Trinity 14.0.6 preliminary.
Don't know if it is a feature of ksnapshot or a misconfiguration
somewhere from me, but it is getting absolutely annoying what happens.
I have a website, a document or whatsoever on my screen in full
A4-papersize. Now I want a printout of a small part of it. Call
ksnapshot, choose "region" "new snapshot" and then draw a border around
the desired part. Press "print" and then print it. Bull... I get a
print in landscape, useless and even worse not even the original layout
reappears.
Stop ksnapshot, restart it and same procedure with again the same
miserable result.
Stop, restart, same procedure but no actual printing, instead I look
into the printer properties. And there, big surprise, landscape was
marked as to be printed BUT all 4 orientations were grayed out, so I
couldn't change that.
Checked in tdeprint the printersettings, nothing wrong, in "instances"
"settings" all 4 orientations were available and portrait was marked as
to be applied in the default printer.
Checked kprinter and of course the settings of tdeprint were there also
valid.
But then I had an idea. If I selected in ksnapshot a larger part of the
screen, say more than half A4, what would happen?
Yes, some ugly words from me and there it was: portrait was marked but
still all 4 possibilities grayed out.
So ksnapshot decides how it wants to print and doesn't leave the user a
chance to get a result, that he wants. Utterly bull....
Any suggestion, where I could look to alter this behaviour?
Phiebie.
http://www.heliocastro.info/?p=291
This is very interesting
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Hi all,
if you are using Devuan, you may have noticed with the release of R14.0.9
that there are newly available resources generated for Devuan distribution
names in the apt repository. When entering a Trinity repository into the
apt sources list, you no longer need to use equivalent Debian distribution
names. The packages as such remain the same for both Debian and Devuan, as
we still guard to maintain independence from systemd.
See https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/DevuanInstall
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Slávek
Hi
I'm trying to get skype sound to work but apparently the monkeys at MS removed
alsa support and replaced it with pulse, which is rubbish. Even though I have
pulse enable (pclos - ali's remaster), it still doesn't show up. Is there a
fix to re-enable alsa or the like?
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In addition to my previous question re startup sounds not sounding all
the time, I have a question regarding Bluetooth.
I am able to use the Bluetooth Manager to connect a pair of
headphones and can hear audio through BT, it sounds excellent. The one
thing I can't get working is the microphone that is built into BT
headphones. I know they are primarily designed for phone calls via a
smartphone, but is it possible to use the BT headphone microphone
through the PC, for example, if you were having an online
Zoom/Skype/Jitsi meeting? The local Linux group has been having virtual
meetings every month and although my Logitech headphones with
microphone boom (USB-connected) work perfectly, I would like to try
wireless/Bluetooth - if it's even possible. I attempted this with the
previous distro (Fedora) and was not successful.
Thanks again.
Last post ack the list archives was in August 2017, after which the list
was silent, and my msgs were apparently routed to /dev/null. But I
didn't unsubscribe.
My ISP has been known to block/bounce but pearsoncomputing.net was in
their "whitelist", I put it there yonks ago.
Anyway, I'm glad to be back.
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Dear TDE users list,
I see that the SUSE2 theme has been packaged for Trinity thanks to
Philippe:
https://mirror.git.trinitydesktop.org/gitea/TDE/twin-style-suse2https://mirror.git.trinitydesktop.org/gitea/TDE/tde/issues/56#issuecomment-…
I wonder whether there are any plans to package it for openSUSE for the
current version of Trinity R14.0.10? If not, is it straightfoward to
extract the binaries compiled for another distribution and move the files
to the respective folders?
Thanks!
Gianluca
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I have been digging around the TDE documentation, as well as the TDE
center to see if there is a way to change the TDE menu search function
keybinding. I am pretty sure that there is an answer, as there must be
others as well, using a non-US/UK keyboard layout. Any ideas?
said Hunter:
| GTK3 is an eyesore, but I guess Qt5 is as well.
First, I'm on the list, so you needn't cc me.
Second, just look at the latest Plasma desktop. It does nothing worth doing
that KDE3 didn't do, but it makes those things far more complicated and
difficult. In KDE3/TDE, if you want to add an application to Kicker, you
drag it there. The end. In current KDE, there's a whole wad of
incomprehensible crap you have to go through, and none of it is optional.
Nor is this anything new. When the late, unlamented KOffice was coming
along, it had filters that would import many file formats -- but not save
in them! It would save only in its own little format, which made it
entirely useless if the document were to be sent to anyone else. (It
wasn't even good for documents you intended to print onto actual physical
paper, because KPrinter kinda sucked (this was pre-CUPS). The boys were
happy with themselves while users were wondering what the hell the boys
were thinking. Asked about it, the boys would reply that if you weren't
happy, you were free to write something else. This what I mean when I
refer to "enthusiast development."
You may or may not have been around during the great Qt war. Gnome had been
rumored and promised for a long time and then, in the middle of 1998,
along came KDE 1.0 and right out of the box it was great. But it wasn't
reported or discussed as such. Instead, it was always "it will do until
Gnome gets released." Then came the "and Qt isn't free" cries of doctrinal
impurity, that on a whim Troll Tech could kill KDE or make people pay for
it or something (as if the trolls were, say, going to become the
reprehensible Darl McBride of Caldera). The trolls freed up Qt, at least
to the extent that it was no longer even an imagined risk to KDE. Ah, but
Gnome is going to be so great!
Leading the charge in many ways was Miguel deIcaza, a brilliant programmer
and along with Nat Friedman founder of Ximian. (I still have and
occasionally wear one of their teeshirts, though I like my Progeny Linux
Systems teeshirt more, because it draws comments from a better class of
people, the Debian snobs.) Miguel truly is brilliant -- he's the guy who
wrote Midnight Commander, a quarter century later still the single most
essential application on any Linux machine. And he and Nat are really nice
guys; I spent some time with them during the Ximian days, at their office
in Boston. But they were both influential and unfair in their appraisal of
KDE and Qt. Let it be noted that they both work now, as they have for
years, at that bastion of free and open-source software, Microsoft.
Much of that is an aside; my point is that the QT suspicion remains, which
is the chief reason that Gnome and GTK are taken seriously.
But another of the reasons is the attitude by the KDE developers. I
remember when the KMail addressbook was a simple, human-editable text file
comprising name and email address. (This was when just about everything in
Linux was configured by simple, human-editable text files, the passing of
which I still mourn. Opening a file in a text editor and scrolling down to
change the value of "scrollbar-width=10" gave users enormous power that we
no longer have.) The boys decided to make it more elaborate and simply
eliminate support for the old format. That was bad enough; worse, their
brilliant new addressbook *didn't work*! I remember staying up nights
hacking the new KMail to get it to use the old addressbook. The boys not
only didn't like this, they were snotty in their boasting about their new
addressbook which, again, *didn't work*. They took the same attitude when
they made the (fatal, in my estimation) file format decision in KOffice;
by the time that got sorted out we had StarOffice, then OpenOffice, then
OpenOffice.org, and finally LibreOffice. Perhaps realizing that the Gnomes
had no fair criticisms of KDE to offer, the boys set about creating some
entirely fair criticisms of KDE.
So now both desktops in their current manifestations do whatever they damn
well please rather than allow users choices in these things. Gnome can do
it because, hey, it's Gnome and freeeeeee unlike Qt-tainted KDE; KCE does
it because the boys will be the boys.
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