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Subject:    Re: [Quanta] Problem with mailto: links in Quanta
From:       Graeme Nichols <gnichols () tpg ! com ! au>
Date:       2005-12-20 1:16:46
Message-ID: 200512201216.51246.gnichols () tpg ! com ! au
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On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 08:55 am, Eric Laffoon wrote:
> On Sunday 18 December 2005 6:37 pm, Graeme Nichols wrote:
> > On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 04:35 pm, Eric Laffoon wrote:
> > > On Saturday 17 December 2005 9:11 pm, Graeme Nichols wrote:
> > > > Hello Folks,
> > > >
> > > > Probably a dumb question but I have the following error pop up
> > > > when I have a mailto: link in my page.
> > > >
> > > > The page renders OK in Quanta when I click on the 'Preview' eye
> > > > but when I then click on the mailto: link I get the following
> > > > error;
> > > >
> > > > An error occurred while loading mailto:gnichols@tpg.com.au:
> > > > Could not start process Unable to create io-slave:
> > > >  klauncher said: Error loading 'kmailservice %u'.
> > >
> > > For some reason the services are limited in our application of
> > > KHTML. It should work fine in a regular browser window. This will
> > > be fixed in future versions.
> >
> > Hello Eric, thank you,
>
> No problem.
>
> > Yes, it works fine in a browser window. This is not a major
> > problem, just a curiosity for me.
>
> Me too. ;-)
>
> > > > If I enter into a terminal the following command;
> > > > 'kmailservice gnichols@tpg.com.au' the composer window comes up
> > > > but the email address is not in the To: field
> > > >
> > > > Is kmailservice a plugin? I tried setting it as a plugin but
> > > > Quanta didn't like it. Kleopatra set up OK as a plugin.
> > >
> > > There's a difference between plugging into Quanta and plugging
> > > into KHTML. Some services don't get loaded in KHTML in our
> > > preview.
> > >
> > > > Quanta post-3.4.0 on KDE 3.4.0-6 (Red Hat) I have a full
> > > > installation of KDE on my FC4 system using Gnome as the
> > > > desktop.
> > > >
> > > > Another problem I have is when I click a tag in the toolbar,
> > > > eg. paragraph, break etc. I get two of each tag. If the tag has
> > > > a closing tag I get two opening tags followed by two closing
> > > > tags. I haven't been able to sort this one out either. This
> > > > happens also on tags that bring up a dialogue box such as
> > > > <table>. I click OK on the dialogue box, the table tag is
> > > > inserted in the page but the dialogue box is still there
> > > > (actually a second dialogue box pops up instantly to replace
> > > > the first one) If I click OK on this box I get a second lot of
> > > > table tags but the box goes away as it should. I have to click
> > > > cancel to avoid a second lot of tags.
> > > >
> > > > Strange. Hope someone can point me in the right direction.
> > > >
> > > > Ta.
> > >
> > > That is totally strange. I tend to fall back on how many weird
> > > things have happened in the past in Fedora installs, but it's
> > > possible this might be caused by multiple resource trees being
> > > read. I don't know if I could duplicate it but I'd start looking
> > > in your install and making sure you don't have two installed
> > > resource packages.
> > >
> > > You can try this in a console...
> > > echo $KDEDIRS
> > > (tells you all directories to look for KDE resources)
> > > echo $KDEDIR
> > > (tells you KDE's base directory)
> > > find $KDEDIRS -name quanta
> > > (should locate all resources)
> > >
> > > I hope this helps. Andras may have some better idea.
> >
> > Hello Eric, thank you.
> >
> > This doubling up is a real pain though.
> >
> > The output of the above is as follows:
> >
> > [graeme@barney ~]$ echo $KDEDIRS
> >
> > [graeme@barney ~]$
> >
> > [graeme@barney ~]$ echo $KDEDIR
> > /usr
> > [graeme@barney ~]$
> >
> > [graeme@barney ~]$ find $KDEDIRS -name quanta
> > ./.kde/share/apps/quanta
> > ./mail/quanta
> > ./graeme2/mail2/quanta
> > ./graeme2/.kde2/share/apps/quanta
> > [graeme@barney ~]$
>
> Wow! That's weird! It appears that $KDEDIRS is empty so it's just
> reading your home directry, but the backup duplicate is strange.

Hello Eric, thank you. Yes, the extra directory is strange. I will 
delete it. Just wasting disk space anyway.

>
> > As you can see I have an extra directory in my home directory named
> > graeme2 and extra mail (named mail2) and .kde (named kde2)
> > directories below it. All the directories with 2 in their filename
> > had the 2 added by me in the hope that if quanta was reading them
> > as well it may have been the cause of the doubling up problem in
> > quanta but after renaming them by adding the 2 to their name made
> > no difference to the doubling up behaviour of quanta.
>
> These may be a backup.

It appeared after my upgrade from FC3 to FC4. It hasn't caused any 
problem that I know of apart from this, possibly.

>
> > The question is, would quanta be reading them even after changing
> > the name by adding the 2?
>
> I would think not, but I'm not looking at the code. You could always
> put an obtuse tag in
> ./graeme2/.kde2/share/apps/quanta/dtep/html-transitional/ and see if
> it's picked up. Andras wrote some code to search in an extreme
> fashion and the result was that it became impossible to have multiple
> installs. So this may not be as benign as it should be.

OK. I will do that and see what happens.

>
> > I have absolutely no idea how I finished up with a home directory
> > in my home directory but it could have been caused by my upgrade
> > from FC3 to FC4. It hasn't caused any problems to date so I have
> > left it but I can remove it if this could be causing the double up
> > in quanta.
> >
> > I don't have two installs of quanta though as the following shows:
> >
> > [graeme@barney ~]$ whereis quanta
> > quanta: /usr/bin/quanta /usr/lib/quanta
> > [graeme@barney ~]$
>
> whereis tells you where dynamic libraries are. Which shows
> executabes. You shouldn't have anything in /usr/bin for libraries.
> Strange indeed. I love Fedora for being unboring. Of course I run
> something else that's as boring as possible. ;-)
>
> > Does any of the above mean anything to you?
>
> It means strange things are going on with your install, and since
> it's not a problem with the software you may want to talk with other
> Fedora users or packagers.

Thank again Eric. If I manage to track it down I'll let you know the 
answer.

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Kind regards, Graeme Nichols.
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Real programmers disdain structured programming.  Structured programming 
is for compulsive neurotics who were prematurely toilet- trained.  They 
wear neckties and carefully line up pencils on otherwise clear desks.
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