Re: Fwd: Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-10 Thread Mike Bird
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Re: Fwd: Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-10 Thread Mike Bird
your needs, use something else or help make KDE 4 fit your needs. KDE 3.5 is not dead. It has many active users and a few active maintainers, such as Trinity. You are free not to engage in discussions about rescuing KDE 3.5. Please don't interfere with discussions about rescuing KDE 3.5. --Mike

Re: Fwd: Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-10 Thread Mike Bird
. Now if you have nothing useful to say about KDE 3.5, please stop trolling this thread. --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201005100538.59408.mgb

Re: Fwd: Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-10 Thread Mike Bird
is KDE 4 true believers who are trying to prevent people from using KDE 3.5. --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201005100557.00725.mgb-deb

Re: Fwd: Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-10 Thread Mike Bird
to migrate when Lenny is EOL'd. If you'd like to fix KDE 4, it would be more productive to work upstream. If you'd like to poll Debian users as to what needs fixing in KDE 4, please start a new thread. Meanwhile, please stop trolling this thread. --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde

Re: Fwd: Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-10 Thread Mike Bird
, is of interest to a substantial number of Debian users. You are free to ignore this thread. You are not free to disrupt this thread. And please learn how not to CC people when replying to the list. Why do KDE 4 acolytes keep doing that? --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ

Re: Fwd: Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-10 Thread Mike Bird
. Please don't lie. This list is for Discussions related to KDE in Debian. Those developing KDE-based packages are encouraged to use this to discuss issues and share their experience. http://lists.debian.org/debian-kde/ --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Fwd: Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-09 Thread Mike Bird
focused forum of debian-kde, to which I have cross-posted this message. --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201005090918.06704.mgb-deb

Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-07 Thread Mike Bird
will best serve my users when Lenny support ends. --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201005070940.55233.mgb-deb...@yosemite.net

Re: KDE in Debian, a personal POV

2010-05-07 Thread Mike Bird
infrastructure. Debian ships all sorts of software, including even non-free software. Would it be possible to continue rebuilding and shipping KDE 3.5, perhaps in contrib, perhaps with a huge no security updates disclaimer? --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-06 Thread Mike Bird
users and I pray that you keep KDE 3.5 (or Trinity) in Squeeze. Even with perfect packaging KDE SC 4 is slow and unreliable, gimmick-rich but feature-poor. KDE SC 4 probably has no future and certainly has no place in Debian STABLE. --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ

Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-06 Thread Mike Bird
slrn via gmane. I have great respect for Ana's work but even Ana is using Mutt. Have you ever actually tried converting normal office workers from KDE 3.5 to KDE SC 4? I have. Twice. Utter failure. --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-06 Thread Mike Bird
to it. --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201005061056.17296.mgb-deb...@yosemite.net

Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-06 Thread Mike Bird
was fifty years out of date before the first line of code was written. It's sole achievement is draining laptop batteries. We've had more than two years of being told KDE SC 4 is good enough. It is not. --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-06 Thread Mike Bird
Squeeze? Why not keep KDE SC 4 in experimental where it belongs for a few more years? --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201005061437.43604.mgb-deb

Re: KDE 4.4.3 in unstable

2010-05-06 Thread Mike Bird
installing KDE cause a global /var/lib/mysql MySQL server to run on each workstation, even when nobody is logged in? --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: KDE 4.4.3 in unstable

2010-05-06 Thread Mike Bird
On Thu May 6 2010 17:08:48 Diederik de Haas wrote: On 2010-05-07 Mike Bird wrote: Does installing KDE cause a global /var/lib/mysql MySQL server to run on each workstation, even when nobody is logged in? Not anymore, but it used to be that case. Since http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin

Re: KDE 4.4.3 in unstable

2010-05-05 Thread Mike Bird
is rushing to remove it. (3) Does Debian really want to implement robust migration both to MySQL (for Squeeze) and then out of MySQL (for Squeeze+1)? --Mike Bird P.S. Any chance that Squeeze will support Trinity? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: How to keep KDE at 3.5 in Sid installations.

2009-05-20 Thread Mike Bird
. Eventually I expect we'll run into video driver problems on new hardware but thus far we've been OK with Lenny. Thanks to the Debian KDE team for keeping KDE 3.5 in Lenny. KDE 3.5 may or may not ever see another bug fix, but it will be a long long time before KDE 4 catches up with KDE 3.5. --Mike Bird

Re: KDE 4 simply broken

2009-05-15 Thread Mike Bird
in ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail/imap/ (most of which are dot files). Since Evolution's downgrade, KMail is the only client I know of that works well with hundreds of mail folders. And for that I choose to live with software that explodes whenever the network times out. --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: KDE 4 simply broken

2009-05-15 Thread Mike Bird
of people experience KMail crashes is more significant than the fact that a lot of people do not, even if the latter were to constitute a happy majority. KMail crashes seem to correlate (albeit not perfectly) with poor or heavily loaded network connections. --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: KDE 4 simply broken

2009-05-14 Thread Mike Bird
screaming. There's no way I can force that on my users. An ENORMOUS thank you to the KDE team for leaving KDE 3.5 in Lenny. I hope they have a fall-back plan to deliver KDE 3.5 in Squeeze, because KDE 4 is going nowhere fast. --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ

Re: Why KDE4 ktorrent in Lenny?

2008-09-24 Thread Mike Bird
On Wed September 24 2008 04:48:36 Alejandro Exojo wrote: El Martes, 23 de Septiembre de 2008, Mike Bird escribió: See below for my Lenny KDE packages.  What differences do you see between this and the systems where you tested ktorrent 3 with Lenny's KDE 3?  Is it possible that ktorrent 3

Re: Why KDE4 ktorrent in Lenny?

2008-09-24 Thread Mike Bird
On Wed September 24 2008 10:18:21 Michael Biebl wrote: I can only suggest what others have already said, that you'll probably have a misconfigured system. Please post your dpkg -l | grep kde. Thanks, --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Why KDE4 ktorrent in Lenny? SOLVED

2008-09-24 Thread Mike Bird
Found and removed some old KDE4-related garbage in /usr/local. My fault, not Debian. Many thanks to everyone who answered my dumb questions. --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Why KDE4 ktorrent in Lenny?

2008-09-23 Thread Mike Bird
On Tue September 23 2008 08:22:38 Modestas Vainius wrote: antradienis 23 Rugsėjis 2008, Mike Bird rašė: My ktorrent / Settings / Configure ktorrent / Plugins list is empty. How about yours? Neither starting ktorrent nor accessing the plugins list causes the plugins to be accessed

Re: Why KDE4 ktorrent in Lenny?

2008-09-23 Thread Mike Bird
On Tue September 23 2008 09:01:13 Modestas Vainius wrote: Hi, antradienis 23 Rugsėjis 2008, Mike Bird rašė: No stdout output. See below for stderr output. Does not alter access time (neither ls -udl nor ls -ul) of /usr/lib/kde4. Does not cause ktorrent 3 plugins to appear

Re: Why KDE4 ktorrent in Lenny?

2008-09-23 Thread Mike Bird
for comparison with mine. --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Why KDE4 ktorrent in Lenny?

2008-08-27 Thread Mike Bird
this piece of KDE 4 is being pushed prematurely. Most users will simply have to downgrade to ktorrent2.2. Why not release ktorrent version 2.2 in Lenny and maybe have a ktorrent3 package for anyone that wants to play on the bleeding edge? --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Why KDE4 ktorrent in Lenny?

2008-08-27 Thread Mike Bird
On Tue August 26 2008 23:56:00 Ana Guerrero wrote: On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 11:19:02PM -0700, Mike Bird wrote: I just tried the KDE4 ktorrent 3 which is being pushed for Lenny. It was a huge disappointment. It brings in a lot of KDE 4 libs which are otherwise not needed and it has maybe 10

Should I allow Lenny to install a lot of KDE 4?

2008-08-15 Thread Mike Bird
-upgrade also wants to remove kdebase-bin-kde3 which makes me a little nervous. Logs follow. Please ignore references to context upgrade. TIA, --Mike Bird # apt-get --dry-run upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages

Re: KDESU fails after KDELIBS4C2A update

2006-10-14 Thread Mike Bird
, both up to 3.5.5a-1. I have installed gksu as a work-around. Likewise, all root password entries in Konsole work. This affects all five machines running Debian Etch in this house. confirmed --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble