OneClickFTP

FTP by Slowmo 20 comments

I had the applet fail to upload files to livedrive using their ftp. I posted the problem to their support. This is the reply:

This is an issue with the applet. Its using non RFC standard methods,
out FTP server is fully RFC compliant. Try using an FTP client like Filezilla - this will work. - Jul 07 2009
JAG

Arcade by ii-system 39 comments

Surprisingly enough, this does not help. So assume this logic gives a valid path here. What happens after this?

I tried a fresh .xlabsoft/jag -- did not help

Could not see anything obvious in other modules. The profile is not getting the level packs information for whatever reason when run off /usr/local/bin but does get it run off ~/jag-0.2.../jag/bin. - Jul 07 2009
JAG

Arcade by ii-system 39 comments

As I said, it runs fine without installation. - Jul 07 2009
JAG

Arcade by ii-system 39 comments

It is all there!

The program does not see it for some reason. Let's work from there. - Jul 07 2009
JAG

Arcade by ii-system 39 comments

I am running on Debian Linux (Sid). I guess the make install needs to copy to level-pack to /usr/local/share or subdirectory. Tell me where and I will do it myself meanwhile. - Jul 07 2009
JAG

Arcade by ii-system 39 comments

This is a unique and fun game. Great!

Latest and greatest: Installed version shows no level packs, gives a funny score pane and does not play. When run locally on the "bin" directory, has 50 default levels, plays fine. Fix?

I played levels 1 and 2. Level 2 has complex enough animation so it may not respond to mouse clicks in a timely manner. The threading and response needs tuning since the game "plays itself" while the player plays. Acceleration will probably help (once the firmware problem with the old matrox card is fixed). - Jul 06 2009
PublicTransport

Plasma 4 Extensions by fpuelz 808 comments

If there be a standard that many transportation sites use for listing schedules (one can always hope), this would be a candidate for a dataengine.

Weather-plasmoids have such available although most of the nicer ones have chosen not to use the dataengine (limited coverage?). Look at YAWP and others.

The specification and implementation of such a standard would in itself encourage its wider-spread use--advertizing (my busline, my trams) is always in order. - Jun 03 2009
Device Manager

Plasma 4 Extensions by giucam 174 comments

Did, in fact build OK.

I get a black background and no volume names (visible) for the non-removable devices. - Jun 01 2009
Device Manager

Plasma 4 Extensions by giucam 174 comments

I'll give this a try. The stock plasmoid certainly did show non-removable devices in the past. - Jun 01 2009
Frescobaldi

Audio Apps by wbsoft 75 comments

[ 38%] Generating articulation_marcato.png
GNU LilyPond 2.10.33
Processing `/home/david/frescobaldi-0.7.9/pics/articulation_marcato.ly'
Parsing...lilypond: ports.c:978: scm_fill_input: Assertion `pt->read_pos == pt->read_end' failed.
/bin/sh: line 1: 21766 Aborted lilypond -ddelete-intermediate-files --png -dpixmap-format=pngalpha -o /home/david/frescobaldi-0.7.9/build/pics/temp_articulation_marcato /home/david/frescobaldi-0.7.9/pics/articulation_marcato.ly
make[2]: *** [pics/articulation_marcato.png] Error 134
make[1]: *** [pics/CMakeFiles/lilypond_pngs.dir/all] Error 2
make: *** [all] Error 2
- May 24 2009
Yakuake

System Tools (NOT OS or ROMS) by Sho 1027 comments

1. The dialog "You chose to ... do you want to close" comes up. I choose to NOT close and the logout is aborted. This is what I wanted. However, as I said, things are too asynchronous. Tray apps are effected. Kmail crashed.

2. Maybe the best place for a logout prevention is in KDE4's logout handling.

Hein told me of dbus commands to list processes spawned in Yakuake. I assume I can do this from QT4 dbus interface as well. If any of these are, indeed, active, then I would want to prevent closure or logout. - May 12 2009
Yakuake

System Tools (NOT OS or ROMS) by Sho 1027 comments

Very nice upgrade!

The much needed new feature of preventing accidental closure is a great plus. Comments:

1. It clicked in, canceled a log out, but after tray icons were disrupted (qjackctl still running, icon gone...). Probably due a async nature of dbus messaging.

2. It would be nice if this could automatically be active if there be an active task in a session (deamed not possible in previous postings but dbus
interface should in fact enable this!).

I had been considering doing a plasmoid to do this (awaiting the upcoming dbus data-engine) but the real place is in Yakuake itself. - May 11 2009
Drop2FTP

Plasma 4 Extensions by MatzeR 53 comments

I am trying to ftp to a remote site. Why the applet is "transferring" the file to some intermediate, I do not know.

KIO is not asking me for authentification in konqueror and I do not get that far in the applet. - Apr 02 2009
Drop2FTP

Plasma 4 Extensions by MatzeR 53 comments

Konqueror, trying to open the ftp site, says it cannot access. I am not asked for name and password.

Applet slowly seems to copy the dropped or chosen file "somewhere," then complains it has not permission to save the intermediary file. Never get to actual ftp attempt.

I am trying to set up with ftp://ftp.livedrive.com/my%20files or such. - Mar 31 2009
Drop2FTP

Plasma 4 Extensions by MatzeR 53 comments

Fine. If KIO asks me for it and a get a configuration dialog for saving this info. It didn't (sometimes dialogs get "hidden" behind plasma, however).

Also, I would not want to be asked each time on a multiple-file transfer from the "open" dialog.

BTW, konqueror will not, it seems, open ftp. - Mar 25 2009
Drop2FTP

Plasma 4 Extensions by MatzeR 53 comments

Minimum GUI for an FTP interface would include server, username, password. I have not gotten to the point where KIO will ask. Instead I get malformed URL messages. Setting the complete URL here would be best. If password be omited, KIO should ask but ... - Mar 24 2009
KRadio4

Audio Apps by emw 91 comments

1. CMake borks because of (what I am told) debian/changelog with "unstable" entry. KDE4.2 is still experimental. I commented out the offending test to run the cmake. Why should anyone care?

2. libffmpeg needed for internet radio. Not in the distro's packages. Where to get it?

3. Does not find mp3/lame libraries.

4. No LIRC support but I have not such card and have not put in kernel so this is correct, I suppose. - Mar 16 2009
Fancy Tasks

Plasma 4 Extensions by Emdek 569 comments

1. A "task" applet should probably fill remaining panel area when on the panel. This is how most others behave. Otherwise, other applets do so giving strange or silly-looking results.

2. Could provide for multiple rows on panel. (Or does your max. icon size do this?)

3. Look at the fsrunner. He provides a simple install script which should satisfy those who find it hard to do it themselves:

mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make
sudo make install
kbuildsycoca4
- Mar 10 2009
STasks

Plasma 4 Extensions by mbaszczewski 445 comments

Has a lot going for it. On the panel, it takes up as much space as the "other" taskmanager so one simply chooses which one likes more. On the desktop, it can be made more compact which could be of advantage. I would like to be able to really choose a square, iconic view on the panel as well and have it go to two lines when its area fills up or by by panel-height like the "other" one.

On the desktop, if I choose to "expand," this occurs on top of other icons shown by the plasmoid. Might put this text above or below the icon, instead of to its right. - Mar 05 2009
yaWP (Yet Another Weather Plasmoid)

Plasma 4 Extensions by PlasmaFactory 1196 comments

Sits on the panel very well, icon is almost readable and the temperature is readable without taking too much room.

Question is what to display and when. I would show the graphic on single-click or activations by key sequence. There are apparently things to click for information on this and any attempt to get to them loses it when shown only on hover.

The textual box would be a candidate for the hover rather than double-click. - Mar 02 2009
fsrunner for KRunner

System Runners by andersaa 87 comments

Hmm. Quite a number of goodies hidden behind the button that one cannot even see over the default color of the thing.

Enabled and set it up. Now, how do I actually run any of these things?

... and yes, these setups belong in the system setup panel where one would expect to find them. Just as nepomuk has a panel, krunner should. To use them, seems there should be an icon for each plugin on the krunner box but krunner seems to only find/run executables and run its version of top.

Most of these plugins overlap various plasmoids and such. For example, one might use a dataengine monitoring the folders (I think there is one provided) and have a panel icon and kb shortcut to bring up a dialog to look for files. - Mar 01 2009
fsrunner for KRunner

System Runners by andersaa 87 comments

I am running qt4.4* off Debian Sid.
I am running kde4.2 off Debian experimental. - Mar 01 2009
fsrunner for KRunner

System Runners by andersaa 87 comments

OK. Did that. I had other stuff going off local and things should play from local (but a path variable needs be set up, I suppose, for krunner to do this as well).

So on new login (I assume new krunner as well), I still have no reference to fsrunner in desktop search or services. - Mar 01 2009
fsrunner for KRunner

System Runners by andersaa 87 comments

I have not found such a item in the system configuration.

The fsrunner does not appear in either the services or the desktop search (which is dedicated to nepomuk and strigi, I suppose).

BTW, In terms of not using the locatedb because of a zillion hits outside the home directory, grep is your friend, i.e. locate pattern | grep ^/home/me (all set up without my having to type it, of course). But an independent fsrunner is also a neat idea!

Either way, many UI opportunities become evident! - Feb 28 2009
fsrunner for KRunner

System Runners by andersaa 87 comments

How do I run it?

Also, as I mentioned, most distros have a maintained file-system index database always available. In debian, type command "locate pattern" to use it. Other flavors are around.

I do not know if there be an API for it but it could be run in QProcess as well. - Feb 28 2009
translatoid for KUbuntu/Debian

Plasma 4 Extensions by smihael 6 comments

Along with the name change, the icon was lost. Applet works but a big ? appears instead of the book with the abc on it. - Feb 27 2009
fsrunner for KRunner

System Runners by andersaa 87 comments

I assume that if your database is so much smaller, you are not indexing file content (as strigi, recoll, google all do!). If you are simply tracking filenames and locations, then you might simply interface with find/locate which comes (apparently with flavors--a qt4 "xlocate" app recently posted was not compatable with "locate") with most distros.

Anyway, I quickly go rid of google and went to recoll. Database still large but it runs unobtrusively. There is also something called Beagle. These are all, naturally, full indexers.

- Feb 27 2009
fsrunner for KRunner

System Runners by andersaa 87 comments

I'll give this a try. I presently use recoll. Nepomuk is running, allbeit, reniced, but serves little purpose I think as I do not use strigi. The KDE/Plasma folks need to rethink these "services"--Their resource footprints are simple too large and most folks I think will simply uninstall them.
1. Renice them and I will try yours this way as well.
2. Akanodi spawns too many children. Is it really better than direct kabc? I am experimenting with the plasma dataengine but doing this directly is also an alternative.
3. A more efficient Nepomuk must enable recoll and yours (and google--also too resource hungry) as well as strigi. Let me choose. - Feb 27 2009
Customizable Weather Plasmoid (CWP)

Plasma 4 Extensions by jaegerschnitzel 1067 comments

I see your points My comparison is the old KDE3 weather applet. It showed a well-chosen icon and optionally had a box next to it with four lines of data (which would be unreadable in current sizings).

Getting rid of the text descriptions certainly cleans things up and allows me to make the view manageably smaller. The KDE icons are NOT well chosen, the myforecast.com ones are.

Screen real estate is always short which is why I shun superkaramba stuff, no matter how lovely. If I want a larger view, I want to activate it on choice and have things iconized and compact otherwise.

The applet's parent differs from desktop to panel. Recent discussion on the plasma developer's list spoke of using this information, i.e. a tooltip or balloon when on the panel and a compact but more informative non-activated view on the desktop.

Canonically, the services would be in a dataengine (and thus be available to other applets). There is already one weather dataengine available in the plasma add-ons packages. - Feb 26 2009
Customizable Weather Plasmoid (CWP)

Plasma 4 Extensions by jaegerschnitzel 1067 comments

A few suggestions:

1. Iconized version (this is for what I was waiting): Temperature is too large (I know its winter ;-) !/2 of font size on my panel would be enough.

2. Tooltip information: If I do not want to look at the large view, why not on hover have a view with just statistics, i.e. temp, wind, humidity, etc. implemented like a tooltip.

3. Big views are still rather "busy"

4. Other weather services or instructions to implement them. Yahoo comes to mind. Metar, accuweather, etc are more or less universal. Of course, there is a plasma weather engine available for delicitation. - Feb 25 2009
Customizable Weather Plasmoid (CWP)

Plasma 4 Extensions by jaegerschnitzel 1067 comments

A few suggestions:

1. Iconized version (this is for what I was waiting): Temperature is too large (I know its winter ;-) !/2 of font size on my panel would be enough.

2. Tooltip information: If I do not want to look at the large view, why not on hover have a view with just statistics, i.e. temp, wind, humidity, etc. implemented like a tooltip.

3. Big views are still rather "busy"

4. Other weather services or instructions to implement them. Yahoo comes to mind. Metar, accuweather, etc are more or less universal. Of course, there is a plasma weather engine available for delicitation. - Feb 25 2009
SearchMoid

Plasma 4 Extensions by Deaimel 12 comments

Very nice to have when the browser is not up (all the browsers have their own by now).

Suggestions:
1. Drop down like in Opera's Icon plus drop down to choose search site.
2. User can add their own. Most of these have simple syntax like www.,... search=%s or something like that.
3. Other canned searches such as answers.com. Again, Opera's is a nice implementation.
4. Keyboard quick-search off clipboard?
5. Finally, your own more compact browser window--kde/qt4 has tools and netkit also is available (used by goldendict, for example). More compact and lightweight than hitting konqueror. - Feb 15 2009
Kisa

Various KDE Stuff by peteblack 7 comments

Quote:

Anyway, time to fix the old bugs that are still there:
1. Hebrew does not work at all. QT4 certainly works with it.

Strange I don't seem to have any problems with either Hebrew or Arabic. I can't really write that much that's meaningful, but I do get input and pop-up notification. Let see if we can figure this one out first.

<OK. The kde3 would SOMETIMES show me both dictionaries, switched with the keyboard, and sometimes just the English. Hebrew letters never showed up. KDE4 so far has not shown me the Hebrew dictionary or Hebrew characters.>

Quote:

2. Accepting the config settings closes that applet.

This is the first I hear about this. Does this always occur, even if you don't change any settings?

<Yes. Closes every time.>

Quote:

3. Minor issue: come up minimized (as option).

Do you mean to have an option to start the application in minimized mode? I'm not sure about a full option right now, but at lease the state should be persisted. Now only position and size are stored.

<Not persistant. Comes back up with the popup.>

I've added these to the tracker page here http://code.google.com/p/kisa/issues/entry

I'm downloading a Debian VDI image as we speak and hope to have some testing done later. If you don't mind I'll email you with some additional information that I may need. In the mean time if you could compile and run a debug version, that would be very helpful (no need to enable FULL_DEBUG).

Appreciate you taking the time to help out.

<My pleasure. Tell me how to compile and I'll make a debug version.

I assume you mean a virtualbox VDI. Should be OK if you have the memory to run KDE in this. I never came up in qemu and sometimes was OK in vbox, allbeit very slow. On my old clunker, the only VM image that makes any sense is "Deli-linux" because I can run that in 32meg :-)

Good answer to all of us who learned in university that all computers have infinite memory and diskspace :-)> - Feb 15 2009
Kisa

Various KDE Stuff by peteblack 7 comments

That's cool. I like the smaller panel icons better anyway. (BTW, all you would need to do to make a plasmoid is to place your icon as an iconWidget on the tuturial skeleton, move your three config panels to their system and it should play pure qt4 as is. I have slowly moved stuff in my plasmoid to plasma stuff where appropriate but it remains mostly qt4.

Anyway, time to fix the old bugs that are still there:
1. Hebrew does not work at all. QT4 certainly works with it.
2. Accepting the config settings closes that applet.
3. Minor issue: come up minimized (as option). - Feb 14 2009
Kisa

Various KDE Stuff by peteblack 7 comments

Congrats on the new release. I love this thing, it would run on kde4 but not work.

Make the kde4 as plasmoid. I had enquired about a plasma dataengine sitting on keyboard events for just this purpose. You will probably need to write it but I think this will be not difficult at all and that will open up other plasmoids using keyboard events as well! - Feb 14 2009
Spell Check

Plasma 4 Extensions by Emdek 16 comments

A KDE3.5 applet called kisa which hooks the keyboard and is a "live" spelling checker, popping up errors/suggestions. This was useful. However most textual application have spell-check built in but kisa sat nicely on those that did not or for which it did not work well.

It did not work in Hebrew (RTL) at all.

I have already enquired about a dataengine to sit on the keyboard (and mouse)--very limited at present. However, I feel this is the way to go. - Feb 11 2009
GoldenDict

Education Apps by ikm 16 comments

Babylon's site wants you to buy the program first, for which I have no need.

Answers.com is easy to call up and presents HTML very much like your screenshots. Also offers translation.

HTML driven translation is available through google and yahoo, I believe.

I will try to get some stardict items. I believe that the online services should be a priority because your UI is very well suited for this! - Feb 10 2009
GoldenDict

Education Apps by ikm 16 comments

I downloaded the binary. (I wonder what would happen if I were to symlink my qt-so's to the ones supplied? Dare I?)

1. I placed paths to places where dictionaries should be /usr/share/dict, /usr/share/dictionaries-common, etc. The program finds none.

2. The HTML-based online dictionaries such as those at answers.com, google-translators, etc. How or can I integrate them. Answers.com would be a desired hit.

3. Babylon dictionaries. How to install them? - Feb 09 2009
GoldenDict

Education Apps by ikm 16 comments

If I were to also compile kde4.2 with this, I would, but I do want to do so but use the Debian packages. My experience is that an error over differing versions of QT (within the same version!! as well) will occur. - Jan 29 2009
GoldenDict

Education Apps by ikm 16 comments

This is (or will be when I install qt4.5--I cannot advise folks to keep multiple qt versions around because this can cause problems with kde and other stuff). Since it is html based, it can (hopefully your interface lets me) include stuff like answers.com, etc.

Feature if not already there: CLI (or dbus) interface so I can write a plasmoid (maybe dataengine)--drag and drop to icon, bring up view.

Eagerly awaiting qt4.5 (supposed to be much faster too!). - Jan 29 2009
System Load Viewer

Plasma 4 Extensions by MJD 45 comments

Change the main CMakeList.txt:
Delete or comment the required plasma libraries line. Now part of kde4.2

In the applet and data_engine folders:
Change the CMakeLists.txt to use in linking:
KDE4_PLASMA_LIBS. - Jan 27 2009
Speaker-Phone Plasma Applet

Telephony by dovidhalevi 3 comments

Fire up the qt4 designer and change it. Show me what you did and maybe I will like it!

Icons are all stock kde-themed icons and are set in the sources using KIcon. Want to roll your own? Again, maybe I'll like them much better! (Sort of ran out of choices here.)

Enjoy the plasmoid and have run making nicer graphics! - Jan 22 2009
Frescobaldi

Audio Apps by wbsoft 75 comments

raceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/frescobaldi", line 42, in <module>
license, copyright, text, homepage, bugs)
TypeError: argument 1 of KAboutData() has an invalid type
- Jan 03 2009
q4wine

System Tools (NOT OS or ROMS) by brezerk 52 comments

OK

Better to have the head directory in the tar, saves a lot of headache (or at least tell folks to create it and then untar to there).

The problem was that it got untarred to the home directory. I had to move/get rid of all that stuff and then start over in the right place. - Dec 29 2008
q4wine

System Tools (NOT OS or ROMS) by brezerk 52 comments

1. Placing things in the poetic symbolic directory "src" not the best idea.
2. src.pro is imcomplete. After running qmake-qt4 -project, I could start to build.
3. Had to hand edit -I/usr/include/qt4/QtSql and -I/usr/include/qt4/QtNetwork into the Makefile.
4. After all this, make is looking for a missing config.h among other things. - Dec 29 2008
Kwave

Music Production by dg6nee 58 comments

For latest and greatest for kde4 0.8, dies with:
inking CXX shared library libkwave.so
CMakeFiles/libkwave.dir/KwavePlugin.o: In function `KwavePlugin::yield()':
/home/david/kwave-0.8.0/libkwave/KwavePlugin.cpp:326: undefined reference to `pthread_testcancel'
CMakeFiles/libkwave.dir/PluginManager.o: In function `PluginManager::sync()':
/home/david/kwave-0.8.0/libkwave/PluginManager.cpp:370: undefined reference to `pthread_yield'
CMakeFiles/libkwave.dir/PluginWorkerThread.o: In function `Kwave::PluginWorkerThread::stop(unsigned int)':
/home/david/kwave-0.8.0/libkwave/PluginWorkerThread.cpp:94: undefined reference to `pthread_kill'
/home/david/kwave-0.8.0/libkwave/PluginWorkerThread.cpp:110: undefined reference to `pthread_kill'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [libkwave/libkwave.so.0.8.0] Error 1
make[1]: *** [libkwave/CMakeFiles/libkwave.dir/all] Error 2
make: *** [all] Error 2
- Oct 03 2008
Extract And Compress KDE4

Dolphin Service Menus by painkiller101 174 comments

If I run as user and then enter the root password, the thing just sits there.

If I run sudo, it cannot get to all that kde3 stuff it is running. Get rid of that--we are using kde4! I made a symlink so it could find kdesu but the folder dialog did not work and there were other error messages.

Meanwhile, I am willing to copy the stuff manually like before. Please give me instructions.

Thanks.
- Jul 31 2008
New sysinfo 1.0

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by key87 19 comments

That is a KDE3.* library. I do have it but I need to set the paths appropriately when I build.

The KDE4.* library is libkdes5-dev

I have this as well and this should have solid available unless that is a separate development package/ - Jul 24 2008
New sysinfo 1.0

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by key87 19 comments

Yep!

I am also Debian (and Ubuntu is Debian based). - Jul 24 2008
New sysinfo 1.0

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements by key87 19 comments

libhd14-dev got me the header.

Build now fails linking sysinfo.so
undefined references to a bunch of Solid stuff. - Jul 23 2008