kde August 2015

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Pros / Cons: Replacing Konqueror with Firefox
by Gerald B. Cox 10 Aug '15

10 Aug '15

On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 12:01 PM, g <geleem(a)bellsouth.net> wrote: > with all the problems that mozilla is going thru with firefox, why > do you want to cause problems? > firefox is no longer #2 browser. gaagle chrome has kicked firefox's > butt an dropped it to #3. > ... > many oos users are dropping firefox in favor of the new oos browser. > anyone who is unaware can run a web search on "web browser war" to find > out just what is happening. > > Well, I believe Rex was just being pragmatic - if you're going to switch, Firefox (for better or for worse) is really the only choice. Personally, I prefer Chrome, which for obvious reasons can be a candidate - neither can Chromium because of: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=28287 IMO this is all a bit needless until KDE decides what they are going to do about Konqueror. If it ends up they are going to abandon it, that would be the time to act. Kevin already discussed what could be done about any critical security issues; and if someone wants to use another browser it is ridiculously simple to install. I really don't get the urgency or importance of this; I think there are bigger fish to fry.

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Re: Default browser in Fedora KDE Plasma
by Kevin Kofler 09 Aug '15

09 Aug '15

Mustafa Muhammad wrote: > "the page says "All KDE applications are well integrated, with a similar > look" which is the opposite of "not the whole KDE apps" > > You know, the opposite of " not the whole KDE apps ". I think you misunderstood the meaning of "integrated" here. It means all the KDE applications, if you install them, are well integrated into the Plasma desktop (common look&feel, things like KIO and KWallet, etc.). It does not mean they are all included in the default installation of Fedora KDE. Kevin Kofler

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What is really in klipper?
by Ed Greshko 09 Aug '15

09 Aug '15

Is there a way to determine what really is being held in klipper's clipboard? I ask this since if I use my mouse to highlight an entry in a T-Bird email message and then left click to paste it into a libreoffice spreadsheet I get a window popping up with "Import Options" asking me to "Select the Language to use for Import". Yet if I do the same thing from a web page, which contains the same info that was sent via an email, I don't get a pop-up. I suspect there must be a difference in the data but don't know what it is and what is the trigger. -- If I wanted a blog or social media I'd go elsewhere

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Parental Controls?
by Dan Mossor 09 Aug '15

09 Aug '15

I'm in the process of building my children (10 and 7 years old) their very own laptops. The machines are Dell Inspiron D630, Core2Duo 2.2GHz with 4GB of memory and Intel graphics. I run Fedora 22 with Plasma 5 on a similarly configured desktop, so I know it will work, and that is not my question. Since this is for my children, I want to enable some sort of parental controls on it. I know I can use pam_time[0] to control allowed login times and total time, but that doesn't give me application control. Are there any KDE applications that function in this area? The only thing I can locate is kchildlock[1], but it is KDE4. I've also found gnome-nanny[2], which is a dead project (and isn't Plasma). Ubuntu has a project called timekpr-revived[3] which looks to be the most current and feature complete, but it's Ubuntu and targeted at Unity (although he claims to "try to support other DEs"). Another thing I would like to incorporate is content filtering. I know the "correct" answers lie in hardware devices sitting between them and the internet, such as DansGaurdian or a Squid proxy, but I have neither the time, energy, nor budget to support a solution such as that. Can I run squid locally on the system? Thanks, Dan [0]https://ask.fedoraproject.org/en/question/7260/how-to-configure-user-rest… [1]http://sourceforge.net/projects/kchildlock/ [2]https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Nanny [3]https://launchpad.net/timekpr-revived -- Dan Mossor, RHCSA Systems Engineer Fedora Server WG | Fedora KDE WG | Fedora QA Team Fedora Infrastructure Apprentice FAS: dmossor IRC: danofsatx San Antonio, Texas, USA

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f23-kde-theme pkg review help
by Rex Dieter 06 Aug '15

06 Aug '15

Anyone able to help with a package review for f23-kde-theme: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1251247 would be a hero for helping fix a f23 alpha blocker -- Rex

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kde-sig 2015-08-04 meeting minutes
by Rex Dieter 06 Aug '15

06 Aug '15

Discusssed * akademy reports * f23 change/spin proposals ** f23 to consider change default browser shipped in plasma spin. passed: +5/-2 rdieter will make browser proposal onlist ** proposal: disable kwallet migration (by default) rejected ** proposal: simplify/sanitize baloo-file configuration. includes: index stuff in document-centric folders only (e.g. ~/Documents, ~/Photos, ~/Videos ~/Music), consider porting kcm-balooadv tacitly approved (no explicit +1 approval or -1 objections) Summary: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/teams/kde-sig/kde-sig.2015-08-04-15.08.htm… Full log: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/teams/kde-sig/kde-sig.2015-08-04-15.08.log…

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Phoronix Reader: "GTK3 Kills Support For KDE"
by Neal Becker 06 Aug '15

06 Aug '15

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Oxygen-GTK3-Killing How will this affect us?

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New default web browser on KDE Spin
by Eric Griffith 04 Aug '15

04 Aug '15

Hey all, question for the List: What would it take / whats the protocol to push forward the idea of replacing Konqueror as the default web browser? Konqueror doesn't seem like its going anywhere, and I really think that the user experience would be better served if either Rekonq, or ideally, Firefox were the default browsers. Is there any specific reason that Konqueror has stuck around as the default for so long? --Eric--

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2 screens 1 black
by Neal Becker 04 Aug '15

04 Aug '15

I've been using 2 screens (laptop + external) for some time. It's worked OK for some time, but recently (some update?) it's working less well. After using just the laptop, I connect the monitor. In the past, kde doesn't notice and I need to run xrandr to turn on the monitor. Now, it seems to turn on monitor (after a bit of delay), but the laptop screen then has no background (just black), and right click on laptop background does nothing. Running xrandr doesn't fix it. Only logoff/logon fixes it.

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Up arrow toggles window shadow decoration
by Gene Smith 02 Aug '15

02 Aug '15

Recently I started having a problem with the main "up arrow" key in that it stopped working in f21 kde. When pressed it now just toggles the window shadow/highlight on/off of the current window and does not have the expected scrolling effect. The other main arrow keys work as expected. (The arrow keys in the numerical keypad still work as expected.) The main up arrow key works as expected in a terminal (e.g., after pressing ctrl-alt-f2 and logging in). The kde setting for keyboard had not been touched and was at default 101 key keyboard. Tried a few other layouts there but it did not affect the problem. Any ideas on how I can fix this? -gene

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