Knode

[Jeffrey Needle]

On Sat, 2008-07-19 at 21:34 -0700, David Fox wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 4:55 PM, Jeffrey Needle <jeff.needle at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Well, I've tried Pan as a newsreader.  It's not entirely satisfactory,
> > as some have warned me previously.
> 
> What have you found that it's missing? Personally, I prefer it for
> getting binary attachments as it does a terrific job of automatically
> getting all the parts for you. It doesn't work at all for posting
> binaries, however. There are other tools that one can use from the
> command line, but I rarely do that.
> 
> 

One of the problems I'm having is that is seems to forget settings
between sessions.  I always want to download just the new messages, but
occasionally it pops up and asks me which headers I want, the last 7
days, etc.  When my fingers start flying, I'll occasionally press
<enter> and get a lot of stuff I don't want.

Less serious is the inability to assign hot keys to actions.  I like to
work on the keyboard, and so far I haven't found a hotkey to follow-up
on a newsgroup posting.  Sheesh, I'm old.  I keep pressing ctrl-r, the
Windows way (in most apps) to reply to a posting, then I realize I've
messed up again and now have to click on an icon to follow up.  Perhaps
I'm missing something here.


> > Knode is listed under both Add/Remove Programs and Synaptic as a news
> > reader.  I installed it using Add/Remove, but it isn't anywhere to be
> 
> It should be there if you've installed it. I don't use menus all that
> often. Have you tried going to a konsole and running knode from the
> command line?

Didn't think of that.  When I just tried it, it eventually started the
app, but not before getting the following:

kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::plugAccel(): call to deprecated
action.
kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::plugAccel(): call to deprecated
action.
kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::plugAccel(): call to deprecated
action.
kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::plugAccel(): call to deprecated
action.
kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::plugAccel(): call to deprecated
action.
kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::plugAccel(): call to deprecated
action.
kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::plugAccel(): call to deprecated
action.

I have no idea what that means.


> 
> > I see it's part of KDE PIM, but that's not anywhere on my system,
> > either.  Does anyone have any insight into what's happening?  I tried to
> 
> Well it's part of kontact, which also includes some other programs,
> but it's installable separately.
> 

Indeed, I started kontact, but the news reader was nowhere to be
found.  


Thanks for the help!

> dfox at newbox:~$ aptitude show knode
> Package: knode
> State: installed
> Automatically installed: no
> Version: 4:3.5.9-0ubuntu3
> Priority: optional
> Section: universe/net
> Maintainer: Ubuntu Core developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss at lists.ubuntu.com>
> 
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Jeffrey Needle
jeff.needle at gmail.com