Where do K3b and similar menu entries belong?

2003-03-14 Thread Michael Schuerig
. Michael -- Michael Schuerig Failures to use one's frontal lobes mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] can result in the loss of them. http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ --William H. Calvin

Re: Where do K3b and similar menu entries belong?

2003-03-14 Thread Michael Schuerig
On Friday 14 March 2003 23:46, Ralf Nolden wrote: On Freitag, 14. März 2003 22:58, Jean-Michel Kelbert wrote: On 03/03/14 at 16:56 Michael Schuerig ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote : I'm not aware of any Debian policy regarding CD-burning programs and in my opinion the main(!) K3b menu entry

Re: KDE Usability survey

2003-03-12 Thread Michael Schuerig
resource requirements. Possibly taking into account affordable hardware upgrades. Michael -- Michael Schuerig Most people would rather die than think. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] In fact, they do. http://www.schuerig.de/michael

Re: KDE Usability survey

2003-03-12 Thread Michael Schuerig
On Thursday 13 March 2003 00:31, Nick Leverton wrote: On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 11:28:15PM +0100, Michael Schuerig wrote: On Wednesday 12 March 2003 21:42, Frank Van Damme wrote: Second, It may not be the design goal to run on the lowest end stuff (like a system built out of Linux, Dietlibc

Re: Map keys to arbitrary commands in KDE 3.1

2003-03-12 Thread Michael Schuerig
it from the control center and I have searched the web for a while without a clue. There seem to be several kicker applets available for integrating xmms with KDE. See http://apps.kde.com and search for xmms. Michael -- Michael Schuerig They tell you that the darkness

Re: Yet another TT fonts problem on Debian sid

2003-03-11 Thread Michael Schuerig
versions I've tried all mess up my fonts. Advice: Don't throw away old packages until you're sure the new ones work as expected. Michael -- Michael Schuerig Nothing is as brilliantly adaptive mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] as selective stupidity. http://www.schuerig.de/michael

Desktop icons mysteriously grown

2003-03-07 Thread Michael Schuerig
my fonts; going back to the previous version (2.1.90-1) is better, but I'm not sure it's as good as before. Oh, well. Any insights appreciated. Michael -- Michael Schuerig Thinking is trying to make up mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] for a gap in one's

Re: Desktop icons mysteriously grown

2003-03-07 Thread Michael Schuerig
On Friday 07 March 2003 22:24, Hendrik Sattler wrote: Am Freitag, 7. März 2003 21:02 schrieb Michael Schuerig: I swear, I didn't feed them anything inappropriate..., but somehow the icons on my desktop grew by about 10% after the latest sid upgrade. I track sid on a daily basis

Re: KDE mouse shortcuts?

2003-03-06 Thread Michael Schuerig
window. Can it be done? Yes: Konqueror SettingsConfigure KonquerorBehavior Michael -- Michael Schuerig Not only does lightning not strike mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] twice, it usually doesn't strike once. http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ --Salman Rushdie, Fury

Re: Sound Problem -- More Info

2003-02-24 Thread Michael Schuerig
-- Michael Schuerig The usual excuse for our most unspeakable mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] public acts is that they are necessary. http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ --Judith N. Shklar

Kdm startup time

2003-02-20 Thread Michael Schuerig
searching for some resource. This did not happen with earlier versions of kdm. Michael -- Michael Schuerig Face reality and stare it down. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --Jethro Tull, Silver River Turning http://www.schuerig.de/michael/

Re: Kdm startup time

2003-02-20 Thread Michael Schuerig
On Thursday 20 February 2003 17:24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Michael Schuerig wrote: The new (i.e. KDE 3.1) kdm takes an inordinately long time to startup on my system. After the switch to X, there's a delay of 15 to 30 seconds until the login screen (kdm greeter

Re: kaddressbook (kab) in sid

2003-02-20 Thread Michael Schuerig
. Presumably, using the ordinary kdepim tarball would work the same. Michael -- Michael Schuerig Airtight arguments have mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] vacuous conclusions. http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ --A.O. Rorty, Explaining Emotions

Creating a Help Index?

2003-02-19 Thread Michael Schuerig
Presumably (from looking at the source), the Help Index Control Center module should display a list of help documents. In my case (KDE 3.1) there are no entries in this list. Michael -- Michael Schuerig Most people would rather die than think. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Kgamma ?

2003-02-02 Thread Michael Schuerig
(in kdegraphics). If I'm not mistaken, it's intended to be part of 3.2 or 3.1.x. Michael -- Michael Schuerig Contests between male toads over females are mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]often settled by the depth of the croak. http://www.schuerig.de/michael/--John

Re: KMail Cool and unstable Don't Mix

2003-01-08 Thread Michael Schuerig
your installation! For more details about this problem, look at the end of config.log. My box is apt-upgraded nightly. Can anyone suggest a solution? Try export CXX=/usr/bin/g++-2.95 export CPP=/usr/bin/cpp-2.95 before ./configure and make Michael -- Michael Schuerig

Re: Understanding Font Paths

2003-01-01 Thread Michael Schuerig
that you think it should? Doing some cargo-cult configuration, I'd recommend adding a font path for the local font server: FontPathunix/:7100 # local font server I am very confused - could do with some enlightenment. Some enlightenment would do me good, too. Michael -- Michael

Re: Java Sun J2SE 1.4.1 and kde3.1 beta 1

2003-01-01 Thread Michael Schuerig
main non-free Installing j2re1.4 should get you going. It requires java-common, which is in available in debian stable, testing, and unstable. Michael -- Michael Schuerig If at first you don't succeed... mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] try, try again. http://www.schuerig.de

Building packages using dh_make (was: k3b)

2002-12-28 Thread Michael Schuerig
dh_makeshlibs dh_installdeb dh_shlibdeps dh_gencontrol dh_md5sums dh_builddeb binary: binary-indep binary-arch .PHONY: build clean binary-indep binary-arch binary install -- Michael Schuerig

Building kdelibs (unstable) from source package?

2002-12-23 Thread Michael Schuerig
and downgraded to autoconf2.53, which didn't help, though. Michael -- Michael Schuerig If at first you don't succeed... mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] try, try again. http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ --Jerome Morrow, Gattaca

Re: Building kdelibs (unstable) from source package?

2002-12-23 Thread Michael Schuerig
On Monday 23 December 2002 14:20, Ralf Nolden wrote: On Montag, 23. Dezember 2002 14:14, Michael Schuerig wrote: I'm trying to build the kdelibs (3.0.4; unstable) from the source package, but for some reason that I don't understand it fails. Use automake 1.5, autoconf 2.53, uninstall

Re: Building kdelibs (unstable) from source package?

2002-12-23 Thread Michael Schuerig
On Monday 23 December 2002 23:54, Ralf Nolden wrote: On Montag, 23. Dezember 2002 23:24, Michael Schuerig wrote: In fact, for 3.0.x I'm only doing it because I want to track down why Bookcase instantly crashes on my system. For this, I need some way to debug into kdelibs and qt and I

Building debs from CVS

2002-12-22 Thread Michael Schuerig
be (directed to be) found when building dependend packages? Michael -- Michael Schuerig If at first you don't succeed... mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] try, try again. http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ --Jerome Morrow, Gattaca

Re: Building debs from CVS

2002-12-22 Thread Michael Schuerig
On Sunday 22 December 2002 21:40, Ralf Nolden wrote: On Sonntag, 22. Dezember 2002 18:41, Michael Schuerig wrote: So, is it possible, only for the purpose of building, to install packages in some non-standard location where they can be (directed to be) found when building dependend

Beware official Qt packages

2002-12-11 Thread Michael Schuerig
Michael -- Michael Schuerig If at first you don't succeed... mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] try, try again. http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ --Jerome Morrow, Gattaca

Re: Build times?

2002-12-01 Thread Michael Schuerig
On Sunday 01 December 2002 08:04, Rob Weir wrote: On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 11:50:29AM +0100, Michael Schuerig wrote: Also, I didn't do a plain make, but rather debuild -us -uc binary I expect the later to take longer considerably longer as it creates packages for everything. I'm fairly

Re: Build times?

2002-11-29 Thread Michael Schuerig
On Friday 29 November 2002 11:25, Frank Van Damme wrote: On Friday 29 November 2002 02:12, Michael Schuerig wrote: As I wrote earlier, I consider building my own KDE packages (possibly from CVS) with debugging enabled. I just tried this on qt-copy and this is what time said of the effort

Build times?

2002-11-28 Thread Michael Schuerig
) This is a bit long... I'm wondering, what are the times on current, faster machines (2 GHz and up)? Michael -- Michael Schuerig If at first you don't succeed... mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] try, try again. http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ --Jerome Morrow, Gattaca

Re: Relation of debs and KDE CVS?

2002-11-27 Thread Michael Schuerig
Celeron. Time to upgrade... Michael -- Michael Schuerig If at first you don't succeed... mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] try, try again. http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ --Jerome Morrow, Gattaca

bookcase -- anyone running it successfully?

2002-11-26 Thread Michael Schuerig
Is anyone running bookcase, a lit reference manager, successfully? All I get is a segfault when launching it (inside QApplication::sendPostedEvents). I'm using KDE 3.0.4 from the semi-official packages. Michael -- Michael Schuerig If at first you don't succeed... mailto

Relation of debs and KDE CVS?

2002-11-26 Thread Michael Schuerig
the latest CVS state? Michael -- Michael Schuerig If at first you don't succeed... mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] try, try again. http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ --Jerome Morrow, Gattaca

Re: kioslave audiocd

2002-11-25 Thread Michael Schuerig
and audio are used fairly widely for purposes such as accessing and burning CD and playing sound. I'm not sure exactly where the policy is documented, though. Michael -- Michael Schuerig If at first you don't succeed... mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] try, try again. http

Re: meinproc

2002-11-22 Thread Michael Schuerig
inadvertantly updating to a newer version of libxml2. Of course, remove this as soon as there's a new working version. Michael -- Michael Schuerig If at first you don't succeed... mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] try, try again. http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ --Jerome Morrow

Re: Packaging questions (kde_moduledir, overrides, watch)

2002-11-21 Thread Michael Schuerig
On Friday 22 November 2002 00:41, Paul Cupis wrote: On Thursday 21 November 2002 23:27, Michael Schuerig wrote: [Generating Packages.gz and Sources.gz locally.] Run the command on your machine, and upload the Packages.gz and Sources.fz files along with the packages (using the same layout

Re: CD burning without root priviligdes

2002-11-13 Thread Michael Schuerig
-- Michael Schuerig If at first you don't succeed... mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] try, try again. http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ --Jerome Morrow, Gattaca

Re: CD burning without root priviligdes

2002-11-13 Thread Michael Schuerig
any scsi device is nice for harmful things... Oops! I didn't consider that. A solution (requiring changes to cdrecord) would be to make some settings in /etc/default/cdrecord mandatory without the ability to override them on the command line. Michael -- Michael Schuerig

Re: CD burning without root priviligdes

2002-11-11 Thread Michael Schuerig
1 root cdrom 11, 0 Jun 27 2001 /dev/scd0 crw-rw1 root cdrom 21, 0 Apr 6 2001 /dev/sg0 (Assuming ide-scsi emulation. Note the write permission.) And, of course, you've got to be a member of group cdrom. I hope it works out for you. Michael -- Michael Schuerig

Re: CD burning without root priviligdes

2002-11-11 Thread Michael Schuerig
? I can't say off-hand why they are reset, but you can make your own changes permanent with dpkg-statoverride. First you have to make your changes manually, but any package that would touch them later looks at the statoverride and respects your changes. Michael -- Michael Schuerig

Re: Issues with Debian packages of KDE3 and locally installed software

2002-11-10 Thread Michael Schuerig
/environment KDEDIRS=/usr:/usr/local/kde:/usr/local Michael -- Michael Schuerig If at first you don't succeed... mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] try, try again. http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ --Jerome Morrow, Gattaca

Column-width not saved in kAddressBook

2002-10-29 Thread Michael Schuerig
Columns in KAddressBook 3.0.4 are far too narrow on my system and when I rearrange them, my changes are not saved. I though this problem has already surfaced and been solved here, but I can't find it. What can I do against this misfeature? Michael -- Michael Schuerig

Re: Browser Rendering Uncovered

2002-10-28 Thread Michael Schuerig
(2.0.2.20010514-1) unstable; urgency=low [...] * [ftoption.h]: #define TT_CONFIG_OPTION_BYTECODE_INTERPRETER -- Anthony Fok [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue, 15 May 2001 16:49:26 -0600 In the source it's there, too. Michael -- Michael Schuerig If at first you don't succeed... mailto:[EMAIL

Re: KDE 3.0.4 and aRTs

2002-10-28 Thread Michael Schuerig
On Monday 28 October 2002 08:14, Karolina Lindqvist wrote: måndagen den 28 oktober 2002 00.38 skrev Michael Schuerig: I included the following information in the man page for artswrapper: Since artswrapper is a potential security exploitation risk, it does not have SUID turned

Re: KDE 3.0.4 and aRTs

2002-10-27 Thread Michael Schuerig
priority in the Sound Server Preferences. Otherwise you won't get the intended effect. Michael -- Michael Schuerig If at first you don't succeed... mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] try, try again. http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ --Jerome Morrow, Gattaca

Printing, CUPS, and filters

2002-10-27 Thread Michael Schuerig
as input and outputs postscript. My hypotheses is that the printing system is trying to feed postscript into enscript and fails. What's up? Michael -- Michael Schuerig If at first you don't succeed... mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] try, try again. http://www.schuerig.de/michael

famd hogging the CPU

2002-10-25 Thread Michael Schuerig
. Deinstalling famd, and thereby forcing KDE to do the polling itself, circumvents the problem. Does anyone know what and why is happening? How to tell famd to play nicely? Michael -- Michael Schuerig If at first you don't succeed... mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] try, try

Re: KDevelop: API-Index conundrum

2002-10-24 Thread Michael Schuerig
On Thursday 24 October 2002 09:34, Ralf Nolden wrote: On Thursday 24 October 2002 04:03, Michael Schuerig wrote: [Where are the API indexes stored?] apt-get install kdelibs4-doc kdebase-doc qt-doc or something like that should help you. It's the HTML API documentation that you need

KDevelop: API-Index conundrum

2002-10-23 Thread Michael Schuerig
of and then some more and didn't find it. Michael -- Michael Schuerig If at first you don't succeed... mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] try, try again. http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ --Jerome Morrow, Gattaca

KDE3.x, gcc 3.2, debian unstable

2002-10-20 Thread Michael Schuerig
stuff. Are these the same people? Michael -- Michael Schuerig                  If at first you don't succeed... mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]          try, try again. http://www.schuerig.de/michael/   --Jerome Morrow, Gattaca

Re: KDE3.x, gcc 3.2, debian unstable

2002-10-20 Thread Michael Schuerig
On Sunday 20 October 2002 20:13, Michael Schuerig wrote: I didn't follow, who built the current packages and who's doing the official stuff. Are these the same people? Yes, they are. I apparently overlooked it in the FAQ (http://davidpashley.com/debian-kde/faq.html) when I first looked

Re: disabling portmap with KDE

2002-10-10 Thread Michael Schuerig
starts. Is it a proper way? Does it cripple KDE anyhow? Are there better ways? I know nothing about the KDE aspects of this question, but disabling a daemon is easy: $ apt-get install rcconf $ rcconf KDE (2.x) has the SysV-Init Editor for this purpose. Michael -- Michael Schuerig

Error loading 'kio_audiocd'

2002-08-06 Thread Michael Schuerig
Unable to create io-slave: klauncher said: Error loading 'kio_audiocd'. kio (KRun): I'm tracking debian/unstable and haven't used audiocd for about a week, thus I can't say which change might have caused its non-functioning. Any idea? Michael -- Michael Schuerig GPG

Re: [KDE3] Where to set $KDEDIR(S)

2002-05-18 Thread Michael Schuerig
. Yet another option: I'm setting KDEDIRS in /etc/environment Michael -- Michael Schuerig GPG Fingerprint mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]DA28 7DEB 5856 3365 BED9 http://www.schuerig.de/michael/8365 0A30 545A 82D2 05D7 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Curious ktail crashes

2002-03-12 Thread Michael Schuerig
as I can see, is that in the later cases is run by kdeinit, whereas in the former case it is not. Any ideas what's happening and what to do about it? Michael -- Michael Schuerig GPG Fingerprint mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]DA28 7DEB 5856 3365 BED9 http://www.schuerig.de

Re: Shared libs, moduledir

2001-08-07 Thread Michael Schuerig
/usr/bin/x-session-manager x-session-manager is linked to /etc/kde2/kde2.sh via the Debian alternatives system. Michael -- Michael Schuerig GPG Fingerprint mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]DA28 7DEB 5856 3365 BED9

Re: Shared libs, moduledir

2001-08-07 Thread Michael Schuerig
) /etc/kde2/kde.local and ~/.kderc? Michael -- Michael Schuerig GPG Fingerprint mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]DA28 7DEB 5856 3365 BED9 http://www.schuerig.de/michael/8365 0A30 545A 82D2 05D7

Re: Shared libs, moduledir

2001-08-06 Thread Michael Schuerig
dir_apps=/usr/local/share/applnk Michael -- Michael Schuerig GPG Fingerprint mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]DA28 7DEB 5856 3365 BED9 http://www.schuerig.de/michael/8365 0A30 545A 82D2 05D7

Re: Shared libs, moduledir

2001-08-06 Thread Michael Schuerig
On Monday 06 August 2001 16:17, Achim Bohnet wrote: On Monday 06 August 2001 15:30, Michael Schuerig wrote: On Monday 06 August 2001 13:09, Achim Bohnet wrote: You can modifiy /etc/kderc (or /usr/share/config/system.kdeglobals) and and other locations where KDE should look for more KDE

Re: viewing pdf documents with konqueror

2001-08-06 Thread Michael Schuerig
for opening or previewing a file type by right clicking on a file that type, choosing Edit file type... and then setting the appropriate options. Michael -- Michael Schuerig GPG Fingerprint mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]DA28 7DEB 5856 3365 BED9 http://www.schuerig.de

Re: Shared libs, moduledir

2001-08-04 Thread Michael Schuerig
On Saturday 04 August 2001 03:17, Ivan E. Moore II wrote: On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 11:05:35PM +0200, Michael Schuerig wrote: ...while KDE does indeed find modules installed in /usr/lib/kde2, it apparently doesn't find modules in /usr/local/lib/kde2, even though my KDEDIRS is set to /usr

Re: Not KDEDIRS, KDEDIR

2001-08-04 Thread Michael Schuerig
On Saturday 04 August 2001 10:47, Eray Ozkural (exa) wrote: I was setting KDEDIR, not KDEDIRS. I think only KDEDIR is supported, right? Both are. KDEDIRS is newer. Michael -- Michael Schuerig GPG Fingerprint mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]DA28 7DEB 5856 3365 BED9 http

KDEDIRS (was: Shared libs, moduledir)

2001-08-03 Thread Michael Schuerig
On Saturday 04 August 2001 00:53, Eray Ozkural (exa) wrote: On Saturday 04 August 2001 12:05 am, Michael Schuerig wrote: ...while KDE does indeed find modules installed in /usr/lib/kde2, it apparently doesn't find modules in /usr/local/lib/kde2, even though my KDEDIRS is set to /usr/local

Shared libs, moduledir

2001-08-02 Thread Michael Schuerig
. :-( Michael -- Michael Schuerig GPG Fingerprint mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]DA28 7DEB 5856 3365 BED9 http://www.schuerig.de/michael/8365 0A30 545A 82D2 05D7

Packaging, debianrules, make install

2001-07-31 Thread Michael Schuerig
of using prefix for this purpose. Michael -- Michael Schuerig GPG Fingerprint mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]DA28 7DEB 5856 3365 BED9 http://www.schuerig.de/michael/8365 0A30 545A 82D2 05D7

Re: audiocd protocol yet again

2001-07-26 Thread Michael Schuerig
On Thursday 26 July 2001 00:50, Data wrote: On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 11:25:11PM +0200, Michael Schuerig wrote: Hello, I've seen that it has been asked before, but still I don't get the audiocd:/ protocol to work. I get the error message The file of directory / does not exist. I'm using

Packaging

2001-07-26 Thread Michael Schuerig
and exec_prefix for make install, but that's not a robust solution. Michael -- Michael Schuerig GPG Fingerprint mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]DA28 7DEB 5856 3365 BED9 http://www.schuerig.de/michael/8365 0A30 545A 82D2 05D7

audiocd protocol yet again

2001-07-25 Thread Michael Schuerig
is readable or not. Also, XMMS does work. I'm using an automounter for /cdrom (symlinked to /var/autofs/cdrom/cdrom), but this should not interfere. Any hints where I may look for causes? Michael -- Michael Schuerig GPG Fingerprint mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]DA28 7DEB 5856

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