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No idea if this is significant, but I thought I'd pass it along
by dep 29 Oct '21

29 Oct '21

Doing my usual daily update/upgrade, I just now encountered this: The following packages have been kept back: kubuntu-default-settings-trinity I presume it's some kind of metapackage and that it has no effect on the functioning of my system. It's the first error of this sort that I've seen in years, though, so I thought I'd pass it along. Am running R14.0.11. -- dep Pictures: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album Column: https://ofb.biz/author/dep/

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Appimage
by dep 28 Oct '21

28 Oct '21

Greets, everybody . . . I've got a book coming on, and one of the rituals attendant to that is searching for an outliner/organizational application into which I can dump notes and such by chapter and conduct some of the other housekeeping involved. So I've gone through the bespoke applications that supposedly perform these functions and have learned that as with the last book a couple of years ago they all suck. I don't think that anyone involved with any of them has ever written anything for publication -- they've certainly not written anything resembling instructions for use of their applications. One of these applications, a thing called "Joplin," is an appimage. I'd encountered one of these before; Geeqie releases some versions in that form, which I tried. I like Geeqie, but I don't much like appimages, though I'm not sure I can tell you why. So I thought I'd ask here what people think of appimages, both the idea of them and the way they're made and used in practice, in case there's a difference. My vague distaste for them runs counter to reservations I had when moving to Linux from OS/2 and similar DOS-centric operating systems. My complaint then was that with DOS, Windows (at the time a DOS desktop) and OS/2 put a particular application's files all in one directory, Word in \word, Lotus in \lotus, and so on, so banishing an application involved nuking a directory and that was that. (I still think that more things ought to be in their own directories under /opt, and am glad that TDE does this; that prejudice came about when we were building KDE from source a time or two a week and having the whole thing blow up was not unheard of; deleting the failed build and renaming the existing, working version reduced the risk.) Sorry for the digression. Having not given appimages a lot of thought but seeing that they're becoming more common, just thought I'd ask if there are any strong reasons for or against them. Are appimages a good idea for anything beyond test-drive purposes? -- dep Pictures: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album Column: https://ofb.biz/author/dep/

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Using Message => Edit Message
by J Leslie Turriff 27 Oct '21

27 Oct '21

When viewing a received message, in the menu bar entry is the Edit Message option, which allows one to modify the mail item's text. Because almost all HTML email uses Sans-Serif fonts (an anethema to me) and Kmail provides no way to override this, I thought that I might be able to use Edit Message to change the imbedded font-family to something more friendly. I can do that, and the result is saved in my Drafts folder, but when I open it I see just the raw HTML; Kmail doesn't seem to want to format it as it did the original. Does anyone know how to make Kmail display such a modified message properly? Leslie -- Operating System: Linux Distribution: openSUSE Leap 15.3 x86_64 Desktop Environment: Trinity Qt: 3.5.0 TDE: R14.0.10 tde-config: 1.0

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X and DPI
by J Leslie Turriff 27 Oct '21

27 Oct '21

I see on the X.org announcements list <xorg-announce(a)lists.x.org> that "X server [21.1.0] now correctly reports display DPI in more cases. This may affect rendering of client applications that have their own workarounds for hi-DPI screens." Leslie -- Operating System: Linux Distribution: openSUSE Leap 15.3 x86_64 Desktop Environment: Trinity Qt: 3.5.0 TDE: R14.0.10 tde-config: 1.0

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Where does TDE store its mime-type information?
by J Leslie Turriff 27 Oct '21

27 Oct '21

Once again, missing application/octet-stream has revisited me. Where does TDE store this information, and is there a way to lock that particular entry so that it doesn't disappear now and again? There must be a bug somewhere in TDE's mime handling routines that causes it to delete this entry when one is adding other entries to the table, but I haven't a clue as to which component a bug report should be opened... Leslie -- Operating System: Linux Distribution: openSUSE Leap 15.3 x86_64 Desktop Environment: Trinity Qt: 3.5.0 TDE: R14.0.10 tde-config: 1.0

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not a huge problem, but probably a bug
by dep 26 Oct '21

26 Oct '21

Greets, everybody . . . I'm pretty sure that this is a bug, one that has survived a decade or more. If you open the game "Shisen-sho" and click to call the "Game" menu, the resulting menu is *enormous.* It works, but it is *enormous*. Per the attached. -- dep Pictures: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album Column: https://ofb.biz/author/dep/

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[OT] Distro evaluation tool
by J Leslie Turriff 24 Oct '21

24 Oct '21

An interesting tool for choosing a distro is at https://distrochooser.de/ Leslie -- Operating System: Linux Distribution: openSUSE Leap 15.3 x86_64 Desktop Environment: Trinity Qt: 3.5.0 TDE: R14.0.10 tde-config: 1.0

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Where to report bug?
by Mike Bird 24 Oct '21

24 Oct '21

I'd like to report a bug in the package shown below. I've been browsing and searching all over gitea and cgit and I confess I am clueless. How exactly am I supposed to find the right place to report this bug? Tx, --Mike Package: redmond-default-settings-trinity Version: 4:14.0.11~pre0-0debian11.0.0+0~a Architecture: all Maintainer: TDE Debian Team <team-debian(a)trinitydesktop.org> Installed-Size: 41139 Depends: <snip> Recommends: <snip> Suggests: <snip> Conflicts: kubuntu-default-settings, kubuntu-default-settings-trinity, kubuntu-settings-desktop Priority: optional Section: tde Filename: pool/main-r14/r/redmond-default-settings-trinity/redmond-default-settings-trinity_14.0.11~pre0-0debian11.0.0+0~a_all.deb Size: 40072528 SHA256: 9b9ecf1925a20caf8cfc53a82474dc1b19536601d705af8ac3d999de8b3dafac SHA1: 2998a2781f9f0ff50b4598a066130e5db164bb95 MD5sum: 9b7923e9abf55fab81a1741d710de59a Description: Redmond default settings and artwork for the Kubuntu Trinity desktop This package includes artwork and Kubuntu branding. Description-md5: 0a552c011804568c22eedf1edacac0e0

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Trinity IRC - konversation - onion connection
by William Morder 22 Oct '21

22 Oct '21

Something weird, good for a laugh. The server irc.libera.chat and its variants bans me even before I figure out how to join any IRC room. It seemed strange, but a little searching finds out that it is my ISP (not myself) that is blocked, for maintaining an open proxy server: I was referred to some page that gave my IP as 170.39.170.101, so I did a whois lookup, and yup, that address goes back to my ISP, monkeybrains. They have tor servers at: 209.141.41.225 209.141.56.96 209.185.120.173 In an earlier post, under some other topic, I mentioned this. Of course I block all these IP addresses myself, since I don't know why my ISP would maintain Tor servers (for surveillance, or just to be helpful?), but it seems inherently insecure to use these tor servers. Thus I am forced to run Konversation or some other IRC client over Tor. If "they" (whoever "they" are, "out there") wish to prevent bad things from happening on the internet, all it does it encourage more people to use onion links, which is probably good for us users, but maybe not what "they" intended. I did already look up the pages about how to set it up. I created my own self-signed certificate, copied it to the appropriate places, but now I am stumped. I found instructions here for setting up Konversation: https://libera.chat/guides/certfp.html but it might be intended for KDE5's version of Konversation, not for TDE. Also I went through these pages: https://libera.chat/guides/connect#accessing-liberachat-via-tor Other IRC clients, so far, are less user-friendly than Konversation, and I like to stick with Trinity where possible. Also still trying to figure out SASL, and cannot find the public key. I don't know if this is for irc.libera.chat or palladium.libera.chat (which is what their webpage says to use). I followed instructions to configure torrc to use the onion link, but so far no luck. I assume that there must be something basic that I am missing. I've used lots of chat clients like Kopete and Psi-Plus and Pidgin (and Trillian, in Windoze), so I know how to get them to do what I want, but I've never used IRC. Neither Kopete nor Psi-Plus seem to work for me, and ksirc left me unenthusiastic, but I am willing to try whatever works. Any help or suggestions or links are welcome. Bill

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21 Oct '21

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