Nick Hudson <skrll@netbsd.org> responds to my problems with KDE:

>> Does anyone have KDE 2.2.2 (especially Konqueror) working properly under
>> NetBSD 1.5.2?  Things that don't work for me:
>> 
>>   - https URLs in Konqueror: a window is popped up claiming that the
>>     certificate "failed the authenticity test", when I know that the
>>     certificate is perfectly valid.  The "spewing output" shows :
[...]
>>     Trying to "continue" and "accept forever" continues, but does not
>>     seem to store the certificate, so the errors keep popping up (so
>>     to speak!).
> 
> This is known, but no-one has had time to look into it yet.
[...]
> I now know why this is and it shouldn't be too hard to fix.

OK, now you've got me all excited. :-)  Seriously, I usually try to
fix a problem before I report it, but KDE is so huge that in this case
the learning curve is insurmountable in the time I have to play with
it. :-(  Will you post a patch?

>>   - I can't hear the output of the CD player (kscd). [...]
> I also get this. No idea how to fix it.

Hmm, OK, then it's not my installation.  This one's less serious; I was
trying that CD player because it came with KDE anyway, but I should be
able to find and install another one.  On the other hand, if anyone out
there can shed some light...  I did try using "lsof" on the process to
figure out which device it was writing to, but was unenlightened.

>>   - I can't print; I get complaints that "kdeprintd" cannot be
>>     contacted, no matter whether I try printing with an external
>>     program (lpr -Pps), or with the "lpd" or "lpr" options.  (At least
>>     I can print to a file).
> 
> This is related (I think) to a problem in the 1.5.2 toolchain. It 
> doesn't exist if you compile KDE with 1.5.3_ALPHA or -current.

Interesting.  I don't see myself upgrading the O/S again just yet (I
just came up to 1.5.2 from 1.4.1 last month!).  What do you mean by
"toolchain"?  Is the difference something I can patch in to 1.5.2?  Is
there *supposed* to be a "kdeprintd" daemon running?  I would have
hoped that when I selected "print through external program", all fancy
stuff would be bypassed...

>>   * Is there a better web browser out there than konqueror?  (I use
>>     lynx quite often, but some pages do need the tables and graphics;
>>     I appreciate the per-site configurability of Konqueror, especially
>>     for security-sensitive items.)
> 
> konqueror is a very good browser modulo the problems with ssl 
> connections. I'll take a look at this this week.

I very much appreciate your efforts.  I've been successfully running
a slightly older konqueror over an ssh-encrypted link across my home
network; the other machine runs Slackware.  I'm trying to set up my own
browser so I don't trash the performance of the other machine when its
owner is trying to use it. :-)  I agree that konqueror seems quite
satisfactory for the most part; if ssl and printing can be repaired,
I'll be quite pleased.

If there's something I can help with, I'll be happy to try; right now,
I just have no idea where to even start looking.

Anne.
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Ms. Anne Bennett, Senior Analyst, IITS, Concordia University, Montreal H3G 1M8
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