Orphaning qbble / konq-speaker

2005-08-31 Thread Ben Burton
(Resent since I messed up the To: line in my previous mail. This was also posted to debian-qt-kde, so please send follow-ups to both lists.) Hi all, I've orphaned two packages today. 1) konq-speaker (text-to-speech for konqueror and kate); 2) qbble (search support for xmms playlist). Both are

Re: Did I make a mistake today with apt-get upgrade?

2005-08-31 Thread Lawrence Williams
On August 31, 2005 09:49 pm, Adeodato Simó wrote: > * Lawrence Williams [Wed, 31 Aug 2005 21:36:06 -0230]: > > I'd like to cast a vote for no problem. I am running a KDE 3.4.1 system > > from alioth with kdebase-data 3.4.2-1 from unstable, with no problem > > whatsoever. > > Because the trouble h

Re: Did I make a mistake today with apt-get upgrade?

2005-08-31 Thread Lawrence Williams
On August 31, 2005 09:49 pm, Phillip Pi wrote: > hat want to be removed. I don't think they are quite ready. From what I can see using Synaptic, the base KDE packages will be ready once kdepim is done. I noticed that you have a few non debian-kde team packages installed as well ( such as licq ).

Re: Did I make a mistake today with apt-get upgrade?

2005-08-31 Thread Phillip Pi
> > > > Others have reported their K menu becoming empty after installing a > > > > mismatched version of kdebase-data. > > > > > > I'm fairly certain that was a mismatched kdelibs-data. From the two > > > reports I've heard so far, kdebase-data 4:3.4.2-1 doesn't cause any > > > problems on a syst

Re: Did I make a mistake today with apt-get upgrade?

2005-08-31 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Lawrence Williams [Wed, 31 Aug 2005 21:36:06 -0230]: > I'd like to cast a vote for no problem. I am running a KDE 3.4.1 system from > alioth with kdebase-data 3.4.2-1 from unstable, with no problem whatsoever. Because the trouble happens when you run KDE 3.3.2 with kdebase-data 3.4.2. ;-)

Re: Did I make a mistake today with apt-get upgrade?

2005-08-31 Thread Lawrence Williams
On August 31, 2005 05:54 pm, Josh Metzler wrote: > On Saturday 27 August 2005 02:01 pm, Josh Metzler wrote: > > On Friday 26 August 2005 11:09 pm, Bryan Donlan wrote: > > > Others have reported their K menu becoming empty after installing a > > > mismatched version of kdebase-data. > > > > I'm fair

Re: KDE menu applications gone

2005-08-31 Thread Anders Ellenshøj Andersen
Josh Metzler wrote: On Wednesday 31 August 2005 03:02 pm, Alan Ezust wrote: did that. I still get this message: kcontrol: WARNING: No K menu group with X-KDE-BaseGroup=settings found ! Defaulting to Settings/ And no items in the KControl menu. Any other ideas? Yes, kdebase-data has

Re: Did I make a mistake today with apt-get upgrade?

2005-08-31 Thread Josh Metzler
On Saturday 27 August 2005 02:01 pm, Josh Metzler wrote: > On Friday 26 August 2005 11:09 pm, Bryan Donlan wrote: > > Others have reported their K menu becoming empty after installing a > > mismatched version of kdebase-data. > > I'm fairly certain that was a mismatched kdelibs-data. From the two

Re: KDE menu applications gone

2005-08-31 Thread Josh Metzler
On Wednesday 31 August 2005 03:02 pm, Alan Ezust wrote: > did that. I still get this message: > > kcontrol: WARNING: No K menu group with X-KDE-BaseGroup=settings found ! > Defaulting to Settings/ > > And no items in the KControl menu. > > Any other ideas? Yes, kdebase-data has the same bug and ca

Re: keeping passwords

2005-08-31 Thread Nathaniel W. Turner
Hello, On Wednesday 31 August 2005 12:05 pm, Derek Broughton wrote: > > There's also gksu (the GTK frontend to su), but it also does not > > support changing the timeout of the password storage. > > ??  So why even mention it?  You can't just install gksu, it comes with > bonobo and gnomeui and gc

Re: keeping passwords

2005-08-31 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Giacomo Lacava wrote: > KWallet is what you are talking about. It works wonderfully for > KDE-based applications. unfortunately, Synaptic is GNOME-based... You > definately need to check out kdesu/kdesudo docs however. I've been using KWallet extens

Re: KDE menu applications gone

2005-08-31 Thread Alan Ezust
did that. I still get this message: kcontrol: WARNING: No K menu group with X-KDE-BaseGroup=settings found ! Defaulting to Settings/ And no items in the KControl menu. Any other ideas? On 8/28/05, Josh Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yes - the important package is kdelibs-data:> > > dpkg -i

Re: keeping passwords

2005-08-31 Thread Freddie Cash
On August 31, 2005 09:05 am, Derek Broughton wrote: > Freddie Cash wrote: > >> Giacomo Lacava wrote: > Hmmm, that is a serious security issue. I was hoping there would > be a password encrypted password cache or something similar. > >>> > >>> KWallet is what you are talking about. It work

Re: keeping passwords

2005-08-31 Thread Derek Broughton
Serja wrote: >> Which lets me use aptitude and ifconfig without ever giving a password. >> However, adding /usr/bin/kpackage to the list, and then invoking it with >> kdesu still prompts > It's probably because in Debian KDE was compiled with shadow support. Why would that make a difference? --

Re: keeping passwords

2005-08-31 Thread Derek Broughton
Freddie Cash wrote: >> Giacomo Lacava wrote: Hmmm, that is a serious security issue. I was hoping there would be a password encrypted password cache or something similar. > >>> KWallet is what you are talking about. It works wonderfully for >>> KDE-based applications. unfortunately, Syn

Re: keeping passwords

2005-08-31 Thread Derek Broughton
Graham wrote: > I'll check out cron-apt. I'm > not overly keen on cron based updates though especially at the moment > (one false move and the whole of KDE gets removed in unstable :o). Do what I do - "aptitude update; aptitude -d dist-upgrade". Maybe even add "aptitude upgrade" (in between the

Re: keeping passwords

2005-08-31 Thread Freddie Cash
> Giacomo Lacava wrote: >>> Hmmm, that is a serious security issue. I was hoping there would >>> be a password encrypted password cache or something similar. >> KWallet is what you are talking about. It works wonderfully for >> KDE-based applications. unfortunately, Synaptic is GNOME-based... >> Y

Re: keeping passwords

2005-08-31 Thread Derek Broughton
Giacomo Lacava wrote: >> Hmmm, that is a serious security issue. I was hoping there would be a >> password encrypted password cache or something similar. > > KWallet is what you are talking about. It works wonderfully for > KDE-based applications. unfortunately, Synaptic is GNOME-based... You > d

Re: keeping passwords

2005-08-31 Thread Serja
> Which lets me use aptitude and ifconfig without ever giving a password. > However, adding /usr/bin/kpackage to the list, and then invoking it with > kdesu still prompts It's probably because in Debian KDE was compiled with shadow support. --- Original message --- From: Derek Broughton <[

Re: keeping passwords

2005-08-31 Thread Derek Broughton
Graham Smith wrote: > I was wondering if KDE has the ability to keep passwords for longer than > the current session / log in. The keep password feature (when running an > application as a different user) doesn't work as I would have excepted it > to as it only keeps the password for the duration

Re: keeping passwords

2005-08-31 Thread Giacomo Lacava
> Hmmm, that is a serious security issue. I was hoping there would be a password > encrypted password cache or something similar. KWallet is what you are talking about. It works wonderfully for KDE-based applications. unfortunately, Synaptic is GNOME-based... You definately need to check out kdes

Re: keeping passwords

2005-08-31 Thread Serja
You should probably use sudo for this and make it to run some privileged commands as a regular user and without passwords. --- Original message --- From: Graham Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-kde@lists.debian.org Subject: keeping passwords Date: 31 Август 2005 12:37 > Hi, > > I was

keeping passwords

2005-08-31 Thread Graham Smith
Hi, I was wondering if KDE has the ability to keep passwords for longer than the current session / log in. The keep password feature (when running an application as a different user) doesn't work as I would have excepted it to as it only keeps the password for the duration of the login. For in