Re: Knode

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@xxxxxxxxx> 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@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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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