Akregator refuses to launch

Hi all,

I am using Suse 9.3 ( german version ) with the latest patches installed.
Everythink worked fine all the time. But now I am having the following
problen:

The RSS reader Akregator - which is part of kmail - does not launch
anymore. A message is briefly shown that says that Akregator run outside
kmail. I am not sure whether or not this message was issued in the past,
too. No warning or any other message is issued which might give me a hint
of the reason.

Does anybody can give me advice how to fix the problem ?

Thanks in advance.

Christian

forencontact1@arcor.de adjusted his/her tinfoil beanie to post:

> Hi all,
>
> I am using Suse 9.3 ( german version ) with the latest patches
> installed. Everythink worked fine all the time. But now I am having
> the following problen:
>
> The RSS reader Akregator - which is part of kmail - does not launch
> anymore. A message is briefly shown that says that Akregator run
> outside kmail. I am not sure whether or not this message was issued in
> the past, too. No warning or any other message is issued which might
> give me a hint of the reason.
>
> Does anybody can give me advice how to fix the problem ?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Christian

Akregator is part of the kdepim rpm, have you updated this lately?

--
Mark
Twixt hill and high water
N. Wales, UK
Novell Support Forums SysOp

> forencontact1@arcor.de adjusted his/her tinfoil beanie to post:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I am using Suse 9.3 ( german version ) with the latest patches
> > installed. Everythink worked fine all the time. But now I am having
> > the following problen:
> >
> > The RSS reader Akregator - which is part of kmail - does not launch
> > anymore. A message is briefly shown that says that Akregator run
> > outside kmail. I am not sure whether or not this message was issued in
> > the past, too. No warning or any other message is issued which might
> > give me a hint of the reason.
> >
> > Does anybody can give me advice how to fix the problem ?
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > Christian
>
> Akregator is part of the kdepim rpm, have you updated this lately?
>
> --
> Mark
> Twixt hill and high water
> N. Wales, UK
> Novell Support Forums SysOp
>
Thanks.

Answer: Not consciously. But I periodically run YOU and can say that
currently there is no undone update.

Meanwhile I discovered that the Akregator is just minimized and running in
the task bar. But I do not have the slightest idea why it is not running
in the window of kmail as it was the case all the time before. In this and
many other cases KDE is annnoying because it lacks of hinting dialogs that
tell the user what is happening or failing or what needs to be done.

forencontact1@arcor.de adjusted his/her tinfoil beanie to post:

> Thanks.
>
> Answer: Not consciously. But I periodically run YOU and can say that
> currently there is no undone update.
>
> Meanwhile I discovered that the Akregator is just minimized and
> running in the task bar. But I do not have the slightest idea why it
> is not running in the window of kmail as it was the case all the time
> before. In this and many other cases KDE is annnoying because it lacks
> of hinting dialogs that tell the user what is happening or failing or
> what needs to be done.

I think we might have been at cross purposes there, I have never run
Akregator from Kmail ( did you mean Kontact? ), I just use it as a
stand alone rss reader so maybe my observations did not help anyway.

:-)
--
Mark
Twixt hill and high water
N. Wales, UK
Novell Support Forums SysOp

> forencontact1@arcor.de adjusted his/her tinfoil beanie to post:
>
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Answer: Not consciously. But I periodically run YOU and can say that
> > currently there is no undone update.
> >
> > Meanwhile I discovered that the Akregator is just minimized and
> > running in the task bar. But I do not have the slightest idea why it
> > is not running in the window of kmail as it was the case all the time
> > before. In this and many other cases KDE is annnoying because it lacks
> > of hinting dialogs that tell the user what is happening or failing or
> > what needs to be done.
>
> I think we might have been at cross purposes there, I have never run
> Akregator from Kmail ( did you mean Kontact? ), I just use it as a
> stand alone rss reader so maybe my observations did not help anyway.
>
> :-)
> --
> Mark
> Twixt hill and high water
> N. Wales, UK
> Novell Support Forums SysOp
>
Yes you are right. I was writing about "Contact". Sorry.

The fact is, that not long ago Akregator was part of contact and I have
been accustomed just to this behaviour since the installation of SUSE 9.3.

But - as I wrote s- ince I discovered the akregator in the task bar I am
fine with it.

Thank you

Christian