tde-users August 2009

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13 participants
5 discussions

What's missing in KDE 4: let's file some bugs

by Dotan Cohen

The day when KDE 3 will no longer be viable is getting closer every day. Please tell me what problems you are having with KDE 4 so that we can get them fixed. KDE 3 is great because it is mature, configurable, and feature-laden without being bloated. I do not want to see that go to waste! It is the KDE 3 holdouts who have the attention to detail to distinguish the "little things" that make KDE 3 so great that are currently lacking in KDE 4. Note that KDE 4.3 really solves most of the issues for me and most other people that I deal with. In fact, the features is adds over KDE 3 were enough to get me to switch. So please try KDE 4.3 and _let_me_know_ what does not work for you so that we can file bugs. I want to know about missing features, unintuitiveness, bugs, regressions, anything. You _will_ need to relearn some minor things as KDE 4 is a rewrite of KDE, not a Qt4 port of KDE 3, however let's get the major issues fixed. Thanks. KDE really needs the picky, stubborn KDE 3 users to push the devs (who might not have the same attention to detail as us) in the right direction. I'm here to bridge the gap between us (the users) and the devs. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il

15 years, 3 months

LTSP kde3 and kde4 - kde3 starts kicker and plasma comes too!

by Kevin Colyer

Dear All, Thanks for making KDE3 available for Kubuntu users. I have been running an LTSP network with KDE3 for several happy users. Anyway as I was restricted to running Hardy I have taken the plunge and now have Jaunty with KDE3 and KDE installed. (I have decided 4.3 is OK for me) So I have the LTSP terminals working OK. But when I boot them into KDE3 Plasma starts too, as well as a number of duplicated KDE 4 services (or because of probably). I added: export KDEDIRS=/opt/kde3/:/usr/ export XDG_DATA_DIRS=/opt/kde3/share/:/usr/share/ to /opt/kde3/bin/startkde but that makes no difference. KDE4 performance is poor on LTSP so I can't migrate the users. I call kill off the KDE4 processes and will train users to do this. Any ideas how I can stop KDE4 processes starting? Where are they being started from? Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Colyer YWAM National Director (interim) YWAM Brussels Team leader/Responsable de JEM Bruxelles Avenue Des Celtes, 19 1040 Bruxelles Belgium Tel: +32 (0) 2 736 33 63 Fax: +32 (0) 2 738 02 40 GSM: +32 (0) 484 683 003 GSM: +44 (0) 7967 105 273 (only outside Belgium) http://www.ywambrussels.be skype: kevincolyerwork

15 years, 4 months

OpenOffice.org 3.1

by Will Esselink

Has anyone been successful integrating openoffice 3.1 with kde? I recently installl openoffice 3.1 from the following ppa: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/openoffice-pkgs/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main It installs without error but is missing the kde integration. Besides looking terrible it does not support the Konqueror integration when using the open/save dialogs --Will Esselink School District 33 Chilliwack, BC Canada

15 years, 4 months

KDE3.5 and Kvirc

by Илья Черных

Please add Kvirc to your KDE3 distribution. Other distros such as Alt Linux and SuSE include Qt3-based Kvirc into their KDE3 distributions. Otherwise it is impossible to run it.

15 years, 4 months

Local printers not supported

by Michael Hirsch

I'm trying to help my Dad with a problem. He's using KDE 3.5.x and his USB printer stopped working. He can see the printer with "lsusb" so it would appear that USB works, but when he tries to add the printer with the KDE Add Printer Wizard, the choice "Local printer (parallel, serial, USB)" is deactivated. He can't press the radio button to enable it. The other radio buttons are all active except for "Serial Fax/Modem printer". What can deactivate that button. It happens on both his and my Mom's systems, but they are running the same software, so that doesn't narrow things down, much. My machine is running the same software, too, and it is enabled for me. I can't figure out what he could be missing to turn off local printer support. His OS is Ubuntu Jaunty with the semi-official KDE 3.5 installed. Thanks, Michael

15 years, 4 months

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