Program Launcher settings
by Emmett Culley
I would like to be able to set the width and height of the application launcher (menu) pop up box.
I recently added a side panel to contain the pager and moved the menu to that panel. Now when the menu pops up it is orientated so that the tabs are arranged vertically on the left side.
I like that layout, however the box is now too narrow to display the menu items. That is, for most items, only the first word is completely visible.
Does anyone know how to set these values?
One thing I notice is that the very first time I use the menu after a reboot the box is wide enough for all of the text of all items are visible. But the next time I use the menu, and for the rest of the session, it is back to "too narrow".
Emmett
14 years, 5 months
How to setup dual head?
by Orcan Ogetbil
Hi,
I got this new job last week where I have to deal with my university's
servers, mostly Solaris but also some Linux.
The guys were kind enough set me up a Fedora machine before I moved
into the office. But unfortunately they only installed the "Fedora
Desktop", i.e. Gnome on it.
One of my colleagues told me that they liked KDE 3.5 a lot, but after
the KDE 4.0 disaster, nobody was using KDE on the company anymore (see
the impacts of certain decisions!). Well, this is not my point.
Anyway, I logged in to Gnome and I set up the dual head (spanned
desktop) with their tool and it worked right away.
Later on, I told my colleagues that KDE improved a lot since 4.0 and
they should give a try to 4.3. For a demonstration I installed KDE on
my machine. I logged in and the first thing to do was to setup the
dual head. I opened System Settings and as soon as I clicked on the
Display, X crashed and I was thrown out. It was really a bad
experience for a demonstration (kind of like Bill Gates' WinME video).
I logged back in and ran krandrtray. This one crashed X too. I clicked
on whatever I can find regarding the desktop setup and I found that
everything on KDE that is related to the X settings crashes X.
I then had to spend 15 minutes to write an xorg.conf file from scratch
to make the dual head work, while people were making comments in the
lines of "this is why I don't like KDE"... :(
So, what was my mistake? This box has an ATI card and has the open
source radeon drivers (the proprietary drivers are not available on
F-11). Should ATI users stick to F-10 if they want to use KDE, which
has only 2 months of lifetime left?
I really feel bad. I wanted to show people how cool KDE 4.3 was, but I couldn't.
Orcan
14 years, 5 months
Sudden printing problems
by Anne Wilson
I'm trying to find out whether an update has broken something, or there is
something wrong here. kdebase-workspace-4.3.1-9.fc11.i586
I've just discovered that both kwrite and kate crash/freeze as soon as I call
Print. OpenOffice Writer continues to print correctly. Has anyone else got a
problem?
Anne
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14 years, 5 months
KDE 4.3.1 is the poop !
by linux guy
Just gotta say what a treat it is to be running KDE 4.3.1. Its smooth,
fast, nice, powerful, versatile, etc. I am very happy with it, save for
a few issues with Konqueror when browsing the web. (Still my fave
browser though...)
Good work team KDE. Your efforts are appreciated.
Aside: for the life of me I cannot figure out why people continue to run
Windows. Is it me or is Linux/Fedora/KDE overwhelmingly better than any
and all flavors of Windows ?
LG
14 years, 5 months
KOffice downgrade?
by Petrus de Calguarium
Just curious...
How come we went from koffice 2 back down to koffice 1.6
in rawhide today?
The new koffice 2 was getting to look pretty good and I
was finally almost at the point of switching from
OpenOffice, but definitely not to koffice 1.6.
14 years, 5 months
Filelight crashing
by Sonic
Hello
I've been using Filelight (from Fedora 11 repos) for some time now
and it's been working fine. Recently, I notice that it crashes (always)
on startup.
Can anybody help me identify what's wrong? The backtrace is attached.
I have kde* and qt* updated from the stable repos of Fedora 11
(2.6.30.5-43.fc11.i686.PAE).
regards,
Syam Krishnan
14 years, 5 months
KDE-SIG weekly report (41/2009)
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: 41/2009
Time: 2009-10-06 14:00 UTC
Meeting page: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/KDE/Meetings/2009-10-06
Meeting minutes: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-
meeting/2009-10-06/fedora-meeting.2009-10-06-14.01.html
Meeting log: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-
meeting/2009-10-06/fedora-meeting.2009-10-06-14.01.log.html
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= Participants =
* BenBoeckel
* JaroslavReznik
* KevinKofler
* LukasTinkl
* RexDieter
* SebastianVahl
* StevenParrish
* ThanNgo
* ThomasJanssen
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= Agenda =
* topics to discuss
o F-12 kde spin status
o Tracking ongoing development/projects: please use bugzilla. examples
include: kdm fprint, ooo kde integration, PolKitOne-qt
o qt-4.5.3 builds broken, missing translations
o kde-4.3.2 status
o FUDCon Toronto 2009
* recent bugs:
o qt/selinux
= Summary =
o F-12 kde spin status:
* The x86_64 version of the KDE live images is a bit oversized due to new
constantine-backgrounds package (703 megs).
* phonon-backend-gstreamer will also be added as default in @kde-desktop
(phonon-backend-xine will still be the default used by phonon).
* The live images are affected by a new selinux denial which needs further
investigation: #520022: SELinux is preventing loadkeys (loadkeys_t) "write"
/home/liveuser/.xsession-errors (user_home_t).
o Tracking ongoing development/projects:
* We've got complaints that we don't fill enough feature pages.
* Features pages for KDE 4.4, PackageKit1-qt, KDE fingerprint and abrt support
will be created for F13.
* This way our cool new features would get the proper attention.
o qt-4.5.3 builds broken, missing translations:
* The qt-4.5.3 builds are broken again.
* ThanNgo will look into that breakage.
o kde-4.3.2 status:
* The rawhide builds for KDE 4.3.2 should be done by today.
o FUDCon Toronto 2009:
* KDE SIG members who will attend: RexDieter, StephenParrish, BenBoeckel.
Maybe: JaroslavReznik.
* Aaron Seigo will be there too (if funding for his costs will be provided).
= Recent bugs =
#527079: setroubleshoot: SELinux is preventing /usr/bin/arora from changing a
writable memory segment executable.
* The JIT disabler patch from Qt 4.5.3 will be backported to F12.
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= Next Meeting =
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/KDE/Meetings/2009-10-13
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= Buglist =
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=520022
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=527079
14 years, 5 months