tde-devels September 2013

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40 discussions

by Slávek Banko

Hello all, since kernel 3.9 there is a new suspend state - freeze. I think it would be good to have support for this new suspend state in TDE hardware library prior to release 14.0.0, because adding support for new suspend state adds API function. I have already prepared a patch for tdelibs and tdebase. At this moment I'm working on patch for tdepowersave. See: http://bugs.trinitydesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1662 -- Slavek

10 years, 7 months

Kate tab bar plugin extension patch

by Michele Calgaro

I modified the Kate tab bar plugin to add the possibility to close a document by a mouse middle click on the tab button. The feature can be enabled/disabled by a checkbox in the plugin config page and it's off by default to preserve the original behavior. If enabled, a middle click on a tab button *without* any key modifier pressed will close the corresponding document, unless it's the last one (because in this case a new empty document would be automatically opened again). Attached proposed patch. I also moved most of the single line function definition from the .cpp to the .h inside the class declaration. This is just a matter of personal choice. If you don't like that or it's against some sort of convention, just ignore that part of the patch. The patch also removes to "unused variable" warning messages. Cheers Michele

10 years, 7 months

Ubuntu 13.10 is near, we can be ready

by Slávek Banko

Hello all, since it is near the autumnal Ubuntu release, I decided to test build current GIT tree on Ubuntu 13.10 (Saucy). There were very few problems, now all fixed. Current GIT tree can be now built on Ubuntu 13.10 successfully at 100%. Tim, if possible, you can add Ubuntu 13.10 (Saucy) on the build-farm. -- Slavek

10 years, 7 months

gtk3-tqt-engine FTBFS (debian/testing) and patch

by Michele Calgaro

gtk3-tqt-engine FTBFS on debian/testing, complaining that ld can't find libtdeui. Attached proposed patch. Cheers Michele

10 years, 7 months

Re: [trinity-devel] My opinion on Trinity project quality

by Darrell Anderson

On Sat, 14 Sep 2013 16:46:04 -0500 "Michael Henry" <bromichaelhenry(a)gmail.com> wrote: >Since the talk of TQT can someone explain how to port a KDE3/QT >app to Trinity/TQT? There are some scripts in the experimental branch. Darrell

10 years, 7 months

tdeedu does not install on debian/testing and patch

by Michele Calgaro

Hi there, tdeedu compiles but does not install on debian/testing due to an unmet dependency for ttf-dustin on khangman-trinity. ttf-dustin is available in wheezy but not in jessie or sid. Instead fonts-dustin provided the fonts provided by ttf-dustin (which is a dummy package by the way). Attached proposed patch for the debian/control file. With this, tdeedu compiles and installs. Cheers Michele

10 years, 7 months

Re: [trinity-devel] gtk3-tqt-engine FTBFS (debian/testing) and patch

by Darrell Anderson

>gtk3-tqt-engine FTBFS on debian/testing, complaining that ld can't >find libtdeui. Attached proposed patch. Although I can push patches to git, one of the software gurus will have to review the patch before I can do so. :-) Both Tim and Slavek are Debian users. Darrell

10 years, 7 months

Re: [trinity-devel] My opinion on Trinity project quality

by Darrell Anderson

>Sure, all you mentioned about KDE4 are indeed drawbacks that hold >me >from using it. What I expect to be done for KDE4 is some 'Classic >mode' (like for Windows), that will rip those horrible kid visuals >and >needless daemons. Also merge of window manager features from 3 to >4 is >a must to decide KDE4 more or less serious shell. > >Sorry, I don't want to repeat in details why TDE is wrong. You can >find it in bugs (open and closed) and here on the list by >searching >for my name. > >Figuratively speaking, they try to move a mountain to build a >straight >way through when it is satisfactory to build a road over that >mountain. They will never have enough resources to move the >mountain, >the project will always be half-finished and half-working. In >fact, >all this tremendous work is needless. And moreover, it is even >worse >than this simple image. Moving a mountain is finite job and what >they >do is doom of endless support. They will never have time for real >features and bug-fixes. Moreover, I'm afraid that they will only >make >more bugs. > >Unfortunately, both of these projects KDE4 and TDE hadn't followed >real users expectations. Possibly you have some points of merit, but I don't think anybody here is going to spend time looking through the bug tracker and list archives to find what exactly you are referring. A bullet list of your concerns would be helpful. :-) Trinity is a small project. The people involved have lives. Everybody does their best to keep things moving but that is not always possible. I suspect with free/libre software that users tend to forget that project members are impacted by life. For example, recently I experienced a life-changing event that affects my time involved. I am aware of at least one other Trinity team member who is experiencing similar events. We don't share that information publicly because the events are very much private and personal. Yet family and life takes precedence over software projects. Tomorrow the same could well happen to you. The important point is to bring constructive criticisms to the mail list in a manner that allows for such events. A little sympathy and understanding goes a long way. :-) I use Trinity from Git and have been doing so for more than a year. Yes, bugs exist, I too have filed bug reports (probably more than any Trinity user). We peck away at the reports when we have time. Certianly with the bugs Trinity is not perfect or super polished, but none of the bugs that I have filed reports are show-stoppers. Almost all of the bugs are irritating to one degree or another, but none of the bugs come close to stopping me from using Trinity. I am aware that other people have different use cases and the bugs they report might be more critical. In short, despite the number of total bug reports filed by all people, I find Trinity (Git) remarkably stable. I have used KDE4, as recent as 4.10.2, and found that KDE4 is not without its own set of bugs and usability issues. Between the two desktops, I find Trinity more appealing to my computer usage and the related KDE4 bugs that affect me to be more irritating than those from Trinity. Not to mention I don't relish certain design aspects of KDE4. If I had no choice I could adapt to KDE4, but I'd rather use Trinity. I have tried Xfce as well and find that desktop much less configurable and tunable than either Trinity or KDE4. I have not tried GNOME since the 1.x days because I don't care for the developer culture there. Please help us improve Trinity and our response climate by listing exactly what is troubling you. Possibly some of the bug reports you filed can be bumped in priority for the R14.0.0 release. Darrell

10 years, 7 months

Re: [trinity-devel] qt3 API incompatiblity with qt3 programs

by Darrell Anderson

>What I need to do to run old qt3 programs on 3.5.13? >I need to make some kind of aufs chrooted environment. >Please, provide exact recipe of making it. In the Trinity source tree is a directory named experimental. There are some scripts there to convert KDE3 apps to TDE. Tim and Slavek are better qualified to explain how to use the scripts. We should have a wiki article. I don't know that pure Qt3 apps (rather than KDE3 apps) can be converted with those scripts. I presume the best approach is to install the original Qt3 in your chroot and build the app there. I haven't tinkered with that but as TQt3 normally is installed in /opt/trinity, there should be no conflicts installing the original Qt3 in /usr. I have no idea whether the original Qt3 will conflict with Qt4. Darrell

10 years, 7 months

qt3 API incompatiblity with qt3 programs

by Aleksey Midenkov

What I need to do to run old qt3 programs on 3.5.13? I need to make some kind of aufs chrooted environment. Please, provide exact recipe of making it.

10 years, 7 months

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