Using hard links in Dolphin
by Patrick O'Callaghan
My main use of Dolphin is to copy bunches of files to removable devices
such as pendrives. Often the files will come from different parts of the
filesystem and hence can't be selected all at once for drag-and-drop.
Furthermore, the copy itself is fairly slow (large files and USB
devices), but if I start several copies in parallel the process becomes
even slower. I haven't measured it but it definitely looks much slower
than copying the same set of files one after the other, which could well
be a bug but that's another matter.
One way to make all this a bit easier would be to create a Staging
directory and link the candidate files into it, then copy them all in
one swell foop and remove them when done, but there doesn't seem to be a
way to do this in Dolphin. Drag-and-drop offers a menu of options: Copy,
Move or Link, but the Link is a symbolic link. Thus the linking phase
works fine, but on copying the Staging directory Dolphin simply copies
the links and not the targets, which is useless (and doesn't even work
when the destination doesn't support symlimks).
Since all the candidate files are on the same filesystem, hard links
would solve the problem, but there doesn't appear to be a way of
creating them from Dolphin (and the online Help says *nothing* about the
pop-up menu on right-click, such as whether it's configurable).
Any thoughts?
poc
14 years, 7 months
Konqueror sftp and history sidebar
by Ariel Constenla-Haile
Hi all,
can you confirm the following on 4.3.0:
* the History on the Sidebar shows no history at all, but if you go to "Go -
Show History" there is actually your history
* sfpt protocol does not work, at least tested with fedorapeople.org
Regards
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14 years, 7 months
Fwd: Re: website mockups, what is fedora?
by Jaroslav Reznik
We should comment this and answer.
---------- Forwarded Message ----------
Subject: Re: website mockups, what is fedora?
Date: Monday 24 August 2009
From: Máirín Duffy <mairin(a)linuxgrrl.com>
To: fedora-advisory-board(a)redhat.com
I just wanted to bump this because I would love to see a response to
this...
Also note I'm currently running an informal survey about when/why - how
- what users download to help inform this. But I need to hear from KDE
folks too so I can understand your goals.
~m
On Fri, 2009-08-21 at 22:33 -0400, Máirín Duffy wrote:
> KDE folks, please tell me HOW not having a link to the KDE spin on the
> main download page is going to hurt you. Please. Tell me the problems it
> will cause that I need to solve and I am sure they can be solved in
> other and potentially better ways.
>
> I cannot solve the problems it will cause you in my designs if I do not
> know what they are. I have tried to tell you in many different ways why
> the link has been removed - along with 20 other links - because we are
> targeting a new class of users.
>
> Tell me what you really want - what are the KDE spin's goals?
>
> - Do you want to grow users of Fedora KDE? What users are you looking to
> attract? How do they differ from the target users of the Desktop spin?
> How would you market to them?
>
> - Do you simply want KDE to be recognized as an important part of the
> Fedora project? There are many, many, many potential ways of doing that,
> that do not involve the 'Get Fedora' page at all.
>
> - Do you just want KDE to be easy to find for the experienced KDE users
> that know what they're doing? There must be modifications we could do to
> address this case.
>
> I'm trying to reverse-engineer your intentions. But I have NO CLUE what
> it is you're wanting. My blog has been flooded with complaints that
> there is no KDE link, and I've even been subject to rather harsh and
> unfair berating in IRC over this. Let's fix this by talking about your
> goals and your concerns about the problems this change is going to cause
> rather than demanding via multiple forms of communication that it should
> be added back without rationale.
>
> No matter how many times I repeat it I do not think it is going to
> change - adding a KDE link to that page not only completely goes against
> the requirement of having one main default download on the page, but it
> really also goes against my professional opinion as a designer as what
> is best for making a page that will attract the types of users that the
> Board has told me they would like to make a try at.
>
> So please tell me what problems removing that link is going to cause
> you, and please tell me what your goals as a project are. I will do my
> very best to come up with something that you can at least be amenable to
> (and I am hoping you would rather be delighted with it), I have
> absolutely nothing against you and anytime I've needed help with
> something KDE, KDE SIG members have been extremely responsive and
> helpful. So, please don't take this or make this personal. Help me and
> you have a right to complain if you don't like the results.
>
> If the goal is to 'show KDE as a prominent and valued member of the
> Fedora community', again, there are far better ways of doing that than
> cluttering up the main download page. For real. Fedora KDE is not just
> an ISO file. Fedora KDE is a SIG, Fedora KDE is a community, Fedora KDE
> is a group of really cool (well at least not when they're berating me in
> IRC ;-) ) and smart people who put out one of the best versions of KDE
> for a distro out there. So why do you sell all of Fedora KDE short by
> considering it just to be an ISO file?
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14 years, 7 months
Amarok cover download problem.
by Diego
Hi!
I'm experiencing a problem when downloading covers inside Amarok. I'm
not 100% sure, but I don't remember having this issue before the update
KDE 4.2.4 -> 4.3.0 and Amarok 2.1.1-1 -> 2.1.1-4.
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=183178#c9
I have this issue in two different Fedora 10 installations. Anybody else
with the same problem?
Regards, and thanks for 4.3 packages!
Diego
14 years, 7 months
Thanks for KDE 4.3
by Arthur Pemberton
I am very greatful for KDE 4.3 -- it finally brings the ability to
show applications in the default application launcher by specific
name, instead of the Gnomey generic name. I very much appreciate this
3.5 feature that has returned.
There is one regression : KMail has again lost essential shortcuts
such a Ctrl+C , am I a going to have to manually set basic keyboard
shortcuts every kdepim update?
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14 years, 7 months
Leonidas splash screen on dual-head looks bad
by Mary Ellen Foster
I suppose I should bugzilla this, but I just wanted to check if this
was just me ... when I boot my computer in dual-screen mode and start
KDE, the Leonidas splash screen comes up in the following
configuration:
- Monitor 1 (internal laptop display): background image only, in the
(smaller) size of my external display
- Monitor 2 (external): a distorted version of the background, plus
the Fedora word and "ribbon", both with pure black background (so they
look like cut-outs on the screen)
I think this has got worse with KDE 4.3 -- before, I had the same
background-image issues, but at least the Fedora and ribbon were on
the internal screen too. Does anyone else run KDE in this
configuration and do they see this too?
MEF
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Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
14 years, 7 months
Critical problem with all F11 LiveCDs
by Arthur Pemberton
I recently purchased a "Acer - Aspire One Netbook AO751H-1346" which
comes without an optical drive.
The following installation methods via USB drive failed:
- Live (gnome)
- Live-KDE
- Live-XFCE
- netboot.iso to disk as live image
I eventually got an 8GB usb drive, and following instructions to
create two partitions, installing boot.iso to the first, and placing
the DVD iso on the second partition -- I'm not a big fan of the DVD
install -- but it worked.
Definition of "failed" : BIOS seems to successfully pass off execution
to the boot loader on the USB drive, then display goes white. Pressing
any key causes "press [Tab] key to change options" message to scroll
by under the white screen. Booting of Live image shows no sign of
continuing to boot. And everything is unresponsive until restart.
I tried 3 USB drives of various ages.
This is currently the only Fedora list that I am on, and I am not sure
what component I should file a bug against, yet I think that this is
an important enough problem to follow up on.
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(www.pembo13.com)
14 years, 7 months
Re: Critical problem with all F11 LiveCDs
by Adam Miller
I've successfully installed via usb using both the gnome and xfce live cd on
my acer aspire one so I'm relatively certain this is not a bug.
-Adam
(From Android)
On Aug 26, 2009 1:12 PM, "Arthur Pemberton" <pemboa(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I recently purchased a "Acer - Aspire One Netbook AO751H-1346" which
comes without an optical drive.
The following installation methods via USB drive failed:
- Live (gnome)
- Live-KDE
- Live-XFCE
- netboot.iso to disk as live image
I eventually got an 8GB usb drive, and following instructions to
create two partitions, installing boot.iso to the first, and placing
the DVD iso on the second partition -- I'm not a big fan of the DVD
install -- but it worked.
Definition of "failed" : BIOS seems to successfully pass off execution
to the boot loader on the USB drive, then display goes white. Pressing
any key causes "press [Tab] key to change options" message to scroll
by under the white screen. Booting of Live image shows no sign of
continuing to boot. And everything is unresponsive until restart.
I tried 3 USB drives of various ages.
This is currently the only Fedora list that I am on, and I am not sure
what component I should file a bug against, yet I think that this is
an important enough problem to follow up on.
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Fedora 10
(www.pembo13.com)
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14 years, 7 months
KNode in different places
by Timothy Murphy
I use KNode to access the same newsgroups
with different news servers in different locations.
At present I have different accounts,
each listing the same newsgroups.
1) Is there any simple way of "sharing" a newsgroup
between different accounts,
so that the list of read messages is the same in the two cases?
2) Is there any way of disabling an account that is not in use
without actually removing it,
so that it is easy to re-instate it?
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