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I couldn't get any joy from the 2009.0 version of digikam, every album showed as empty and I couldn't see any of my photos! Arg! It listed the folders but doesn't show any of the images. So I assumed this was a KDE 4 thing, and looked for a KDE3 version, couldn't find one, so (eventually) managed to install the 2008.1 version of digikam manually. And this worked fine last week (with a proper 2008.1 system). But now even with digikam 0.9.3, all my photos are missing! Obviously this makes it completely unusable! If I start it from the console, I get messages like these (one per jpg): digikam: kio (Slave): createSlave 'digikamthumbnail' for digikamthumbnail:/home/neddie/photos/blahblahblah.jpg digikam: ERROR: : couldn't create slave : Unable to create io-slave: klauncher said: Unknown protocol 'digikamthumbnail'. I assume this is a simple problem with a simple fix, and something to do with the proper directories for KDE 3 stuff? Has anyone got digikam working on KDE 3?

Seems strange - I would have thought that many people would find such a command useful, something like urpmi --showlog or something. :unsure:

Interesting, I hadn't noticed this yet (I only got 3.0.0 the other day). But I noticed that when I open my old spreadsheets which were written with ";" in the formulae, they still work and are now shown using ",". There do appear to still be bugs with this (at least with the 3.0.0 included with Mandriva 2009.0), but it seems I don't need to change all my old spreadsheets. Sorry I don't know if this is configurable.

Whoops, yes there is - it's in the "kdebase-kate" package rather than the "kate" package. The KDE4 version doesn't work too well but this one works great!

Well, not quite true! The packages are needed, and are being used, they just haven't been explicitly installed. I agree with CarlJF, the message does imply that the command should be run, and there are lots of valid cases where it definitely shouldn't. Maybe the wording of the advice should be more cautious.

I guess it depends whether you know how wide the columns are. Are they fixed width, or variable width? If they're fixed, you can just cut them with the substring function, or use the READ command. If not then you'll either need to use regular expressions or a more basic search function...

On a similar note, does anyone know how to stop Firefox (3.0.10) making annoying "brring brring" noises whenever you download something?

I can confirm that. I installed task-kde3 and it pulled in a boatload of packages. Then I removed kdetoys, which required removing task-kde3 because it depended on it. So now all the other boatload of packages were considered "orphans". I didn't run the command which it suggested though :)

I guess it's just broken. Also I was unable to install pdftk and a couple of other things with 2009.1. Now I've installed 2009.0 and eclipse is installed and running, as is pdftk. (Interesting to see that this 2009.0 version says "Fedora Eclipse" all over it instead of "Eclipse"!)

Likewise - it's installed now and running nicely, playing movies and haven't seen any funny video crashes (yet)...

Not worthy! Thanks, Greg! You're 100% correct on both counts, yes I'm just tweaking my 2009.0 right now, going rather nicely, but the same trick is necessary to get it to work on 2009.0 too! Nice job, packagers! After setting up the symlink I can now choose it from the list! Perfect! (How on Earth do you know this stuff???)

Also it's worth noting, that even if you do a "clean" KDE 3 install like this, you'll still get KDE 4 packages installed as dependencies when you install programs like digikam, k3b etc. Might be obvious to many but somehow I imagined this would give you a purely KDE3-based system. I guess I expected there to be a KDE3 version of kate, for example, but there isn't.

Thanks, Greg. Good to know I'm not alone :) But fiddling with XFdrake doesn't help me, unfortunately. Looks like my problems are much more minor than some others', but still, I'm downloading 2009.0 as we speak...

Well, I tried it with a new user and got a whole load of other problems (video-related, flashing screen, various strangeness) but indeed you're both right, Firefox looks fine. So I tried "find .kde -name "*gtk*"" from my user and deleted those three files, now it looks fine again! Thanks both!

Hmm, maybe I should have done some more searching before I installed... Here's some more detailed information on the intel driver problem: http://www.h-online.com/open/Ubuntu-9-04-a...features/113196 Maybe I should try out a 2009.0 live CD...

I could understand some new intel drivers sucking, until they're fixed, but why should the old ones, which worked fine, suddenly start sucking? Seems odd, unless they've changed them to accommodate the new ones as well as the old ones, and the changes affect the old ones? Now I'm just wildly guessing :)And yes, the sound seems to work fine otherwise, even from mplayer if I use it to play an ogg file for example. I've already disabled pulseaudio.

2009 Spring again, using KDE3, and Firefox looks awful - really clunky toolbars and buttons. Under gnome it looks fiine. Is there a way I can configure the gtk stuff under KDE3? Previously I used gtk-qt-engine but that doesn't seem to work any more...

I've tried installing VLC, that also behaves the same way - so I don't think it's an application error or a codecs problem, but rather a display driver. It also does the same under gnome so it's probably not a KDE thing either. I've tried changing the settings in XFdrake, but I'm using the bundled intel drivers as I was before. Maybe the package has got an unwanted regression? I'm considering reinstalling 2008.1 at this rate... :unsure:

I reinstalled the smoothslidesaver rpm with 2009 Spring, but when I try to choose my screensaver it doesn't appear in the list. I'm sure it all worked brainlessly last time I installed it! And according to the package name it's exactly the same rpm too. How can I get it back? Could this be a KDE3 problem?

Since I installed 2009.1, I can't seem to play any videos which previously played fine. Whether I play with mplayer or by double-clicking to launch "Movie player", either the application dies, or more likely X dies and brings me back to the login. This happens even for a simple avi from my camera. I'm running KDE3 without 3d compiz effects. Any clues?

I recently installed 2009 Spring, and naturally tried to add eclipse to it - but it says it can't install eclipse because it depends on packages older than the installed ones. Is there some kind of trick, or is it a package-mismatch in the repositories?

rpm -qa (It's a long list, you might want to pipe it to a file). I'm not sure what you want to automate?

I had no idea you could do checkboxes in rtf documents, I thought it was limited to simple text formatting like font size and bold and stuff. But a few seconds of searching ("rtf checkbox") brought up the idea that it might be relying on the wingdings font, which I'm guessing OpenOffice can't find. That might be a clue.

I've got a Philips webcam, and if I test it with mplayer, with cheese, or with the Skype internal test function, everything works fine. But when I try to use it with Skype for two-way video calls, Skype just dies immediately. After some searching, it appears to have something to do with xv ports. When I'm just running Skype's test function, it says "Skype Xv: Xv ports available: 1" and it works. When I'm already receiving video and then try to activate mine, it says "Skype Xv: Xv ports available: 0" and then "Aborted". So it seems that I've only got one Xv port (whatever that is) and it's being used up by my incoming video. So when I try to send my video, there isn't a free one available and Skype throws a fit. Is there any way round this? Can I increase the number of Xv ports somehow or is that a hardware limitation (I've got Intel on-board video 855-something)? Can I use something else apart from Xv ports? Is there a way to disable my video preview so that I only need one Xv port? Are there any other hacks I could try? I'm using version 2.0.0.72 from skype.com which is apparently the latest.

After a bit of playing with image2mpeg, I'm coming to the conclusion it's a problem with dvd-slideshow, not with the MPEG encoding. With image2mpeg I get nice smooth zooms and fades, much better than with dvd-slideshow. The only snag is I can't work out how to do the pan bit (I can only get it to zoom in or out of the centre). Any clues? Oh, and it also takes an unfeasibly long time to produce even the shortest of movies, but if it gets the right result I won't grumble. There's also an outstanding bug on the dvd-slideshow bug-tracker about jerky pans, and it's still open. My guess is some dodgy number-rounding at the wrong part of the calculation.