Verifying integrity of LiveCD?
by Oisin Feeley
Hi all,
What is the preferred way to verify the integrity of the various
LiveCDs available for the F9-Sulfur beta? I tried to test the
i686-LiveCD and was unsure whether its failure to boot was due to a
corrupt burn and/or download. There seems to be no sha1sum or md5sum
available on the prerelease page[1] to enable a quick check of the ISO
image.
The specific issue which I'm seeing is probably a specific optical
drive issue, however the above possibility is one which it would be
nice to be able to eliminate.
Best wishes,
Oisin Feeley
1. http://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease
16 years, 1 month
UTC timezone
by Louis Garcia
My HP laptop stores time using UTC. I just found this out because XP and
fedora displayed different times. How do I change fedora to read the
clock using UTC system wide? I found gnome-panel clock has the option
for UTC but does not help at a plain console.
-Louis
16 years, 1 month
Zimbra packages in Fedora
by Neal Gompa
I had noticed how well that Zimbra has been doing, and I was wondering if it
would be possible for someone to make packages for Zimbra to be included in
Fedora?
16 years, 1 month
KDE4: Some General Comments
by Kelly Miller
Well, I've been running KDE4 in various forms over the last few months, and
I have some comments about the current state of the KDE4 entry in Rawhide
(which is likely going to be the one in Fedora 9)...
1) Um, with the exception of Fedora, every version of KDE4 I've seen now
has an option for Plasma Theme in Configure Desktop. Would it be too much
work to port it here?
2) Interestingly, Fedora's version of KDE4 seems to be the only one where
the size option of the panels seems to actually be respected; even in KDE's
own repository, this didn't seem to be the case until recently. That makes
me very happy, as I'm a stickler for small details like this, but that's a
small opinion...
3) XSettings-KDE. Is there going to be any work on getting this to work
with KDE4? I do notice that KDE3 apps listen to it (at least, that's my
feeling), but GTK apps don't seem to do the same...
4) Is there a reason Nepomuk is left out? Just asking.
5) I'm going to have to suggest, after a couple of months, that it might be
an idea to switch the window manager to something other than KWin
temporarily. KWin is horribly unstable as-is, and I believe it also leaks
memory periodically (I've had cases where KWin steals 80+% of the system
resources and no other program can get at them at all). Personally, I
stopped using it and adjusted KDE's windows to use Metacity instead, just
for now.
16 years, 1 month
X server goes to 100% after logout of KDE session
by Orion Poplawski
Brand new rawhide install....
I'm seeing a problem where after logging out of my KDE session where the
screen goes blank and I can't access any VTs. ssh login shows X running
at 100%. Strace shows tight loop of:
--- SIGALRM (Alarm clock) @ 0 (0) ---
sigreturn() = ? (mask
now [])
Looks like there was a kwin crash process still running.
Anyone else see this? Couldn't find anything in bugzilla.
- Orion
16 years, 1 month
Screensaver Artwork
by Thomas J. Baker
Is there going to be a Waves themed gnome screensaver unlock dialog?
Thanks,
tjb
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16 years, 1 month
KDE-SIG weekly report (15/2008)
by Sebastian Vahl
This is a report of the weekly KDE-SIG-Meeting with a summary of the
topics that were discussed. If you want to add a comment please reply
to this email or add it to the related meeting page.
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= Weekly KDE Summary =
Week: 15/2008
Time: 2008-04-08 16:00 UTC
Meeting page: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/KDE/Meetings/2008-04-08
Meeting log:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/KDE/Meetings/2008-04-08?action=AttachF...
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= Participants =
- Gerald Cox
- KevinKofler
- LukasTinkl
- RexDieter
- SebastianVahl
- ShawnStarr
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= Agenda =
- Last preparations for final development freeze
- kdepim requires kdebase3?
- state of konq-plugins (#438126)
- Administrator mode in systemsettings (again)
- Missing default face icon (#441154)
- BootManager=None in in /etc/kde/kdm/kdmrc (#441313)
- Switch to Waves Artwork (KDM, Background, ColorScheme; what's still
missing?) (#441167)
- Release notes (re-check: is anything missing?)
= Summary =
o Last preparations for final development freeze:
- Final development freeze was before the meeting.
- Documentation in kde-l10n is still broken and excluded from the build.
- This was not considered as a blocker for Fedora 9 and would be released as
an update if/when it is fixed.
o kdepim requires kdebase3? (#441541):
- The "First Start Wizard" was reported to not work properly without kdebase3
being installed.
- POP3 and STMP operations are also not working without some related kio
slaves from kdebase3.
- kdepim fully requiring kdebase3(-libs) would blow-up the live images.
- A solution for this may be to identify the needed parts in kdebase3 and
split them out in a kdebase3-mail-ioslaves sub package.
o state of konq-plugins (#438126):
- Review hasn't started yet, although there seems to be no show-stoppers found
in a short test.
- The "Obsoletes: kdeaddons" should maybe be moved from extragear-plasma to
konq-plugins.
- But for this the package has to be in GA at release time.
- It could also be released only as an update after GA without the Obsoletes.
o Administrator mode in systemsettings (again) :
- In System Settings the sections "Login Manager" and "Samba" require root
privileges.
- This isn't implemented upstream yet and proper upstream support for this
issues will likely be included in KDE 4.1.
- LukasTinkl was working on a workaround to fix this which isn't included yet.
- Until this is addressed by upstream the patch will be included (with tag
requesting to rel-eng)
o Missing default face icon (#441154) :
- KDM with a user list theme didn't displayed a default face icon.
- This is already fixed in kdebase-workspace-4.0.3-7.fc9.
o BootManager=None in in /etc/kde/kdm/kdmrc (#441313) :
- SebastianVahl reported an issue that he has to pick one kernel of a list of
kernels when trying to reboot from KDM to actually reboot.
- BootManager=None would only workaround this issue.
- This is a bug which should be fixed instead.
- #374011 is related to the configuration entry.
o Switch to Waves Artwork (KDM, Background, ColorScheme; what's still
missing?) (#441167) :
- KSplash was switched to a matching waves artwork some time ago.
- KDM was recently switched to non-themed greeter with the current waves
wallpaper as an initial implementation.
- Unfortunately the work on the wallpapers is still on-going.
- Also a matching ColorScheme isn't existing at the moment.
o Release notes (re-check: is anything missing?):
- The release notes should be fine.
- Final freeze for zero-day release notes is 18 April.
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= Next Meeting =
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/KDE/Meetings/2008-04-15
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= Buglist =
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/438126
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/441154
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/441167
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/441313
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/441541
16 years, 1 month
xulrunner rendering issues ?
by Denis Leroy
On my rawhide setup, both epiphany and galeon are very much unusable at
this point because of font and image sizes going haywire. Screenshot :
http://www.poolshark.org/images/xulrunner.png
Left is epiphany. Top right is galeon (with zoom set at 100%). Bottom
right is firefox, which looks good. A quick bugzilla search came up
empty, so am I the only one affected ??
-denis
16 years, 1 month
ddd up for grabs
by Tom Callaway
Does anyone want ddd?
Frankly, I'm tired of it, I dislike lesstif more everytime I have to
deal with it, and debugging it just gives me migraines.
But hey! Maybe you like that sort of thing. If you act now, I'll throw
in:
* Three outstanding ddd bugs (two of them have workarounds)
* My undying gratitude for never having to touch ddd again.
Seriously. Please, someone take this, or I might just abandon it.
~spot
16 years, 1 month