I had to uninstall KDE connect today :'(

Avamander avamander at gmail.com
Wed Jan 27 15:54:55 GMT 2021


> KDE should have a presence on telegram and it's a great place to ask for
help as well. I would also recommend the Kubuntu Forums. There is a massive
wealth of KDE knowledge there. You could also try Reddit.

Telegram's backend is proprietary, development is centralized and it has
issues with its cryptography. Matrix/Element would be both technically and
in-spirit a better choice, in my opinion.

On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 5:44 PM James <dequire at mykolab.com> wrote:

> KDE should have a presence on telegram and it's a great place to ask for
> help as well. I would also recommend the Kubuntu Forums. There is a massive
> wealth of KDE knowledge there. You could also try Reddit.
>
> As an aside, how currents are the Debian packages? I have been running KDE
> neon for years now and connect works flawlessly for me on my main PC as
> well as two laptops.
>
> On January 27, 2021 7:05:34 AM EST, Avamander <avamander at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I don't know how to help you with the crashing, but I just wanted to let
>> you know that rocketmail's DMARC policy and KDE mailing lists seem to be
>> incompatible and thus this letter most likely ended up in people's
>> mailboxes.
>>
>> A very good example why KDE should acquire a forum (for example a
>> Discourse) instance and switch to using that. Mailing lists are
>> increasingly difficult to use due to ever increasing mail restrictions due
>> to spam.
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 12:14 PM Norman Koch <kochnorman at rocketmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Doing this felt really bad, because I really love KDE connect, but it
>>> kept crashing every 5 minute on all machines I've had for months now
>>> (all ThinkPad T440 with Debian 10 and all the latest updates installed),
>>> and it never stopped crashing and showing the "there's no email to send
>>> an error report to"-KDE-error-window, which is really sad and annoying.
>>>
>>> Please, if anyone knows how to do that, please repair KDE connect and
>>> push an updated version to the Debian repositories or give it as an
>>> email to me as a .deb-file preferrably.
>>>
>>> Any information that may be helpful to fix this I can try to provide,
>>> just write me an email with suggestions what to do and what to send and
>>> I'll do it. I've already sent an email to this list with the core dump
>>> provided by the KDE-error-window, but it got no response.
>>>
>>> I'd really appreciate any suggestions what to do or anyone who's willing
>>> and able to fix this.
>>>
>>>
>>>
> --
> Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
>
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