Re: Report on Ralf's Woody Debs
Just in case anyone else running Sarge has ugly TT fonts, reverting to
Woody's libfreetype6 package fixes the problem.
CM
On Monday 13 January 2003 17:11, you wrote:
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> On Montag, 13. Januar 2003 22:28, Christopher Martin wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Currently I'm running Ralf's 3.1RC6 Woody debs on a Sarge system.
> > On the whole, they work really well - major thanks to everyone
> > involved for the great work done so far. However, I've collected
> > a list of bugs/requests/questions which I thought I'd post:
> >
> > 1. Truetype fonts look quite bad (really 'dirty' looking - like
> > the bytecode interpreter isn't on) in 3.1RC6, compared to Mozilla
> > which looks great. Truetype under 3.0.5a looked fine - just like
> > Mozilla still does. Currently I have libfreetype6 2.1.2-9
> > installed. Anti-aliasing works.
>
> Works here.
>
> > 2. The K3b package. I had to manually install libvorbisenc, and
> > then manually create links for libvorbisfile.so.0 and
> > libvorbisenc.so.0 but eventually I figured it out. Am I correct
> > in thinking that these problems occur only because I'm running
> > Sarge and not straight Woody?
>
> Known problem due to the differences woody <-> sarge/sid with
> vorbis. Use those symlinks.
>
> Remember, k3b is made directly out of the CVS sources whenever I
> see something done :-) so you could report problems to the author
> (Sebastian Trueg) so he can fix them easier.
>
> > 3. The oKle package - it's great of you to provide all these
> > convenient debs! I do have a problem with it, however. When I
> > compile oKle myself from source, I simply have to type 'okle' to
> > start it up. With your new debian package, however, there is no
> > 'okle' executable. There is something called okle_gui, but
> > executing it results in the following error:
> >
> > Please do not call the ogle_gui binary directly!
> > Instead copy it to /usr/lib/ogle/ogle_gui and then run ogle.
> >
> > I suppose that I could follow these instructions and get things
> > going, but I shouldn't have to. I'm not sure why things aren't
> > set up (like they are when compiling from source) so that you
> > just have to run 'okle' and it works. No conflict with ogle-gui
> > either.
>
> I just built the package as-is, no look at testing. That's what
> you're up for
>
> :-) I'll have a look when I have time to do so.
> :
> > 4. Package requests - could you create debs for kbiff
> > (http://www.granroth.org/kbiff/) and a handy little utility for
> > tweaking xvideo output, written by the Ogle guys, xvattr
> > (http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd/downloads.shtml)? Those
> > are the only two KDE programs I use that aren't packaged... which
> > is pretty amazing :)
>
> I want to add the first one anyway, the second - haven't seen it
> but I'll have a look.
>
> > 5. Does anyone know if it is possible to revert to the old 3.0
> > layout for KDM? The new way KDM is arranged looks pretty bad, at
> > least to me.
>
> Change the code, recompile. The listview on the left is the default
> now which is better than the former iconview when you have many
> users.
>
> Ralf
>
> > Otherwise, everything I've tried works as it should. Many thanks.
> >
> > Sincerely,
> >
> > Christopher Martin
>
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