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

[Gerry Creager]

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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