KDE-CVS-Digest for March 21, 2003

KDE 3.1.1 released, a WYSIWYG mode for Quanta, many bugfixes
in KMail, KWin, Kicker and Konqueror. Read all this and more in the latest issue of KDE-CVS-Digest.

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by Eric Laffoon (not verified)

Troubleshooting 101... if you are experiencing problems other people are not maybe you are mis-diagnosing the cause of the problems. It's not KDE 3.1.1. It's:
1) bad RPMs
2) a permissions problem introduced to $KDEHOME
3) Something odd Red Hat has done

I would not downgrade over this. I'd find the problem. Try a news group, a mailing list or even here. I can tell you that from the information you have given I don't have enough to tell you what the problem is exactly but I'm sure it's pretty obvious if you fish around.

by Anonymous (not verified)

I read that one user had problems solved after installing redhat-menus*.rpm from noarch/ directory.

by sean (not verified)

hi, do you know where to find the redhat-menus-0.38-1.noarch.rpm. it says to install it before upgrading to kde 3.1.1. thanks

by KDE User (not verified)

If you want the genuine KDE, don't use RedHat.
I recommend SuSE, it is really well done.

by not me (not verified)

I think that FTP bug may be one that's been bugging me for a long time. I didn't report it because I didn't have any way of finding out what was causing it or submitting a testcase, but hopefully it will work now. Thanks Thiago!

by Thomas (not verified)

Ha, is the ftp ioslave working again (reliably) ?
That would be wonderful, It did not work for me since a 2.x release (was not so important, most of the time I use sftp anyway...), but it is very good to hear it's working again...

by John Taber (not verified)

Using RH Phoebe beta3 (kde 3.1) or RH8.0 w/ kde 3.1.1 -
I have found several bugs with KWrite 1) when the user logs off, leaving kwrite open, and then logs in again, KWrite is blank, 2)on 3.1.1 KWrite seems to automatically set dynamic word wrap on which causes code to sometimes appear screwy and there doesn't seem any to permanently set the dynamic wrap off 3) the really nice left margin vertical bracket lines that appear in 3.1 are not in 3.1.1. btw I use KWrite as my main text editor and really like the improvements that have been made in it.

Fonts that look okay in Qt Designer - when compiled and run look much different (larger and uglier) - suspect this is a RH problem.

I know some feel that since RH messes with KDE that it should be ignored, but in reality, it is the largest Linux distro in the US and frankly is a pretty nice distro to use so any help anyone can provide is greatly appreciated. thks.

Most of the developer effort right now is focused on Kate I think. I haven't noticed these problems using Kate so maybe switching would solve your problems. Besides, Kate is really nice with its file list, embedded terminal, and split-window features. OTOH, maybe these are RH-related problems, in which case the only people who can help you are RedHat.

It sounds like your problem with word wrap isn't really the bug that turns it on, but the fact that any wrapped lines start at the first column instead of being indented. AFAIK KWrite/Kate would be the first editor to fix this problem if this was fixed. Imagine if KWrite/Kate could automatically and intelligently wrap your long lines for you depending on what you were writing (html, C, Perl, etc). That would be great!

by Hamish Rodda (not verified)

Imagine if your request was just about to be added to CVS :) It's not as intelligent as you might want it, but it's enough.

Just one more bug to squash first...

by Hamish Rodda (not verified)

1) known bug (http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49270) with known fix, just haven't committed it because it involves a change to kparts. It'll be in 3.1.2 I'd say.

2) config -> view defaults -> dynamic word wrapping. BTW as I just posted a nicer indenting is coming for 3.2

3) I don't really understand this one... you mean the folding indicators? F9, and again use the view defaults...

by John Taber (not verified)

Hamish,
thks for the info - I have switched to Kate as suggested and problem #1) restoring the file seems to work fine in Kate(at least in Phoebe) btw As a regular KDE user, i still find the bug reporting process too complicated - mail lists are a pain to subscribe to (and I really don't want to read or delete all that) - bugzilla things are too complicated to subscribe to (not really hard but most of us users aren't interested in taking time to do all this stuff). Newsgroups or websites like this still seem to be the easiest -

by Hamish Rodda (not verified)

That's fine, but the chances of you getting a solution are much less here. If you want to make sure you are heard, unfortunately you have to register for bugzilla.

Alternatively there is a news server (see kde.org website) with feeds from the kde mailing lists, you can click reply via email and read/write to mailing lists that way.