuff is in the latest
> release of Fedora?" They are compelling, not necessarily comprehensive
>
This points help us, as Marketing team, as well to Ambassadors, to
publicize each release with the news and cool stuff.
For this matter and this release, we have this wiki page:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_26_talking_points and we will be
happy to include the new things in the KDE Spin.
You can help us in both ways:
1. Editing the wiki directly with the points.
2. Throwing us the list, and we will put them in the wiki.
Thanks in advance for your help and for your efforts.
Br,
--
Eduard Lucena
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GNU/Linux User #589060
Ubuntu User #8749
Fedora Ambassador Latam
6 years, 3 months
Packaging Kup - naming?
by Mattia Verga
I would like to package Kup [1] for inclusion in Fedora, but I'm a bit
confused about naming the package.
In Fedora repositories there's already a completely unrelated "kup"
package [2], so I cannot name this new package with it's official name.
Since Kup is born as a KCM module, I think I can name it "kcm-kup"
[3]... but there's really no package in Fedora named "kcm". In fact,
looking through the package list I can find six kcm modules, but they
are following different name schemas: the oldest three are using the "-"
separator (kcm-fcitx, kcm-gtk, kcm-qt-graphicssystem), while the newest
three use the "_" (kcm_systemd, kcm_touchpad, kcm_wacomtablet) which is
a violation of naming guidelines [4].
Another alternative could be naming it "kf5-kup" (?)
Suggestions are welcome. Thanks
Mattia
[1] https://github.com/spersson/Kup
[2] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/package/rpms/kup/
[3]
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Naming?rd=Packaging:NamingGuidel...
[4]
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Naming?rd=Packaging:NamingGuidel...
6 years, 4 months
Re: Fedora 26 KDE: Log in
by Adam Williamson
On Sat, 2017-04-29 at 00:15 +0200, Giulio E. wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I've been testing "Fedora-KDE-Live-x86_64-26-20170420.n.0.iso" on qemu-
> kvm tonight and I've had trouble following the login TestCase.
>
> Actually, the login process resulted to multiple crashes (large part of
> the KDE session, I guess). I reported what seems to be the most
> relevant one: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1446785
>
> I'm not sure this is the main cause for the misbehavior. Having said
> that, I think that sddm's login functionality might be quite broken at
> this time, since the entire KDE session crashed lots of times, during
> my login attempts.
>
> However, more testing may help in collecting more data for debugging
> the situation.
>
> As a footnote, I've also hit this (which is weird, but doesn't seem a
> big issue, at least for Beta): https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi
> ?id=1446782
>
> Thank you for your help.
As I mentioned in a status report mail yesterday, openQA seems to hit
crashes / hangs in KDE startup quite often also; it sometimes just gets
stuck with the KDE splash screen partly complete, or winds up at a
black screen with a KDE-ish cursor visible but nothing else. I haven't
had time to dig into the logs and see if I could diagnose a pattern to
the failures, though...
--
Adam Williamson
Fedora QA Community Monkey
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6 years, 5 months
kwin / plasmashell not starting
by Ian Malone
Has anyone else experienced this? Fairly frequently I find that kwin
on F25 is not starting on login, there are no window decorations (e.g.
title bar) and all new windows start at top left with no apparent way
to move them. The solution seems to be to start a console and run
"kstart kwin".
This morning however I didn't even have a desktop, just a cursor and
an otherwise black screen. What was working was that typing brought up
the command bar at the top of the screen, so I was able to start
konsole. "kstart kwin" and "kstart kwin --replace" didn't seem to
achieve anything (though maybe I could have waited longer), eventually
tried "kstart plasmashell" and things seemed to run again.
This is the nouveau driver. I've had problems on F25 with getting
stuck at the splash screen ("K") after login, but adding nomodeset to
the kernel line in grub seemed to alleviate that, and I was using
nomodeset this morning.
--
imalone
http://ibmalone.blogspot.co.uk
6 years, 5 months
