Crashes
by Steve Grubb
Hello,
I was curious about something. KDE has its own crash handling system.
How does this community track any metrics around code stability if
upstream gets reports? Kontact has segfaulted 20 times on me today.
Each time it says it cannot generate a bug report. Abrtd does not seem
to pick up anything. Shouldn't it? How does this community track
when a recent update suddenly starts making things crash? Kontact was
fine 3 weeks ago. I updated today (3 weeks of patches) and its crashing
all the time to the point its unusable. It won't generate a bug report,
abrtd seems not to notice either.
-Steve
3 years, 1 month
nntp (aka, usenet) client in kde?
by Gene Smith
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
3 years, 7 months
package review: polkit-qt-1
by Rex Dieter
Review Request: polkit-qt-1 - Qt bindings for PolicyKit -
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1767509
Fyi, ^^ newer polkit-qt releases dropped support for qt4, so this new one
will track latest developments, and existing polkit-qt will (continue to)
track legacy/qt4 support only
Need to do some similar work for phonon (ie, latest phonon release dropped
support for qt4) affecting both phonon, and backends (gstreamer). will
consider to drop support for qt4-based vlc backend (for f32+)
-- rex
3 years, 10 months
KDE in EPEL8 - minor changes
by Troy Dawson
Just wanted to give a heads up on the progress thus far.
EPEL8 expects to have modules by early December. That's a couple
months away, but still this year.
For non-KDE packages[1], I have started moving those over to regular
EPEL8. The normal maintainers are taking their packages, and for
those that don't want to be EPEL maintainers, I am taking the package.
This should not affect much, except for two things.
First - system-switch-displaymanager is going away. It is python2
based, and in the end, it's whole functionality can be run in one
simple systemctl command.
Second - There are a couple of packages that the Fedora maintainers
would rather not be in Fedora at all, let alone EPEL8. Example is
xorg-x11-drv-synaptics. I will be reaching out to the specific
package maintainers to see if we can/should update these.
Here is the (minorly) updated "How to install KDE on RHEL8/CentOS8"
## How to install
### First: install epel-release
rpm -Uvh https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm
### Second: Enable epel-playground
dnf config-manager --enable epel-playground
### Third: Enable codeready-builder-for-rhel-8
#### If RHEL 8 do
subscription-manager repos --enable codeready-builder-for-rhel-8-x86_64-rpms
#### If CentOS 8 do
dnf config-manager --enable PowerTools
### Fourth: install KDE
dnf group install "KDE Plasma Workspaces"
(Optional) dnf group install kde-desktop
(Optional) dnf group install kde-apps
(Optional) dnf group install kde-media --skip-broken
(Optional) dnf group install kde-education
(Optional) dnf group install kde-software-development
(Optional) dnf group install kf5-software-development
### (Optional) Fifth: Set sddm as desktop manager
systemctl set-default graphical.target (Not-Optional if in multi-user.target)
(optional) dnf install sddm
(optional) systemctl enable sddm -f
Troy
[1] - Here is the list of non-KDE packages needed to build and/or run
KDE. Those marked DONE are already in regular EPEL 8.
advancecomp
astyle
cln
desktop-backgrounds
discount
dustin-domestic-manners-fonts
dustin-dustismo-fonts
fdupes
gpsd
imlib2 - DONE
jsoncpp
libaccounts-glib
libbsd - DONE
libdmtx
libfakekey
libid3tag - DONE
libpgf
libqalculate
libupnp - DONE
lmdb - DONE
nss-mdns
openbox
optipng
perl-Any-URI-Escape
pngcrush - DONE
proj - DONE
re2 - DONE
rubygem-hpricot
rubygem-mustache
rubygem-rake-compiler
rubygem-rdiscount
rubygem-ronn
scim
shapelib
sj-fonts
switchdesk
system-switch-displaymanager - REMOVED
tidy
tofrodos
upower - In RHEL8 - REMOVED
xapian-core
xcb-util-cursor
xorg-x11-drv-synaptics
3 years, 11 months
kig and rkward are currently orphaned (was: Re: Orphaned packages to be retired (~400 during this week))
by Kevin Kofler
Hi,
2 high-profile KDE packages are currently orphaned (not in immediate danger
of retirement according to the time of orphaning, but still):
Miro Hrončok wrote:
> kig jreznik, kde-sig, orphan, 0 weeks ago
> rdieter
This is a current part of KDE Applications (as part of the KDE Edu project).
Surely this should not go away.
There is the issue that it depends on Python 2, which should probably be
taken up with upstream (though apparently OpenMandriva has it building with
Python 3, so that might work for us too). See:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1738033
> rkward orphan 3 weeks ago
While this is not a part of the KDE Applications bundle, it is a
KDE-Frameworks-5-based application, developed and released on KDE
infrastructure. It is also the best R IDE we currently have in Fedora.
Any takers for these two?
Kevin Kofler
3 years, 11 months
Keyboard layout preview shortcut
by Patrick O'Callaghan
I occasionally have to type "international" (i.e. non-English)
characters but can often not remember where they are. System Settings
has an option to show a preview of the current keyboard layout, but it
takes a fair amount of pointing and clicking to get to.
Is there an easy way to create a shortcut to this, either via a key
combo or a widget?
poc
3 years, 11 months
Re: dnf system-upgraded from 30 to 31 produces useless Konsole in
Plasma
by Felix Miata
Felix Miata composed on 2019-10-12 04:46 (UTC-0400) (on test list):
> Konsole window opens with toolbar, but there's no I/O pane to type in, just a lot
> of menubar background color. In IceWM session Konsole works normally.
Happens again on another 30 to 31 upgrade (host bug41 this time; hpg33 previously).
--
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3 years, 11 months