Re: question on the recent kde packages updates in sid

2003-03-12 Thread Paul Scott
Paul Scott wrote: James D. Freels wrote: Hello Debian-KDE users ! For the sid users here, I get the following message on a (not all may be kde, but most are) "apt-get -d -y dist-upgrade" I get this too. A new version is clearly being uploaded and isn't quite all there yet. See the just previous

Re: question on the recent kde packages updates in sid

2003-03-12 Thread Paul Scott
James D. Freels wrote: Hello Debian-KDE users ! For the sid users here, I get the following message on a (not all may be kde, but most are) "apt-get -d -y dist-upgrade" The following packages will be REMOVED: kdebase ksysguard The following packages have been kept back ark kamera kappfinder kate

Re: KDE Usability survey

2003-03-12 Thread John Gay
>On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 01:23:36AM +0100, Frank Van Damme scrawled: >> Could you elaborate on the ICE-unix trick?? And wasn't kwrited a text editor? > >Making the .ICE-unix directory owned by root.root makes things run a lot >faster, IPC-wise, and kwrite is the text editor - kwrited is a daemon t

Re: KDE Usability survey

2003-03-12 Thread Daniel Stone
On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 01:23:36AM +0100, Frank Van Damme scrawled: > Could you elaborate on the ICE-unix trick?? And wasn't kwrited a text editor? Making the .ICE-unix directory owned by root.root makes things run a lot faster, IPC-wise, and kwrite is the text editor - kwrited is a daemon to han

dpkg errors involving KDE3, libarts and kmail

2003-03-12 Thread Oleg
Hi I use Debian 3.0 + KDE3 + X4.2 + OCaml 3.0.6 (see sources.list below) When I do `apt-get update`, I get the following error: Unpacking replacement libarts1 ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libarts1_1.1.0-0woody4_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/libqtmcop

question on the recent kde packages updates in sid

2003-03-12 Thread James D. Freels
Hello Debian-KDE users ! For the sid users here, I get the following message on a (not all may be kde, but most are) "apt-get -d -y dist-upgrade" The following packages will be REMOVED: kdebase ksysguard The following packages have been kept back ark kamera kappfinder kate kcalc kcharselect k

Re: Map keys to arbitrary commands in KDE 3.1

2003-03-12 Thread Michael Schuerig
On Thursday 13 March 2003 01:27, Carl Baldwin wrote: > Is anyone out there able to map keys to arbitrary commands in KDE. I > have been wondering about this for a long time. Right now I am using > KDE 3.1 and would like to map extra keys on the keyboard to control > xmms. I can't find a way to d

Re: KDE Usability survey

2003-03-12 Thread Michael Schuerig
On Thursday 13 March 2003 00:31, Nick Leverton wrote: > On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 11:28:15PM +0100, Michael Schuerig wrote: > > On Wednesday 12 March 2003 21:42, Frank Van Damme wrote: > > > Second, It may not be the design goal to run on the lowest end > > > stuff (like a system built out of Linux,

Re: KDE Usability survey

2003-03-12 Thread Frank Van Damme
On Thursday 13 March 2003 00:01, kosh wrote: > I don't care if it becomes 10 times as large as Windows XP so long as it is > using that to do something useful. For example the kde ioslaves save me a > huge ammount of time since I can use just about any url protcol from any > app transparently. I re

Map keys to arbitrary commands in KDE 3.1

2003-03-12 Thread Carl Baldwin
Is anyone out there able to map keys to arbitrary commands in KDE. I have been wondering about this for a long time. Right now I am using KDE 3.1 and would like to map extra keys on the keyboard to control xmms. I can't find a way to do it from the control center and I have searched the web for

Re: KDE Usability survey

2003-03-12 Thread Frank Van Damme
On Thursday 13 March 2003 00:10, Daniel Stone wrote: > > Then show them a light window manager, like wmaker or blackbox (and > > friends). Having KDE be usable on extremely low-end hardware just isn't > > a design goal of KDE. > > Well, by default it's pretty heavy. But use a few well-known tricks

Re: KDE Usability survey

2003-03-12 Thread Frank Van Damme
On Wednesday 12 March 2003 23:28, Michael Schuerig wrote: > On Wednesday 12 March 2003 21:42, Frank Van Damme wrote: > > Second, It may not be the design goal to run on the lowest end stuff > > (like a system built out of Linux, Dietlibc, TinyX and twm or > > something :-) ), but I hope it isn't th

Re: KDE Usability survey

2003-03-12 Thread Frank Van Damme
On Wednesday 12 March 2003 21:27, Randy Kramer wrote: > On Tuesday 11 March 2003 23:36, perlcgi2000 wrote: > Sorry, I looked at the survey and just couldn't bear to fill it out. I > haven't been on the list long, and don't know you, but I couldn't help > but get the feeling that you have some hidd

Re: KDE Usability survey

2003-03-12 Thread Nick Leverton
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 11:28:15PM +0100, Michael Schuerig wrote: > On Wednesday 12 March 2003 21:42, Frank Van Damme wrote: > > Second, It may not be the design goal to run on the lowest end stuff > > (like a system built out of Linux, Dietlibc, TinyX and twm or > > something :-) ), .. > > Cu

Re: KDE Usability survey

2003-03-12 Thread Daniel Stone
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 10:00:23AM -0800, Brian Nelson scrawled: > Then show them a light window manager, like wmaker or blackbox (and > friends). Having KDE be usable on extremely low-end hardware just isn't > a design goal of KDE. Well, by default it's pretty heavy. But use a few well-known tri

Re: KDE Usability survey

2003-03-12 Thread kosh
On Wednesday 12 March 2003 01:42 pm, Frank Van Damme wrote: > Second, It may not be the design goal to run on the lowest end stuff (like > a system built out of Linux, Dietlibc, TinyX and twm or something :-) ), > but I hope it isn't the goal of the kde project to become as big as Windows > Xp or s

Re: KDE Usability survey

2003-03-12 Thread Michael Schuerig
On Wednesday 12 March 2003 21:42, Frank Van Damme wrote: > Second, It may not be the design goal to run on the lowest end stuff > (like a system built out of Linux, Dietlibc, TinyX and twm or > something :-) ), but I hope it isn't the goal of the kde project to > become as big as Windows Xp or some

Re: Is kscd usable? (kdemultimedia 3.1 on ppc)

2003-03-12 Thread Chris Cheney
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 09:02:29PM +, James Tappin wrote: > The counter argument is that by using the analogue cable from the drive to > the sound card you add an extra D->A and A->D conversion. Furthermore the > D->A on most PC (or Mac) CD drives isn't of the highest quality and you > are movi

Re: Is kscd usable? (kdemultimedia 3.1 on ppc)

2003-03-12 Thread Randy Kramer
On Wednesday 12 March 2003 04:02 pm, James Tappin wrote: > The counter argument is that by using the analogue cable from the > drive to the sound card you add an extra D->A and A->D conversion. > Furthermore the D->A on most PC (or Mac) CD drives isn't of the > highest quality and you are moving th

Re: KDE 3.1.1 Status Report

2003-03-12 Thread Ralf Nolden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mittwoch, 12. März 2003 21:20, Chris Cheney wrote: > Most of KDE 3.1.1 is now in Debian Sid. Tomorrow kdemultimedia, > kdenetwork, and kdepim will probably go in. It will not be installable > until ftpadmin team adds the needed overrides for libvor

Re: Is kscd usable? (kdemultimedia 3.1 on ppc)

2003-03-12 Thread James Tappin
On Wed, 12 Mar 2003 14:32:46 -0600 Chris Cheney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's a shame that they went the cheap route and got rid of the cable, > you are probably losing several percent of your cpu power now just to > play an audio cd that would regularly require none. As I understand it > you

Re: KDE 3.1.1 Status Report

2003-03-12 Thread Felix Homann
Thank you! Not only for the status update but most of all for the work you put into the packages! --Felix

Re: KDE Usability survey

2003-03-12 Thread Frank Van Damme
On Wednesday 12 March 2003 19:00, Brian Nelson wrote: > Frank Van Damme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Filled it in with all pleasure, and, since you're asking my opinion > > anyway, the useability of kde has little to do with menu structures of > > user-friendlyness, at which it is way ahead of a

Re: Is kscd usable? (kdemultimedia 3.1 on ppc)

2003-03-12 Thread Chris Cheney
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 05:52:22PM +0100, Frank Murphy wrote: > > So it turns out that this is a bug in kscd. Because NewWorld Macs don't have > a wire going from the CD drive to the sound card, the system has to push the > sound to the card itself. It seems that only xmms has a plugin to do thi

Re: noatun cd access

2003-03-12 Thread Chris Cheney
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 03:42:38PM +0100, Wolfgang Mader wrote: > hallo to everyone, > > i wondered how to access a audio cd by noatun. i did not find a possibility to > do this. pleas tell me the solution. > thank you > w mader I have not tried it myself but supposedly using the audiocd:/ ioslav

KDE 3.1.1 Status Report

2003-03-12 Thread Chris Cheney
Most of KDE 3.1.1 is now in Debian Sid. Tomorrow kdemultimedia, kdenetwork, and kdepim will probably go in. It will not be installable until ftpadmin team adds the needed overrides for libvorbis0a though. Chris

Re: KDE Usability survey

2003-03-12 Thread Randy Kramer
On Tuesday 11 March 2003 23:36, perlcgi2000 wrote: > I'm doing some research into the usability of KDE. > > Hopefully the results can be fed into the KDE > Usability project (http://usability.kde.org) and help > improve future versions of KDE. > > The survey only takes 5 minutes to fill out and can

Re: Is kscd usable? (kdemultimedia 3.1 on ppc)

2003-03-12 Thread Randy Kramer
On Wednesday 12 March 2003 11:52 am, Frank Murphy wrote: > So it turns out that this is a bug in kscd. Because NewWorld Macs > don't have a wire going from the CD drive to the sound card, the > system has to push the sound to the card itself. It seems that only > xmms has a plugin to do this. Most

Re: KDE Usability survey

2003-03-12 Thread Brian Nelson
Frank Van Damme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tuesday 11 March 2003 23:36, perlcgi2000 wrote: >> Hi, >> >> >> I'm doing some research into the usability of KDE. >> >> Hopefully the results can be fed into the KDE >> Usability project (http://usability.kde.org) and help >> improve future version

Re: Is kscd usable? (kdemultimedia 3.1 on ppc)

2003-03-12 Thread Frank Murphy
So it turns out that this is a bug in kscd. Because NewWorld Macs don't have a wire going from the CD drive to the sound card, the system has to push the sound to the card itself. It seems that only xmms has a plugin to do this. Most other programs (including kscd) just start the CD drive and e

Re: Is kscd usable? (kdemultimedia 3.1 on ppc)

2003-03-12 Thread David Bishop
kscd does not use arts, as the cd-audio signal goes straight from the cdplayer to the soundcard (on a desktop, you can often play cds without even running an OS). kscd works on i386 (I'm listening to Nora Jones with it right now), but I cannot vouch for ppc. If other cd apps work (like workbo

Re: noatun cd access

2003-03-12 Thread David Bishop
You cannot listen to cds in noatun, use kscd for that. And please, for the love of all that is good and righteous and holy, get a smaller sig. Otherwise, Osama wins :-( On Wednesday 12 March 2003 07:42 am, Wolfgang Mader wrote: > hallo to everyone, > > i wondered how to access a audio cd by n

Re: PGP Signatures

2003-03-12 Thread Ralf Nolden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mittwoch, 12. März 2003 15:19, Victor R. Cain wrote: > I'm missing some plug-ins to process PGP signatures. I get messages like: > Message was signed with unknown key. > The validity of the signature cannot be verified. > Problem: S/MIME plug

Re: kmail: compact local folder

2003-03-12 Thread David Bishop
On Wednesday 12 March 2003 06:08 am, Michael Schmitz wrote: > Am Die, 2003-03-11 um 18.55 schrieb Ralf Nolden: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On Dienstag, 11. März 2003 17:00, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > my ~/Mail/inbox file has several hundred MB eve

Re: Is kscd usable? (kdemultimedia 3.1 on ppc)

2003-03-12 Thread Ralf Nolden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mittwoch, 12. März 2003 14:10, Frank Murphy wrote: > I'm running sid on my iBook, and I'm trying to play a CD. I start the cd in > kscd, but no sound comes out. Checking Arts Control, kscd is not attached > to arts. Is this a problem specific to pow

Re: kmail: compact local folder

2003-03-12 Thread Achim Bohnet
On Wednesday 12 March 2003 14:08, Michael Schmitz wrote: > Am Die, 2003-03-11 um 18.55 schrieb Ralf Nolden: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On Dienstag, 11. März 2003 17:00, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > my ~/Mail/inbox file has several hundred MB even

Request for mirrors for HEAD debs

2003-03-12 Thread James Greenhalgh
Hi all, I'm looking for any available mirrors for my CVS HEAD packages. It looks like my existing one is going to be unavailable shortly, and I would like to have a backup plan. I have set up rsync, so mirroring is a simple matter of an occasional cron job, and not too much else on your part.

noatun cd access

2003-03-12 Thread Wolfgang Mader
hallo to everyone, i wondered how to access a audio cd by noatun. i did not find a possibility to do this. pleas tell me the solution. thank you w mader -- And for one second I lost my head and for one second, I wished that you were dead and for one second, you wish that you were here all alone.

kdepim & sid

2003-03-12 Thread Marcin Juszkiewicz
I installed KMail from http://people.debian.org/~ccheney/kde-other/ but it doesn't have addressbook. Ok - so I tried to install kdepim package but it is not found :( Is there any respository with rest of KDE 3.1 packages for 'sid'? CC: me because I'm not subscribed to this list --

PGP Signatures

2003-03-12 Thread Victor R. Cain
I'm missing some plug-ins to process PGP signatures. I get messages like: Message was signed with unknown key. The validity of the signature cannot be verified. Problem: S/MIME plug-in was not specified. Use the 'Settings->Configure KMail->Security' dialog to specify the plug-in or ask y

Is kscd usable? (kdemultimedia 3.1 on ppc)

2003-03-12 Thread Frank Murphy
I'm running sid on my iBook, and I'm trying to play a CD. I start the cd in kscd, but no sound comes out. Checking Arts Control, kscd is not attached to arts. Is this a problem specific to power PC? Can anyone else successfully use kscd? Frank -- http://www.mdashdeign.ch";>Swiss Graphic Design

Re: kmail: compact local folder

2003-03-12 Thread Michael Schmitz
Am Die, 2003-03-11 um 18.55 schrieb Ralf Nolden: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Dienstag, 11. März 2003 17:00, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > Hi, > > > > my ~/Mail/inbox file has several hundred MB even if there are only a few > > undeleted emails in. > > How can I compact th

Re: KDE Usability survey

2003-03-12 Thread Frank Van Damme
On Tuesday 11 March 2003 23:36, perlcgi2000 wrote: > Hi, > > > I'm doing some research into the usability of KDE. > > Hopefully the results can be fed into the KDE > Usability project (http://usability.kde.org) and help > improve future versions of KDE. > > The survey only takes 5 minutes to fill o

Re: gtk2-engines-geramik [solved]

2003-03-12 Thread Yuhanes Tjandra
On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 00:33, Matt Sheffield wrote: > On Tuesday, March 11, 2003 12:56 pm, Ralf Nolden wrote: > > On Dienstag, 11. März 2003 17:52, Stefan Schimanski wrote: > > > Can you send me these error messages? I don't see a reason why it > > > shouldn't build on Woody. > > > > I don't even se