Re: Options for kdepim using kde 4.7/unstable?

2012-03-13 Thread Diggory Hardy
>
> Current kde from unstable is a bad idea for a laptop imho, because for some
> reason, plasma-desktop permanently pulls some % of cpu time, therefore
> ruining battery life.
>
> regards
> Dietz
> --
>
Dietz, I'm running KDE from unstable and I don't have that problem (I've
had kwin/xorg using excessive CPU before but not plasma-desktop and not
now). In fact, I'm currently getting about the lowest power usage I've ever
had from my laptop with full KDE + compositing!

Diggory


Re: Two questions: NVIDIA driver and Nepomuk priority.

2012-01-04 Thread Diggory Hardy
Regarding the NVIDIA driver, I use it without many problems. I did have a
problem with Oxygen at one point, but IIRC it was more to do with
interaction with a specific type of widget within kdevelop. Try upgrading
the NVIDIA driver to one from testing/sid/experimental (they've been
released by NVIDIA, so usually they're fine). I don't remember which
version, but one adds compatibility with the latest X-server ABI.

On Wednesday, 4 January 2012, Iki Sham wrote:

> Oh, never mind about Nepomuk. I've just looked at 'top' and virtuoso-t
> already has a nice value of 19. So maybe it's just time for me to disable
> it.


Re: Kubuntu Control center for debian

2011-09-17 Thread Diggory Hardy
Do you mean the control centre of the Kubuntu extensions? Kubuntu uses the
standard "system settings" application, but adds a few options to it, as far
as I know.

Cheers

On 17 September 2011 17:52, Uwe Brauer  wrote:

>
> Hello
>
> Is it possible to use the (non standard Mac OS like) Kde
> Control center which is provided by Kubuntu use in debian?
> Is this already ported? I have not found anything using
> google.
>
> Thanks
>
> Uwe Brauer
>
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Re: kdebug defaults/build options

2011-08-20 Thread Diggory Hardy
>
> So, turning off everything in kdebugdialog didn't silence kwrite on the
> comand
> line?
>
No, it did.

>
> > Any more thoughts on how much debug output is reasonable? Obviously it
> > makes some sense for errors and warnings to be reported, but a lot of the
> > output is only "trace" type debug output which is often only useful to
> > people debugging or optimising applications so IMO shouldn't be enabled
> by
> > default (although feel free to disagree if you have a use for such
> > output). Of my current 16 line log file, 2600 lines are matched by
> > 'egrep -i warn' and another 800 by 'egrep -i error'.
>
> Turn off everything. :)
>
That was the idea. You can see it didn't work.. maybe little KDE app bugs
left the rest of those boring messages?

>
> > Where does that leave us? Put up with it as is? Rebuild without debugging
> > output enabled? Just disable all entries in kdebugdialog by default (this
> > solves my issues anyway)? Ask KDE devs what their intentions are (maybe
> > there are some KDE devs on this list)?
>
> Debian should default to disabling all messages via kdebugdialog.
>
Sounds OK.

But you're saying you can't actually use long KDE sessions? I restart my
laptop once a week or so (although maybe 2/3 of that time it's suspended to
RAM), running KDE with kontact, kdevelop and konqueror running most of the
time. I don't have a problem any more (actually, it was only a few
annoyances to start with), so maybe debian should simply disable everything
in kdebugdialog by default as Bruce said?

-Dig


Re: Can't find brazilian ABNT2 keyboard layout configuration in KDE4 - squeeze (SOLVED)

2011-08-19 Thread Diggory Hardy
Glad to hear it worked.

FYI, xorg.conf settings are now auto-detected or configured elsewhere, with
the exception of video driver config. Keyboard configuration can be found in
/etc/default/keyboard.

- Diggory

On 19 August 2011 18:03, Joao Roscoe  wrote:

> Your comment gave an idea: I took a look at another squeeze box I have
> (I installed squeeze in this one myself). In this other machine, the
> keyboard is working properly, ***and***:
>
> 1. Keyboard layouts is disabled in systemsettings;
> 2. There's no xorg.conf at all.
>
> So I did a little more research and found a locale issue - my personal
> profile was enforcing LANG=C, very old stuff. I removed that, and now,
> with en_US.UTF-8, everything works (proper keymap both in X and in
> console).
>
> Best regards,
> João
>
> On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 5:31 AM, Diggory Hardy 
> wrote:
> > By the way, keyboard layouts are configured by XKB in a desktop
> independent
> > manner, so this might be better addressed to an xserver list.
> >
> > On 18 August 2011 23:27, Joao Roscoe  wrote:
> >>
> >> Looked at systemsettings, "General" tab, "Regional and Languages",
> >> "Keyboard Layout"
> >>
> >> Am I missing something?
> >>
> >> Best regards,
> >> João
> >>
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Re: kdebug defaults/build options

2011-08-19 Thread Diggory Hardy
>
> [sorry for the late response]
>
> If the only symptom was the huge log file then it could be argued that: had
> debug messages been disabled, there wouldn't have been a problem... :D


That makes sense, but

(a) I disabled everything in kdebugdialog and truncated .xsession-errors to
100kB a few days ago, and now it's 16MB so still some traffic (over half
from kio_xxx). That size of log file isn't an issue (for me at least),
though most of the entries appear pretty uninteresting (e.g. HTTP requests).

(b) many debug options are active by default, so new users are going to keep
coming across nuisance messages (either in terms of .xsession-errors size or
output on command-line when running things like kwrite).

Any more thoughts on how much debug output is reasonable? Obviously it makes
some sense for errors and warnings to be reported, but a lot of the output
is only "trace" type debug output which is often only useful to people
debugging or optimising applications so IMO shouldn't be enabled by default
(although feel free to disagree if you have a use for such output). Of my
current 16 line log file, 2600 lines are matched by 'egrep -i warn' and
another 800 by 'egrep -i error'.

Where does that leave us? Put up with it as is? Rebuild without debugging
output enabled? Just disable all entries in kdebugdialog by default (this
solves my issues anyway)? Ask KDE devs what their intentions are (maybe
there are some KDE devs on this list)?

Cheers, Diggory


Re: kdebug defaults/build options

2011-08-09 Thread Diggory Hardy
Nice to see someone agrees with me but I was kinda expecting some sort of
response from one of the package maintainers. Is it best to file a bug or
just wait till this catches someone else's attention?

Cheers,
Diggory


kdebug defaults/build options

2011-08-04 Thread Diggory Hardy
Hi all

Regarding default debug output in kde on debian:

1. A while ago I reported this: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=269882
Perhaps disabling logging kget's debug messages makes sense? Or perhaps this
is occasionally useful less often a problem? I don't have a strong opinion
on this really.

2. At times I've been annoyed by the number of *spam* messages kwrite/kate
leave on the console when run that way. Looking into it, these messages are
kDebug outputs. The kde techbase suggests [1] this output is intended to be
disabled in releases. Would you have any objections to doing this in the
future, with kwrite at least? There's not many programs I've had problems
with, but I do wince when running kwrite from a console every so often.
[1]:
http://techbase.kde.org/Development/FAQs/Debugging_FAQ#Is_there_a_preferred_way_to_print_debug_output_on_stderr.3F

Cheers,
Diggory