Beta 2 on KDE (Kubuntu)

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I have beta 2 installed on Kubuntu Hardy 8.04 (KDE 4.1.1).

Installation was fine (unlike beta 1, which wouldn’t install at all); and it runs quite well.

The two main problem I have are:

  1. Fonts - In dialog boxes (eg. preferences), the font used is a serif font which appears too large, eg. In File → Preferences → Basic Notes Client Configuration, the text “Default Fonts” button is longer than the button itself. This is particulary a problem with checkboxes, as it’s impossible to see if the box is checked or not because the box is obscured by the text.

I should point out that I have the “gtk-qt-engine-kde4 package” installed from the Ubuntu repository, which styles GTK applications with a KDE look & feel. If I turn this off, I get the default Gnome appearance and it looks OK. Is there going to be support for the KDE (Qt) desktop? Alternatively, are there any particular fonts I can install that will make it look better on KDE?

  1. Can’t view/open any attachments. Even with something as simple as an attached .gif file, if I right-click and select View I get the “There is no viewer filter available for this file. Would you like to try to open the file?” message. If I click Yes, nothing happens.

Same if I select either Open or Open With… nothing happens. This happens with all types of attachments, even though these file/mime types have registered handlers on my machine.

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Subject: can you try installing this font

could you try installing Luxi font and change your fonts to Luxi and see if this fixes your problemone way to do this is as follows:

$ sudo apt-get install ttf-xfree86-nonfree

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Subject: Luxi font is an improvement

Thanks Steve.

Installing the ttf-xfree86-nonfree package and setting the font to Luxi did make a difference; although it’s not perfect.

What I’ve noticed is that there doesn’t seem to be any consistency in the preferences dialog…some pages show certain fonts and other pages show different fonts.

With the Luxi font installed, the “Default Fonts” button now renders correctly, but some checkboxes are still not right (eg. the Enable Logging checkbox in the Log Settings page)

See the attached screenshots.

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Subject: Partial fix for the attachments issue

as root:

mv /opt/ibm/lotus/notes/openwith /opt/ibm/lotus/notes/openwith.old

ln -s $(which kde-open) /opt/ibm/lotus/notes/openwith

I still can’t use view anything using a viewer filter, but at least I can now open attachments without having to save them to the filesystem first.