tde-devels April 2012

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kate - misc Naming and File Selector issues needing fixes
by David C. Rankin 26 Apr '12

26 Apr '12

All, While waiting on the rebuild of tdelibs and tdebase with full symbols, I was poking around in kate and came up with another couple of fixes that are needed. The first is a simple khelpcenter name change for Settings > Application > File Selector. The khelpcenter name for this section is 'The Filesystem Browser Page' instead of being the 'The File Selector Page'. It looks like there was a name change somewhere along the way that was never implemented in the help files. Looking at the other entries in the help file, they correspond fairly closely to the settings dialog. Here are some other changes for the help file needed just to dot [i]s and cross [t]s: General - Meta-Data -> Meta-Information (who knew..) crap - that's as far as I got - first time that happened - the whole desktop locked. It had been running in virtualbox since April 17 without any issue: 18:03 alchemy:~/tde/tmp/tdebasep/patches> ps aux | grep -i virtual david 14521 0.0 0.0 7788 828 pts/1 S+ 18:04 0:00 grep -i virtual david 31843 0.0 0.5 458276 20300 ? Sl Apr17 2:13 /usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox david 31858 0.1 0.1 71364 4148 ? S Apr17 14:22 /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxXPCOMIPCD david 31863 0.2 0.1 270528 6764 ? Sl Apr17 23:31 /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxSVC --auto-shutdown david 31985 5.2 22.4 1502648 883052 ? Sl Apr17 609:27 /usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox --comment Archlinux x86_64 --startvm b0896a45-eafe-4029-8268-a0fd89cd7b4b --no-startvm-errormsgbox The hard drive on virtualbox is thrashing away -- looks like I'll have to kill something hard. Will report back... -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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killer taskbar background image (complements default theme)
by David C. Rankin 25 Apr '12

25 Apr '12

Guys, I wanted to make a taskbar background that really complemented the default isadora background, so I gimped one: http://nirvana.3111skyline.com/dl/dt/trinity/ss/taskbar-bkg-screenshot.jpg The image for the taskbar is: http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/dt/tde/img/tde-blue-glass-kicker.png If it is liked, we can add it to the images as an alternate to those shipped by default. Let me know. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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sftp_kio - fix ssh port number read
by David C. Rankin 25 Apr '12

25 Apr '12

Tim, All, I've started a new thread to specifically look at the problem with sftp_kio not obtaining the port number to open the connection for sftp without the user manually providing it in the url. (eg: sftp://myhost:nonStdPort). This is part of bug http://bugs.pearsoncomputing.net/show_bug.cgi?id=897 Tim's commit of GIT hash e72f492 fixed the ability of sftp to connect to remote hosts, but if the remote host ssh runs on a port other than 22, the connection fails due to sftp no longer getting the correct host/port pair from either the system-wide config /etc/ssh/ssh_config or the user's ~/.ssh/config. This worked correctly before the sftp bug was introduced and it continues to work for fish://, but I cannot find where the config files are read. It appears to be something read during ssh startup from the system-wide or user .ssh/config file. That is hinted to in the fish/README file: NOTE: From version 1.1.3 on, compression is no longer turned on auto- matically. You have to specify it via ~/.ssh/config or wherever your local ssh client reads its settings. The same goes for all other connection parameters. OpenSSH for example has a powerful configuration file syntax which lets you configure access differently for each host, something I do not intend to duplicate. Read the ssh_config(5) man page for details. The variable in sftp associated with the port is 'mPort', but I cannot tell where this could be set (yes, I know, just grep it, but somehow I'm getting lost in whether this is piped or cached and read somewhere rather than just declared and assigned) It appears to begin in ksshprocess.cpp with: bool KSshProcess::setOptions(const SshOptList& opts) { kdDebug(KSSHPROC) << "KSshProcess::setOptions()" << endl; mArgs.clear(); SshOptListConstIterator it; TQString cmd, subsystem; mPassword = mUsername = mHost = TQString::null; TQCString tmp; for(it = opts.begin(); it != opts.end(); ++it) { switch( (*it).opt ) { <snip> case SSH_PORT: mArgs.append("-p"); tmp.setNum((*it).num); mArgs.append(tmp); mPort = (*it).num; break; <snip> Also, both sftp:// and fish:// make use of an AuthInfo struct that references a port, but I cannot figure out how to tell what this contains: kio_sftp.cpp: // Setup AuthInfo for use with password caching and the kio_sftp.cpp: AuthInfo info; kio_sftp.cpp: info.url.setPort(mPort); fish/fish.h: /** AuthInfo object used for logging in */ fish/fish.h: KIO::AuthInfo connectionAuth; It is frustrating because it still works fine in fish, so we should just be able to look there and find it, but it is apparently not that easy either... Now regardless of how you look at it, the port information must be read from either /etc/ssh/ssh_config or ~/.ssh/config before the ssh connection is opened because that is the only place this information exists and it is imperative that you have that connection before attempting to open a connection -- or the connection will simply be refused and fail. So this is taking place in fish somewhere and it was taking place in sftp somewhere as well -- the questions is where?? What say the experts?? I've grepped and looked until I'm blue in the face and I've exhausted what I can do. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Kdebase 3.5.13 ftbfs with GCC 4.7
by Francois Andriot 25 Apr '12

25 Apr '12

Hello, Fedora 17 is about to be released, so I'm trying to build the stable 3.5.13 version of TDE. Fedora 17 ships with GCC 4.7. I keep an eye on the ML and bugtracker to check the compiler-specific issues. Alas, I still have a FTBFS: In file included from /opt/trinity/include/dcoptypes.h:25:0, from /home/albator/rpmbuild/BUILD/BUILD.fc17.x86_64/kdebase/tqt3integration/libqtkde/qtkde.cpp:25: /opt/trinity/include/dcopref.h: In instantiation of 'DCOPArg::DCOPArg(const T&) [with T = long unsigned int]': /opt/trinity/include/dcopref.h:459:2: required from 'DCOPReply DCOPRef::call(const QCString&, const T1&) [with T1 = long unsigned int]' /home/albator/rpmbuild/BUILD/BUILD.fc17.x86_64/kdebase/build/tqt3integration/utils/tqtkde_functions.cpp:30:95: required from here /opt/trinity/include/dcopref.h:145:27: error: 'dcopTypeName' was not declared in this scope, and no declarations were found by argument-dependent lookup at the point of instantiation [-fpermissive] In file included from /home/albator/rpmbuild/BUILD/BUILD.fc17.x86_64/kdebase/tqt3integration/libqtkde/qtkde.cpp:25:0: /opt/trinity/include/dcoptypes.h:74:39: note: 'template<class T> const char* dcopTypeName(const T&)' declared here, later in the translation unit cd /home/albator/rpmbuild/BUILD/BUILD.fc17.x86_64/kdebase/build/kate/app && /usr/lib64/ccache/c++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m64 -mtune=generic -DQT_NO_ASCII_CAST -DQT_CLEAN_NAMESPACE -DQT_NO_STL -DQT_NO_COMPAT -DQT_NO_TRANSLATION -DQT_THREAD_SUPPORT -D_REENTRANT -include tqt.h -I/home/albator/rpmbuild/BUILD/BUILD.fc17.x86_64/kdebase/build/kate/app -I/home/albator/rpmbuild/BUILD/BUILD.fc17.x86_64/kdebase/build -I/opt/trinity/include -I/usr/lib64/qt-3.3/include -I/opt/trinity/include/tqt -include tqt.h -o CMakeFiles/kwrite.dir/kwrite_kdeinit_executable.cpp.o -c /home/albator/rpmbuild/BUILD/BUILD.fc17.x86_64/kdebase/build/kate/app/kwrite_kdeinit_executable.cpp make[2]: *** [tqt3integration/libqtkde/CMakeFiles/qtkde-shared.dir/qtkde.cpp.o] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/albator/rpmbuild/BUILD/BUILD.fc17.x86_64/kdebase/build' make[1]: *** [tqt3integration/libqtkde/CMakeFiles/qtkde-shared.dir/all] Error 2 Do you have any clue ? (I repeat: this is on 3.5.13, not latest GIT) Thanks Francois

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konqueror - man page viewer - which setting controls font size?
by David C. Rankin 24 Apr '12

24 Apr '12

All, When viewing a man page in konqueror (eg: man:/ssh_config) what controls the default size of the font displayed?? Each time I view a man page, I end up having to shrink the font size twice with: View->Shrink Font (Ctrl+-) I have compared the files in .trinity/share/config and I cannot find a persistent change. (kdeglobals, konquerorrc, etc..). Is there are setting for this that can be save in Settings->Save View Profile? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Mac Switching patch
by Calvin Morrison 24 Apr '12

24 Apr '12

hello, I'm back with a cleaned up version of the mac switching patch. It incorporates problems noticed by Martin, as well as some cleaned up code (aka the first time around I did things poorly :-P ). I have attached it to this email and to the bug report. Please test and let me know. Also there is no longer a required patch for tdecore. Calvin

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TDE applications: man pages and XPM icons
by François Andriot 24 Apr '12

24 Apr '12

Hello, I've noticed that the Debian/Ubuntu packaging for TDE applications often adds a man page and a XPM icon. Would'nt it be better if these files were included with the source code, and automatically installed by "make install" ? It would avoid the effort for each distribution packaging to deal with these files ... Francois

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Latest tsak patch report (GIT hash 6cfb160)
by Darrell Anderson 24 Apr '12

24 Apr '12

I started TDM with useSAK=false, uinput not loaded: * No Ctrl-Alt-Delete dialog * Warning message in KControl to enable evdev/uinput * Check box ghosted/disabled I logged out. Loaded uinput. Restarted with init 4. * No warning message in KControl Enabling the check box (and Apply): * tsak and tsak.lock appeared in /tmp/tdesocket-global/ Without logging out, disabling TSAK in KControl: * tsak and tsak.lock disappeared During this time I never closed the TDM module. I re-enabled TSAK through KControl and logged out. Upon logging in: * KControl check box was not enabled * tdmrc showed useSAK=true * tsak and tsak.lock appeared in /tmp/tdesocket-global/ After toggling the check box and selecting Apply, with the check box enabled, I toggled from the KControl TDM module to another KControl module and then immediately returned to the TDM module. The check box was not enabled. To actually disable tsak I have to toggle the check box: "enable" and "disable" and then useSAK=false and the tsak and tsak.lock files disappeared. I logged out with TSAK enabled (despite no check box). From a terminal I successfully killed all three tsak processes. Upon toggling back to TDM (Alt-F7) there was no Ctrl-Alt-Delete dialog. I logged in without no resistance. The tsak and tsak.lock files existed in /tmp/tdesocket-global because I did not delete them. The three tsak processes returned. I logged out and was greeted with the Ctrl-Alt-Delete dialog. I repeated the process, but this time deleted the tsak and tsak.lock files too. I again logged in without resistance. This time there were no tsak processes running after I logged in. Apparently then tsak restarts if the FIFO files exist but does not restart if the FIFO files are deleted. useSAK=true the whole time. Upon logging out I was greeted with the Ctrl-Alt-Delete dialog. Therefore TDM must be restarting tsak. I repeated this process including deleting the two FIFO files. I again logged in with no resistance. Then from the TDE menu I selected "Switch User." I was greeted with the Ctrl-Alt-Delete dialog. Seems then whenever useSAK=true AND TDM receives direct focus that tsak is checked or restarted. TDM does not restart tsak with indirect focus as I accomplished. This latest patch looks great. Much better housekeeping and when tsak is disabled in KControl, the effect is immediate and the housekeeping is immediate. Nice. :) Summary: * Glitch: KControl is not displaying the check box as enabled despite useSAK=true. Probably a forgotten or misplaced readEntry? * Possible glitch: Seems TDM should restart tsak as soon as I logged in, despite my "malevolent" effort to disable tsak. However, as shown by the Switch User test, TDM immediately restarted tsak, and that probably is sufficient. Within the intent of how tsak should function (I don't know the specs), I'm unsure whether TDM should be polling the process list to immediately restart tsak when disabled as I circumvented. Seems to me that a user should not be able to do what I did. Even if I did not have a free console open, I could have accomplished the same with through SSH. Seems to me that as long as useSAK=true tsak should be a persistent little b-stard. :) The desktop lockout bug remains (desktop icons and context menu disappear, can't logout), and the profile directories accrue like rabbits copulating, but this patch did not address those issues. :) Darrell

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Mystery message: (kded: KDE4 is running)
by Darrell Anderson 23 Apr '12

23 Apr '12

While troubleshooting the various lock desktop bugs I noticed this message in my xsession log: kded: KDE4 is running Um, nope, not true. The message is from tdelibs/kded/kded.cpp. Some time back I updated a bunch of TDE environment variables. One of which was KDE_SESSION_VERSION -> TDE_SESSION_VERSION. Because of this incorrect message in my xsession log, I am wondering whether that variable should have been changed. I grepped the entire source tree and found TDE_SESSION_VERSION referenced in only five apps: applications/konversation/konversation/scripts/sysinfo:20 applications/kgtk-qt3/README:23 applications/tde-style-qtcurve/CMakeLists.txt.orig:105 applications/tde-style-qtcurve/CMakeLists.txt.orig:107 applications/tde-style-qtcurve/README:22 applications/tde-style-qtcurve/ChangeLog:176 applications/tde-style-qtcurve/ChangeLog:239 applications/tde-style-qtcurve/ChangeLog:274 applications/tde-style-qtcurve/ChangeLog:732 applications/tde-style-qtcurve/style/qtcurve.cpp:193 tdelibs/kded/kded.cpp:165 tdelibs/tdecore/kapplication.cpp:1337 tdelibs/tdecore/kapplication.cpp:1338 Should these references be KDE_SESSION_VERSION or TDE_SESSION_VERSION? Tim, would you look and let me know? Darrell

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Ugh.. New tdebase build failure - TDESystemHibernationMethod not declared
by David C. Rankin 23 Apr '12

23 Apr '12

Tim, All, Rebuilding tdebase today to check the ksshprocess fix, I ran into a build failure I haven't seen before: [ 29%] Building CXX object kcontrol/hwmanager/CMakeFiles/kcm_hwmanager-module.dir/hwmanager.cpp.o In file included from /build/src/tdebase/kcontrol/hwmanager/hwmanager.h:34:0, from /build/src/tdebase/kcontrol/hwmanager/hwmanager.cpp:50: /build/src/tdebase/kcontrol/hwmanager/devicepropsdlg.h:158:15: error: 'TDESystemHibernationMethod' was not declared in this scope /build/src/tdebase/kcontrol/hwmanager/devicepropsdlg.h:158:74: error: wrong number of template arguments (1, should be 2) In file included from /opt/tqt3/include/ntqmime.h:46:0, from /opt/tqt3/include/ntqevent.h:48, from /opt/tqt3/include/ntqobject.h:48, from /opt/tqt3/include/ntqwidget.h:46, from /opt/tqt3/include/ntqbutton.h:45, from /opt/tqt3/include/ntqcheckbox.h:45, from /usr/include/tqt/tqcheckbox.h:32, from /build/src/tdebase/kcontrol/hwmanager/hwmanager.cpp:21: /opt/tqt3/include/ntqmap.h:594:7: error: provided for 'template<class Key, class T> class TQMap' In file included from /build/src/tdebase/kcontrol/hwmanager/hwmanager.h:34:0, from /build/src/tdebase/kcontrol/hwmanager/hwmanager.cpp:50: /build/src/tdebase/kcontrol/hwmanager/devicepropsdlg.h:158:95: error: invalid type in declaration before ';' token /build/src/tdebase/kcontrol/hwmanager/hwmanager.cpp: In member function 'void TDEHWManager::populateTreeView()': /build/src/tdebase/kcontrol/hwmanager/hwmanager.cpp:143:64: error: 'RootSystem' is not a member of 'TDEGenericDeviceType' make[2]: *** [kcontrol/hwmanager/CMakeFiles/kcm_hwmanager-module.dir/hwmanager.cpp.o] Error 1 make[1]: *** [kcontrol/hwmanager/CMakeFiles/kcm_hwmanager-module.dir/all] Error 2 make: *** [all] Error 2 Anybody mess with hwmanager lately?? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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