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00:00.15bones_create it .. :-)
00:00.20pabs_hehe ok ;)
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00:02.20Dhraakellianokay, I was thinking that maybe I had killed off some stuf that I shouldn't have killed
00:02.25Dhraakellianbut no
00:03.42pabs_I'm restarting
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00:06.34pabs_it worked!!
00:06.48Dhraakellianwoowhom
00:06.51bones_good!
00:06.58Dhraakelliannow i need to figure out what my problem is
00:06.59pabs_and why did it happend!!?
00:07.15bones_if you use kde you might want to try kdm as a display manager (from the kde project)
00:07.16pabs_thenk you very much bones_ !
00:07.18DhraakellianI know that the sftp kioslave works
00:07.36bones_dont know why.. did you rename $HOME/.kde ?
00:07.49pabs_no
00:08.00bones_;-) so must be the display manager
00:08.19pabs_maybe doing apt-get remove xdm meshed up the whole thing
00:09.01pabs_i'm going to try with kdm
00:11.44FF/stockholm
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00:12.47pabs_kdm works too
00:13.17pabs_does kdm have sessionChooser themes like gdm?
00:13.43bones_good. you can configure kdm from the kde control-center. good luck, I am off now..
00:14.00pabs_ok! thanks
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00:22.34Zodianyone know of any regression testing tools, profilers, bounds checkers etc..
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00:25.32aseigoZodi: valgrind
00:25.32aseigoZodi: has some nice kde frontends, too, like kcachegrind
00:25.32aseigoZodi: very slick stuff
00:25.32aseigoZodi: don't even have to recompile to use it =)
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00:27.48Zodiawesome thats perfect
00:28.38Zodii was hoping i wouldnt have to compile anything speaking of which though if i wanted to write a kde or qt app, how does one write that so that it doesnt require those libs on the end user box
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00:29.27Servo888afternoon all
00:29.41Servo888is there any way to 'hide' or remove the kde trash can from the desktop?...
00:31.17marcusUYou can always delete ~/Desktop/Trash, I think, but you won't have that functionality anymore.
00:31.44Servo888can I mv -r Trash to /home/user/ ?
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00:36.39marcusUI think that KDE expects the trash to be in a particular place.
00:36.44grepperServo888: as I said, you need to do it in kcontrol
00:37.01greppersystem admin->paths
00:37.08grepperchange the Trash path
00:37.11Servo888grepper: yup - thanks a bunch. I put it into my home dir and it works =-)
00:37.18grepperok, np
00:37.19Servo888and changed the path
00:37.34Zodiwhy would u want the trash can off your desktop ?
00:37.44Servo888Zodi: to keep it CLEAN
00:37.49Servo888no icons
00:37.57Dhraakellianif you use gkrellm, hide it behind it
00:38.00Dhraakellianthat's what I do
00:38.03Servo888lol
00:38.07Servo888that's not a bad idea
00:38.10Zodilol clean
00:38.21Zodii keep stuff on my desktop i dont think its dirty as long as its organized
00:38.27Servo888true
00:38.36Zodi:)
00:38.38grepperI sweep it under the windows
00:39.49Servo888but I have a problem of making a mess on my desktop -- such as if I have some sort of project I'm working on - in matter of hours I can fill up my entire desktop with icons / files / links / etc. So now I'm keeping everything organized by cleaning my desktop and using a folder called 'workspace' where I know all my files are that I'm working with
00:40.27Dhraakellianrenamed it to .Trash
00:40.56aseigoServo888: yeah... desktop icons are the devil
00:40.56Servo888yah but I like having the Trash icon so I can right click and say empty
00:41.02aseigoServo888: i turn them off completely myself
00:41.13Servo888=-)
00:41.20Zodihmm hey all when your all developing what are the languages, api, etc... of choice ?
00:41.30Servo888Zodi: C :-)
00:41.48Servo888But life isn't fair so J2EE always creeps up the corner.
00:41.48aseigoyou can't see them with windows on top, it isn't good for multiple types if icons (no way of visually organizing them that is effective, partly the fault of kdesktop partly just the fault of hte idea in general ;)
00:41.50Zodiif u try to sell a kde/qt app u need some sort of license right ?
00:41.59aseigoZodi: close source, yes.. sell, no...
00:42.04Zodioh
00:42.16aseigoZodi: if it's an Open Source license you don't need a license
00:42.17Zodiyeah part of what i want to do i want to use qt but it is closed source
00:42.19Servo888Zodi: you can't sell gpl software =\
00:42.31aseigoServo888: er... people do it all the time?
00:42.31Zodiso what are my options :P
00:43.26Dhraakellianyou can charge for the box in which it comes
00:43.28Servo888Dhraakellian: lol! Welcome to the real world - My AP science class from a few years ago used C++ - then they switched to JAVA. But I was able to take both of the class in two semesters =-)
00:43.37Dhraakellianand you can charge for services relating to the project
00:43.47aseigoZodi: Qt is worth the price. but if that isn't possible....
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00:44.06Servo888aseigo: I don't think people do it all the time... Well there is Winex by transgaming
00:44.08aseigoZodi: try wxWindows..
00:44.12Zodiwell it doesnt seem possible, at work their a little picky on what we can use
00:44.24aseigoServo888: what do you think a linux distribution is? sale of GPL software..
00:44.28Zodione main app was using Tcl/TK and i re-wrote in FLTK
00:44.42aseigoServo888: and saying "you can't" isn't true. it's just less obvious how to go about it than closed source, but you most deffnitely can
00:44.58Zodiwhich isnt great but works for now, but i'd like to link in qt so that i could perhaps make a single binary that runs on the current major distros
00:45.43Zodii figured qt/kde should be easier to deal with than tcl or fltk i'm hoping
00:46.18aseigoit is. a lot more so
00:46.31Dhraakellianhow does gtk2 compare to the other two?
00:46.40marcusUEw. The G word.
00:46.49Zodibut at the same time i dont think we're into aquire any licenses so they might scoff at me suggesting qt not sure yet
00:47.08aseigoDhraakellian: it's better than motif, probably even better than MFC in a lot of ways..
00:47.10Zodii looked into gtk mostly with python
00:47.11Servo888aseigo: Yes you are right - hmm...
00:47.13aseigoDhraakellian: it's still ugly though
00:47.15aseigowell, IMHO..
00:47.30Zodii was able to pretty up the fltk a bit :P
00:47.34aseigoi like my underscore key, and i like writing 25-40% less code due to the OO design (or lack thereof)
00:47.37DhraakellianmarcusU: GNU! GNU!
00:47.47Zodilooks plastic'ish
00:47.52Zodimac plasticish
00:47.57aseigoplatinum =)
00:48.07Zodinah more like shiny lego toys
00:48.08Dhraakellian("Are you saying "gnu" to that old woman?" "man!")
00:48.19Dhraakellian(to mix up monty python quotes)
00:48.31aseigooooh.. food hath arrived. bbl
00:48.51aseigoZodi: heh.. that's the "official" name of the old mac platicky style... platinum.
00:49.03Zodioh haha
00:49.17Zodii find the callbacks in fltk are tricky
00:49.40Dhraakellianiirc, platinum was more like KDE2 default than plastik
00:49.51Zodilike i call a routine to allow me to process other events while i'm in a loop, i can click all the other buttons so it works
00:49.58Zodibut if i try to access a menu
00:50.00Zodibam crash
00:50.34Zodilike some widgets are aware and some arent near aware enough
00:50.39aseigoZodi: yeah, the pseudo-async, loose-coupling of signal/slots are awesome
00:50.50aseigo(compared to most other mechanisms)
00:51.12Zodiyeah i skimmed over the signals and slots and it looked awesome, i'm just wondering how i convince them
00:51.15aseigo(including Java's interfaces, fltk's events, wxWindow's event handling...)
00:51.19Zodisince our code is not gpl
00:51.44aseigoZodi: "by using Qt we will not only get enterprise level support and platform neutrality, but it'll make our coding much faster. and look at the documentation!"
00:51.51aseigoZodi: time is money, and Qt helps save you that.
00:52.14Dhraakellianand if you want to convince your company to make its code OSS instead...
00:52.20Dhraakellianor not
00:52.24Zodiso what does it cost for me to use QT in a commerical app
00:52.41aseigoZodi: it's a developer license.. like MS Visual Studio...
00:52.49aseigoZodi: there are no royalties, or per-product costs
00:53.07aseigoZodi: the pricing depends on volume and # of platforms you target (which you can change over time =)
00:53.13Zodioh so if i get the license my self , then i can do it whenever i want for any company then yes ?
00:53.14aseigoZodi: and the pricing is on the TT website...
00:53.19aseigoZodi: exaclty.
00:53.23Zodisweet
00:53.36Zodihow about this
00:53.36aseigoZodi: and when you take into consideration what it costs to pay you, the license pays pretty quickly in time saved ;-)
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00:54.04aseigoZodi: a lot of companies here in calgary are using Qt due to exactly that. primarily oil 'n gas and geophys, since those are the big industries here
00:54.15Zodilets say i was writing a QT app that hmm well its kinda a player application , but its making calls to a .so file which contains our propertery code
00:54.24Zodiwould i need a QT license in that case
00:54.53codeusSo no [adblocking|way to remove status bar] in Konqueror?
00:55.08marcusUcodeus: What kind of ad blocking?
00:56.14Dhraakelliannot like the adblock extension for Firefox, probably
00:57.02codeusLike banner ads
00:58.03codeusI know, I don't like that adblock extension anyways, having the userchrome.css where I have CSS that I want blocked is much better
00:59.44Zodianyone answer that QT license question i had
01:00.27aseigoZodi: yes
01:00.52Zodiso the app wouldnt have the non-gpl code in it but it would access a lib that does
01:01.01aseigoZodi: linking to a proprietary .so is considered linkage and derivative, esp if w/out that lib it is useless =)
01:01.09Zodidrat
01:01.10Zodilol
01:01.26Zodiis there any difference making a qt vs a kde app
01:01.40illogic-alkde apps are prettier :-)
01:02.09Zodiworks for me
01:03.34aseigoDhraakellian: gnome-files or gnome-apps versus kde-apps?
01:04.38Dhraakellianwell, for instance, xchat uses GTK, but it doesn't use any gnome libraries
01:05.12aseigoah.. pure Qt versus pure Gtk+?
01:05.31DhraakellianI can think of make xconfig and qtparted
01:05.34Dhraakellianand that's about it
01:05.40aseigoprobably more pure Gtk+ as there is not nearly the incentive to use GNOME libs for Gtk+ apps as there is for Qt apps to use KDE =)
01:05.45aseigoDhraakellian: scribus...
01:05.49aseigoDhraakellian: there are quite a number of htem
01:06.07marcusUBut plain GTK+ does not have nearly as much functionality as plain Qt.
01:06.18marcusUQt is equivalent to GTK+ plus a bunch of add-ons.
01:06.35illogic-aland easier to understand
01:06.39Dhraakellianheh
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01:10.30turdfergussonhi guys.. got a question :S.. i just deleted my "Desktop" from /home/turd and now my "Trash" and "Home" icon's amongst everything else I had linked to the desktop are gone :S anyway of undo'ing that? heh
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01:29.43GilHi all.. in KMail, is it possible to save a new contact in a LDAP repository when you right-click on an e-mail address and say "Add contact to address book"?
01:30.42codeusWow, Kopete keeps constantly crashing.
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01:41.48NeoSadisthelp!  i lost the close/minimize/maximize icons from the top right of all my programs
01:42.12codeusThen just put them back on there...
01:42.22aseigoNeoSadist: go into kcontrol, window decos, window buttons
01:42.43codeusYeah, but more importantly, whenever I try to get rid of the formatting toolbar in Kopete, it comes right back when I close and reopen the window
01:42.51NeoSadistdur, nevermind, i found how to get them back
01:42.57NeoSadistyou're right, thanks
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01:54.18codeusIs there a way to DISABLE KWallet
01:55.12annmayes
01:55.16annmain KControl
01:55.21aseigocodeus: on it's config page, look at the first checkbox ;-)
01:56.13codeusAhh, there, thanks.
01:56.16codeusI had no use for it :)
01:56.54booradleyhi there. I'm trying to figure out why the kicker panel's not showing new apps when I open them & removing them when I close them
01:57.52booradleyI just upgraded kde to 3.3 & x to x11r6.8, and the panel doesn't show anything unless I restart it at the konsole
01:59.32annmahmmm
01:59.47codeusI'm trying to figure out why it is that if I gtet rid of the formatting toolbar in Kopete, it comes right back when  a new window opens
01:59.52annmadid you upgrade to xorg prior upgrading kde?
02:00.14booradleyno, the other way around, annma. kde 3.3, then xorg
02:00.30annmabooradley: might not be the most logical
02:00.33booradleyI messed around a bit & found root was unaffected, as are new user accounts
02:00.45annmaas kde is on top of x
02:00.53annmaahh
02:00.56booradleyit certainly was :-) xorg was not out when I did the kde upgrade
02:00.58annmaso just your user?
02:01.18aseigobooradley: i've seen those on certain vendor's builds of 3.3...
02:01.21booradleymy heavily modified, customized user account that I've lavished hours on :-)
02:01.37booradleyI run suse 9.1, patched regularly.
02:01.38annmathen try renaming kickerrc  to kickerc.old
02:01.46aseigobooradley: the taskbar, pager and system tray don't seem to pick up window manager events, right?
02:01.49booradleyhave done.
02:01.50aseigobooradley: ah.. SUSE.. yep...
02:01.54aseigobooradley: that's a bug.
02:01.56booradleyaseigo : yes, that is correct.
02:02.03aseigobooradley: a bloody annoying one =/
02:02.15annmabut why only his account?
02:02.21booradleyI can backup & remove all under .kde & everything gets regenerated w/o issue, too.
02:02.32Dhraakelliancodeus: yeah, it's annoying
02:02.35booradleybut removing only kickerrc does nothing.
02:02.38DhraakellianI believe it's a known issue
02:02.40annmahmmm
02:02.42aseigoannma: i haven't traced it down yet...
02:03.05booradleyI am more than eager to assist, aseigo ;-)
02:03.08aseigobooradley: no, i don't think it has anything to do with kicker. it seems to be a netwm and/or dcop issue with the window manager and/or glue bits on the desktop
02:03.20annmabooradley: the best is to set a new account and import your most important setting files
02:03.25Dhraakellianeven with Kopete 0.9's quirks, I still don't want to switch back to gaim
02:03.28booradleywhat's really odd is that alt-tab shows all ok
02:03.30aseigobooradley: so if you move all your ~/.kde the problem goes away?
02:03.30annmaone after another
02:03.39booradleyaseigo : correct.
02:03.43aseigobooradley: yeah, that's because the window manager knows which windows ar ethere ;-)
02:04.09aseigobooradley: well, try moving just the kwinrc file .. ~/.kde/share/apps/kwinrc ... and the kdeglobals too, perhaps
02:04.30booradleyand then restart kde, right?
02:04.55aseigobooradley: try clearing out the ~/.kde/cache-* ~/.kde/socket-* and ~/.kde/tmp dirs
02:05.08booradleyok
02:05.08aseigobooradley: restart kde is probably the safest way...
02:05.15booradleyalready did /tmp & /var/tmp
02:05.32aseigothere is a tmp dir in ~/.kde/ as well
02:05.49aseigo(and of course, keep the files around so we can look at them later if they are the problem)
02:06.38booradleyok
02:06.43booradleystand by
02:07.55booradleyam doing this across vnc, not too speedy
02:08.07aseigobooradley: thanks for doing this. i really appreciate it.
02:08.37booradleyha! you and me both :-)
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02:11.28booradleydo you want me to save ~/.kde/tmp ?
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02:16.46booradleypanic
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02:18.37booradleyI'll have to continue this when I'm at home aseigo, I can't log in remotely
02:18.46aseigobooradley: cool
02:18.58booradleydo you have a url for this bug?
02:19.03aseigobooradley: if i'm not around and you wittle it down to the issue, email me? aseigo at kde dot org
02:19.09aseigobooradley: and no, i don't have a url for the bug
02:19.18aseigobooradley: i haven't searched b.k.o for it yet
02:20.07booradleywill do, thanks for the suggestions.
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02:40.38t-jackAnyone else having trouble with kicker locking up on them, and random launchings of konsole?
02:42.16codeusI'm trying to figure out why it is that if I gtet rid of the formatting toolbar in Kopete, it comes right back when  a new window opens
02:43.57Dhraakelliancodeus: it's a bug
02:44.38codeus:(
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