Re: [Cooker] OSNews Review

2002-10-19 Thread Austin Acton
On Sat, 2002-10-19 at 02:24, Ben Reser wrote: Austin, you've clearly missed the point. It's a stupid argument because it's not a choice the distribution or even a group of us has to decide. We get both (unless we really don't want them) when we install Mandrake. Do whatever you will with

Re: [Cooker] unreal tournament demo problem with cooker

2002-10-19 Thread Florent BERANGER
Selon Eyal Ben-David [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Saturday 19 October 2002 02:05, Florent BERANGER wrote: Hello, I've just tried the demo of Unreal tournament 2003 game ( http://www.unrealtournament2003.com/?downloads ) and I have the following error message : Backtrace: [ 1]

[Cooker] Re: [Contrib-Rpm] kmail-aegypten-plugins-1.0-1mdk

2002-10-19 Thread Vox
This time Laurent MONTEL [EMAIL PROTECTED] becomes daring and writes: [Contrib-RPM] --=-=-= Name: kmail-aegypten-plugins Relocations: (not relocateable) Version : 1.0 Vendor: MandrakeSoft Release : 1mdk Build

[Cooker] Privoxy default blocks the linux counter

2002-10-19 Thread Philippe Coulonges
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 http://counter.li.org And that's a shame. CU CPHIL - -- Les avions sont des jouets sans aucune valeur militaire. -- Maréchal Foch (1911) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux)

Re: [Cooker] Re: [Contrib-Rpm] kmail-aegypten-plugins-1.0-1mdk

2002-10-19 Thread Fabrice MARIE
On Saturday 19 October 2002 16:47, Vox wrote: This time Laurent MONTEL [EMAIL PROTECTED] becomes daring and writes: [Contrib-RPM] --=-=-= Name: kmail-aegypten-plugins Relocations: (not relocateable) Version : 1.0 Vendor: MandrakeSoft

Re: [Cooker] Re: [Contrib-Rpm] kmail-aegypten-plugins-1.0-1mdk

2002-10-19 Thread Laurent Montel
Le Saturday 19 October 2002 12:51, Fabrice MARIE a écrit : On Saturday 19 October 2002 16:47, Vox wrote: This time Laurent MONTEL [EMAIL PROTECTED] becomes daring and writes: [Contrib-RPM] --=-=-= Name: kmail-aegypten-plugins Relocations: (not relocateable) Version

Re: [Cooker] Re: [Contrib-Rpm] kmail-aegypten-plugins-1.0-1mdk

2002-10-19 Thread Vox
This time Fabrice MARIE [EMAIL PROTECTED] becomes daring and writes: On Saturday 19 October 2002 16:47, Vox wrote: This time Laurent MONTEL [EMAIL PROTECTED] becomes daring and writes: [Contrib-RPM] --=-=-= Name: kmail-aegypten-plugins Relocations: (not relocateable)

Re: [Cooker] Re: [Contrib-Rpm] kmail-aegypten-plugins-1.0-1mdk

2002-10-19 Thread Fabrice MARIE
On Saturday 19 October 2002 18:57, Laurent Montel wrote: [...] However, I still cannot find the plugins, the aegypten howto mention two plugins : gpgme-smime.so and gpgme-openpgp.so, there're not there, or is it just me ? :) it's in libgpgme Ok, will try that. Thanks :) Have a nice day,

[Cooker] Re: [Contrib-Rpm] libgcrypt-1.1.10-3mdk

2002-10-19 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Sat, 19 Oct 2002 09:00:41 +0200 (CEST) Laurent MONTEL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Name: libgcryptRelocations: (not relocateable) Version : 1.1.10Vendor: MandrakeSoft Release : 3mdk Build Date: Sat Oct 19

Re: [Cooker] unreal tournament demo problem with cooker

2002-10-19 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Sat, 19 Oct 2002 10:02:35 +0200 Florent BERANGER [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have these this problem with an ATI Rage 128 graphic card. Can it be a driver issue ? Yes. It is my understanding, both from the site and from another list, the the Linux UT demo will only work with NVIDIA cards.

[Cooker] Re: [Contrib-Rpm] perl-AppConfig-1.52-3mdk

2002-10-19 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Fri, 18 Oct 2002 18:45:23 +0200 (CEST) Clic-dev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Name: perl-AppConfig Relocations: (not relocateable) Version : 1.52 Vendor: MandrakeSoft Release : 3mdk Build Date: Fri Oct 18

Re: [Cooker] Re: [Contrib-Rpm] libgcrypt-1.1.10-3mdk

2002-10-19 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Sat, 19 Oct 2002 07:46:21 -0400 Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: They both have a Require, BuildRequire for libcrypt, libcryt-devel. Disregard. Reading in my sleep again. They both require mcrypt not gcrypt. Charles --- Life is a healthy respect for

Re: [Cooker] urpmi doesn't find PLF files

2002-10-19 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach Nora Etukudo am 2002-10-17 um 22:20:17 +0200 : On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 07:20:02PM +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: So sprach Nora Etukudo am 2002-10-15 um 14:41:12 +0200 : Might be a temporarely problem. No. The problem still exists and further, it does not only exist for my

Re: [Cooker] OSNews Review

2002-10-19 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach Brad Chamberlin am 2002-10-17 um 16:23:15 -0400 : I wanted to point out to everyone the OSNews review here http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=1954 harshly true and to the point... She says: Clicking in the right option, it would make my mouse jumping like crazy all over

Re: [Cooker] unreal tournament demo problem with cooker

2002-10-19 Thread Igor Izyumin
On Saturday 19 October 2002 06:55 am, Charles A Edwards wrote: On Sat, 19 Oct 2002 10:02:35 +0200 Florent BERANGER [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have these this problem with an ATI Rage 128 graphic card. Can it be a driver issue ? Yes. It is my understanding, both from the site and from

Re: [Cooker] OSNews Review

2002-10-19 Thread Philip Webb
021019 Alexander Skwar wrote: So sprach Brad Chamberlin am 2002-10-17 um 16:23:15 -0400 : I wanted to point out to everyone the OSNews review here http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=1954 She says: Clicking in the right option, it would make my mouse jumping like crazy all over the

Re: [Cooker] Re: [Contrib-Rpm] krusader-1.11-1mdk

2002-10-19 Thread Götz Waschk
Am Freitag, 18. Oktober 2002, 11:54:39 Uhr MET, schrieb David Walser: --- Laurent MONTEL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [Contrib-RPM] Name: krusader Version : 1.11 Does this overwrite the 1.11-1mdk Goetz just uploaded right before

[Cooker] Mandrake Control Center error

2002-10-19 Thread Maxim Heijndijk
mcc gives the following error on 9.0: Thu Oct 17 14:27:46 2002 Gtk-WARNING **: invalid cast from (NULL) pointer to `GtkObject' at /usr/sbin/mcc line 857. Can't call method set_active on an undefined value at /usr/sbin/mcc line 423. Am I missing some library ? -- Best regards, MX. * Climate

Re: [Cooker] 9.1

2002-10-19 Thread Igor Izyumin
On Saturday 19 October 2002 12:05 am, Edward Cherlin wrote: On Friday 18 October 2002 12:07 am, Austin Acton wrote: On Thu, 2002-10-17 at 22:43, Yura Gusev wrote: Better fonts (freetype hinting, please enable it if you can) and fonts configuration tools. I know there are more

Re: [Cooker] OSNews Review

2002-10-19 Thread Alastair Scott
On Sat, 19 Oct 2002 14:53:14 +0200 Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kicker does not fit on a 800x600 screen, which is what most Internet users still use these days. Most users still use 800x600? Really? I'd be interested about the resolution the Cooker folks are using. I'm at

Re: [Cooker] Re: [Contrib-Rpm] krusader-1.11-1mdk

2002-10-19 Thread Laurent Montel
Le Saturday 19 October 2002 15:57, Götz Waschk a écrit : Am Freitag, 18. Oktober 2002, 11:54:39 Uhr MET, schrieb David Walser: --- Laurent MONTEL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [Contrib-RPM] Name: krusader Version : 1.11 Does this overwrite the 1.11-1mdk Goetz just uploaded

Re: [Cooker] OSNews Review

2002-10-19 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach Igor Izyumin am 2002-10-18 um 09:37:20 -0500 : jumping everywhere. The first reaction for any reasonable person is that the setting is wrong and needs to be changed. No, the first reaction is to check if the behaviour is intended, and because of the message it is intended.

Re: [Cooker] OSNews Review

2002-10-19 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach scott chevalley am 2002-10-18 um 16:17:26 -0400 : I agree on most of these points, the only benefit being that it may then be possible to integrate the Drake tools into the Kde control center if So, I'd be forced to install KDE (plus Qt) just to get MCC? Or could I get this Kde

Re: [Cooker] Re: [Contrib-Rpm] krusader-1.11-1mdk

2002-10-19 Thread Götz Waschk
Am Samstag, 19. Oktober 2002, 15:54:56 Uhr MET, schrieb Laurent Montel: Le Saturday 19 October 2002 15:57, Götz Waschk a écrit : Yes, my version was overwritten. I guess I shouldn't touch packages matching ^k.* anymore :-( I am sorry :( It's warly script which is boggus. I saw your

Re: [Cooker] OSNews Review

2002-10-19 Thread Igor Izyumin
On Saturday 19 October 2002 09:24 am, Alexander Skwar wrote: So sprach scott chevalley am 2002-10-18 um 16:17:26 -0400 : I agree on most of these points, the only benefit being that it may then be possible to integrate the Drake tools into the Kde control center if So, I'd be forced to

[Cooker] urpmi ... failure when reading local RPM file as part of dependency list

2002-10-19 Thread Alastair Scott
Quote, with strategically placed newlines: [rootlocalhost thebrix]# rpm -q urpmi urpmi-4.0-21mdk [rootlocalhost thebrix]# ls gk* gkrellm-plugins-2.0.4-1mdk.i586.rpm [rootlocalhost thebrix]# urpmi gkrellm-plugins-2.0.4-1mdk.i586.rpm To satisfy dependencies, the following packages are going to

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and its popup windows

2002-10-19 Thread Vincent Meyer, MD
On Friday 18 October 2002 05:27 pm, Elliott Martin wrote: On a slight side note, the fact that rpmdrake stops downloading while it waits for you to decide to continue given a bad or non-existent gpg key should definately be changed. The number of popups could be drastically reduced just by

Re: [Cooker] Laptop recommendations?

2002-10-19 Thread Vincent Meyer, MD
Thanks to everybody who offered suggestions as what brands work well and which ones don't. I've always had good luck with Dell, but every company has their good days and bad, I guess. The IBM ThinkPad's look good, too. Was also considering HP and Sony. Definite requirement after 2 years of

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and its popup windows

2002-10-19 Thread Vincent Meyer, MD
Oh, and almost forgot... Would it be possible to add a progress bar when updating the sources? When updating from slower mirrors, sometimes the time to update is pretty long, and some might think that the application is frozen, having not seen any activity in a while. A progress bar would

Re: [Cooker] OSNews Review

2002-10-19 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sat, 2002-10-19 at 03:52, Igor Izyumin wrote: These are GOOD fonts. Apple uses professionally-made fonts with an excellent renderer. Freetype is nice, but it isn't half as good at small font sizes, even with good fonts, and the antialiasing that it does is pretty bad - it looks like

Re: [Cooker] OSNews Review

2002-10-19 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sat, 2002-10-19 at 03:57, Igor Izyumin wrote: KDE is nothing like windows, btw. Gnome looks pretty barren and is about as polished as sandpaper. *sigh* GNOME(2) is themable, just like KDE. You can make it look like Aqua if you really *want* to. Frederic happened to choose a quite

Re: [Cooker] Future Directions

2002-10-19 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sat, 2002-10-19 at 07:25, Austin Acton wrote: So as Mandrake folk mentioned earlier, the immediate plans for 9.1 are bugfixes and package updates. What I'm seeing on the cooker list is a desire for: better fonts, better font control, better hardware support, fancier widgets. So the

Re: [Cooker] Laptop recommendations?

2002-10-19 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sat, 2002-10-19 at 15:50, Vincent Meyer, MD wrote: Thanks to everybody who offered suggestions as what brands work well and which ones don't. I've always had good luck with Dell, but every company has their good days and bad, I guess. The IBM ThinkPad's look good, too. Was also

Re: [Cooker] OSNews Review

2002-10-19 Thread Danny Tholen
On Friday 18 October 2002 21:35, Igor Izyumin wrote: I agree. Notice that Microsoft doesn't use AA on their OS - Which OS? IIRC on 98 they read the gasp table from the font to see at what sizes it should be AAd. Generally for the ms fonts this is below 8 and above 15 (I could be a few

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and its popup windows

2002-10-19 Thread Danny Tholen
On Friday 18 October 2002 21:26, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: 2. many apps use popup windows for questions/warnings/etc, they are generally considered as good UI design However, why does it popup in the middle of the letter I am typing/game I am playing? Other apps do not do this, they pop

[Cooker] Sympa reliability

2002-10-19 Thread Gerard Patel
Hello, since the beta and the rc phase, I am receiving less and less email from Cooker. With the big OsNew thread, I have taken the time to count the mails I get : I have currently received exactly 24 mails for this thread, while the Marc archive counter is at 90. Either I am very unlucky with

Re: [Cooker] OSNews Review

2002-10-19 Thread Igor Izyumin
On Saturday 19 October 2002 09:47 am, Danny Tholen wrote: On Friday 18 October 2002 21:35, Igor Izyumin wrote: I agree. Notice that Microsoft doesn't use AA on their OS - Which OS? IIRC on 98 they read the gasp table from the font to see at what sizes it should be AAd. Generally for the ms

Re: [Cooker] OSNews Review

2002-10-19 Thread Igor Izyumin
On Saturday 19 October 2002 09:46 am, Adam Williamson wrote: On Sat, 2002-10-19 at 03:52, Igor Izyumin wrote: These are GOOD fonts. Apple uses professionally-made fonts with an excellent renderer. Freetype is nice, but it isn't half as good at small font sizes, even with good fonts, and

Re: [Cooker] Laptop recommendations?

2002-10-19 Thread Igor Izyumin
On Saturday 19 October 2002 10:08 am, Adam Williamson wrote: On Sat, 2002-10-19 at 15:50, Vincent Meyer, MD wrote: Thanks to everybody who offered suggestions as what brands work well and which ones don't. I've always had good luck with Dell, but every company has their good days and bad,

[Cooker] jpilot problem ?

2002-10-19 Thread Florent BERANGER
Hello, I have a peoblem with jpilot, synchro doesn't seem to works. Synchronisation works fine with kpilot. Here the output of jpilot-sync : [cosmicflocosmic cosmicflo]$ jpilot-sync Syncing on device /dev/ttyS1 Press the

Re: [Cooker] OSNews Review

2002-10-19 Thread Curtis H
On Sat, 2002-10-19 at 07:51, Adam Williamson wrote: On Sat, 2002-10-19 at 03:57, Igor Izyumin wrote: And they STILL haven't fixed the f***ing file selector box. Just try to pick a file with XMMS in a crowded directory, you'll see what I mean. KDE is more polished and many people

Re: [Cooker] Future Directions

2002-10-19 Thread J. Greenlees
Adam Williamson wrote: On Sat, 2002-10-19 at 07:25, Austin Acton wrote: So as Mandrake folk mentioned earlier, the immediate plans for 9.1 are bugfixes and package updates. What I'm seeing on the cooker list is a desire for: better fonts, better font control, better hardware support, fancier

Re: [Cooker] Mandrake Control Center error

2002-10-19 Thread Marcel Pol
On Sat, 19 Oct 2002 15:59:32 +0200 Maxim Heijndijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mcc gives the following error on 9.0: Thu Oct 17 14:27:46 2002 Gtk-WARNING **: invalid cast from (NULL) pointer to `GtkObject' at /usr/sbin/mcc line 857. Can't call method set_active on an undefined value at

[Cooker] Certificate of https://qa.mandrakesoft.com/ expired - rpmmon not working anymore

2002-10-19 Thread Michael Reinsch
Hi! It seems that the certificate of https://qa.mandrakesoft.com/ expired some days ago and rpmmon doesn't like this at all. -- Michael Reinsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mr.uue.org

Re: [Cooker] Laptop recommendations?

2002-10-19 Thread Gary Greene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 19 October 2002 11:59 am, Igor Izyumin wrote: On Saturday 19 October 2002 10:08 am, Adam Williamson wrote: On Sat, 2002-10-19 at 15:50, Vincent Meyer, MD wrote: There's four chipsets to get halfway decent hardware 3D on a laptop.

[Cooker] OpenOffice.org development stuff

2002-10-19 Thread Michael Reinsch
Hi! 1) The jar files from the OpenOffice.org-1.0.1-9mdk package which can be found under /usr/lib/openoffice/program/classes are strange. They all contain empty classes, i.e. classes without methods. 2) I'd really like to see an OpenOffice.org-devel package with the content of the OOo SDK (see

Re: [Cooker] Laptop recommendations?

2002-10-19 Thread Igor Izyumin
On Saturday 19 October 2002 11:48 am, Gary Greene wrote: I would say go for nvidia. Currently, they are the only cards with decent GL drivers out there. Yes, some people have some issues with the drivers, but at least nvidia stands behind them. No, they don't. NViDIA releases their linux

Re: [Cooker] OSNews Review

2002-10-19 Thread Austin Acton
On Sat, 2002-10-19 at 08:53, Alexander Skwar wrote: Why the heck it takes a whole 3-4 seconds to authenticate my password in the command line What's she talking about? Authentication is instant for me. With a fresh install the other day, (no X installed), it does in fact take about 2-3

Re: [Cooker] bug reporting

2002-10-19 Thread Warly
Sascha Noyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi What has been decided by the Mandrake team regarding bug reporting? Is the present mess of: drakbug (http://drakbug.mandrakesoft.com/) bugzilla mandrake expert cooker mailing list going to continue? The only advertized bug reporting method

Re: [Cooker] OSNews Review

2002-10-19 Thread Guillaume Cottenceau
andre [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Friday 18 October 2002 21:42, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: - you can't install a bootloader on a XFS partition, and.. no one except a few distro reviewers do that :-( The are poeple who use the nt windows bootselector. Then you have to install lilo

Re: [Cooker] OSNews Review

2002-10-19 Thread Vincent Danen
On Friday, October 18, 2002, at 07:11 PM, David Walluck wrote: Can you tell me if qt requires any KDE junk installed? Ie. in order to use MCC, will a user have to install kdebase or kdelibs or is qt enough? One very good reason for using GTK is that you do not need GNOME installed. It

Re: [Cooker] OSNews Review

2002-10-19 Thread Guillaume Cottenceau
Adam Williamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: to port to GTK2. GTK2 has a different (better) file selection dialog. Try opening a file from a GTK 2 app (Xchat 1.9 or something), you'll see the difference. Hum you probably mean gnome2? As for me it doesn't look much different from the old one:

Re: [Cooker] OSNews Review

2002-10-19 Thread J. Greenlees
Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: andre [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yes, I know but that is mainly theory, no? The windows bootloader is a piece of junk when it goes to chainloading, no? I thought it was far more reliable to put grub or lilo on the MBR, than the opposite. true, since the windows

Re: [Cooker] OSNews Review

2002-10-19 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sat, 2002-10-19 at 17:38, Curtis H wrote: On Sat, 2002-10-19 at 07:51, Adam Williamson wrote: On Sat, 2002-10-19 at 03:57, Igor Izyumin wrote: And they STILL haven't fixed the f***ing file selector box. Just try to pick a file with XMMS in a crowded directory, you'll see

Re: [Cooker] OSNews Review

2002-10-19 Thread Guillaume Cottenceau
Levi Ramsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As MCC already has backends to ncurses and GTK+, why not simply add a Qt backend and set it as a configurable option (or invoked by command line options, so KDE users will see the Qt and so forth). I don't want to see GTK+ support dropped from MCC (even

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and its popup windows

2002-10-19 Thread Guillaume Cottenceau
J.A. Magallon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 2002.10.18 Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: Elliott Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On a slight side note, the fact that rpmdrake stops downloading while it waits for you to decide to continue given a bad or non-existent gpg key should definately

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and its popup windows

2002-10-19 Thread Guillaume Cottenceau
Danny Tholen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Friday 18 October 2002 21:26, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: 2. many apps use popup windows for questions/warnings/etc, they are generally considered as good UI design However, why does it popup in the middle of the letter I am typing/game I am

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and its popup windows

2002-10-19 Thread Guillaume Cottenceau
Vincent Meyer, MD [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] On a similar note (this may have been mentioned before).. would it be possible to add a retry button for the popup window that complains about ftp failing? Is VERY frustrating, when updating a dozen or so packages, and part Yep, adding

Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake and its popup windows

2002-10-19 Thread Guillaume Cottenceau
Vincent Meyer, MD [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Would it be possible to add a progress bar when updating the sources? When check the archives :). -- Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/

Re: [Cooker] Future Directions

2002-10-19 Thread Guillaume Cottenceau
Austin Acton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 2. Since font control and widget control are immediate Mandrake problems, are there any plans to upgrade/rewrite drakfont, and update libdrakx (or whatever) to GTK2 or QT3? Yes all the perl-gtk stuff should be ported to perl-gtk2 for 9.1. -- Guillaume

Re: [Cooker] PerlQt 3

2002-10-19 Thread Guillaume Cottenceau
Eyal Ben-David [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, PerlQt 3 was released a month ago. URL is http://perlqt.infonium.com/ I tried to compile it with 9.0 Perl and Qt. It compiled OK but I got a segfault at runtime. I hope that this nice package will be in Cooker soon. Hum if it segfaults..

Re: [Cooker] unreal tournament demo problem with cooker

2002-10-19 Thread Guillaume Cottenceau
Igor Izyumin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It is my understanding, both from the site and from another list, the the Linux UT demo will only work with NVIDIA cards. They depend on some OpenGL extension that is only implemented in Nvidia cards. They depend on the S3TC extension (compressed

Re: [Cooker] bug reporting

2002-10-19 Thread David Walser
--- Warly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think that I will also forward bug report on cooker, so that we can discuss on this mailing list with the bug in cc, and the comments will be added to the bug. Moreover, cooker member will be able to confirm, invalidate or set the bug as fixed with a

Re: [Cooker] OSNews Review

2002-10-19 Thread David Walser
--- Guillaume Cottenceau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Levi Ramsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As MCC already has backends to ncurses and GTK+, why not simply add a Qt backend and set it as a configurable option (or invoked by command line options, so KDE users will see the Qt and so forth).

Re: [Cooker] OSNews Review

2002-10-19 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Saturday 19 Oct 2002 19:37, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: Adam Williamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: to port to GTK2. GTK2 has a different (better) file selection dialog. Try opening a file from a GTK 2 app (Xchat 1.9 or something), you'll see the difference. Hum you probably mean gnome2?

Re: [Cooker] OSNews Review

2002-10-19 Thread Faraj Meir
But I find with good fonts (the Microsoft ones) and PLF freetype2, font rendering is excellent, indeed a lot better than Windows. -- adamw yep, but default users do not install plf and windows font stuff , this is very problematic point I think . There is no possibility for Co like Redhat ,

[Cooker] mkttfdir segfaulting

2002-10-19 Thread Brian J. Murrell
When I try to use mkttfdir on either a Cooker system or a Mandrake 9.0 system, it segfaults. There was some talk about this earlier but nothing came of it. I am here ready to debug if anyone cares to suss this issue out. Whatever the problem is, it exists in a shipping product now, 9.0. #

Re: [Cooker] mkttfdir segfaulting

2002-10-19 Thread Curtis H
On Sat, 2002-10-19 at 12:40, Brian J. Murrell wrote: When I try to use mkttfdir on either a Cooker system or a Mandrake 9.0 system, it segfaults. There was some talk about this earlier but nothing came of it. I am here ready to debug if anyone cares to suss this issue out. Whatever the

[Cooker] kdemultimedia/noatun/library/noatunarts

2002-10-19 Thread Charles Samuels
CVS commit by charles: Bug 48255: starting noatun causes artsd to segfault in library libnoatunarts.so Belatedly commiting Ewald's patch to fix 48255. Please test if your computer has SSE (mine does not). CCMAIL:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ^^ we'll see if it gets there ;) M +18 -0

Re: [Cooker] OSNews Review

2002-10-19 Thread Alastair Scott
On Sat, 19 Oct 2002 20:29:05 +0100 Peter Ruskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...looks like a dinosaur to me. There's none so blind as those that won't see. I agree with you - that dialog is fashioned from the UI equivalent of Bakelite. But the dinosaur is about to become extinct:

Re: [Cooker] OSNews Review

2002-10-19 Thread David Walluck
Vincent Danen wrote: Yup... likewise. But I have KDE installed on my desktop machines (for testing, etc.) but I don't usually use it. Which is why I asked.. I've never tried to run a QT app without having KDE installed, so I wasn't sure. Actually, I don't think there are really any QT apps

Re: [Cooker] OSNews Review

2002-10-19 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday October 19 2002 02:29 pm, Peter Ruskin wrote: On Saturday 19 Oct 2002 19:37, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: Adam Williamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: to port to GTK2. GTK2 has a different (better) file selection dialog. Try opening a file from a GTK 2 app (Xchat 1.9 or

Re: [Cooker] jpilot problem ?

2002-10-19 Thread Ben Reser
On Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 06:04:57PM +0200, Florent BERANGER wrote: I have a peoblem with jpilot, synchro doesn't seem to works. Synchronisation works fine with kpilot. Here the output of jpilot-sync : [cosmicflo@cosmic cosmicflo]$ jpilot-sync

[Cooker] setting up terminal server, client not booting X

2002-10-19 Thread Brent Hasty
I have a working configuration of mdk9 terminal server, the clients are booting fast and proper, however I get an x respawning too fast will retry in 5 minuits error on the terminals. How do I go about configuring the x on the terminals, with terminal services?

Re: [Cooker] LTSP vs. MDK Terminal Server

2002-10-19 Thread Brent Hasty
On Monday 07 October 2002 10:07, Buchan Milne wrote: since it sounds as though you have some understanding of just how to do this, what would it take to get you to help me in setting up mdk9 terminal services to run thin clients? When they talk about scp'ing the config file back over to the

Re: [Cooker] LTSP vs. MDK Terminal Server

2002-10-19 Thread Brent Hasty
On Monday 07 October 2002 06:53, Buchan Milne wrote: Stew Benedict wrote: On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Buchan Milne wrote: The server is providing nfs services only. The other side of the coin is running the apps on the server side generates quite a bit of network traffic. New 24-port 100mb

Re: [Cooker] OSNews Review

2002-10-19 Thread Buchan Milne
On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, David Walluck wrote: Vincent Danen wrote: Can you tell me if qt requires any KDE junk installed? Ie. in order to use MCC, will a user have to install kdebase or kdelibs or is qt enough? One very good reason for using GTK is that you do not need GNOME installed.

[Cooker] kdebase-3.1-0.beta2.13mdk and desktop background image

2002-10-19 Thread Elliott Martin
Hello, I just stumbled upon a small bug. As of the 13th rev of this kdebase, I can no longer set a desktop background image. Every time I try, the background gets changed back to /usr/share/mdk/backgrounds/default.png. I created a new user and logged in and had the same trouble (so it's not the

Re: [Cooker] OSNews Review

2002-10-19 Thread Danny Tholen
On Saturday 19 October 2002 20:38, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: We already don't have enough time to code enough cool new features and fix our bugs, and you want we waste our time duplicating the GUI backend.. This is arguably irrelevant. What counts should be what your (paying) userbase

Re: [Cooker] LTSP vs. MDK Terminal Server

2002-10-19 Thread Stew Benedict
On Sat, 19 Oct 2002, Brent Hasty wrote: I would like to do similar, have the hardware, just not a real intimate knowledger (yet), would be willing to work on this with you and other to make it happen for mdk. Whear does one begin? Your mailer is still broken :). I have to reply all

Re: [Cooker] LTSP vs. MDK Terminal Server

2002-10-19 Thread Stew Benedict
On Sat, 19 Oct 2002, Brent Hasty wrote: When they talk about scp'ing the config file back over to the server, what do they mean by scp? Do I really need to explain what scp is? It's sort of assumed you have some knowledge of networking to be able to setup a network of machines.

Re: [Cooker] setting up terminal server, client not booting X

2002-10-19 Thread Stew Benedict
On Sat, 19 Oct 2002, Brent Hasty wrote: I have a working configuration of mdk9 terminal server, the clients are booting fast and proper, however I get an x respawning too fast will retry in 5 minuits error on the terminals. How do I go about configuring the x on the terminals, with

[Cooker] qmail + qmail-scanner on MDK 9.0/Cooker (work around)

2002-10-19 Thread Oden Eriksson
Hi. I have made RPM packages for ML 9.0 so that you can run qmail-scanner until a permanent qmail-scanner fix exists. compat-perl-5.601-1mdk.i586.rpm compat-perl-base-5.601-1mdk.i586.rpm compat-perl-DB_File-1.802-1mdk.i586.rpm compat-perl-devel-5.601-1mdk.i586.rpm

[Cooker] enabeling root login on terminal

2002-10-19 Thread Brent Hasty
Should X fail, you'll fall back to a console login. The neat thing here, with ClusterNFS, is that it you enable the root account, you could run XFdrake from the client machine, creating a client specific configuration that can be scp'd back to the server for the next session. How does one

Re: [Cooker] setting up terminal server, client not booting X

2002-10-19 Thread Brent Hasty
On Saturday 19 October 2002 15:26, you wrote: On Sat, 19 Oct 2002, Brent Hasty wrote: I have a working configuration of mdk9 terminal server, the clients are booting fast and proper, however I get an x respawning too fast will retry in 5 minuits error on the terminals. How do I go about

Re: [Cooker] LTSP vs. MDK Terminal Server

2002-10-19 Thread Brent Hasty
On Saturday 19 October 2002 15:29, Stew Benedict wrote: On Sat, 19 Oct 2002, Brent Hasty wrote: When they talk about scp'ing the config file back over to the server, what do they mean by scp? Do I really need to explain what scp is? It's sort of assumed you have some knowledge of

Re: [Cooker] OSNews Review

2002-10-19 Thread David Walser
--- Buchan Milne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, the other point is that a GTK-Qt port of the draktools is really of no benefit, unless the can be integrated with KDE (ie embedded in KDE Control Center). Otherwise, you can achieve more or less the same thing by ensuring that there are

Re: [Cooker] enabeling root login on terminal

2002-10-19 Thread Stew Benedict
On Sat, 19 Oct 2002, Brent Hasty wrote: Should X fail, you'll fall back to a console login. The neat thing here, with ClusterNFS, is that it you enable the root account, you could run XFdrake from the client machine, creating a client specific configuration that can be scp'd back to the

Re: [Cooker] OSNews Review

2002-10-19 Thread andre
On Saturday 19 October 2002 21:04, Pixel wrote: andre [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Friday 18 October 2002 21:42, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: - you can't install a bootloader on a XFS partition, and.. no one except a few distro reviewers do that :-( The are poeple who use the nt

Re: [Cooker] Future Directions

2002-10-19 Thread andre
Some other things on the wishlist: a) randr b) /mnt/dvd/ and /mnt/burner/ instead of /mnt/cdrom2/

RE: [Cooker] MouseDrake no longer working

2002-10-19 Thread Arcaneone7Dots
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have been having problems using mousedrake to change my default mouse in KDE. I can set the new mouse apply it but nothing happens even on a reboot. This is really suprising since it was working in all betas and rc's(most of them) I've tried. I tried to troubleshoot it

Re: [Cooker] OSNews Review

2002-10-19 Thread Pixel
andre [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Friday 18 October 2002 21:42, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: - you can't install a bootloader on a XFS partition, and.. no one except a few distro reviewers do that :-( The are poeple who use the nt windows bootselector. Then you have to install lilo

new kernel and boot/install CD status

2002-10-19 Thread Stew Benedict
A 2.4.19-16mdk kernel build should be up on the mirrors. I'm now including a kernel for the RS6000 machines. I've also pulled sym53c8xx(RS6000), mesh, and mac53c94 into the kernel, rather than modules. It doesn't make the kernel that much larger and will make life a bit easier for OldWorld