Re: Suggestion to Remove KFloppy and hold back K3b

2017-02-15 Thread Martin Gräßlin
Am 15. Februar 2017 23:58:50 MEZ schrieb Wolfgang Bauer : >Am Mittwoch, 15. Februar 2017, 22:21:19 schrieb Martin Gräßlin: >> Please do not consider starting a GUI application as root a >possibility. > >Ok, but partitionmanager does exactly that. It restarts itself as root >if run >as user. >So

Re: Suggestion to Remove KFloppy and hold back K3b

2017-02-15 Thread Luigi Toscano
Wolfgang Bauer ha scritto: > Am Mittwoch, 15. Februar 2017, 22:21:19 schrieb Martin Gräßlin: >> Please do not consider starting a GUI application as root a possibility. > > Ok, but partitionmanager does exactly that. It restarts itself as root if run > as user. > So that instantly would rule out

Re: Suggestion to Remove KFloppy and hold back K3b

2017-02-15 Thread Wolfgang Bauer
Am Mittwoch, 15. Februar 2017, 21:55:12 schrieb Boudhayan Gupta: > What would you say about using Solid to probe floppy drives? I think > Solid already has the necessary hooks, but if it doesn't, we can add > them. Sounds interesting. Thanks for the suggestion. I will have a look at that too. The

Re: Suggestion to Remove KFloppy and hold back K3b

2017-02-15 Thread Wolfgang Bauer
Am Mittwoch, 15. Februar 2017, 22:21:19 schrieb Martin Gräßlin: > Please do not consider starting a GUI application as root a possibility. Ok, but partitionmanager does exactly that. It restarts itself as root if run as user. So that instantly would rule out partionmanager as a proposed replaceme

Re: Suggestion to Remove KFloppy and hold back K3b

2017-02-15 Thread Martin Gräßlin
Am 2017-02-15 19:50, schrieb Wolfgang Bauer: On 11 February 2017 at 13:44, Jonathan Riddell wrote: I recommend KFloppy be removed from Applications releases. It couldn't find my floppy drive and when I hacked the code to tell it where to look it depended on an external tool fdformat which didn

Re: Suggestion to Remove KFloppy and hold back K3b

2017-02-15 Thread Boudhayan Gupta
Hi Wolfgang, What would you say about using Solid to probe floppy drives? I think Solid already has the necessary hooks, but if it doesn't, we can add them. Thanks, Boudhayan Freundliche Grüße Boudhayan Gupta KDE e.V. - Sysadmin and Community Working Groups +49 151 71032970 On 15 February 2017

Re: Review Request 128664: Nested tags for Baloo

2017-02-15 Thread James Smith
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Re: Review Request 128665: Nested tags for Baloo Widgets

2017-02-15 Thread James Smith
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Re: Suggestion to Remove KFloppy and hold back K3b

2017-02-15 Thread Wolfgang Bauer
On 11 February 2017 at 13:44, Jonathan Riddell wrote: > I recommend KFloppy be removed from Applications releases. It > couldn't find my floppy drive and when I hacked the code to tell it > where to look it depended on an external tool fdformat which didn't > work anyway. KFloppy and fdformat w