July 2017 - kde - Fedora mailing-lists

time to orphan/retire unmaintained uncommon kde4 language bindings?
by Rex Dieter 07 May '25

07 May '25

Looking over some broken deps reports, I came across some old packages: kdebindings smokeqt smokekde qyoto (csharp/mono) kimono (csharp/mono) ruby-qt ruby-korundum perl-Qt Of these, the only one that's not a pure leaf package is perl-Qt (debconf- kde depends on it). any comment or objection to considering orphaning most (all minus smokeqt/perl-Qt) or all of these ? -- Rex

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How to set default session type to Plasma for sddm
by Roderick Johnstone 29 Oct '21

29 Oct '21

Hi How do I set the default session type for sddm to offer to be Plasma? I'm currently getting Gnome Classic? This is F22. Thanks Roderick Johnstone

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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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Emacs key binding in KDE Plasma 5?
by Sherman Grunewagen 21 May '19

21 May '19

Just moved from Fedora 21 to F25. Under F21 I had a file ~/.gtkrc-2.0 which contained gtk-key-theme-name = "Emacs" This enabled basic Emacs cursor motion keyboard commands in text input boxes throughout KDE, Firefox, &c. (Outside of input boxes, KDE shortcuts ruled.) How can I get this same behaviour for Plasma 5 w/in F25? From reading around, I've created ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini and inserted [Settings] gtk-key-theme-name = Emacs in this empty file. This has given the desired result in Firefox and Thunderbird, but not w/in arbitrary text boxes in KDE (e.g. Alt-F2). The ~/.gtkrc-2.0 file is still intact, by the way. It seems to have no effect. Any ideas? -Sherman

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White spaces in Kmail (dark themes)
by Colin J Thomson 08 Oct '17

08 Oct '17

Hi, After the recent updates of qt5-qtwebengine there are white spaces in the message window when using a Dark Theme. Another user has just reported this on kde.bugs with a screen shot https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=379406 I don't know if it is a kmail or qtwebengine bug or even related to mesa/ nouveau saga. Kmail 5.4.3 Plasma 5.9.5 Frameworks 5.33 Mesa-dri-drivers-13.0.4-3.fc25.nouvlock Colin -- Fedora 25 (Twenty Five) Registered Linux user number #342953

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KTorrent IP Filter plugin missing on Fedora 26
by Syam Krishnan 02 Aug '17

02 Aug '17

Hi I am finding that KTorrent no longer has the "IP Filter" plugin. Is this change intentional? Thanks, Syam

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problem placing pager in F26 KDE
by George Avrunin 27 Jul '17

27 Jul '17

I have a fully-updated Fedora 26 machine and I use 12 desktops in 4 rows of 3, with the pager sitting just above the (bottom) panel in the lower right corner of the screen. This arrangement has worked in KDE for a long time (and I've had a pager in the lower right corner since I was using fvwm a long time ago, so I want to keep it here). But since I upgraded to F26 (using "dnf system-upgrade"), I've had trouble keeping the pager in that location. It seems to want to be in the lower left. Initially, I couldn't even move it more than about 7/8 to the right along the panel; if I went farther than that, the pager would just snap back to the lower left corner. And though I could move it to the right edge if I kept it far enough above the panel, when I started to move it down, it would shrink to a minuscule size. After killing off the instance of the pager that was running, I've been able to get a new instance to move most of the way into the lower right corner and stay there until I log out. But whenever I log back in, the pager has moved to the lower left corner (even if I lock before logging off widgets). I've created a new user on two different machines and seen the same behavior. A web search didn't turn up any indication of changes in the pager that would affect its location or any other reports of this sort of problem. Does anybody know what's going on? Or how I can get more information? Thanks, George

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konqueror
by Emmett Culley 27 Jul '17

27 Jul '17

I have continued to use konqueror instead of dolphin because I can use profiles to have it start up connected to a remote server on specific directories. Now, it seems that that is no longer working since updating to Fedora 26. If I start it as from a command line or from a desktop object it ignores the profile option and opens as a web browser. At least it still opens as a file manager if I make konqueror the default file manager and click on a directory object, like in folder view. Any suggest on how I can get the profile functionality back? Is there another app I can use? Will you please quit trying to force me to use "your way". I have been running and managing RH distributions since RH 4 and I don't need anyone telling me how to use the tools. Which were great, BTW. At least until this release. Please continue finding a ways to make it difficult for noobs to hurt themselves, but in a way that doesn't effect those of us that know how to use the system. I have not been able to be productive since the update to Fedora 26, as I keep running into changes like this and like preventing kwrite from running as root. Look, I know these changes are/were well intended, but that doesn't change the fact that tried and true methods suddenly, without warning, stopped working. KDE is a GUI, and it should work like a GUI for all users and admins. If you hate GUIs for system management, let that be your problem, not mine or other's like me. Emmett

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F26 KDE shows 'No batteries available' on my laptop
by Parijatha Kumar Pasupuleti 24 Jul '17

24 Jul '17

The output of 'acpi -i' is ... Battery 0: Unknown, 98% Battery 0: design capacity 4577 mAh, last full capacity 3500 mAh = 76% If I remove the power plug, the laptop works fine on battery. But the tray icon shows a red 'x' mark and says 'no batteries available'. Also, the brightness automatically sets to around 70% on evry boot, even if the laptop is connected to AC power outlet. What could be the problem ? I've uninstalled some software from the default installation like kdepim, akonadi, telepathy and also all the apps that depend on kde4 libs. May be I've uninstalled something which is causing this. Can some one help me ?

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F26 KDE : Not able to connect to internet through 3G sub dongle
by Parijatha Kumar Pasupuleti 24 Jul '17

24 Jul '17

I can see my dongle as HSPA modem and create a new connection in the network configuration gui of KDE. But when I try to connect, it says 'preparing to connect' but can not connect. I've installed gnome-logs and seen that there are some error messages regarding missing 'ppp' plugin for network manager. I've installed Networkmanager-ppp package. Now those errors are gone, but some other errors are coming ... cdc_wdm 2-1.3:3.5: wdm_int_callback - 0 bytes cdc_acm 2-1.3:3.3: failed to set dtr/rts cdc_acm 2-1.3:3.4: urb 5 failed submission with -19 Can some one help me how to debug this ?

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logout screen unreadable
by Neal Becker 21 Jul '17

21 Jul '17

If I try to logout (e.g., alt-ctrl-del), I'm presented with a logout screen that looks like the logout screen we've seen on KDE for some time, but it's almost completely unreadable as it is a very dark foreground on a black background. This change happened maybe a couple of months ago.

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Odd message for a successful operation
by Ed Greshko 18 Jul '17

18 Jul '17

Continuing to play with dnfdragora I started it from the command line to perform updates that were pending. The following, in part, was output to the terminal. Download Error : kf5-kcodecs-5.35.0-1.fc26_5.36.0-1.fc26.x86_64.drpm - done Download Error : kf5-kidletime-5.35.0-1.fc26_5.36.0-1.fc26.x86_64.drpm - done Download Error : kf5-baloo-5.35.0-1.fc26_5.36.0-1.fc26.x86_64.drpm - done Download Error : kf5-kxmlgui-5.35.0-1.fc26_5.36.0-1.fc26.x86_64.drpm - done Download Error : kf5-kross-core-5.35.0-1.fc26_5.36.0-1.fc26.x86_64.drpm - done Download Error : kf5-kcompletion-5.35.0-1.fc26_5.36.0-1.fc26.x86_64.drpm - done There was no "Error" that I could see. The packages were all downloaded and the update completed without a problem. So, why the mention of "Error"? -- Fedora Users List - The place to go to speculate endlessly

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dnfdragora needs PackageKit to appear in the systray?
by Ed Greshko 17 Jul '17

17 Jul '17

There seems to be no dependencies of PackageKit for dnfdragora. However if one doesn't have PackKit installed dnfdragora will not show up in the systray. At login time I get a notification popup from dnfdragora that updates are available but it doesn't exist in the systray. If I install PackageKit, reboot, and login I get the notification popup and a dnfdragora icon in the systray where I can right click and pick Update. Smells like a bug to me. -- Fedora Users List - The place to go to speculate endlessly

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Caution: Latest nss in updates-testing for F26 breaks DNF..
by Steven Haigh 16 Jul '17

16 Jul '17

BZ Report: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1470352 Working version for F26: https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=888916 bohdi link to downvote for F26: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-244f799ac9 -- Steven Haigh 📧 netwiz(a)crc.id.au 💻 http://www.crc.id.au 📞 +61 (3) 9001 6090 📱 0412 935 897

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Re: GUI applications installer
by Robin Laing 16 Jul '17

16 Jul '17

On 09/07/17 16:35, Germano Massullo wrote: > Actually, what is the best GUI applications installer for Fedora KDE? I > have to give some hints to a friend that will start using our distro in > next weeks. > Thank you > I like Yum Extender myself. Interface isn't the best but it has been a workhorse for me since it came out as Yumex. Robin

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Live Image rationalisation - Part 2
by Steven Haigh 15 Jul '17

15 Jul '17

Following on from the previous thread, I would like to suggest more: 1) kmail should not depend on grantlee-editor. This will remove 3 x icons from the Internet applications menu. I'm not sure anyone would care about losing this from the live image. 2) Replace kgpg with kleopatra. kgpg is not used by kmail at all. It is used with Kleopatra for gpg functionality. I know the functionality is slightly different, but seeing a you can't use gpg in kmail without it, I believe it makes sense. 3) Remove kde-partitionmanager. The installer comes with an advanced partitioning system now. This seems redundant. 4) Remove krusader. The featured file manager is Dolphin. It doesn't really make sense to ship 2 x file managers. You could easily install it again after transferring the install image to disk - but for basic file operations, dolphin is more than sufficient. 5) Remove kfrb. I don't believe we need this on a live image at all? 6) Remove kcharselect. I don't believe we'd need this on a live image? So - on a procedural thing, how would we go about actually implementing some of these when we get some kind of agreement? -- Steven Haigh 📧 netwiz(a)crc.id.au 💻 http://www.crc.id.au 📞 +61 (3) 9001 6090 📱 0412 935 897

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KDE SIG QA help needed
by Matthew Miller 14 Jul '17

14 Jul '17

Hey everyone. We're going to have a hard time keeping KDE a release-blocking spin if the QA team doesn't get more active help from KDE SIG folks. I know many of you are active and involved, but we're getting into a sitation where a lot of fairly bad bugs are found at the last minute because no one looked before the QA person running through the final battery of tests. Particularly, the "everything installed by default must basically function" criteria is really hard. KDE installs a lot more than Workstation does, so a lot of testing is required. Paring down this list would obviously help, but so would simply going through everything using nightly builds once F27 branches in about a month (see the schedule here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/27/Schedule) and marking anything that should be a blocker as such -- and then repeating that again at Final Freeze. That way, it won't come down to discovering big problems literally on the day we want to send the release out the door -- which forces us to make hard decisions. Thanks! -- Matthew Miller <mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org> Fedora Project Leader

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dnfdragora updater
by Ed Greshko 14 Jul '17

14 Jul '17

Just recently updated to F26 from F25 on my everyday system and decided to give dnfdragora a go. Today the dnfdragora icon popped up (actually it was there when I re-logged in) on my systray to inform me that 6 updates were available. I opened the right clicked on the icon, opened the dnfdragora dialog and updated the 6 packages. After the update I would have expected the icon to vanish as the "Software Updates" icon does if you use it to perform updates. Or, if you run "pkcon refresh" after using dnf. But it remains on the systray even though "Entries" settings for dnfdragora-updater is set to Auto. Am I mistaken to expect the icon to not be displayed when no updates are pending? -- Fedora Users List - The place to go to speculate endlessly

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Re: f26 + mkyral-plasma-unstable
by Robin Laing 12 Jul '17

12 Jul '17

On 12/07/17 06:14, Neal Becker wrote: > Updated and everything seems to have gone OK. > > Just a couple of nits > > At login, A dialog informs me I need auth to configure network. I never had > this before - don't want it either. > I have noticed this network authorization on F25, but it doesn't need anything and seems to be for some KDE thing. Robin

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f26 + mkyral-plasma-unstable
by Neal Becker 12 Jul '17

12 Jul '17

Updated and everything seems to have gone OK. Just a couple of nits At login, A dialog informs me I need auth to configure network. I never had this before - don't want it either. I now have 2 bluetooth icons in my panel. What appears to be the older system settings bluetooth, and now a new blueman. Guess I should get rid of one or the other.

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GUI applications installer
by Germano Massullo 11 Jul '17

11 Jul '17

Actually, what is the best GUI applications installer for Fedora KDE? I have to give some hints to a friend that will start using our distro in next weeks. Thank you

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Deleting articles in Akregator causes desktop effects restart
by Syam Krishnan 08 Jul '17

08 Jul '17

Hi.. I am having some problems with deleting articles in Akregator. 1. Deleting takes a long time. For example, it takes 1-2 seconds for deleting 10 articles. 3-4 seconds for 40 articles etc. 2. Deleting articles often causes "desktop effects restarted due to a graphics reset". I'm running nVidia proprietary driver and I don't have any other problems in general. Only with Akregator and deleting articles. Any ideas on what could be the culprit? Fedora 25 64-bit Akregator Version 5.4.3 KDE Frameworks 5.34.0 Qt 5.7.1 (built against 5.7.1) Thanks, Syam

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