Post A08LkAejWv7LuLLkvI by fribbledom@mastodon.social
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(DIR) Post #A08LkAejWv7LuLLkvI by fribbledom@mastodon.social
2020-10-13T21:14:26Z
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Plasma 5.20 is out 😊A massive release, containing improvements to dozens of components, widgets, and the desktop behavior in general.https://kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.20.0
(DIR) Post #A08LkBC3X1lxZgwMrY by brad@weeaboo.space
2020-10-13T23:04:06.269154Z
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@fribbledom painful to see them refer to the super key as "meta".
(DIR) Post #A09HEyWvJ8E6LFx8vQ by bionade24@mastodon.social
2020-10-14T05:21:54Z
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@fribbledom Moved away because they do dumb stuff like linking powerdevil to networkmanager-qt and bleudevil and my config just crashed in wayland. They have to tidy up some stuff.
(DIR) Post #A09HEyhCguRwr8lLwu by FreePietje@x0f.org
2020-10-14T09:48:16Z
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@bionade24 @fribbledom That appears to be a packing problem of your distro.On my Debian Sid system, those things are not linked.
(DIR) Post #A09a90TD507bkb5Ehs by Mr_Teatime@social.tchncs.de
2020-10-14T09:55:09Z
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@fribbledom * task manager: I prefer titles if there's space for them* systray: Yes, tiles are much better* meta instead of Alt to move windows: Yaass! Loved the functionality but it broke so many shortcutsAlso great: charge limit, disk overview/SMART, settings highlighting, and merged shortcut config.Will have to test otherwise. Hope that background services (Akonadi, Nepomuk) are causing issues less often ... those are a pain to fix on the user end.
(DIR) Post #A09a90ldySroflhxRI by fribbledom@mastodon.social
2020-10-14T10:20:16Z
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@Mr_Teatime Yeah, I switched to Meta instead of Alt quite a while ago (it always used to be a setting).I've configured a few excludes (network storage, caches) for Baloo and file indexing has been a breeze ever since.
(DIR) Post #A09a90uVRVxL7Fr2Fk by Mr_Teatime@social.tchncs.de
2020-10-14T10:27:28Z
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@fribbledomI did search for that setting and failed ... I did try to set up exceptions for Baloo. After over an hour trawling through config files and no feedback whether I achieved anything, I gave up because I was at work and had stuff to finish. There should really be a setting in the GUI to exclude files above a certain size, certain types, folders or devices.My latest issue is kmail failing because akonadi fails. "Details" shows nothing. There's fora discussions about this since 2014
(DIR) Post #A09a91CENc8O0E9Bse by fribbledom@mastodon.social
2020-10-14T10:37:21Z
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@Mr_Teatime You can find the setting under Window Management -> Behavior -> Window Actions (Tab) -> Modifier Key.You're right, a few more options for Baloo would be nice. Folder management works fine for me, though.Which email service do you use Kmail with? I've had lots of weird issues in combination with Gmail, but ever since I switched back to my own mail setup it worked just flawlessly. Not a single hiccup since.
(DIR) Post #A09a91NDikvOYJHy0e by Mr_Teatime@social.tchncs.de
2020-10-14T10:49:23Z
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@fribbledomKmail can't start because Akonadi isn't running.Only after trying to start akonadi from commandline do I learn that it fails because it can't access SQLAkonadi tries to start it, then "permission denied" (for what?), then claims maybe I have no sql server installed.Checked: Sql and Mariadb are installed. re-installed them to be sure.Had a look at config files but they look fine to me (never touched them, and shouldn't have to) -- this all looks a bit Rube-Goldberg-y to me
(DIR) Post #A09a91bkqiYDHO5ZfE by fribbledom@mastodon.social
2020-10-14T10:53:01Z
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@Mr_TeatimeFor what it's worth, you can find Akonadi's database in ~/.local/share/akonadiIf you can live without the existing data, I'd recommend trying to delete ~/.local/share/akonadi* and ~/.config/akonadi* and try to start over.
(DIR) Post #A09a91kyIRvJjyOw1w by FreePietje@x0f.org
2020-10-14T13:20:06Z
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@fribbledom @Mr_Teatime If you're going to start over, I can heartily recommend using PostgreSQL for akonadi.https://www.enricozini.org/blog/2015/akonadi-install/ will give you instructions on how to set it up.I prefer using '_' over '-' though as '-' has special meaning in PostgreSQL.
(DIR) Post #A09m6mQBXa9h39ND0K by Mr_Teatime@social.tchncs.de
2020-10-14T15:34:11Z
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@FreePietje @fribbledom Thanks for the suggestion -- will see if it makes things better.My point, though, is that a regular user shouldn't have to deal with setting up (or choosing) database servers for user data managament frameworks in order to run a working e-mail client. It may be nice in some cases to have that ability but although it works nicely when it does, the failure frequency is too high for anyone who just needs it to work.
(DIR) Post #A0BDzKyYB0VfmAe9iK by FreePietje@x0f.org
2020-10-15T08:21:17Z
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@Mr_Teatime @fribbledom I completely agree.(ftr: akonadi is for all PIM data, not just mail)If you look at the kdepim-users archive, you'll see problems with akonadi since the start. But with a single maintainer afaik (Daniel Vrátil), an architectural redesign isn't an option.With PostgreSQL the problems are *far* fewer and afaik the only reason it isn't the default is that there isn't an automatic way to migrate to a new version of PostgreSQL.
(DIR) Post #A0CCQ5XbfFxSyVdFOy by bionade24@mastodon.social
2020-10-15T19:38:19Z
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@FreePietje @fribbledom Not true. Debian does it. It's not a packaging issue. https://salsa.debian.org/qt-kde-team/kde/powerdevil/-/blob/master/debian/control#L21
(DIR) Post #A0CbDJAy9mCELu2wBU by FreePietje@x0f.org
2020-10-16T00:16:14Z
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@bionade24 @fribbledom I looked at the package itself and it does not have a runtime dependency on it, but it indeed has a B-D on it.But the changelog has "Update the build dependencies according to the upstream build system" added when the B-D on libkf5networkmanagerqt-dev was added. 🤔
(DIR) Post #A0GaK932kuol8APNw0 by Mr_Teatime@social.tchncs.de
2020-10-17T22:25:03Z
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@FreePietje @fribbledom Just tried to set it up with postgresql but it turns out there is no package containing the works "akonadi" and "backend" for Manjaro (or openSUSE, for that matter). Even OBS only has inofficial packages for Debian.But I got more hints: Even the mysql workbench can't connect to the mysql server. Which would indicate that it's indeed an issue around SQL, or how it's been configured by the system (not me, I didn't go near it!).
(DIR) Post #A0HcBkKh9mlpE9kQCG by FreePietje@x0f.org
2020-10-18T10:20:42Z
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@Mr_Teatime @fribbledom Apparently Manjaro is based on Arch and hopefully that means you can also use the awesome Arch wiki.https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/KDE#Akonadi may be of help
(DIR) Post #A0HdSnyWy1ivOx4wDY by Mr_Teatime@social.tchncs.de
2020-10-18T10:35:00Z
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@FreePietjegosh, that sounds as if I'd have to uninstall and re-install Akonadi for this. Uninstalling Akonadi means uninstalling a ton of stuff which depends on it, effectively most of KDE. That looks like it'd take a fairly bored afternoon to get into that... those are currently in short supply.I think before I do that, I'll post the issue in some place with some visibility for devs, and maybe someone who can tell me what's wrong with mariadb in the first place.@fribbledom