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I was reading the Operation Timelord page, and it said that if you
wanted to help out, contact the team at the development portion of the
contact list. I'm not sure if this is the right e-mail address/mailing
list or not. So, I'm willing to offer up my help in any way that I can.

As for coding, I've got some experience in Java and Visual Basic.NET.
I've also had programming courses in Pascal, FORTRAN, COBOL, and other
obsolete languages.

I have a blog, in which I intend to frequently post about Kubuntu and
Ubuntu. In fact, Kubuntu is my preferred distro.

I tend to use much the Kontact application.But when updating KDE from 4.3 to
4.4 I had a little mistake to open it from the konsole where he says there is
an error in connection with Dbus.I say this explicitly:

(2125)/: Communication problem with "kontact" , it
probably crashed.
Error message was: "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply" : " "Did not receive
a reply.

The reason I think our l10n will always be broken one way or another:

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: yurchor <<...> at gmail dot com>
Date: Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 3:57 PM
Subject: [Bug 529483] [NEW] Wrong parsing of Amarok ui-files by Rosetta scripts
To: kubuntu-<...> at lists dot ubuntu.com

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: amarok

Rosetta scripts screw up Amarok translation.

Well, seems to me that a great part of KDE works fine: Kde-Pim applications don't have many problems. Only Nepomuk is not really good: sometimes strigi (and soprano) gives problems and block the system. It's a rare case but, in effect, if we want to make 10.04 an LTS release it will be safer to disable Nepomuk and Strigi (obiously if the user wants, he can enable them).
The other parts of KDE are good, and I think there are no other problems. Kubuntu is ready for LTS.

Please test candidates for alpha 3

http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/build/kubuntu/all

Jonathan

Salut!

I just uploaded a new version of pkg-kde-tools that got LZMA compression
enabled for dh7 builds [1]. It still obeys the same rules as compression
within all other build types (it seems we compress every package now)...
meaning it does not compress
1) if the build-architecture is armel
2) if the env var DEB_NO_LZMA is set to 1

If a package that uses

%:
dh --with kde $@

fails to build with some weird error related to LZMA and/or dpkg-
deb/dh_builddeb, or if one of the above exceptions does not work, please come
whine to me.

Howdy!

I just noticed that lucid still includes the update-notifier-kde, but at the
same time features it's C++ based replacement kubuntu-notification-helper. So I
am wondering why we still need unk, did just no one bother to remove it yet,
or is there some real usecase that knh does not yet support?

On a related note: earlier today I uploaded a new packagekit version that
enables dist-upgrade and notification capabilities in lucid.

Hi,

During last Kubuntu meeting, it was decided that a method should be
added to kdelibs so that applications could opt out of DBusMenu if it
was causing trouble, for example because of the use of custom widgets in
their tray menu.

We listed Kopete and KNetworkManager as the two problematic applications.

Well... my team was not enthusiastic at this idea, because they were
afraid it would make DBusMenu optional.

Ciao Massimo,
prova ad aprire konsole e digitare "sudo aptitude"
con le freccette spostati sulla voce degli aggiornamenti e premi il tasto +. poi premi g e vedi se chiede ancora la rimozione di quei pacchetti: se si la versione di tali pacchetti dovrebbe essere > 4.4 altrimenti è un bug.

Hi,

I have been working a bit on the Message Indicator (MI) Plasma applet
lately.

I changed its behavior a bit: the applet is no longer disabled when no
MI-enabled application is running. Instead, clicking on it show a
sliding message explaining what it is. Right now the message looks like
this:

http://imagebin.ca/view/X3oUTG5J.html

What do you think about it? (please point out any typo!)

What I dislike is that it links to the Kubuntu wiki.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Michael Hudson
Date: Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 8:55 PM
Subject: Re: Howto correct issues with the kdebase import?
To: Corey O'Connor <<...> at gmail dot com>

As I understand things it's a bug that should be fixed the next time we
roll out Launchpad -- in about a fortnight.

Cheers,
mwh

One thing I miss in Ubuntu (and Kubuntu) is a simple way to backup files and system configuration... Sometimes my system became unstable cause of packages installed, but I don't remember what is the wrong one, so I don't know what package I exactly have to remove. In Windows there's a system configuration backup tool very useful to solve these problems baking up an old configuration. It doesn't really works well, cause Windows miss a package system, but in Ubuntu this works very well, thanks to dpkg. Anyway, using console maybe a little difficult, expecially for beginners.

FYI

Scott K
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Subject: Re: Naming scheme for KDE Configuration Modules
Date: Monday 08 February 2010
From: "Didier 'OdyX' Raboud" <<...> at raboud dot com>
To: pkg-kde-<...> at lists dot alioth.debian.org

Hi all again²,

With the ansers I had here per mail, some answers I got over IRC, I am
proposing to adopt the d) solution as naming convention for KDE
Configuration Modules binary packages:

kde-config-*

Some new packages (kde-config-phonon-xine) already use this and I will
rename some binary packages myself.

Thanks for your collaboration,

Ody

I've seen that we have a lot of patches in our KDE packeages.
Riddell pointed me to a wiki-page [1] in which are listed all those
patches. As he told the list was a little bit out-dated.

I'm writing this email to apply for Kubuntu Developer status.

My wiki page is here:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MichaelCasadevall/KubuntuDevApplication
Michael

I know I am annoying, but could every uploader please use debcomit -R -r to do
a release commit?

It is kind of a PITA to trace a file movement among .install files if the log
does show no indication as to when what version was uplaoded to the archives.

When using -r -R debcommit will try to compose a sensible commit message,
which in case of no changes would be
"releasing 1:1.1.1-0ubuntu1"
but even more importantly it adds a tag to that commit making it more
recognizable.

In bzr qlog this looks like
http://people.ubuntu.com/~apachelogger/screenshots/snapshot001.png which is of
course

Recently my buddy Richard posted a question about the policy to submit bugs
directly to bugs.kde.org and I would like to reopen this discussion as not
the best policy to continue to have.

First off let me lay the groundwork that I understand that running either RC
or Beta versions of KDE can lead to bugs

So now that is out of the way let me lay some examples as to why this is not
the best idea:

1.

Hi Kubuntu Developers, we are a group of Kubuntu Users come from
Ubuntu-it forum and we would like share to you what we would like
see in Lucid. This is a little list of proposals. What do you think about?
Thanks, regards. (kico, gp, Cylon, kekko, TequilaMex, iteand,
Frankie90, superlex, ivanhoe1024, ShaiKailash)

1) Packaging: Some packages in repository has a ton of gnome
dependencies (i.e. gimp and firefox).

Hi everyone,

I talked to the basket devs and they expect to publish a KDE4 release before
our feature freeze. They want us to ship the new version, because basket 1.0.3
is unmaintained now.

Any thoughts on that? We are preparing an LTS release and Basket 2.0 might
lack some features. Personally I think we sould really replace any KDE3
version so that is no point for me.

I prepared a package for it and to prevent doubled work, I write this mail.

Regards
Christian

I've installed kubuntu 9.10
and every time when applications start
akonadi reports the error :(

error log is here:

http://docs.google.com/View?id=ddjxdjfz_42f99cbrhr

and here:

http://docs.google.com/View?id=ddjxdjfz_43gszkkbhc

I asked in kubuntu.user group but seemly nobody can help ...

Thanks in advance for any advice.

I changed the kdm theme that I did with the Quadros wallpaper to use
the new Ethais wallpaper:
http://shtylman.com/stuff/kdm_latest.png

The actual files are here:
http://shtylman.com/stuff/new_kdm_theme.tar.gz

Just run the install.sh, all it does is copy the ethais kdm theme to
the right location. It also copies one of the png's (rectangle.png) to
change the ksplash theme center part. The overall transition from kdm
-> kplash -> desktop is much much nicer that way.

I am proposing that we aim to use this as the default kdm theme
(instead of the current one we have) for lucid.

Hi All,

I'm writing to the list as per asked to at the last Kubuntu meeting, with
regard to +votiAf access for the IRC Council in #kubuntu-devel.

Hey,

I was working on some documentation this evening and I figured I would go
through and document filing bugs in Kubuntu. I went for the old way which
is now using DrKonqi instead of Apport.

https://wiki.kubuntu.org/Kubuntu/Meetings/Minutes/2009-12-22

= Kubuntu Meeting 2009-12-22 =

http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2010/01/21/%23ubuntu-meeting.html

ACTION ITEMS
ScottK: work with tomplast to get usb-modeswitch into main
JonathanRiddell, quintasan: switch qt to ibus

== Does the Kubuntu Council need a mailing list ==

We decided not to have a mailing list, the launchpad page has a
"contact this team" facility

== Speedcrunch vs.

Hey all!

Just a quick reminder that there is a kubuntu meeting in #ubuntu-meeting on
freenode in just over 2 hours. See you all there!

Jussi

Guys (specially Harald),

What is current status of Timelord? I want to help but its hard to
know what i can do.

Im a web programmer (specially drupal), qt programmer and im from
brazil, so i can also work on translations. The point is: what is
needed EXACTLY?

I suggest also to maintain a page on kubuntu.org or wiki.k.o with a
dashboard or similar tool to monitor the current status.

The mplayer videothumbnails in dolphin are very slow at the moment.
I installed kffmpegthumbnailer and after that, the video thumbnails were created
very fast. It would be nice to have kffmpegthumbnailer as default
videothumbnailer in kde as default option. I did not want tot wait minutes to
display thumbnails in folders which have > 20 videos inside.

Cheers
Andreas

Dear Kubuntu developers.

As a new user, having recently installed Kubuntu, I have some criticism of
the Kubuntu installer. These are not problems I need help fixing, but rather
usability issues that I think could be improved in future releases. I hope
you will find the below useful.

1. There is no progress bar when checking the install medium for errors.

2. When choosing where to install, there are only two options: "Use entire
disk" and "manual". Basically, there is a "complete n00b" and "expert"
level, but no intermediate levels.

I noticed Kubuntu Lucid does not have smooth animated progress bars which
I've seen after installing KDE built off the branch in Arch.

Why is this and will it be available/enabled in Lucid final? (Assuming I'm
not doing something wrong...)

I've got nvidia 8800GT with the properietary 195.30 beta drivers on
x86_64...

Is it just me or is the memory usage of Kubuntu 10.04 unreasonable
high? I know that it's still in the alpha stages but it seems a little
too high here. If I disregard Konqueror from the total memory usage
it's still around 750 MiB (stabilised to 720 after 10 mins or so), out
of 2.9GiB according to ksysguard.

I know that KDE may be more for "power users" then GNOME is, but still
something must be wrong if Kubuntu draws almost 3 times the memory
compared to Ubuntu.

I'm installing the daily build for the Kubuntu Netbook (12 January 2010) and the splash screen is showing the Ubuntu logo in the white instead of Kubuntu logo. Don't know if it is known or, why it was doing that but, I thought I would let you guys know.

Dave Wonderly

Scott, netbook should be working now?
------Original Message------
From: Scott Kitterman
Sender: kubuntu-devel-<...> at lists dot ubuntu.com
To: kubuntu-<...> at lists dot ubuntu.com
ReplyTo: Kubuntu Developer Discussion
Subject: KDE SC 4.4 RC 1 Status
Sent: Jan 12, 2010 09:25

Both i386 and amd64 are finally built. Mesa fixed. Upgrading should be no more dangerous than normal for this point in the development cycle.

Scott K

Libc is fixed in lucid and there is a fix in karmic-proposed.

Scott K

OK, the following have been updated:

* libspnav - updated to 0.2.1 - Ready for MIR
* opengtl - updated to 0.9.12 - Ready for MIR
* glew - merged with Debian - crimsum updating to 1.5.2 - Ready for MIR
* pstoedit - needs updating - 3.50 available - Not ready for MIR
* getfem++ - requested a sync with Debian - Ready for MIR

Tomorrow I plan on finishing up pstoedit updates and then I will file the
MIRs for these packages. Hopefully getting them approved will be quick and
painless, but I haven't had that happen on an MIR yet.

Hi,

is anyone taking care of Kubuntu Marketing at the moment? jwisser/logipunk who
should coordinate this (information from apachelogger) told me that he is not
doing this anymore.
Right now we want to build some presentation etc. for our (kubuntu-de.org)
booths. The english ones should be usable for every kubuntu-loco. Is anyone
intrested to help us with this? Is there anyone coordinating the whole
marketing thing?

Best regards
Marcus / mcas

Hey everyone!

First off, great job on all of your hard work for what is adding up to be
an amazing release cycle. We have began a little work on the timelord
project and that has started a bit of buzz. It would be nice if we could
find some time in the next week or so to work out the kinks in the project
and get it rolling 110%. I know there has been some buzz from people on the
Internet who would like to get involved with Project Timelord, but they are
saying it is just vaporware at this time. Lets change that!

On to packaging.

Currently mesa in Lucid is broken and so no packages that build-depend on it
can be built. As a result, Lucid is currently a mix of 4.3.85 (Beta 2) and
4.3.90 (RC 1) packages. Getting mesa fixed will not be just a matter of a few
minutes (hopefully today).

My recommendation is don't update any Lucid systems now. It's unlikely we
will see 4.4 RC1 fully built until at least Sunday and possibly Monday even on
the fast architectures.

Scott K

A couple of days ago I took Kubuntu (Lucid Lynx) out for a spin and played
around with the preinstalled software. There I found that when you right
click on a process in ksysguard you have this rather fuzzy option called
"Renice process".

You are no doubt correct. I'm not a regular aptitude user.

Fixed. Thanks,

Scott K

Hi all,
Just FYI. There is a new benchmark at phoronix here:
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=sabayon_51_benchmarks...
It's Sabayon against Kubuntu, quite interesting.

Cheers,
Yiannis

Don't know if this list has any experience with running Ubuntu One on KDE SC
4.4 Beta 2 (using the PPA) but I am unable to add my computer to Ubuntu One
and get it to sync files correctly. My netbook running 9.10 is working
correctly and I blogged about it here:
http://jjesse.wordpress.com/2009/10/26/installing-ubuntu-one-on-kubuntu-....
Following the same steps on my laptop I cannot get it to authorize.

Should I file this instead as a question on LP for the Ubuntu ONe team?

Sorry to hear of your medical troubles. I think you should start
contributing again when you feel ready with packaging or merging or
whatever interests and we can vote on membership as we would with any
new member after a couple of months.

Jonathan

Hiho,

I'm running 9.10 with 4.4b2 packages from the kubuntu-ppa/beta ppa. I
have my machine set up to not login automatically, but kdm still
displays ksplashx before showing the greeter. So I had a look at
/etc/kde4/kdm/Xsetup, which looks like the following after removing
comments;

if ! grep -q ^AutoLoginEnable=true /etc/kde4/kdm/kdmrc; then
ksplashx Default &
fi

The logic there translates to "if autologin is disabled, display
ksplashx". (^ doesn't negate)

Shouldn't it be the other way around? To make it only display ksplashx
if autologin is enabled?

Zorael

Application that crashed:
Version of the application: 1.0
KDE Version: 4.3.2 (KDE 4.3.2)
Qt Version: 4.5.2
Operating System: Linux 2.6.31-17-generic x86_64
Distribution: Ubuntu 9.10

What I was doing when the application crashed:

-- Backtrace:
Application: Apport KDE (), signal: Segmentation fault
[KCrash Handler]
#5 0x00007ff7b66fb1d0 in ~QX11WindowSurface (this=0x2a35520, __in_chrg=) at painting/qwindowsurface_x11.cpp:84
#6 0x00007ff7b66f4988 in ~QWidgetBackingStore (this=0x29f2fd0,

hello,

I have registred to the list now, hope that's work yet :P

Best Regards

john

https://answers.launchpad.net/launchpad/+question/95559
https://launchpad.net/~vorian
https://launchpad.net/~steve.stalcup

per:
Hey Steve!

I am writing you because I really think you deserve a chance to get yourself
out without being shut down in all of the FLOSS world.

As you might have heared, your most recent blog post caused quite the bad
reactions.

Hi to all,

My name is César Muñoz, i use Linux from almost five years ago, and
kubuntu since almost six month's.
I would like to help, for make kubuntu a better distro for KDE users.

I will apreciate yours guidance.

Hello people,

You might or might not have noticed my post on planet KDE about Shaman (
drfav.wordpress.com/2009/12/01/introducing-shaman-a-new-universal-package-
management-frontend/ ). I have come to the point where the backend API is
enough stable to be developed on, and extensive enough to let people do fancy
stuff with it.

Shaman supports PackageKit natively, but since PackageKit lacks support for
*erm*DebConf*erm* I was wondering if there was any interest and manpower to
write up an apt backend (some also suggested to use aptdaemon).