tde-users October 2010

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23 discussions

Furture of KDE3 questions
by Larry Stotler 14 Jan '11

14 Jan '11

High guys. This may have been spelled out somewhere, but if so I missed it, so please bear with me. I've been a KDE user since 1.x which was part of SuSE v5.3. Up till KDE4, I was always found KDE to do what I needed. I have some questions about the future direction of KDE3: 1. Qt4 port - I saw that this is one the roadmap. Is this really neccessary? I know that a lot of my complaints about KDE4 was the useless revamp of the interface, but having to have both Qt3/4 libs was also a huge pain. I'm not against a port if there are compelling reasons for it, but I have seen no compelling reason for KDE4. It uses more memory and space. I have a lot of older laptops that I find KDE3 to be snappy and KDE4 to be like molassas. 2. What about the other KDE projects like KOffice? I've always made use of KOffice instead of anything else. I find OpenOffice to be bloated. 3. Removal of HAL in favor of udev - Is this something that is going to affect KDE3? 4. Dependencies - I'm not sure how it is on other distros, but I've always found SuSE/openSUSE to suffer from unneccessary dependencies. Not everyone has a Palmpilot device, and most PIMs assume you do and force you to install support for something you don't have. I'm not sure how the core KDE and the other projects handle this. How is Trinity planning to do it? 5. XOrg and KDE3 - on openSUSE 11.3, I can't setup my displays because openSUSE removed it's config program SaX2 and I can't get XOrg to work with my displays. Works fine in openSUSE 11.0/KDE3 because I have SaX2. Is there an alternative for configuring displays? Sorry if some of this is a repeat. I'm new to the list, but a longtime KDE user. Thanx

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KDE 3.5.10: deutsche Sprachpakete
by HHa 30 Nov '10

30 Nov '10

Hallo Liste, mir fehlen offensicht einige deutsche Sprachpakete. Welche könntenb das sein? -- Viele Grüße, Hartmut Haase Hungerhilfe: http://www.thehungersite.com Ohne Zensur suchen: http://suche.amnesty-bergedorf.de/ ökologisch suchen: http://www.ecosia.de Das heutige Motto: Ist der Chef nicht da, entscheidet sein Stellvertreter. Ist auch der nicht da, entscheidet der gesunde Menschenverstand.

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kdesudo and kdesu
by David Hare 04 Nov '10

04 Nov '10

Firstly my thanks and congratulations to the Trinity project for such great work and the support for Debian. It is my desktop of choice for Debian Squeeze and looks really nice, more so than the (old) kde defaults. In fact I have run Trinity (ubuntu packsges) on Debian Squeeze since last November. It idles at around 100MB ram usage. I now have a fresh Squeeze install with Trinity from the new Trinity-Debian repos. This was done using debootstrap and chroot. Trinity-kde was installed with apt-get (in the chroot) using a text list of specific packages. I use these methods to minimise bloat. The only issue is, kdesu. I saw an earlier post on this but no resolution. Is nobody else getting this? I can't change the clock or get root from kcontrol, kuser, etc. The workaround is sudo or sux (/opt/trinity/bin needs to go in roots $PATH) in a konsole to open kde apps I do not like to use sudo by preference but in this case I have set my user in /etc/sudoers. (works as expected otherwise, e.g. <sudo kwrite> is successful) Ideally I would like to disable sudo altogether and just use su, sux and kdesu. kdesudo-trinity is installed. In my old Squeeze install I fixed kdesu by adding a text file ~/.kde3/share/config/kdesurc containing: [super-user-command] super-user-command=su No luck with that on the new install In konsole: dzz@exelinux:~$ kdesudo kwrite /usr/bin/xauth: (argv):1: couldn't query Security extension on display ":0.0" No protocol specified kwrite: cannot connect to X server :0.0 dzz@exelinux:~$ kdesu kwrite /usr/bin/xauth: (argv):1: couldn't query Security extension on display ":0.0" No protocol specified kwrite: cannot connect to X server :0.0 . Any ideas what is wrong?

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Donate without Paypal
by Jacob Georg Benz 29 Oct '10

29 Oct '10

Hi, before i would get envolved with the Trinity-Project in other ways, i would like to donate, but I hate Paypal. Is there any other way? Peace, Heinrich

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Shell errors after debian-kgtk-trinity & kgtk-qt3-trinity removal
by Nicolas BERCHER 29 Oct '10

29 Oct '10

Hi, I have troubles (bash errors) since I removed packages debian-kgtk-trinity & kgtk-qt3-trinity: ERROR: ld.so: object '/opt/trinity/lib/kgtk/libkgtk2.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored. Don't know where LD_PRELOAD is defined... (not in /etc/) Any solution? Thank a lot, Nicolas

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trinity open/save dialog boxes for openoffice
by Denis Prost 28 Oct '10

28 Oct '10

Hi everyone, does anyone know how I can make openoffice use the trinity open/save dialog boxes ? It used to work on my debian lenny kde 3.5.10 system with the openoffice.org-kde package installed but I don't know how to get it back with trinity on debian squeeze. Thanks, regards, Denis

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GPG signing key problem
by James D Freels 27 Oct '10

27 Oct '10

Recall below the method for obtaining the GPG signing key for the trinity project. 2. Add the GPG signing key: sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net --recv-keys 2B8638D0 At home, I have no problem at all doing this through my ISP (comcast). However, at work, the port used for obtaining the key is blocked so I cannot add the key to my work data base. I had the same problem with ubuntu keys and had to gain special permissions just to get the key. I was hoping there may be a simpler way to just copy the key over, and install it. Can you send instructions with it ? Thanks -- James D. Freels freelsjd(a)gmail.com

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Torrents are stalled in all torrent clients
by Jason Goldfine-Middleton 25 Oct '10

25 Oct '10

Hi everyone, Really excited about the continued development of KDE 3.5 but I have to say it is really hard to find information on the KDE 3 environment since most of KDE 4's apps have the same names... Anyway, I'm using the 64-bit version of Ubuntu 10.10 (Trinity of course) and having issues getting torrents to run in Ktorrent (both the KDE 3 and KDE 4 versions). I have forwarded the ports in my router and also have UPnP running on the router and in Ktorrent. UPnP appears to work in Transmission as well, but the torrents remain stalled. I haven't gotten a single torrent past 0.00%. I'm really bummed because I use torrents all the time and I want to use KDE 3.5 so badly... has anyone else resolved/had this issue? Thanks for your assistance! Jason

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IRC channel #trinitykde3 on freenode...
by Chris Reid 22 Oct '10

22 Oct '10

Just for jollies I set up an IRC channel on chat.freenode.net named #trinitykde3 for general use / user support of users / whatever. It's there :-).

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Questions on getting kde4(UGH) stuff, what did I do wrong?
by Chris Reid 21 Oct '10

21 Oct '10

Hi Folks, Found TrinityKDE and was VERY happy! Short of a many page diatribe :-), I loath kde4 :). I downloaded and burned the LiveCD and fired it up (happy dance) and just to see what would happen I elected to add kpat (my great time waster :) and much to my disgust I ended up with a very large chunk of kde4 and the kde4 version of kpat(UGH). I do not want *anything* to do with kde4. I've shared the link with a number of people who are VERY happy to hear about this project! How do I set this up so I end up with kde3.5 goodies and none of the kde4 festering sewage? Thanks VERY much in advance!

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