Amarok 3.0

2024-05-02 Thread Borden
Amarok 3.0's been released. Apparently it works fine on KF6. Any chance it'll be resurrected in Sid?

Re: Akonadi won't play with webdav

2023-05-06 Thread Borden
6 May 2023, 03:13 by borde...@tutanota.com: > Something must have changed somewhere. I ripped out the DAV Akonadi > connector, and re-added my address books and calendars using the _exact_ DAV > URL. I recall it used to find them automatically when I put in the base URL > and hit "Fetch." Now A

Re: Akonadi won't play with webdav

2023-05-06 Thread Borden
Something must have changed somewhere. I ripped out the DAV Akonadi connector, and re-added my address books and calendars using the _exact_ DAV URL. I recall it used to find them automatically when I put in the base URL and hit "Fetch." Now Akonadi needs its hand held through the process. So l

Re: Akonadi won't play with webdav

2023-05-02 Thread Borden
May 2, 2023, 15:15 by so...@stoutner.com: > I am running the current> packages in testing, which will shortly become > bookworm. Perhaps you might > consider upgrading, which also gives you the ability to provide feedback on > any bullseye > bookworm transitions. > I stand corrected. I'm on bo

Akonadi won't play with webdav

2023-05-02 Thread Borden
It seems recently that Akonadi won't play with my CalDav and CardDav server. The server works because DAVx5 and the web interface work. On Debian bullseye, fully up-to-date. I've run the logger in Akonadi Konsole, restarted Akonadi, cleared the caches, checked the settings, all to no avail. My

Re: Okular locked up my system and left no evidence

2023-05-02 Thread Borden
10 Feb 2023, 10:53 by didi.deb...@cknow.org: > On Friday, 10 February 2023 07:46:36 CET Borden wrote: > >> which may be more productive. >> > > What would be even more productive is the following: > - log in remotely before doing another test and open a screen/

Re: Okular locked up my system and left no evidence

2023-02-09 Thread Borden
10 Feb 2023, 01:03 by borde...@tutanota.com: > I was trying to fill out a PDF form on Okular and my system started crawling > to halt on text fields until it locked up completely. SSD stayed solid on (so > God knows how many write cycles it gluttoned), fan went into overdrive trying > to keep t

Okular locked up my system and left no evidence

2023-02-09 Thread Borden
I was trying to fill out a PDF form on Okular and my system started crawling to halt on text fields until it locked up completely. SSD stayed solid on (so God knows how many write cycles it gluttoned), fan went into overdrive trying to keep the circuitry from frying, and the computer completely

Re: KDE Connect started working

2022-10-10 Thread Borden
10 Oct 2022, 11:55 by g...@extremeground.com: > Yes, I went through all that when I initially tried KDEconnect. I haven't > touched the firewall since. And I haven't updated the router firmware. It's > probable that something has changed on the phone, computer or both. > > It's been a weird coupl

Re: KDE Connect started working

2022-10-09 Thread Borden
10 Oct 2022, 00:13 by g...@extremeground.com: > I've had the kdeconnect app on my desktop and on my Samsung phone for at > least a couple of years without ever having them able to see each other. > Yesterday evening I was looking at the notices on my phone and saw that > kdeconnect had found my

Re: Has anyone gotten KAddressBook to work with anything?

2022-09-13 Thread Borden
> I can’t speak to using Radicale, but I sync both my address book and my > calendar from Kontact (KAddressBook and KOrganizer) to a Davical server.  I > am also running Testing and have been using this configuration for several > years.  It generally works well, although sometimes there are

Has anyone gotten KAddressBook to work with anything?

2022-09-12 Thread Borden
I understand that KDE PIM changes are coming down the pike. I'm on testing. From what I can see, there have been no updates in the past couple days to KDE PIM-related packages on my system. I have tried to get KAddressBook to work with vCard directories - an effort which mostly seemed to work b

Re: Changing file associations

2022-07-26 Thread Borden
26 Jul 2022, 05:51 by b...@ale.cx: > > I think you meant to reply to the list, not to me. > > My apologies. I'm still learning how to Internet. > > > > > Anyway, there's probably an xdg-* command that does this "properly", but > > > grep korganiz  > /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache > > >

Changing file associations

2022-07-22 Thread Borden
KOrganizer somehow muscled its way to being the default program for all text files. Is there a way to make Kate the default program without having to change every single file association manually? For some Windows programs, there's a way to tell Windows to make it the default program for all s

Re: Plasma 5.24 coming to testing

2022-03-17 Thread Borden
17 Mar 2022, 08:52 by didi.deb...@cknow.org: > A quick look at man:/apt didn't show a '-s' from simulate being present, but > if you have aptitude installed, I know it supports that. But 'even' apt > upgrade should ask for a confirmation before doing an actual upgrade.> So if > that looks sane,

Re: Plasma 5.24 coming to testing

2022-03-16 Thread Borden
Is it safe to upgrade in testing yet? There are dozens of packages in the update queue and I'm afraid to hit dist-upgrade after the previous Plasma upgrade hobbled my computer for over a month.

Re: Kontact/KOrganizer calendars not synching

2022-03-02 Thread Borden
1 Mar 2022, 20:29 by g...@extremeground.com: > I'm running Debian/Bookworm on an AMD64 system. > > Some time back something apparently happened to my desktop calendars. They > stopped showing anything. They used to sync with 2 different Google calendars > that I update through my android phone.

Re: Need help fixing Akonadi

2022-01-27 Thread Borden
Updates to this problem for the benefit of others: 30 Nov 2021, 06:10 by he...@debian.org: > > >> >> 1) Akonadi keeps downloading from my IMAP account at top speed (thereby >> >> hogging all the available bandwidth on my network) and never seems to >> >> finish. >> > >> > Sure it needs to downlo

Re: The future of KDE in Debian?

2022-01-24 Thread Borden
24 Jan 2022, 15:20 by ma...@bastardi.net: > O-h m-y g-o-d... > > https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Qt-Digital-Advertising-1.0 > > Regards > > -- > Marco Valli > Google's been doing this from the start. Qt's just upstreaming it

Re: Need help fixing Akonadi

2021-12-12 Thread Borden
> run Akonadi with logging enabled: > QT_LOGGING_RULES="*=true;qt.*=false" akonadictl restart > > or even log the complete IMAP traffic: > export KIMAP_LOGFILE=/tmp/imap.log > QT_LOGGING_RULES="*=true;qt.*=false" akonadictl restart > > see also > https://techbase.kde.org/KDE_PIM/Akonadi/Debug_IM

Re: Need help fixing Akonadi

2021-11-29 Thread Borden
Nov 29, 2021, 11:54 by he...@debian.org: > By the way, ~/.config/akonadi* are configuration files! So you hopefully have > backup those, as I expect two of your problems would been fixed, if you > recover those files. > Not a problem. I made sure I read the files and wrote down any important in

Re: Need help fixing Akonadi

2021-11-28 Thread Borden
28 Nov 2021, 08:47 by lilywhite2...@outlook.com: > Jokes aside, did you roll back PostgreSQL to 13 and purge all Akonadi-related > packages, then reinstall them? This worked for me (the purging and > reinstalling part) the first time it broke down. > I'd rather use different PIM software than w

Need help fixing Akonadi

2021-11-28 Thread Borden
I made the grave mistake of upgrading from PostgreSQL 13 to 14 and assuming that Akonadi would upgrade, too. This, of course, broke Kontact and all of its sub-programs, so I deleted everything I could find in ~/.local/share/akonadi* , ~/.config/akonadi* , ~/.cache/akonadi* and a few kmail2 files

Re: Testing : is it OK to upgrade ?

2021-10-25 Thread Borden
Nope! Kwin needs to upgrade or you'll have a broken system. It's being blocked because of mesa. Details at https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/kwin 26 Oct 2021, 01:46 by er...@rail.eu.org: > > Hi, > > > For quite some time I see no new KDE package arrivi,g in testing. > However I have ~ 40 packa

Re: 5.23 starting move to testing

2021-10-21 Thread Borden
Oct. 19, 2021, 17:35 by norb...@preining.info: > That is a question we are facing since long, and apt does not provide a > solution. We want to force that updates can only be done in lockstep, > that is, packages cannot be updated to new major versions without > updating all. > > But unfortunately

Re: 5.23 starting move to testing

2021-10-19 Thread Borden
19 Oct 2021, 16:19 by luigi.tosc...@tiscali.it: > That said, Erwin, I don't have an answer to your question. Probably stricter > constraints in the packages may help, but not completely and it may be > complicated to implement. > Out of curiosity, how would the apt system have to change - strictl

Re: 5.23 starting move to testing

2021-10-19 Thread Borden
17 Oct 2021, 07:16 by b...@fineby.me.uk: > Taking note of the thread regarding updating to 5.23 in Sid, I'll be > holding off for a few days until migration to testing is complete. > I'm sure this has been answered before, but this seems to be a perennial issue wherever there's a major upgrade. Si

Re: Broken KDE in Sid/Unstable

2021-09-27 Thread Borden
> Well, that is OP fault. Running sid/testing requires a minimal knowledge > about what is going on, and often waiting for conflicts to be fixed by > updated packages instead of removals. > It depends. Since we're not born knowing how the Debian ecosystem works, it's unreasonable to expect a cu

Re: Upgrade partially some packages (Plasma 5.19. 5 - 3) on testing broke plasma.

2020-11-12 Thread Borden Rhodes
On Thu, 12 Nov 2020 at 23:32, Norbert Preining wrote: > Nothing related to plasma can make your system unbootable, that is FUD. > You can change the desktop session to any other and run it. Does my computer power on and POST? Yes. Do the kernel and systemd complete their start up routines? Yes. C

Re: Upgrade partially some packages (Plasma 5.19. 5 - 3) on testing broke plasma.

2020-11-12 Thread Borden Rhodes
On Thu, 12 Nov 2020 at 20:36, Gary Dale wrote: > > However the point of testing is to do testing. I understand that. But I want to make sure that my three points are understood: 1) An unbootable computer is not a "testing" system. It's an "unstable" system. The update that broke KDE was foreseeab

Re: Upgrade partially some packages (Plasma 5.19. 5 - 3) on testing broke plasma.

2020-11-12 Thread Borden Rhodes
Confirmed I can use my computer again. Thank you. Back to my earlier question, though, have we learnt anything in this experience that can help us avoid unbootable KDE problems in the future?

Re: Upgrade partially some packages (Plasma 5.19. 5 - 3) on testing broke plasma.

2020-11-10 Thread Borden Rhodes
On Tue, 10 Nov 2020 at 14:48, Brad Rogers wrote: > Impossible to achieve. There's simply far too much that can go wrong to > cover every single (corner) case there may be. Is there anything to learn from this experience that can help us in future? Controls are never perfect, and there's always a

Re: Upgrade partially some packages (Plasma 5.19. 5 - 3) on testing broke plasma.

2020-11-10 Thread Borden Rhodes
On Mon, 9 Nov 2020 at 16:20, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: > That also means you have great expectations from us :-D Are we being unreasonable assuming that we can turn our computers off and back on and have them still boot? > But let me assure you that if this kind of things happen

Re: KF5 5.75 timeline

2020-10-27 Thread Borden Rhodes
On Tue, 27 Oct 2020 at 15:30, Sandro Knauß wrote: Thank you for your response > I don't understand what you try to do. This is what I'm trying to do: https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/syntax-highlighting/-/issues/3 Upstream says that I need 5.75, but perhaps the features are available in the 5.74

KF5 5.75 timeline

2020-10-26 Thread Borden Rhodes
Good evening, What the rough timeline is for KF5 5.75 to enter testing? Is it weeks? Months? Sometime next year? I know everybody is overworked and underpaid so there are no promises. I ask because I want to fiddle with the KSyntaxHighlighting features in the new versions of KatePart. If the turn

Re: Stepping down as Qt 6 maintainers

2020-08-23 Thread Borden Rhodes
On Tue, 18 Aug 2020 at 11:11, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: > > I was asked if this move has anything to do with code quality or > licensing. The answer is a huge no, Qt is a **great** project which we > love. As stated before it's mostly about lack of free time to properly > maintain

Re: Does Plasma/KDE work under Wayland?

2020-07-07 Thread Borden Rhodes
On Mon, 6 Jul 2020 at 03:48, Xavier Brochard wrote: > > Good bug reports for something like this include backtrace infos. > You need to install kmail-dbg (or -dbgsym) package. > When Kmail will hang again, use gdb and bt to produce a backtrace (I > can't remember exactly, sorry). Is there no equi

Re: Does Plasma/KDE work under Wayland?

2020-07-05 Thread Borden Rhodes
On Wed, 10 Jun 2020 at 23:16, Ihor Antonov wrote: > > Hi Borden, > > Unfortunately packaging KDE/Plasma is hard and it takes a lot of time, so > there is also a noticeable delay between upstream releases and packages > availability. Keep testing is the minimum we can do for

RE: How do I troubleshoot wireless network dropping?

2020-07-05 Thread Borden Rhodes
> Use ps x to see how many copies of wpa_supplicant are running. If you have > multiple copies started from the command line the wifi won't stay connected. > I had the same problem. Thank you for the suggestion. I checked when it started dropping and, not only was there one instance of wpa_supplic

Re: wayland

2020-06-29 Thread Borden Rhodes
On Mon, 29 Jun 2020 at 09:36, Marco Möller wrote: > > Interested to discover Wayland without risking to lose my much > personalized settings for my KDE Plasma X11 desktop environment (and > without drawing in new desktop apps), is it enough to simply install > package kwin-Wayland? > Are there an

Re: KATE & regex search/replace across multiple lines

2020-06-19 Thread Borden Rhodes
On Fri, 19 Jun 2020 at 13:10, Gary Dale wrote: > > I've opened another (previously saved) session and tried it there and > KATE recognizes the \n properly so it's not the version of KATE that's > at fault. I've tried switching the End-Of-Line mode between Unix and > MS-DOS (and back) but that didn

Does Plasma/KDE work under Wayland?

2020-06-10 Thread Borden Rhodes
Good afternoon, I'm following up on a message for which I don't believe I received a response on 29 May. I'm trying to transition to Plasma using Wayland instead of X, and I'm encountering many stability and usability problems. In general, should Plasma on Wayland in Bullseye be stable enough for

Is Wacom still broken in Wayland Plasma?

2020-05-28 Thread Borden Rhodes
My Wacom-based touchscreen works fine in X with only libinput installed. In Wayland, the touchscreen, stylus and all other features are completely unresponsive. I found complaints a few years old that this was a known defect. However, references to it in https://community.kde.org/Plasma/Wayland_Sho

Re: Can't set times for Kontact events

2019-12-19 Thread Borden Rhodes
On Thu, 19 Dec 2019 at 12:10, Gary Dale wrote: > > I'm running bullseye on an AMD64 system. > > When I create or edit an event, I can't set or change the time. No > matter what I do, it reverts to 12:00 AM after I save the event. > Moreover, the Apply button stays greyed out unless I modify some o

Re: Is KOrganizer broken only for me?

2019-12-08 Thread Borden Rhodes
> Regional Settings -> Date & Time and changed the time zone to another one and back to my locale and the problem *seems* to have gone away. Even if it doesn't, I think this is where the problem lies. On Mon, 18 Nov 2019 at 00:58, Borden Rhodes wrote: > > So it seems that it&#

Re: Is KOrganizer broken only for me?

2019-11-17 Thread Borden Rhodes
So it seems that it's not only broken for me. Others are getting the same symptoms: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=410167 and it seems that they're no closer to figuring it out than I am. Just in case anybody else runs into this issue. On Fri, 15 Nov 2019 at 02:10, Borden Rho

Re: Is KOrganizer broken only for me?

2019-11-14 Thread Borden Rhodes
Thank you for looking through the log file. On Thu, 14 Nov 2019 at 21:05, Sandro Knauß wrote: > > the log file is not very helpful, as this is the Akonadi one. Can you crate > the > log file from korganizer? After setting up the .ini file you suggested, I ran $ korganizer &> korg_debug.txt and

Re: Is KOrganizer broken only for me?

2019-11-14 Thread Borden Rhodes
the right way to do that. I tried deleting the calendar folder store in Akonadi and re-adding it, but that didn't help. I'm very grateful for your help. > hefee > > On Mittwoch, 6. November 2019 08:22:53 CET Borden Rhodes wrote: > > I know that there have been some majo

Is KOrganizer broken only for me?

2019-11-05 Thread Borden Rhodes
I know that there have been some major upgrades to the Qt, KDE and KDE PIM packages in the past few weeks. One of these new "features" that I just discovered in Buster is that all new events that I try to create in KOrg save as full-day events no matter what I enter. When I try to open the event t

Is JuK still maintained in Debian?

2019-09-17 Thread Borden Rhodes
As one of the Amarok refugees, I'm using JuK to play music until either Team Amarok ports to Qt5 or a suitable replacement is uploaded. Maybe JuK is a terrible program that I shouldn't use. However, it's part of the KDE package so I'm using it. I'm running into hangs and crashes (with no debugging

Re: Back to Amarok

2019-08-22 Thread Borden Rhodes
On Thu, 22 Aug 2019 at 03:48, Geoff wrote: > Last update March 7, 2018. I think it's a goner unfortunately. Trying to get > used to clementine instead... Last human commit to the master branch was on 28 July (https://cgit.kde.org/amarok.git/log/). I haven't given up hope yet.

Re: Back to Amarok

2019-08-21 Thread Borden Rhodes
On Wed, 21 Aug 2019 at 11:44, Erwan David wrote: > I got notified that some bug I had opened against amarok was closed due > to amarok being retired. I had already switched to cantata since buster > install... Not quite. As John mentioned, Amarok got pulled because it uses the obsolete Qt4 librar

Why won't KDE start with overcommit disabled?

2018-06-05 Thread Borden Rhodes
I have a problem with web browsers going rogue and locking up my computer such that I have to hard restart. I want to set vm.overcommit_memory=2 to try to invoke the OOM killer before a browser locks up my computer. When I do, though, SDDM will start normally, I'll log in but it'll freeze up whilst

Is KTimeTracker defunct?

2018-03-25 Thread Borden Rhodes
I noticed that KTimeTracker's been pulled from Debian Buster for a while. I tried to do some upstream research and it seems to be buried in KDEPIM's source code. Does anyone familiar with the KDE community know whether it's been abandoned?

Re: jessie upgrade deemed very difficult + there is no simple way not to install konqueror

2017-06-19 Thread Borden Rhodes
On 19 June 2017 at 21:09, Jimmy Johnson wrote: > Positive criticism is always welcome. :) Believe me, I've tried. The graphical interfaces for reportbug and reportbug-ng don't work. The former whines about a missing GTK dependency which is installed and running, the latter gives mangled output th

Re: jessie upgrade deemed very difficult + there is no simple way not to install konqueror

2017-06-19 Thread Borden Rhodes
On 19 June 2017 at 19:30, Jimmy Johnson wrote: > Only for someone who is difficult, no knowledge and obviously no fun. > > Cheers, > -- > Jimmy Johnson I'm not sure if you were trying to come across as clever, but the Internet stripped out your tone and you just came across as an unpleasant jerk.

Re: jessie upgrade deemed very difficult + there is no simple way not to install konqueror

2017-06-19 Thread Borden Rhodes
I was floored when I saw that they released Stretch. There are so many broken packages on my system that I can't imagine they'd release them. I expect *a lot* of complaints to roll in.

Re: Is anyone else experiencing intermittent Plasma freezes as of very recently?

2016-12-14 Thread Borden Rhodes
If it helps, after an X server update on Sunday, my computer took almost fifteen minutes to start SDDM. Turns out that there is a problem with xserver-xorg-input-wacom stalling the whole thing. Notes on the X server PTS say that there's a transition under way to the next X server. It's possible tha

KUser & KDE Print settings prompt root password

2016-09-26 Thread Borden Rhodes
As the subject says, on my Debian Stretch laptop, attempting to use the KDE print settings or KUser prompts me to login with the root account. This is a problem because I installed Debian with the root account locked out. I thought Polkit was supposed to have taken care of all of this. Perhaps I'm

Re: Is Kicker's search box fixed?

2016-07-19 Thread Borden Rhodes
and taskbar not working. > Finally, remember to change your /etc/apt/sources.list back to testing or > stretch, followed by an apt-get update. > > Tim > On Tuesday, July 19, 2016 03:08:29 AM Borden Rhodes wrote: >> Good morning, >> >> Around the time of the KF5 upg

Is Kicker's search box fixed?

2016-07-19 Thread Borden Rhodes
Good morning, Around the time of the KF5 upgrade on Stretch, typing into Kicker's search box krashed Plasma. I notice that it doesn't do that anymore, but the search box also doesn't generate any search results. Is it working for anybody else and, if so, what do I have to install/clear/configure t

Re: How do I open a kwallet4 in Stretch?

2016-03-25 Thread Borden Rhodes
OK, so I stumbled upon https://barlog.rusu.info/valentin/blog/?p=300 , and comment 6 explains the problem: the whole thing's borked because "something (that i don’t have the time to investigate) has changed in qt5 and the existing kwalletd code, when linked against it, is unable to correctly handle

Re: How do I open a kwallet4 in Stretch?

2016-03-25 Thread Borden Rhodes
>> If you have enough disk-space, you could build a jessie chroot with >> debootstrap > Could you explain how that would help me? If the Wheezy version of > KWallet couldn't open the file, what would Jessie accomplish? I stand corrected. I was using the Jessie Live CD, not the Wheezy Live CD. >>

Re: How do I open a kwallet4 in Stretch?

2016-03-25 Thread Borden Rhodes
> If you have enough disk-space, you could build a jessie chroot with > debootstrap Could you explain how that would help me? If the Wheezy version of KWallet couldn't open the file, what would Jessie accomplish? > I suggest you bring that issue to upstream at bugs.kde.org > > Please post a link

Re: How do I open a kwallet4 in Stretch?

2016-03-25 Thread Borden Rhodes
>>> You could try to copy the kwallet-files to a KDE4-system (maybe a >>> live-System from a USB-drive) and export it as XML-file. > I'm thinking that this is what I'll have to do, too. That and file a > bug that KWallet is officially ransomware. I tried that, but it seems that the KDE developers a

Re: How do I open a kwallet4 in Stretch?

2016-03-25 Thread Borden Rhodes
>> You could try to copy the kwallet-files to a KDE4-system (maybe a >> live-System from a USB-drive) and export it as XML-file. I'm thinking that this is what I'll have to do, too. That and file a bug that KWallet is officially ransomware. > On my system the contents of the KDE 4 kwallet has been

How do I open a kwallet4 in Stretch?

2016-03-25 Thread Borden Rhodes
I just discovered that Konqueror has been saving passwords in .kde/share/apps/kwallet/kdewallet.kwl even though the rest of my KDE installation is updated to KF5. I want to know what passwords have been stored in kdewallet.kwl so I don't lose them. I've tried to open the file in kwalletmanager5 to

Re: KBluetooth vs. Borden

2010-01-06 Thread Borden Rhodes
2009 at 6:59 AM, Borden Rhodes wrote: > > Hullo, all, > > > > I'm using Squeeze and I'm assuming that the kdebluetooth packages work, > > even if they're still using the old Qt3 libraries. Of course, kbluetooth > > does not recognise my tablet's

KBluetooth vs. Borden

2009-12-21 Thread Borden Rhodes
Hullo, all, I'm using Squeeze and I'm assuming that the kdebluetooth packages work, even if they're still using the old Qt3 libraries. Of course, kbluetooth does not recognise my tablet's Bluetooth system even though hcitool does. Yes, I've triple-checked that I'm a member of *both* the netde