tde-devels November 2018

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Preparation for work on translations
by Slávek Banko 01 Mar '19

01 Mar '19

Hi all, those of you who have been here for a long time might recall that when I joined the community I assumed that my tasks would be only two: backport patches to the stable TDE series and work on translation. Over time, it turned out that my tasks on the project would be bigger. However, work on translations is still a postponed task. Recently, I have devoted some time to the tasks that are essential to move us forward with the work on translations. Therefore, I would like to inform you about the results and related plans. I apologize for long email. 1. Unnecessary updates of POT files during package build I observed that during the DEB packages build, an attempt was made to update POT files. However, this step makes no sense. Bundling usually takes place in dedicated pure chroot. Therefore, the result of updating POT files would be discarded anyway. So this is unnecessary work. At the same time, the extractrc tool is used during the POT files update. But this tool is part of the tdesdk-scripts-trinity package. Therefore, when building other packages, it is usually not present. So updating POT files during building could not work well. That's why I already removed these unnecessary updates of POT files while building DEB packages. 2. Do we still need to use the old modified version of xgettext? I found out what the current status is and whether there are still reasons to use the old modified version of xgettext (kde-xgettext). Patches for the old version solve two things: a) adding a way to enter plural forms of strings b) adding a way to enter translation context The current versions of gexttext already have both of these options, but they seem to be implemented in a different way. Before we can start using standard xgettext in TDE, we will need to add support for a new way of plural forms of strings and translation contexts. So far, we need to continue using an old modified version of kde-xgettext. 3. Can modern gettext replace the extractrc tool? Modern versions of gettext can handle XML files. We use XML files for 'kcfg', 'rc' and 'ui'. Using ITS support in gettext, there is a way to define which texts are to be extracted for translations. I tested this option, but I encountered some problems: a) Tags are written in strings as html entities: < / > / &. After extraction using xgettext, are left in this form. But the extractrc tool convert them to the appropriate characters '<', '>', '&'. I did not find a way to do this with xgettext and ITS. b) XPath is used to determine which strings are to be extracted from XML files. Files 'kcfg' use their own XML namespace and I did not find a way how to enter XPath to work properly with ITS in xgettext. That's why I decided it was better to continue using the extractrc tool. 4. How do we create and update POT files? In order to provide strings for translation, we first need to create and update POT files. The best place for these files is right in the source code – in GIT. Therefore, these files need to be maintained independently of the building binaries. Therefore, it is obvious that for this task it is not a good time during the build binary packages, nor the usual use of Automake or CMake. Although the usual use of CMake with CMakeLists.txt for updating POT files is not a good choice, using CMake as such seems to be a good idea. CMake allows using the -P option to process a different file than the usual CMakeLists.txt. In this case, it does not create build folder, it does not create a cache - exactly as it suits us for our purpose. I decided to use the name CMakeL10n.txt. I have prepared the CMake module TDEL10n.cmake. This module provides functions for simplifing directories handling – function tde_add_l10n_subdirectory as the equivalent for add_subdirectory and function tde_auto_add_l10n_subdirectories as an equivalent for tde_auto_add_subdirectories. And above all, the tde_create_l10n_template macro that provides POT files generation. This macro provides some benefits that seemed useful: a) If resource files are processed – for example, *.ui, the work file "rc.cpp" is commonly used to save extracted strings for translation. This file is then processed by kde-xgettext. Links to the original location of strings in the resulting POT file then refer to this "rc.cpp", which is not very useful. The tde_create_l10n_template macro performs additional processing by replacing references to "rc.cpp" with references to the original resource files. Therefore, the POT file does not refer to a non-existent "rc.cpp" file, but to real locations in resource files. b) When a new POT file is generated, a comparison is made with the original POT file. If only the date of POT file generation is changed, the original POT file will be left unchanged. This prevents unnecessary POT file updates. This will allow to run a regular update of POT files without causing unnecessary commits. 5. What's next? For revisions and comments, I created a pull request containing a CMake module TDEL10n.cmake: https://mirror.git.trinitydesktop.org/gitea/TDE/tde-common-cmake/pulls/2 ...and pull requests with a demonstration of use CMakeL10n in two modules: https://mirror.git.trinitydesktop.org/gitea/TDE/abakus/pulls/1 https://mirror.git.trinitydesktop.org/gitea/TDE/tdebase/pulls/19 After testing, we will need to add CMakeL10n.txt to generate POT files in all other modules. Once we have automated updating of POT files, translation work can begin! 6. How can users work on translations? I will leave the answer to this question for later. Whoever was more attentive could have noticed in several earlier commits that "something is being prepared" :) Cheers -- Slávek

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Problem with starting arduino ide
by MLR 01 Dec '18

01 Dec '18

Hi, I have ubuntu 18.4 with trinity R14.0.5. If I want to start the arduino ide from arduino.cc (download and extract arduino-1.8.7-linux64.tar.xz) there comes the splash-screen for one second and it crashes with this message: ~/arduino-1.8.7$ ./arduino Picked up JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS: TQSettings::sync: failed to open '/etc/tqt3/tqt_plugins_3.5rc.tmp' for writing What I have to install or change? Thank you very much for the great Desktop.

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TDE Gitea Workspace was updated to Gitea 1.6.x
by Slávek Banko 24 Nov '18

24 Nov '18

The Trinity Desktop Environment (TDE) development team is pleased to announce that the TDE Gitea Workspace (TGW) collaboration tool has been updated to the Gitea 1.6.x series. This new release of Gitea brings some interesting things, such as the Code Review and Approval and Issue Dependencies. For a detailed description, see the Gitea 1.6.0 announcement: https://blog.gitea.io/2018/11/gitea-1.6.0-is-released/ TDE core developers are already using TGW on a daily basis and they hope more and more users and contributors will join them soon. Read more about TGW and how to use it on the wiki https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/TDE_Gitea_Workspace and access the workspace at https://mirror.git.trinitydesktop.org/gitea .

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Questions regarding build fails on debian
by deloptes 23 Nov '18

23 Nov '18

Hi, I have seen many changes recently in the tools cmake or automake and I tried to rebuild my TDE repository over the weekend. tdelibs-trinity failed because it needs libpkcs11-helper1-dev which depends on libssl1.0-dev other packages however depend on libssl-dev like: kasablanca-trinity tdeaddons-trinity tqca-tls tdebase If I change the control file to libssl-dev | libssl1.0-dev it all works. What can we do about that? Perhaps you have better insight in the difference between two packages. I also can't build couple of packages like kplayer or krecipes for example ./.libs/libkplayernoinst.a(libkplayernoinst_la.all_cpp.o) (.data.rel.ro+0x1048): undefined reference to `static_QUType_ptr' ./.libs/libkplayernoinst.a(libkplayernoinst_la.all_cpp.o) (.data.rel.ro+0x1068): undefined reference to `static_QUType_ptr' What can I do about that? thanks regards

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pixmap memory leak
by Ilya Dogolazky 20 Nov '18

20 Nov '18

Hello ! On my freshly (2 month ago or so) installed trinity desktop (4:14.0.5-0debian9.0.0+0) memory usage of Xorg process grows all the time, it's now 66 of available 170 GB virtual memory after 1 day running and in two or three days the system will kill Xorg because the virtual memory will end. Otherwise it works fine. Here is the output of "xrestop" saying that most of the memory is used by KDE Desktop: res-base Wins GCs Fnts Pxms Misc Pxm mem Other Total PID Identifier 1e00000 42 31 0 1654 1674 92369288K 40K 92369329K 77215 KDE Desktop (and yes, I don't know why it shows 92G which is more than 66G reported by htop for Xorg process) Is there any known workaround for this? Please set Cc: to my address, because otherwise gmail tends to lose some e-mails from TDE lists, thanks!

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Does anyone know how to contact Tim?
by Slávek Banko 10 Nov '18

10 Nov '18

Hi all, we all know that Tim is usually very busy and it's hard to get in touch with him. For everyday work on the project, this is not a major problem. However, there are tasks for which Tim's hands are necessary. For example, uploading ISO images for Ubuntu 18.04 with TDE 14.0.5 into the official mirror system, adding Ubuntu 18.10 (Cosmic) to QuickBuild, creating GIT repositories for next applications, changes to web pages, etc. The problem is, there has been no way to contact Tim for the past 1.5 months. There is no reaction to mails - neither in mailing lists nor in direct contact. At Trinity IRC rooms Tim is not present. Every attempt to contact Tim over the Internet is unsuccessful. Please, is there anyone in the mailing list who can get in touch with Tim? Is there, for example, someone who has personal contact with Tim and can tell him that there are some tasks for which he is needed? Cheers -- Slávek

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