doutor.zero

Just one small update: I have found two bugs about this issue, please vote/comment there, if you have the same problem. http://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=24995 http://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=20480 Thanks.

Ele é brasileiro, ou sua mulher? Português é uma idioma meio chato, mas acho você está escrevendo bem, de forma clara. Em alguns fóruns aqui no Brasil é impossível entender o que muitos brasileiros escrevem. :) With my poor english it's quite hard to do a IRC chat. Maybe I will report this as a bug. Bye.

Não se preocupe com seu português. ;) After some research with Google, I discovered a post in a Ubuntu forum where they discuss something similar to this. There I found a link to a KDE bug about floppy mounting issues, said to be fixed, even if people still voting on it. In a comment, one developer says that bug is closed so the problem may be with the distro HAL scripts. I remember reading one topic about this in the Mandriva Club forum, but they simple ignore the issue (like, until now, they did with my topic there). This is really frustrating... I hoped that this time Mandriva had learn from 2006 problems, bug again I will have to wait months until they fixed all 2007 problems (most XGL related). Thanks.

Hi again, and sorry for my english, After a fresh Mandriva 2007 Powerpack install, i discovered that there is no floppy icon inside the Devices window (media:/). The floppy is mounted in /mnt/floppy, but for some reason the media kioslave don't recognize it (in media:/fd0), so no icon is displayed. For me this is not a problem, because I can create a shortcut but, for my parents/brothers, is nice they have a icon in a place where they can find without asking me, like it was in Mandriva 2006. So, do you have the same problem? Is there any way to make the kioslave mount and display the floppy? I had read that KDE 3.5.x reads the devices directly, not from fstab, so maybe Mandriva forgot to update some configuration file (or maybe this is a bug in KDE). What do you think? Thanks in advance.

Yeah, it works! And it was pretty good and easy because after download the src.rpm file I install it and urpmi warn me about the dependencies and download them. After that the only thing I did was create the binary rpm package with 'rpm -bb --clean --rmsource k3b.spec'. Now the only thing left is burn some CD/DVD to test it. Thanks, doutor.zero

Thanks for your reply. I'm already use MandrivaClub NL as my main repositorie but they appear to stop building packages for Mandriva 2005 (one exception is Azureus 2.3.0.6). The latest K3b version there is 0.12.4 so there is no other way besides compiling myself. I get the source from K3b site but there is tons of dependencies so I decide to get the src.rpm from cooker and try it. I think doing this can work because using the .spec file will solve the dependencies problem and generate the rpm file. I'm only afraid that the src package in cooker don't work in 2005 (because it was created for version 2006)... Thanks, doutor.zero

Hi, I'm using Mandriva 2005 LE and now that version 2006 is out is difficult to find some updated packages, like K3b 0.12.8. So I'm thinking of getting a src rpm from cooker and compile it in Mandriva 2005 LE. But i'm a newbie so I never did it... It's safe, how can I do it and it will work or there is the danger of break something? Thanks in advance and sorry for my english, doutor.zero [moved from Software by spinynorman]

The best solution is convert with the amaroK script (there is a new version at KDE-Apps.org) and after the conversion, use a tag editor, like EasyTag, to do a automatic renaming in all the files at once (EasyTag allows you to get the tags from CBBD and rename all the files from the tags). Bye, doutor.zero

With your previous builds (3.4.0 and 3.4.1) I had two problems and I want to know if they are solved in this new build: First double menu entries at any Konqueror window (two Favorites and Help entries), and double icons in Konqueror toolbar and aplications toolbars, like K3b. Second with MDKKDM, after updating I can't shutdown or reboot from KDE, and if I try KDE goes back to MDKKDM and from there I can shutdown/reboot, understand? This is not a problem exclusive of your builds, because happens with Cooker builds also. I know there are few people that use still use MDKKDM, and i don't have any problem using KDM ou GDM but, in my particular case, my parents are happy with the MDKKDM icon click behaviour, because is simple and work very well for them. Using KDM is not so good because it don't have a user list with themes and using GDM makes KDE have the same MDKKDM problem with reboot/shutdown. So i'm asking you a favor, please can you to take a look at MDKKDM and see if there is a way to make it work with KDE 3.4.x, right? Thanks, doutor.zero

1- Open Thunderbird links in Firefox: Open the console, log as root: vi /usr/lib/thunderbird/defaults/pref/all-thunderbird.js Add this lines at the end of the file: // Open Thunderbird links in Firefox pref("network.protocol-handler.app.http", "/usr/lib/firefox/firefox"); pref("network.protocol-handler.app.https", "/usr/lib/firefox/firefox"); pref("network.protocol-handler.app.ftp", "/usr/lib/firefox/firefox"); 2 - Open Thunderbird after clicking in a 'mailto:' link in Firefox Open the console, log as root: vi /usr/lib/firefox/defaults/pref/firefox.js Add this lines at the end of the file: // Open 'mailto:' links in Thunderbird pref("network.protocol-handler.app.mailto", "/usr/lib/thunderbird/thunderbird"); Atention: replace the paths for the location of FF/TB in your system doutor.zero

As you can see in the message, you have to install 'libmusizbrainz'... Go to the amarok site and download all the needed libraries: libmusicbrainz4-2.1.1-3mdk.i586.rpm libtaglib0-1.3.1-1.101mdk.i586.rpm libtunepimp2-0.3.0-1mdk.i586.rpm libvisual0-0.2.0-2mdk.i586.rpm libvisual0-devel-0.2.0-2mdk.i586.rpm taglib-1.3.1-1.101mdk.i586.rpm doutor.zero

Sorry AussieJohn, I don't want to be rude, but sometimes my english don't allow me to express very well :sad: I know what you are saying and yeah your are right but you are not 100% correct: first because looking at your screenshots (and testing myseilf) you can see that only the icons below 'Actions' are with a bigger size. And second, using double icons is worst than doing that first trick because the icons are now distorted (in my case with the crystalsvg iconset). So let's me try to explain: some distros like Suse for example have the entire KMenu with larger icons (look at the screenshot below) and you can set the size changing the MenuEntryHeight= in kickerrc file... But Mandriva's KDE, for some reason, don't recognize this setting (and don't even permit that you change some icons settings, like panel or small icons size). http://shots.osdir.com/slideshows/slidesho...ase=251&slide=2 So I repeat, there is no way, as far as I know (and I have searched a lot) to change this in Mandriva right? Thanks again and sorry, once more, for my poor english. doutor.zero

Aioshin don't lose your time trying this because I think that friend Aussie John don't understand what we are discussing... There is no way with Mandriva to make the K Menus icons larger besides doing the tip that yochenhsieh post (editing the .theme file). But even this trick is not perfect, and no the same that adding MenuEntryHeight= in other distros like Suse. Thanks, doutor.zero

Ok, but I don't want the panels icons larger, only the K Menu icons, and this tip was almost there :sad: But this is better than nothing because now the icons are a little bigger and easier to read. Thanks for everyone, doutor.zero

After some testing I found there is one small problem with this tip: the icons below Actions are in the right size (22 ou 32) but the icons above are with a small size (larger than 16 but smaller than 22) and the icons of the of the most used applications remains with the default 16 size. Thanks, doutor zero

Man thanks a lot, you are a genious! Bye, doutor.zero

Thanks for your reply. I tryed this but nothing happens... After searching with Google I find that you have to set the kickerrc file and add this line: MenuEntryHeight=32 But for some reason the Mandriva KDE don't recognize this so I think there is no way to make the icons larger... Thanks, doutor zero

I cant' find a way to make the K Menu icons larger, like in other distros (Suse for example)? There is any way to do that? Because in KDE Control Center, Icons, Panel the icon size button is grayed out! I don't understand why the icons are so small in Mandriva because the K Menu with larger icons is a lot more pleasant to use. Thanks, doutor.zero [moved from Software by spinynorman]

Thanks for you reply scarecrow. What really is pissing me off is that Mandriva acts like M$... First they ship a version without the latest KDE (ok, ok I undestand that Mandriva is conservative) even if big distros like SUSE are coming with KDE 3.4 without problems); Second: even in the full DVD there is no packages, and not even repositories with official, tested packages. Only in cooker you can find it and they even say "install it at your own risk"! Third: they release a Club version with KDE 3.4 and want people to download all the Mandriva cds again. It's exactly like M$, if you want a updated OS or you pay or go to hell! Sorry but I think this against open source! Pay or stay with outdated stuff, please! And look that I almost convice myself (and my parents) to became members of that club, but now i'm thinking in using another distro. Thanks and sorry for my anger. doutor.zero

I'm having the same problem with KDE, after install any application I have to run update-menus to refresh the menus. I think this is a bug with Mandriva 2005 because in 10.1 the menus are updated soon after I install any rpm. Thanks, doutor.zero

Thanks for the reply. I have tryed GDM but after install it the turn off and restart buttons dissapears in KDE. Maybe If I try using it again... And there is one more question about GDM: how do I install themes to it without using Gnome? Mdkkdm is not official for Mandriva 2005 right? Because for 10.1 it was the default login manager, so I thinks it's not fair to stop suportting it without even creating a similar theme for KDM or GDM. And after all this problems, they want you to pay, a lot, for a club membership Thanks again, doutor.zero

First hi everybody, I'm from Brasil, so sorry for my bad english! I'm trying to update Mandriva 2005 LE to KDE 3.4.1, first with Thacs rpms and last with Cooker. With Thacs KDE i experience a lot of problems (with mdkkdm, double menus, etc) so I decide to go with cooker and after seting the repositories the installation was successful. But even everything seems fine, now I can't shutdown or reboot from my session and everytime I try Mandriva comes back to the Mdkkdm screen and from there I can shutdown/reboot (with KDM this don't happens) This is really annoying... But the main problem is because this PC is from my parents so I can't stop them from using mdkkdm, first because was very difficult to make them switch from M$ and second because they are old so clicking in the icon to login is better for them (and KDM without themes is very ugly). So, anyone knows a way to make KDE 3.4.1 shutdown and reboot while using mdkkdm? Thanks a lot, doutor zero p.s. I'm disappointed with the way that Mandriva deals with updates, because at the same time of the release of Mandriva 2005 there is some distros coming with KDE 3.4 without problems and now Mandriva wants me to pay only to download again a updated version! So I don't understand why there is no official rpm packages so I can't update by myself (because I agree that if you pay you have the right to get a full version with KDE 3.4).