[arch-general] packager sometimes missing in arch's web interface

2008-08-11 Thread Adam Vogt
I'm wondering whether it is a bug that [1] and [2] don't claim to have maintainers, but they actually do. If the web interface doesn't know of a maintainer, can it still send the maintainer an email that it is outdated (which is the case for [2]), of which a build for a newer version can be fou

Re: [arch-general] packager sometimes missing in arch's web interface

2008-08-11 Thread Jan de Groot
On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 04:42 -0400, Adam Vogt wrote: > I'm wondering whether it is a bug that [1] and [2] don't claim to have > maintainers, but they actually do. > > If the web interface doesn't know of a maintainer, can it still send the > maintainer an email that it is outdated (which is the c

Re: [arch-general] Anyway to revert back to KDE 3.5.9? (Don't Panic)

2008-08-11 Thread Attila
On Sonntag, 10. August 2008 06:52 Shridhar Daithankar wrote: At first i have to say that my only intention was to answer why there is no kde4 bug report from mine instead there be a lot of reasons for myself to stay with kde3. I have no impatience and can wait until kde 4.2 to test it again. > Co

Re: [arch-general] Anyway to revert back to KDE 3.5.9? (Don't Panic)

2008-08-11 Thread Attila
On Montag, 11. August 2008 02:38 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Yes I am well aware that things may improve to make kde4 not only better > but eventually perhaps even a better environment. But it is hardly that > now. i.e. Pick just about any of the pieces and try something you use to > do. Like print

Re: [arch-general] Anyway to revert back to KDE 3.5.9? (Don't Panic)

2008-08-11 Thread David Rosenstrauch
Shridhar Daithankar wrote: On Saturday 09 August 2008 20:38:27 Attila wrote: Or to say it other words: The packages be so good as possible and there is nothing what can be done more or better. But for me kde user and fan of the kicker the actual panel is more a joke than something what i want to

Re: [arch-general] Anyway to revert back to KDE 3.5.9? (Don't Panic)

2008-08-11 Thread David Rosenstrauch
Aaron Griffin wrote: On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 8:35 PM, James Rayner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 8:20 AM, Nigel Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Some days ago I ran the updates for my Don't Panic install, which said that KDE 3.5.9 was being upgraded to KDE4. I let this go ahe

Re: [arch-general] Anyway to revert back to KDE 3.5.9? (Don't Panic)

2008-08-11 Thread Attila
On Montag, 11. August 2008 18:07 David Rosenstrauch wrote: > I'm more than open to hearing counter-arguments as to why someone thinks > it's worth the switch I'm frustated as you but i must say that there was no way for the arch devs to make it right for everyone. Imagine that there is no kde4 in

[arch-general] running sybase under arch linux

2008-08-11 Thread Scott Weisman
Hello everyone, I've got a big problem I hope someone can help with. I've been a huge fan and user of Arch since early 2004. I really like it and it works great for me. I have several production servers also running it, with no problem whatsoever. However, I have one ancient server running a cre

Re: [arch-general] Anyway to revert back to KDE 3.5.9? (Don't Panic)

2008-08-11 Thread David Rosenstrauch
Attila wrote: On Montag, 11. August 2008 18:07 David Rosenstrauch wrote: I'm more than open to hearing counter-arguments as to why someone thinks it's worth the switch I'm frustated as you but i must say that there was no way for the arch devs to make it right for everyone. Imagine that there

Re: [arch-general] running sybase under arch linux

2008-08-11 Thread RedShift
Scott Weisman wrote: Hello everyone, I've got a big problem I hope someone can help with. I've been a huge fan and user of Arch since early 2004. I really like it and it works great for me. I have several production servers also running it, with no problem whatsoever. However, I have one ancie

Re: [arch-general] Anyway to revert back to KDE 3.5.9? (Don't Panic)

2008-08-11 Thread Attila
On Montag, 11. August 2008 19:09 David Rosenstrauch wrote: > My qualms are with the KDE4 software itself. I'm not saying it's bad. > (In fact, I'll admit that I've barely even tried any of the new > functionality.) It's just that it's a very big a change to a lot of > important desktop functiona

Re: [arch-general] Anyway to revert back to KDE 3.5.9? (Don't Panic)

2008-08-11 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Monday 11 August 2008 22:18:13 Attila wrote: > P.S.: The problem with old settings is nothing new in kde and it seems that > the kde devs have no interest to offer a working solution for it. I think > everyone of us who use kde for a longer time have deleted more than one > time the ~/.kde direc

Re: [arch-general] Anyway to revert back to KDE 3.5.9? (Don't Panic)

2008-08-11 Thread David Rosenstrauch
Attila wrote: Is there a reason why you don't use kdemod3? I probably will wind up using it. (Since the alternative seems to be creating and maintaining my own KDE3 repo.) I've been reluctant to use it so though, since I don't really agree with their approach: * They build break KDE into

Re: [arch-general] Anyway to revert back to KDE 3.5.9? (Don't Panic)

2008-08-11 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Monday 11 August 2008 20:48:17 Attila wrote: > Thanks for the warning about printer management because if this doesn't > work i will get killed by my girlfriend.-) I hope in 4.2 there will be a > way to config konqueror instead of dolphin as the favorite file manager. See if this helps. Try the

Re: [arch-general] Anyway to revert back to KDE 3.5.9? (Don't Panic)

2008-08-11 Thread Nigel Henry
On Monday 11 August 2008 19:09, David Rosenstrauch wrote: > Attila wrote: > > On Montag, 11. August 2008 18:07 David Rosenstrauch wrote: > >> I'm more than open to hearing counter-arguments as to why someone thinks > >> it's worth the switch > > > > I'm frustated as you but i must say that there wa

Re: [arch-general] Anyway to revert back to KDE 3.5.9? (Don't Panic)

2008-08-11 Thread David Rosenstrauch
Nigel Henry wrote: At the moment I'm trying to find a way to revert to KDE 3.5.9, without re-installing Archlinux. As was pointed out earlier, this is easily done by using the kdemod repo. They have kde3, albeit in modular form, and patched some. Details here: http://kdemod.ath.cx/bbs/viewt

Re: [arch-general] packager sometimes missing in arch's web interface

2008-08-11 Thread Adam Vogt
* On Monday, August 11 2008, Jan de Groot wrote: >Our web frontend works with 2 things when it comes to assigning >maintainers: >- the repository it is in >- the architecture of the package > >So when I package glib2, I add two packages, one for i686 and one for >x86_64. Because of our signoff pol

Re: [arch-general] packager sometimes missing in arch's web interface

2008-08-11 Thread Aaron Griffin
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 3:34 PM, Adam Vogt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * On Monday, August 11 2008, Jan de Groot wrote: > >>Our web frontend works with 2 things when it comes to assigning >>maintainers: >>- the repository it is in >>- the architecture of the package >> >>So when I package glib2, I

[arch-general] Sending files to printer question

2008-08-11 Thread richard terry
This is not Arch specific, but I'll ask anyway in the hope someone will help. I have generated a html file which would show in a web-browser and hence will print from the web browsers print button. However I want to send that file directly to a printer from the command line, but have the output

Re: [arch-general] Sending files to printer question

2008-08-11 Thread Gerhard Brauer
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 08:58:43AM +1000, richard terry wrote: > > I wondered if there was a command line utility to do the conversion. You could combine some nice tools Look at the tools: html2text and htmldoc First is an "simple" text parser without formatting. htmldoc is a complex tool which r

Re: [arch-general] Sending files to printer question

2008-08-11 Thread Gerhard Brauer
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 01:40:30AM +0200, Gerhard Brauer wrote: One mistake: > , > | wget -O - http://aur.archlinux.org/index.php | htmldoc --webpage -t ps - | > lp > ` Gerhard -- Ich: Wenn du wuesstest, was ich denke... Sie : Was waere dann? Ich: Viel Erde ueber dir...

Re: [arch-general] Sending files to printer question

2008-08-11 Thread Geoffroy Carrier
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 00:58, richard terry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I wondered if there was a command line utility to do the conversion. For a "perfect" result with not much deps and a small codebase, use Qt's webkit! http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/ -- Geoffroy Carrier

Re: [arch-general] Anyway to revert back to KDE 3.5.9? (Don't Panic)

2008-08-11 Thread Attila
On Montag, 11. August 2008 20:38 David Rosenstrauch wrote: I have had the same feeling as you and take first a look at it in my arch64 test partition. If you have such a possibility too or a virtual machine with archlinux than give it a try. > * They build break KDE into small, modular packages,

Re: [arch-general] Anyway to revert back to KDE 3.5.9? (Don't Panic)

2008-08-11 Thread James Rayner
On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 1:08 AM, Attila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Samstag, 9. August 2008 03:35 James Rayner wrote: > >> So maybe it'd be a good idea to file bugs about this "virtually unusable" >> DE. > > I can speak only for me and the whole problems be kde4 at itself why i still > use kdem

Re: [arch-general] Anyway to revert back to KDE 3.5.9? (Don't Panic)

2008-08-11 Thread Attila
On Montag, 11. August 2008 19:56 Shridhar Daithankar wrote: > I agree and disagree. Me too.-)) At first i want to say that i mean more the step from kde1 to kde2 and from kde2 to kde3. > The ~.kde has been amazingly stable for me as far as kde3.x series has gone. > My home dir has gone from mand

Re: [arch-general] Anyway to revert back to KDE 3.5.9? (Don't Panic)

2008-08-11 Thread Attila
On Montag, 11. August 2008 20:41 Shridhar Daithankar wrote: > See if this helps. Try the tip for setting konqueror as default application > in inode/directory entry. Thanks for this and the other hints. I will try them the next time as i boot my test partition. > This does not remove dolphin but