kde March 2012

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nntp (aka, usenet) client in kde?
by Gene Smith 07 Feb '20

07 Feb '20

I currently use t-bird with an nntp account pointing to gmane to read this list and sereral others. Does kde have an nntp client program of any sort? I don't see it as a possible new account type in kmail. Also, search with kpackagekit yields nothing with "usenet" or "nntp" that is kde specific. -gene

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Kate not installed by default on Fedora 16
by Sonic 15 Jun '12

15 Jun '12

Hi.. I just found out that Kate was not installed by default on Fedora 16 even though I had selected 'KDE Software Development' during installation. KDevelop is installed, but not Kate. Was this a concious decision or a mistake? regards, Syam

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kde-4.8.2
by Rex Dieter 31 Mar '12

31 Mar '12

An initial batch of kde-4.8.2 builds are now available in f16/f17 kde- testing repos. So far so good, give it a whirl, and share how it goes (good or bad). -- rex

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Setting a protocol handler
by Patrick O'Callaghan 30 Mar '12

30 Mar '12

I'm trying to set up qbittorrent to handle magnet: links. I've searched high and low in KDE Settings to no avail. Note that these links don't usually have a distinguishing file extension. Instead they're flagged as magnet:... in the URL. I use Google Chrome, which is a GTK-oriented browser, so I also tried using gconf-editor to set this up. However the setting is completely ignored (the default is set to use transmission, but in fact clicking on a magnet link always fires up Ktorrent, which I don't want), so that seems to be out. I've also tried messing with the Chrome text config files, which are undocumented and obscure. The built-in Chrome settings widget is no help either. In short, I don't know if I'm in the right part of the forest. In fact I'm not sure I'm even in the right forest. Why is this stuff so hard? poc

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multiple screens
by Neal Becker 30 Mar '12

30 Mar '12

If I hook up a projector, it seems I get best results by choosing the default config (twinview, with projector on right). This is using nvidia driver. Having done this, my panel then jumps onto the right screen (the projector). Is there some way to avoid this? (Turning off the projector, my panel is now gone, which can be annoying).

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Sound Problem with USB Headphone
by Junayeed Ahnaf Nirjhor 29 Mar '12

29 Mar '12

Hello, I'm running 64 bit Fedora 16 (All up to date) and gstreamer backend. Now the problem is: I was having no issues with sound whatsoever. But few days back I plugged in an USB headphone. That thing got proper sound and all but now I can't hear anything with it plugged in. I tried changing the order of the sound card (Internal, Manhattan,USB Audio) & looked into ALSA Mixer. But I just can't hear anything. And is there anyway to playback via XINE rather than gstreamer? I'm running KDE here. -- Junayeed Ahnaf Nirjhor Core Developer Intern, Diaspora <http://joindiaspora.com> Twitter - @Nirjhor <http://twitter.com/nirjhor>

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Changing kate syntax highlighting for .pro files
by Roderick Johnstone 29 Mar '12

29 Mar '12

Hi How can I change the mode of syntax highlighting that kate does for a file extension of .pro? I read the section on syntax highlighting in the kate handbook but am none the wiser. kde 4.8.1 (on F16) recognises files with extension .pro, for syntax highlighting purposes, as qmake files. This is shown by a checked radio button under in tools/highlighting/other/QMake when editing a file with this extension. Also, tools/mode/other/QMake is checked. I'd like to make kate activate tools/highlighting/sources/RSIIDL for syntax highlighting automatically for the .pro file extension instead since this file type is used by the Interactive Data Language (now owned by Excelis, but formerly by RSI, hence RSIIDL, to avoid a conflict with IDL the Interface Definition Language) for its language source files. I'd like to be able to make this change on a system-wide basis. Thanks for any pointers anyone can give. Roderick

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Copy file with Dolphin is slower
by Armelius Cameron 26 Mar '12

26 Mar '12

Hi, I am always curious why copying file in Dolphin is always so much slower than just using command line. For example, for convenient I have an entry in my Dolphin to access my remote server via fish://username@servername. If I try to copy file from my local machine to the remove server, it shows transfer speed initially at 1.3Mib/s, and sometimes it drops to only hundreds of kb/s. When I try using scp, I get over 11MB/s, which makes sense since I'm on the Gbit LAN. Annectodally I've seen similar thing when copying large file over different disk partition or to external drive via dolphin or just command line 'cp'; cp is always faster. But I like to convenient of Dolphin so for smaller file size this is tolerable. But I'm curious still of the big performance difference. Thanks. AC

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Fedora 17 Beta RC1 desktop validation needed
by Adam Williamson 23 Mar '12

23 Mar '12

Hey folks! By some miracle we've managed to get Fedora 17 Beta RC1 out almost on time: http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/17-Beta.RC1/ As always, we need to do the desktop validation for it. See the desktop validation page: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_17_Beta_RC1_Desktop And please, if you can, help us to fill in the results for your desktops. Desktop team, I know we didn't get 3.3.92 into Beta and sorry about that, but we do need to check it passes the validation tests - the ones for Beta aren't too difficult and shouldn't take long to do, so if you can help that'd be great. I have done a smoke test on all four desktops; they all boot okay to a sane looking desktop and successfully install to hard disk and boot from hard disk, so they're all clearly testable, not DOA. Thanks everyone! -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net

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virtuoso_t high CPU with Akonadi
by Armelius Cameron 23 Mar '12

23 Mar '12

Hello, This starts happening after upgrading to KDE 4.8.1. I constantly see virtuoso_t using high CPU (~99%), and my laptop fan is constantly running at high speed. Google search landed me on this page: http://userbase.kde.org/Akonadi#High_CPU_or_Memory_usage So I tried closing kontact, then 'akonadictl stop', and virtuoso_t process is gone from 'top'. When I start akonadi and Kontact, it's back. I checked krunner config page as suggested, but I don't see those services as enabled in my plugins. I tried reboot, re-login, etc and virtuoso_t keeps coming back. Any help is appreciated. Thanks. AC

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