Re: [trinity-users] okular spew

On Friday 08 March 2019 01:54:00 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 08 March 2019 00:18:11 David C. Rankin wrote: > > On 03/01/2019 08:55 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > Greetings; > > > > > > After this mornings update, which refreshed about 25% of > > > tde, I ran okular to check on the docs for something > > > synaptic showed me in a changelog from linuxcnc, and got > > > this spew in the terminal I ran okular from after I had > > > rebooted: > > > > > > gene@GO704:~$ okular > > > > Gene, > > > > Okular was the KDE4 replacement to kpdf that had a number of > > bugs. It is the pdf viewer in KDE5 (Plasma) -- it has gotten > > better there, but.... > > > > none of that explains how its failure is related to TDE? I > > suspect you have installed okular and it has pulled in its > > KDE4/Plasma dependencies and -- how now fallen flat on it face > > (a routine problem with KDE4/Plasma). > > And just one of the reasons I baled to TDE. :) > > > Additionally, it is based on Qt4/Frameworks in the various > > versions, so there shouldn't be a Qt conflict. > > > > Changes in TDE should not affect okular and vice-versa (it > > would be very strange if there was still a common library name > > being used between the two -- and then your package manager > > should have flagged it). > > > > Also note: > > > > kbuildsycoca4 running... > > kbuildsycoca4(3570) KBuildSycoca::checkTimestamps: checking > > file timestamps > > kbuildsycoca4(3570) KBuildSycoca::checkTimestamps: timestamps > > check ok kbuildsycoca4(3570) kdemain: Emitting > > notifyDatabaseChanged () > > > > > > kbuildsycoca4 is the KDE4 (KDE Build System Config Cache) > > And what do you call your equivalent to kbuildsycoca4? > > > I think you have a KDE4/Qt4 problem -- who would have > > thought... Nuke it! > > But if you want a clean printout, okular is king. Telling evince > to fit to page runs stuff off the top and bottom of the page, on > a printer that claims to be borderless, but is perfect as a > viewer. I haven't used kpdf enough to reach a conclusion on that > point, but clicking on links within a document that point to > another section of that same document does not work, so I wind > up using okular or evince again, where IIRC it does, I think, > thinker needs more caffeine this time of the morning as it just > short of 5 am here. > > So to get this straight in my ancient head, which of the 3 is > the TDE preferred pdf utility? > > > In the list of pdf viewer/printers possible > > Cheers, Gene Heskett KPDF is King! !!!!!!!

Bill