[Qgis-user] Why not in the forum? / Problem in Kubuntu

[Tim Sutton]

Hi Michael

On thinking a bit further about it I remember the issue with python I
referred to was quite specific to when you have more than one QGIS
installed and is probably not the cause of your problem. We will need
to investigate further.

Regards

Tim

2008/6/8 Gerry Creager <gerry.creager at tamu.edu>:
> Philosophy and age-related experience here suggests that forums (fora?
> forae?), like wikis (and recognizing that some _are_ wikis) serve best to
> aggregate long-term documentation.  Seconding Tim's position here and siting
> in violent agreement with Alex, e-mail is the best venue for
> wide-distribution rapid-response discussion, although the question and at
> least a final decision with documentation should make its way into a
> wiki/forum for long-term documentation.
>
> gerry
>
> Tim Sutton wrote:
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> In addition to Alex's comments I can add that I find the forums more
>> time consuming to use. If I want to quickly pop off an answer, there
>> really is nothing simpler than just pressing reply in my email app.
>> Plus with email I can take the list postings with me and answer
>> offline, then post my replies when I get online again. The final
>> reason is that I simply get information overload and its not possible
>> to follow all conversations around QGIS at all times...with email I
>> can just skim the subject lines and answer what I might know something
>> about, and skip the rest.
>>
>> Now to your question....
>>
>> It sounds like symptoms of some python issue we had where the internal
>> paths to qgis support files was being lost when python was as enabled.
>> This is fixed in trunk, and there will be a new release at the end of
>> the month which should hopefully address this. If you are feeling
>> adventurous, you could try temporarily disabling python support and
>> seeing if the problem goes away.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Tim
>>
>> 2008/6/7 Michael Neubauer <Neubauer-Michael at gmx.net>:
>>>
>>> Dear qgis-user list,
>>>
>>> I don't remember how I got the idea to subscribe to this user list...but
>>> it
>>> was a good idea, because a lot of interesting things worth knowing are
>>> discussed. But very often I ask myself, why problems and questions about
>>> the
>>> program and the plugins are not discussed in the forum. This would have
>>> several advantages:
>>> 1. solved problems, hints and advises can be found via search engine in
>>> the
>>> internet
>>> 2. it is a lot easier to follow the threads
>>> and 3. it is preserved better for the future. Often I find things
>>> interesting,
>>> but have no direct use for it. And then, when I remember it and want to
>>> read
>>> it again, it is a lot harder to search all the mails in my mail folder
>>> than
>>> to just remember the thread in the forum or search for it...
>>>
>>> So my suggestion is, to discuss more in the forum! This would help me and
>>> also
>>> a lot of other users, when they try to figure out their problems
>>> searching in
>>> the internet.
>>>
>>> And now,
>>> as a second thing, very selfish, I will also ask for help in this list:
>>> To all the people who use (k)ubuntu!
>>> Dos your Qgis run well and do you have the "backports repositories" in
>>> your
>>> sources.list?
>>>
>>> I described my problem already in the forum:
>>> http://forum.qgis.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=798
>>> but unfortunately I did not get any answer yet.
>>>
>>> Now I have the idea, that this might be related to package-dependencies
>>> which
>>> were caused by getting the "backports" updates. Especially I suspect
>>> something with the Qt4 libraries.
>>> Does anybody know about a problem like this and how to find out to solve
>>> it?
>>>
>>> Thank you very much for your attention!!
>>> micha
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>>
>>
>>
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