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List:       kde-user
Subject:    Re: some questions about kde,kfm, kwm and related topics
From:       Stephan Kulow <coolo () itm ! mu-luebeck ! de>
Date:       1997-09-17 12:13:46
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Bert Haverkamp wrote:
> 
> Hello everyone,
> After monitoring  the project for a long time, and sometimes trying some
> odd versions. I recently
> switched completely to kde on my machine. I have to say it works great.
> Actually the thing that convinced me to switch was the menu-edit
> program.
> Although I don't think the layout is that great and I get really
> confused about the keybindings
> (shift middle mousbutton for moving a menu?!? etc.) It is a great
> program.
> 
> I have a few questions though,
> 
> 1) KFM. As long as I can remember KFM has trouble with # in the
> filenames. It can't delete them. From
> a users point of view it's a really silly bug, that should be easily
> fixable. What is the reason for this
> "feature"? Will it disappear soon?
It's a not so easy problem. It's a little bit hard to explain, but
it has to do with enoding of URLs. Internally kfm handels files and
URLs the same. If you have a file with a # in it, kfm is confused,
because the file looks internally like:
file://home/user/#das, but this is a malformed URL, so kfm just kicks
it. We know, how to solve this problem, but since it needs a rewrite
of parts of kfm, it will definitly take some time.
> 
> 2) in the TGZ directory there are versions of kdelib, kdesupport etc,
> numbered  0.xx.00. which are
> updated infrequently. In the current directory there are  packages,
> updated almost every day (very
> impressive). Which one is adviced to try. What is the updating scheme
> for 0.xx00? Are those official beta
> versions?
the 0.xx.00 versions are the last stable versions. Every day after that
bloaded KDE. You can try them, but there are some big problems with it.
> 
> 3) Color.  I've seen discussions about the large number of colors kde
> uses for it's  icons frequently poping
> up. What is the result of this. Is there a package with reduced number
> of colors? Where can I get them.
> How can I make them. It would be nice to throw an icon through some kind
> of filter and automatically get
> it back with reduced colors. (Sorry, can't program that well)
the 0.xx.00 versiosn have the full colors in it, while the current
versions
have reduced colors. At home, I run KDE on a 256-color display and I
must
say, it works. I have disabled shaded title bars and gradient
backgrounds,
so it's OK.
> 

BTW: the current version is almost completly in dutch ;)

Greets, Stephan

-- 
Stephan Kulow (coolo@kde.org)
Student der Informatik (NF: MedizinInformatik)
Medizinische Uni zu Luebeck

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