This site is being developed and may be used now. It's called "friends of KOffice" so it should embrace all applications which complement KOffice. It is mentioned on the news page of the KOffice site. It has a forum and a wiki (which provides for members to create their own pages). It may later include blogs. I wasn't sure this forum was still here. I'll link it on the wikidot site.
Greetings. I have a hyperlink in an OpenOffice spreadsheet to a .wav file. On Windows and Linux (non-kde), the hyperlink results in the .wav file playing or a player being opened. I'm not sure which but users of each tell me that the hyperlink works. In Kde (Mandriva 2006), Konqueror sticks its beak in, then crashes. Backtrace is: Quoted This backtrace appears to be of no use. This is probably because your packages are built in a way which prevents creation of proper backtraces, or the stack fra...
For the benefit of anyone else who may be looking for an answer, I found it on the mandriva users' forum. I thought I had already tried it and got an error message but that was just my imagination. I renamed the folder /usr/share/mdk/mail to mail.bad I suspect now that it's just more carelessness on Mandriva's part rather than an intention to badger their users. I think KDE should have something to say to Mandriva about the misuse of Kde software.
Thanks, bram85. Sorry to have been so long getting back. Without notification, I'm easily distracted. I know Kde has not put the spam there. It's from Mandriva, after all. It shows how out of touch the people running Mandriva are if they think this kind of nonsense is in the least persuasive or even welcome. The "banners" are quite innocuous but a lesser example of the same thing. Messing with any part of Kde, I've found, is not a good idea. We seem to be entirely in our distro's hands on that s...
This irritating piece of advertising deters me from using Kmail. I managed to get rid of it in my previous distro version but I cannot find the secret this time. Whenever I launch Kmail, a "welcome to mandriva" message appears in the inbox. It's even more annoying than the Kmail banners which appear at other points. The message is regenerated somehow. Deleting the source document, assuming I could find one, would probably result in an error message. Is there some alteration I can make to Kmail d...
Thank you, bram85. I regret that I did not explain myself adequately. The two methods I tried were suggested by users of distros other than the one I am using at present, Mandriva 2006. The first method involves placing a symlink in ~/.kde/Autostart. That method seems to be suitable only for kde applications, possibly only those which minimise to a tray icon. I have used it for some time to have klipper (the clipboard extension) start on login. The second method is the script named .xinitrc, whi...
I suppose it's in order to tag my question to this thread rather than starting a new thread. I want bittorrent to start when I logon to kde. I just want it to start so that I can contribute to seeding and I can forget to start it myself. Gnome evidently has a gui command which enables a user to add a startup command and even that other OS has such a method but kde, it seems, cannot cope with the concept. In another forum, it was suggested that I create a file in the user's home directory called ...
Hi. I had this problem on Mandriva 2005 and now 2006. I select Firefox as the default browser using KDE >Components >Component Chooser. When I click on a web link in any application other than Adobe (which controls its own browser setting), a copy of the web page is downloaded and the copy is opened in firefox. If I make no such selection, the link opens the web page in Konqueror as one would expect. I have installed firefox from the Mozilla foundation and OpenOffice from OpenOffice.org. It is t...
