


Office Apps by ChaosWars 23 comments
The icons have been moved to $KDEDIR/share/icons/hicolor though, as per the new guidlines, and the program has been ported to KDE4. I shall release an updated version for KDE3 as well as a new version for KDE4 sometime this month, once I have polished the documentation. - Aug 18 2008

Office Apps by ChaosWars 23 comments
I just found out that $KDEDIR is not set on all distributions. Try this syntax :
cmake . -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=`kde-config --prefix`
Note that those are not quotation marks, they are the symbol most commonly found on your tilde (~) key. - Feb 06 2008
Confirm before running that that $KDEDIR is a valid variable - see what "echo $KDEDIR" outputs.
I'm not sure where Kubuntu installs KDE, possible simply in /usr if it is LSB compliant. That means that the KDE stuff ends up in /usr/{bin.lib,share} etc. - Jan 27 2008

Office Apps by ChaosWars 23 comments
In fact, email me a list of all the files installed by KNfoViewer and their locations, that would help tremendously to track down the problem. - Jan 24 2008

System Software by ChaosWars 3 comments

Audio Apps by mussgill 21 comments
kzen.googlecode.com - Jan 06 2008
I am planning to port it to KDE4. It will take some work, but in the end the code will be cleaner as a result of Qt4's better multithreading. I would have written it for KDE4 straight away but my girlfriend needed it now :p - Dec 18 2007

Office Apps by ChaosWars 23 comments

Office Apps by ChaosWars 23 comments
I retested the build here, I can only assume that the error is because of your CMake version. Which version of cmake are you running? - Dec 17 2007

Office Apps by ChaosWars 23 comments
Thanks a lot to all of you who made packages. - Dec 15 2007
You will need the libpar2 ebuild available from the gentoo bugzilla as well, since libpar2 isn't in Portage for some weird reason :
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=124625 - Dec 14 2007

Office Apps by ChaosWars 23 comments
At any rate, the problems should be fixed now, there was a mistake in the Findlibpar2.cmake file that was causing libpar2 not being fully found on Debian and SuSe. - Dec 12 2007

Office Apps by ChaosWars 23 comments
The way the fonts work now, I think it initially follows the default font that the user has set in the KConfig for Monospace. I'm not 100% sure on this but that is what it seemed to do on my system.
However, once KNfoViewer has been run once, and the font has been set, the kpart remembers the font selected and will always use it, regardless of weather the kpart is opened in konqueror or any another application. - Dec 08 2007
KPar2 does it all in a single click as well, if you enable the autocheck and autorepair options.
The detection problems are fixed already. Weather or not you are going to use the package is unrelated to the bugs getting fixed, so I am going to ignore you "don't bother" comment ;) - Nov 21 2007
There are some good free sites out there I know, one is http://alt.binaries.nl/ - Nov 21 2007
If someone who runs Debian/SuSe would like to make packages for the distributions, I'd be happy to host them. - Nov 21 2007
Once those are installed though it should compile just fine though.
I will update the SVN today and maybe release a new package that will fix the compilation problems on SuSe and Debian derivatives (Ubuntu etc.) - Nov 21 2007
Where does SuSe install the libpar2 packet? Could someone maybe email me the output of YaST/YUM or post it here?
It looks like it is being installed in a very non-standard place at any rate. If you are not going to use the cmake -i wizard (which I strongly recommend, that way you will encounter all the advanced variables which NEED to be set in order for the compile to work - they will be the last 6 variables in the wizard ) then you need to set the following variables for it to work :
-DLIBPAR2_INCLUDE_DIR=/path/to/include/libpar2 (the directory where libpar2.h is located)
-DLIBPAR2_LIB_INCLUDE_DIR=/path/to/lib/libpar2/include (the config.h file that the libpar2 packet installs)
-DLIBPAR2_LIBRARY=/path/to/lib/libpar2.so
If all three of these variables are set then libpar2 is marked as found and you should get no more errors about it.
The libpar2Config.cmake file does not exist, I had to write my own Findlibpar2.cmake file, which obviously doesn't work on SuSe. The error cmake spits out about it is confusing, but in effect it's just trying to say that it can't find the Findlibpar2.cmake file. I would suggest doing an out-of-source build in this case, that can be done by creating a directory named "build" in the same directory you unpack/download the source in, and then do a "cd build && cmake ../kpar2-0.2 && make install". Add whatever -D<cmake option> flags you need to to that command to get it to work obviously. - Nov 21 2007
I see you're on Gentoo - surely Gentoo has an ebuild for libpar2? Otherwise, try compiling and installing libpar2 by first running ./configure --prefix=/usr in it's source directory first.
Also, I've released a new version - see if this one installs properly. If it still can't find libpar2, I've now exposed the LIBPAR2_* variables that it sues to check for libpar2 - you can pass them to cmake from the command line as flags such as -DLIBPAR2_LIBRARY=/usr/local/lib/libpar2.so
Have a look in the src/CMakeLists.txt file to see what vars you can pass - it's the last line. Alternatively, running cmake -i will give you access to a wizard which will step you through all the advanced variables you can set and you can change them if you want. - Nov 20 2007
As for group subscription, if you want that I would suggest klibido. As stated in the description of KNewz, this program is only meant for downloading from nzb files, and will never support browsing newsgroups. Browsing groups like alt.binaries.boneless is impractical - it contains more than one million posts! And since this program is meant to download binaries from newsgroups, I feel that support for browsing binary newsgroups would be impractical as well. - Nov 15 2007

System Software by ChaosWars 3 comments
Guess this means the C++ daemon will be the one getting dropped after this :p I will release a new numbered version sometime soon - I want to clean up the code, make it ANSI compliant and restructure some of the code out of main.c because it's a hodgepodge right now. So after I refactor it I'll upload it - right now if you can't wait to get it you can grab it off the Googlecode SVN repo : svn checkout http://logitechdaemon.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ logitechdaemon - Nov 06 2007
Vista just wiped my drive, and now upon a reinstall I am running into the same errors you are. I didn't have them before. I'm busy fixing them, but it requires writing some cmake specific code so it's taking me a while since I have exams this week. After that though, I have summer holidays and I think I shall be able to iron out the last bugs that are keeping KNewz from a 0.1 release. KDE4 has become relatively stable - or at least the GUI bugs are ironed out. There are still a few of my own coding bugs that I have to sort out, but I use it every day already and I must say, apart from a few hard to find (and therefor infrequently occuring) bugs it is performing really well. Better than I had expected :p - Jul 01 2007

Amarok 1.x Scripts by browner 41 comments

Cliparts by fuckingbugmenot 10 comments
The QT error cmake is throwing is because it's not finding your cmake install. How are you running cmake? You should be issuing the command : cmake . -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/opt/kde4 -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=DEBUG
This is assuming you have kde4 installed in /opt/kde4 of course.
If you run that in the project directory it should build a valid Makefile. If it isn't finding Qt after you running that, then there is something wrong with your install of qt-copy. It's probably not being found in your path, which normally means that Qt3 is being found instead of Qt4. What distribution are you running?
Cmake is the future, I'm convinced of it =) From a developers POV it's heaven compared to autohell. And the end user won't notice much difference except a prettier output in the terminal :D - Jun 02 2007
I just realised you were referring to KDE4 itself :p Yes, it has quite a way to go, but it is progressing very rapidly. The beta is coming out end of July I think, and it is being released in October, so we won't have to wait for very long for these problems to be fixed. - Jun 02 2007
If the install goes awry, you could always just build the executable and then manually copy it over to your /path/to/kde4/bin directory. I had removed the install command from the CMakeLists.txt file for this release as I was just running it from the directory I built it in, and figured that no-one would be installing it yet as KDE4 is not usable. As such, installing it would put it in the bin directory of kde4, which wouldn't be in your $PATH so the executable wouldn't be found.
I shall add the install command back in for the next release, and add a .desktop file so that you can at least run the app by using a desktop icon.
The sticky/dissapearing menu's are due to bugs in KDE4, there's not much I can do about that I'm afraid. - Jun 02 2007
If the install goes awry, you could always just build the executable and then manually copy it over to your /path/to/kde4/bin directory. I had removed the install command from the CMakeLists.txt file for this release as I was just running it from the directory I built it in, and figured that no-one would be installing it yet as KDE4 is not usable. As such, installing it would put it in the bin directory of kde4, which wouldn't be in your $PATH so the executable wouldn't be found.
I shall add the install command back in for the next release, and add a .desktop file so that you can at least run the app by using a desktop icon.
The sticky/dissapearing menu's are due to bugs in KDE4, there's not much I can do about that I'm afraid. - Jun 02 2007
CMake will generate an executable and a shell script that tells the executable where the KDE4 libraries are. This lets you run it in a KDE3 environment. I already download all my Usenet binaries with KNewz. Nothing like frustration over lack of features to motivate writing code :p
If your distro doesn't provide the KDE4 library (you often need to add a custom, non-official repository manually) then you can find detailed instructions on the kde site as to how to install kde4libs from source : get the tarballs here http://www.kde.org/info/3.90.1.php and find the instructions here : http://techbase.kde.org/Getting_Started/Build/KDE4_Alpha_1 - May 29 2007
I use KLibido myself, and I thought about writing patches for KLibido or nzb instead of writing my own client. But ultimately I decided, especially in the case of klibido, that it would be easier in the long run to write my own code than trying to decipher the existing code base, given the small size of my project.
In the long run, this program will have everything that I miss in klibido, such as smart *.par file downloading and automatic parity checking, automatic unpacking of downloaded files and cleanup, system tray integration, DBUS integration, and the ability to save your download queue between sessions.
KLibido aims to be a comprehensive news client, and does a whole lot more than just downloading the contents of a *.nzb file. For me, that is a lot of functionality that I don't use, and never will, and I miss a lot of the above mentioned functionality. Reason enough for me to write this client. - May 25 2007
I will look at how feasible a KDE3 port will be once the application is ready to be released as stable. I'll get a beta version out by the end of next month I think, depending on exams. - May 24 2007
Install cmake, and install the kde4lib alpha package for your distribution. You will probably have to add a custom source to your package manager or download the tarball from www.kde.org and compile it yourself (along with all it's dependencies). Alternatively, you could use the kde4 svn compile script that is here on www.kde-apps.org.
Once you have done all that, cd into the directory you unpacked this source into. Run the command "cmake . -DCMAKE_ISNTALL_PREFIX=/path/to/kde4" without the quotes. CMake should then do it's thing and generate a Makefile for you. You can then just run make as normal. Run the binary generated, and fill in the options for your news server. The program should work, more or less :D The decoder sometimes bugs out, I'm still trying to track why it doesn't fully decode some articles. And I need to add in some code to put the downloaded files into their own subdirectory. I'll get that done for alpha3, but in the meanwhile, here's alpha2. Thanks for testing :D - May 24 2007

Karamba & Superkaramba by Dies 3 comments