Re: What's best quick fix for broken kde metapackage?

2002-02-20 Thread tluxt2
Hi ben, I have ready your message (below). I am sending you this note because, based on your very last comment below, I am concerned that somewhere along the communication channel part of the message I sent to you did not get to you. (See below.) --- ben [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday

Re: What's best quick fix for broken kde metapackage?

2002-02-20 Thread tluxt2
The first sentence in my previous message should have been: I have read your message (below). not I have ready your message (below). __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - Coverage of the 2002 Olympic Games http://sports.yahoo.com

Re: Distibutions (was KDE Debian distribution)

2002-02-20 Thread Bastiaan Naber
On Wednesday 20 February 2002 00:17, Gregor Zeitlinger wrote: Well build your own kde based distribution! Shouldn't be to hard. And if your right you will have a winning product, can become milionair, etc. I agree people don't want to hear about al these versions of this and versions of

Re: What's best quick fix for broken kde metapackage?

2002-02-20 Thread Brian K. Vagts
Since when have maintainers been allowed to have a social life? :-) Seriously...thanks for all the great work guys. I am very dependent on, and happy with the packages you provide, and I know several friends not anywhere near an official Debian list that are in the same position. Brian On

Tips on CUPS + KDE + Debian Testing NOTE: long msg!

2002-02-20 Thread Donald R. Spoon
I recently decided to install CUPS on my main linux box with the eventual goal of making it a print-server for the rest of my home LAN. I was sucessful in getting it going on the single machine because of questions asked by others on the Debian-KDE and Debian-Users mailing lists. Getting it

Re: What's best quick fix for broken kde metapackage?

2002-02-20 Thread ben
On Tuesday 19 February 2002 10:30 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snipped, due to sheer irrelevance] for someone allegedly so concerned with detail and precision, neither your repost nor the archive link which you allege provides evidence of having included a quote of my post, actually, do that.

Re: What's best quick fix for broken kde metapackage?

2002-02-20 Thread Daniel Stone
On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 12:27:25AM -0800, ben wrote: just give it up. redeem yourself (if, indeed, you have any intent to do so) by conceding that the only necessary obligation--in this case, of gratitude and respect owed by the benficiaries of the unpaid labor of others--exists on the side

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2002-02-20 Thread Matthias Wenzel

Re: What's best quick fix for broken kde metapackage?

2002-02-20 Thread ben
On Wednesday 20 February 2002 01:16 am, Daniel Stone wrote: On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 12:27:25AM -0800, ben wrote: just give it up. redeem yourself (if, indeed, you have any intent to do so) by conceding that the only necessary obligation--in this case, of gratitude and respect owed by the

Re: What's best quick fix for broken kde metapackage?

2002-02-20 Thread Daniel Stone
On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 03:21:04AM -0800, ben wrote: On Wednesday 20 February 2002 01:16 am, Daniel Stone wrote: While I appreciate your support, sometimes I think you overplay the maintainers' stocks a little bit. :) When we take on a package, we take on the responsibility of maintaining

Re: icq client

2002-02-20 Thread Christian Schoenebeck
please cc me - I'm offlist Am Montag, 11. Februar 2002 21:10 schrieb G. L. `Griz' Inabnit: I tried licq (both, testing and unstable version) icq client, but it doesn't seem to run propely. I can logon but nobody sees me and I`m not able to download my user list. Is there anything I

Re: Distibutions (was KDE Debian distribution)

2002-02-20 Thread Michel Loos
Two things need to be done: A) Preloading. Persuade Dell or Compaq to load Linux on *ALL* machines (and sell Windows as an optional upgrade). That helps for business machines. B) Games. Kids had absolutely no problems spending WEEKS trying to customize

Re: Konqueror, HTML forms, wrapping and font handling

2002-02-20 Thread yugami
- Original Message - From: Jens Benecke [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-kde@lists.debian.org Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 7:26 AM Subject: Re: Konqueror, HTML forms, wrapping and font handling 2.1. Another thing that has been annoying me in the latest versions is that if there is

Re: need help with kdm no.2

2002-02-20 Thread Sebastian Heinlein
Am Mittwoch, 20. Februar 2002 15:24 schrieb Mike Carter: Hi team, 2nd attempt to get this answered, how do I get debian stable to boot with kdm starting kde not any other gui? I have tried to get it to run with kde on boot but no success. I am obviously missing something important and

Re: Distibutions (was KDE Debian distribution)

2002-02-20 Thread Bastiaan Naber
On Wednesday 20 February 2002 14:33, Michel Loos wrote: B) Games. Kids had absolutely no problems spending WEEKS trying to customize CONFIG.SYS, installing new memory managers, hacking their system to get more free RAM, just for DOOM to be 0.2% faster.

Re: MIDI not working with Debian-KDE and new policy of reverting back to alsa-0.5

2002-02-20 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Chris wrote: Do alsa-0.5 drivers actually work with libasound2 or should Daniel also revert libarts-alsa and libkmid-alsa to depend on libasound1 rather than libasound2 to be consistent with the changed (from when Ivan Moore was the maintainer) Debian-kde-alsa

Re: need help with kdm no.2

2002-02-20 Thread Mike Carter
Sebastian I have kde installed, read my request again and maybe you will understand my problem. On 20 Feb 2002, at 15:47, by way of Sebastian Heinlein wrote: Am Mittwoch, 20. Februar 2002 15:24 schrieb Mike Carter: Hi team, 2nd attempt to get this answered, how do I get debian stable

Re: need help with kdm no.2

2002-02-20 Thread ben
On Wednesday 20 February 2002 12:48 pm, Mike Carter wrote: Sebastian I have kde installed, read my request again and maybe you will understand my problem. On 20 Feb 2002, at 15:47, by way of Sebastian Heinlein wrote: Am Mittwoch, 20. Februar 2002 15:24 schrieb Mike Carter: Hi team,

Re: need help with kdm no.2

2002-02-20 Thread Brian K. Vagts
I have always added sessions in the past by editing the kdmrc file. On my system...I believe it is in /etc/kde2/kdm/kdmrc ...but dont quote me on it..its not right in from of me. In there...you will find a section labels sessions. Makes sure kde is listed as an option in there, you should see

Re: Distibutions (was KDE Debian distribution)

2002-02-20 Thread G. L. `Griz' Inabnit
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wednesday 20 February 2002 01:31 pm, Jens Benecke wrote: [snip] Plus, Microsoft has started a really big FUD campaign about the GPL, which makes many vendors uneasy. At the same time they put stuff like we have a right to know what is on your harddisk in

Re: What's best quick fix for broken kde metapackage?

2002-02-20 Thread tluxt2
--- Chris Cheney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 10:28:40AM -0500, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: I'm willing to do an NMU if there really is a dpendency problem (and Chris doesn't object) but is there really a problem? I have libglib1.3-12 installed and I was also able to