tde-devels August 2012

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Keeping Trinity in the news
by Darrell Anderson 01 Sep '12

01 Sep '12

As a side conversation to my previous post, one way we can keep Trinity in the spot light is regular news updates at the web site and RSS feed. A simple summary keeps us in the news. Consider the good feelings of receiving the following examples in a weekly RSS feed: ============================================== Trinity Weekly Report Aug. 25 - Aug. 31 Bug Reports Resolved: 594 Critical konqueror does not save site certificates 1189 Major Build issue: kstreamripper package is empty 946 Normal Build issue: kstreamripper FTBFS 338 Normal Missing translations for some applications Trinity News: Slavek Banko shared that the 3.5.13.1 SRU (Software Release Update) is only a few patches away from being ready for testing with official tarballs. Timothy Pearson submitted a slew of TDEHWLIB patches to the GIT development branch. TDEHWLIB is the eventual Trinity hardware detection layer replacement for HAL. ============================================== ============================================== Trinity Weekly Report Aug. 18 - Aug. 24 Bug Reports Resolved: 1133 Blocker Build issue: Missing LDFLAGS in autotools causing several FTBFS on Mageia 2 1072 Blocker KOffice localization missing 843 Blocker Tools provided by Qt3 conflict with ones from Qt4 1181 Major Build issue: tdebase FTBFS with BUILD_TSAK=on on RHEL6 1148 Major Build issue: pykdeextensions 3.5.13 FTBFS on Mandriva 2011 x86_64 1177 Normal kmix crash when quit in Fedora 16 1158 Normal Build issue: kstreamripper HTML documentation in wrong folder 1155 Normal Build issue: kpicosim FTBFS: not a string literal error 632 Minor Keramik window decoration does not work 1013 Trivial Kandy (from kdepim) has no icon in application menu Enhancement Requests Fulfilled: 1180 tsak dialog boxes are displayed even if tsak is not built 1143 Build issue: kuickshow documentation is built even when kuickshow is not built 1123 Please add KOrganizer holiday region for Slovakia Trinity News: Francois Andriot announced that updated 3.5.13 packages are available for Fedora XX. Visit http://???? for those updates. ============================================== Darrell

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A Project Proposal: Trinity 3.5.14
by Darrell Anderson 01 Sep '12

01 Sep '12

A proposal: We rename 3.5.13.1 to 3.5.14 and release Real Soon Now. We rename R14 to R15. We do some serious testing with the version changes to ensure our build scripts work. We set a goal to release 3.5.14 within a month. We stop twiddling our thumbs and move forward. Few people are going to pay attention that 3.5.13.1 is available. Not to mention that after almost a year we release only an SRU version? People will pay more attention that 3.5.14 is available. Basic marketing psychology. Yes, currently 3.5.14 (3.5.13.1) does not support a HAL-less system. We add Serghei's udisks support and run some serious short term testing. Even if udisks support is incomplete, within the month we advertise that 3.5.14 offers partial support for HAL-less systems and that R15 will provide full support. The free/libre software world moves fast. Trinity has not been in the news in any meaningful way for almost a year. Users are not going to wait for Trinity. People forget. The latest challenges with automounting means some serious work ahead before R15 can be released, not to mention that the bug tracker continues to grow with little resolution progress. We are falling behind. Not a great image. We decide whether Trinity is going to move forward or become a niche piece of software used only by a relatively few people. The longer we proverbially fiddle while Rome burns, the easier users forget about Trinity. We release 3.5.14 because we need a stable release, which 3.5.13 was not and the current R14 is not, and because we need to get Trinity back into the news. The current R14 (proposed R15) has too many bugs and build issues to be considered for release in the near future. How long do we keep fiddling? We should release 3.5.14 Real Soon Now. We get serious about releasing something Real Soon Now to keep Trinity in the news, or accept our fate as a niche project. We can do this if we get serious. Or we keep picking the lint out of our belly buttons. Basically, summer vacation needs to end. :-) Thoughts? Darrell

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libkdcraw configure problem
by Mike Howard 31 Aug '12

31 Aug '12

Anybody had any success building libkdcraw lately? I'm using the latest from GIT, with tqt etc installed but I'm getting the following during 'configure'. The system is x86_64. checking for Qt... configure: error: Qt (>= Qt 3.2 and < 4.0) (headers and libraries) not found. Please check your installation! As far as I can tell my system is setup correctly, other libraries/dependencies (avahi-tqt, python-tqt, sip4-tqt etc, etc) find the required libs & headers. I guess I'm doing something stupid or missing something peculiar to libkdcraw? Mike. -- Any question is easy if you know the answer!

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Missing check box widgets
by Darrell Anderson 27 Aug '12

27 Aug '12

Latest GIT. The check box widgets do not appear in Configure Desktop -> Behavior -> Device Icons Both existing and fresh profiles. Would somebody confirm? Darrell

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WHOA - 3513-sru 'Most' KHelpCenter App Manuals - MISSING (Bug 1178)
by David C. Rankin 27 Aug '12

27 Aug '12

Slavek, Darrell Slavek, We need to FIX the khelpcenter manuals. Most of them are missing. Darrell, since you seem intimately familiar with getting them to work, what do we need to look for? What is strange is that in some groups -- some are there and some are not. I'm not sure what to make of that. I've taken the time to summarize the application manuals that are missing from khelpcenter in 3513-sru. I have opened http://bugs.pearsoncomputing.net/bugzilla/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1178 to resolve this. Application Manuals Development <all missing> Edutainment <all missing> Games <all missing> Graphics <all missing> Internet Knetload Network Monitor - <missing> Multimedia K3b - <missing> Kaffeine -<missing> Kmix - <missing> KMplayer - <missing> Office kbarcode - <missing> kexi - <missing> kfromula - <missing> kivia - <missing> koffice - <missing> koffice workspace - <missing> kplato - <missing> kpresenter - <missing> kspread - <missing> ksugar - <missing> ksugar designer - <missing> kword - <missing> Settings wallet management tools - <missing> Settings-Modules Hardware Display - <missing> ICC Color Profile - <missing> Laptop Battery - <missing> Remote Controls - <missing> Security & Privacy KDE Wallet - <missing> System Administration IBM Thinkpad Laptop - <missing> Monitor & Display - <missing> Sony Vaio Laptop - <missing> System Dolphin - <missing> Kcron - <missing> Kdat - <missing> Kdiskfree - <missing> KNutClient - <missing> KPackage - <missing> Krusader-root-mode - <missing> KsysV - <missing> KUser - <missing> KwickDisk - <missing> ScreenSavers - <missing> Utilities Accessibility <all missing> Ark - <missing> KbookReader - <missing> Desktop SuperKaramba - <missing> Editors KEdit - <missing> IRKick - <missing> KCalc - <missing> KCharSelect - <missing> KDirstat - <missing> KFileReplace - <missing> KFloppy - <missing> KHexEdit - <missing> KMobile - <missing> KRegExpEditor - <missing> Krename - <missing> Krusader - <missing> PIM KGpg - <missing> Kjots - <missing> Ksig - <missing> Toys <all missing> -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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tdelibs ABI break
by Timothy Pearson 27 Aug '12

27 Aug '12

All, This is just a quick note to let you know that the tdelibs ABI has been changed as of GIT hash 2a415e3. This will require a full rebuild of all libraries and applications which link against tdecore. Tim

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Slávek Banko: 3.5.13 software release update and backporting (changed on Archwiki)
by David C. Rankin 27 Aug '12

27 Aug '12

Slavek, I'm sorry I missed your request on IRC (x-chat was running minimized) I have corrected your name. (I think I'll blame Calvin for the screw-up, but it was probably me :) It reads: Slávek Banko: 3.5.13-sru developer, GIT maintainer, R14 backport selection and integration. Fixed: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Trinity#Developers Let me know of that is OK. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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dbus-1-tqt patches also into v3.5.13-sru?
by Slávek Banko 26 Aug '12

26 Aug '12

Tim, I noticed patches b6aba4c4 and cd48fbed. Please, it would be appropriate to include them also into v3.5.13-sru? Thanks Slavek --

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3.5.13-sru avahi-tqt (patch) - just need to pick commit and backport
by David C. Rankin 26 Aug '12

26 Aug '12

Slavek, avahi-tqt for 3.5.13-sru just needs the qt-watch.moc3 fix backported, then it builds fine. The diff is attached. I can't find a commit in http://git.trinitydesktop.org/cgit/avahi-tqt/ that matches, so this just might need to be reviewed and signed off. The reference for the fix is here: http://trinity-devel.pearsoncomputing.net/?0::6608 -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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kbugbuster
by Darrell Anderson 25 Aug '12

25 Aug '12

To anybody interested, bug report 803 was filed to address problems with using kbugbuster with the Trinity bugzilla. The good news is kbugbuster does connect to the Trinity bugzilla. Although probably needing attention to better support newer versions of bugzilla, I believe only some nominal patching is required to restore pleasurable viewing functionality to kbugbuster. The most noticeable problems are 1) Trinity is not the default server and 2) failure to correctly parse the XML. Please read the bug report to help. I am working on a nominal patch to fix some kbugbuster branding issues and to add the Trinity bugzilla to the server list. I will upload the patch soon. Yes, there is Deskzilla, a Java app. Restoring functionality to kbugbuster is more palatable and allows us to eat our own dog food. :-) Darrell

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