Re: Soften the the wording recommending menu files: let's do it in Jessie.

2014-01-09 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, Charles Plessy wrote: > please, I would like to decouple two issues. > > - Issue 1: the Debian menu is superseded in major destkotop environments, and >the Policy should recognise that the Debian menu is not the lead mechanism >for managing menus in Debian anymore. Unfortutately we

Re: Soften the the wording recommending menu files: let's do it in Jessie.

2014-01-09 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Charles Plessy wrote: > On the other hand, it is the spirit of Debian to accept low-maintenance > patches > (in that case, menu entries) when it can help other projects even if one does > not care for it. In that sense, if the Debian Menu has an active user base, > it > would be counter-product

Re: Soften the the wording recommending menu files: let's do it in Jessie.

2014-01-05 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, Steve Langasek wrote: > I believe we are at the point that we should be recommending a preference > for the fdo MIME interfaces Yep, and menus, too. Do we have clear advice about (1) how to write a menu entry for my console app (or niche graphical app) without cluttering the menus us

Re: [debian-policy] 11.8.3 "Packages providing a terminal emulator" says xterm passes -e option straight to exec

2012-07-08 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi terminal emulator authors (in bcc), There is a policy proposal to clarify what x-terminal-emulator -e does when there is one argument and when there are many arguments. Currently policy says: | To be an `x-terminal-emulator', a program must: |* Be able to emulate a DEC VT100 te

Bug#655753: [PATCH/RFC] xdm.init: do not start if "text" option is in kernel commandline

2012-01-13 Thread Jonathan Nieder
1.1.11-2) UNRELEASED; urgency=low + + * xdm.init: do not start xdm if the word "text" is found in /proc/cmdline. + + -- Jonathan Nieder Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:46:55 -0600 + xdm (1:1.1.11-1) unstable; urgency=low [ Joe Hansen ] diff --git a/debian/xdm.init b/debian/xdm.init index 4127dffe

Re: fglrx: drop-down menus taking a long time to render

2011-09-28 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Jack Saunders wrote: > Reversing the KDE upgrade is going to be a bit of a monumental task, so I > won't go down that route. Debian are doing an archive upgrade on their > servers today so that puts the kybosh on it in any case. > > What I did do last night is install the Gnome desktop from the cu

Bug#541661: cannot open research.microsoft.com

2011-08-29 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Eckhart Wörner wrote: > Fixed according to comments. Thanks, both! Cheers, Jonathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-qt-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110829154641.gb2...@elie.gate

Severity for KDE3 / Qt3 removal reminder bugs

2011-02-26 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Julien Cristau wrote: > Care to elaborate? As I understand it: The Qt 3 part is a red herring. Bugs blocking removal of Qt 3 really should _not_ be release critical as long as there is someone willing to maintain Qt 3 itself. I'm not aware of an RFA, so... As for the KDE 3 part: to avoid user

Re: Processed (with 1 errors): Raise severity for KDE3 / Qt3 removal reminder bugs (squeeze has been released)

2011-02-25 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 03:11:52 -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote: >> 1. lower the severity of these bugs to important or lower > > Yes please. Based on response from #debian-qt-kde that was a bad idea on my part. Not wanting to spam people further, I&#

Bug#615129: RM: qt-x11-free/3:3.3.8b-7, kdelibs/4:3.5.10.dfsg.1-5

2011-02-25 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Package: release.debian.org Severity: wishlist User: release.debian@packages.debian.org Usertags: rm Tags: moreinfo Hi, There seems to be some interest in removing kde3 and qt3 before wheezy is released. This bug is meant to track that process and request removal of those packages from testi

Re: Processed (with 1 errors): Raise severity for KDE3 / Qt3 removal reminder bugs (squeeze has been released)

2011-02-24 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi! Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: > Work on that direction has already started some time ago, when Eckhart sent > those wishlist mails to the maintainers of the related packages. > > Please, see http://wiki.debian.org/kdelibs4c2aRemoval and > http://wiki.debian.org/qt3-x11-freeRemo

Bug#610731: kbuildsycoca4(18315) VFolderMenu::loadDoc: Parse error in "/home/[...]/xdg-desktop-menu-dummy.menu" , line 1 , col 1 : "unexpected end of file

2011-01-21 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Package: kde Version: kde4libs/4:4.4.5-2 Severity: minor Justification: cosmetic Hi, Stock experimental i386 system. I recently installed okular + all packages it recommends to check out a bug. Now in my latest dpkg run: | # cupt --no-auto-remove install iceweasel [...] | The following 1 packa

doc-base sections (Re: doc-base revisited)

2011-01-12 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Robert Luberda wrote: > On 11.01.2011 09:27, Jonathan Nieder writes: >> * The registered documentation is very sparse. It is not obvious >> where any given kind of information is to be found (the categories are >> especially unhelpful and I suspect something more faceted

Bug#606180: assistant-qt4: prints warning to console at startup

2010-12-06 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Package: qt4-dev-tools Version: 4:4.7.1-1 Severity: minor Justification: cosmetic/warning $ assistant Object::connect: No such signal HelpViewer::printRequested() The assistant itself works fine (aside from bug#606073). Still, thought you might like to know. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to deb

Bug#606073: [qt4-doc] Doc formatting looks broken (no css used)

2010-12-06 Thread Jonathan Nieder
tags 606073 + upstream forwarded 606073 http://bugreports.qt.nokia.com/browse/QTBUG-13608 quit Romain Bossart wrote: > qt assistant does not format the docs using css. The menus and > generally the formating looks broken. Googling around gave a similar > bug in ubuntu: > > https://bugs.launchpad

Bug#574043: qmake-qt4: QFileInfo::absolutePath: Constructed with empty filename

2010-03-15 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Package: qt4-qmake Version: 4:4.6.2-1 Severity: minor Hi, In a directory with some source files, when I run “qmake -project” (or “qmake-qt4 -project” explicitly), I get $ qmake -project QFileInfo::absolutePath: Constructed with empty filename $ echo $? 0 The result is a reasonable project f