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, 3 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
Emacs key binding in KDE Plasma 5?
by Sherman Grunewagen
Just moved from Fedora 21 to F25. Under F21 I had a file ~/.gtkrc-2.0 which contained
gtk-key-theme-name = "Emacs"
This enabled basic Emacs cursor motion keyboard commands in text input boxes throughout KDE,
Firefox, &c. (Outside of input boxes, KDE shortcuts ruled.)
How can I get this same behaviour for Plasma 5 w/in F25? From reading around, I've created
~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini
and inserted
[Settings]
gtk-key-theme-name = Emacs
in this empty file. This has given the desired result in Firefox and Thunderbird,
but not w/in arbitrary text boxes in KDE (e.g. Alt-F2). The ~/.gtkrc-2.0 file is still
intact, by the way. It seems to have no effect. Any ideas?
-Sherman
4 years
Announcing kannolo-root-unlocker (also works on Fedora KDE)
by Kevin Kofler
Hi,
since both KDE upstream and the Fedora KDE SIG refuse to fix the regression
that Dolphin, KWrite, and Kate can no longer be run as root, I have decided
to write a small metapackage that automatically applies the binary patch to
fix the issue.
The patch that is applied is the 's/getuid/getpid/g' hack, see:
https://www.spinics.net/linux/fedora/fedora-kde/msg19018.html
for an explanation of how it works.
The patched executables are written to /usr/local/bin. The metapackage uses
file triggers so that the patched version is automatically updated when the
original copy in /usr/bin is updated from the system package. While it would
be possible in principle with this method to apply the patches in place in
/usr/bin, I have decided against it, for 2 reasons:
1. integrity checks such as rpm -Va would fail on the patched executables,
and
2. delta RPMs would fail because the original RPM could not be
reconstructed.
Writing the patched executables to a different directory avoids this issue.
After installing this package, e.g., "kdesu kwrite" should just work again.
You can get the package from the Kannolo Copr:
https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/kkofler/kannolo/
Source code:
https://svn.calcforge.org/viewvc/kannolo/trunk/packages/kannolo-root-unlo...
Direct package link:
https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/kkofler/kannolo/package/kannolo-r...
Enjoy!
Kevin
5 years, 7 months
White spaces in Kmail (dark themes)
by Colin J Thomson
Hi,
After the recent updates of qt5-qtwebengine there are white spaces in the
message window when using a Dark Theme.
Another user has just reported this on kde.bugs with a screen shot
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=379406
I don't know if it is a kmail or qtwebengine bug or even related to mesa/
nouveau saga.
Kmail 5.4.3
Plasma 5.9.5
Frameworks 5.33
Mesa-dri-drivers-13.0.4-3.fc25.nouvlock
Colin
--
Fedora 25 (Twenty Five)
Registered Linux user number #342953
5 years, 7 months
F26: Konqueror / SMB -> client max protocol = SMB3 == broken
by Reindl Harald
it's laughable enough that you need to add "client max protocol = SMB3"
to your /etc/samba/smb.conf with F25 or you get SMB1 connetions but that
you need to comment that line out in F26 can't be taken serious
at least Konqueror asks now for username password
dolphin hangs there waiting for whatever
_____________________
well, where my manually stored passwords gone is another question
KDE Wallet Manager (wow and i should not call it KDE) version 2.0 "using
KDE Development Platform 4.14.32" should still be the old wallet
are you kidding me?
5 years, 8 months
F26: Konqueror
by Reindl Harald
fine, now it's "ported" to KDE5
* no bookmarks
* no toolbar settings from the previous install
* no support for sftp://
* no passwords for network-locations previously used
WTF is wrong with the KDE developers attitude that the main question due
every upgrde is "curious what they broke now from my workflow"
5 years, 8 months
F26: Konqueror and SVN integration
by Reindl Harald
until F26 in the action menu there was besides the basic integration a
contextmenu containing such nice things like "seek for all unversioned
items" or "show last 100 changes" which never appeared in dolphin
from where did that come and how doe sone get that back?
both are essential, especially "show all unversioned files" after bigger
refactoring in a source tree to make sure everything keeps versioned
[root@srv-rhsoft:~]$ rpm -qa | grep -i subversion
subversion-kde-1.9.7-1.fc26.x86_64
subversion-1.9.7-1.fc26.x86_64
subversion-libs-1.9.7-1.fc26.x86_64
5 years, 8 months
