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Help porting KDE3 app to trinity
by russell＠lls.lls.com 22 Mar '16

22 Mar '16

Hi I'm trying to migrate our systems to a 'pure' TDE 14 environment on Debian Jessie (previously used Wheezy with a TDE and KDE3 mix) and having real problems porting an old KDE3.5 application (it's a modified version of kconsole that's needed to run some of our legacy stuff). I freely admit I don't understand the build process/kde-tde changes and flailing around with configure/make isn't getting me anywhere apart from deeper into a hole :-( Is there anyone on this list that would be willing to port it for me? If someone can do this, as a form of thank-you, I'll donate $500 to TDE. PS - I do hope this request/offer won't be regarded as inappropriate and I will be making my annual-ish donation to TDE regardless of the above. -- Regards, Russell -------------------------------------------------------------------- | Russell Brown | MAIL: russell(a)lls.com PHONE: 01780 471800 | | Lady Lodge Systems | WWW Work: http://www.lls.com | | Peterborough, England | WWW Play: http://www.ruffle.me.uk | --------------------------------------------------------------------

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Visual facelifting proposals
by Thomas Maus 22 Mar '16

22 Mar '16

Conversative stance and traditions not withstanding, TDE might profit from some visual improvements, IMHO. Nothing fundamental, just some low-hanging fruits. Perhaps worth considering: The icon sets from "http://www.ravefinity.com/". They claim to do only Open-Source work, so this should be feasible -- either for direct inclusion, or as a theme source. The "vibrantly simple" icon set works very well vor me, for example. Over the years I've collected a lot of Xcursor icon sets for various purposes and reasons: * color variants of classic sets, better harmonizing with my colorscheme(s) ** Oxygen -- wide spectrum of colors, some slightly textured ** DMZ -- small spectrum of colors ** Komix -- wide color spectrum, somewhat flippant, but excellent in combination with e.g. the "Kids" icon set, and quite usable ** Popsicle -- wide color spectrum, quite flippant, but excellent in combination with e.g. the "Kids" icon set * dynamic/pulsating cursors, easier to locate (helpful accessibility feature for some people) ** e.g. "flame" rotating pseudo-3D object, but not to fidgety ** "GreenLight"-series, slowly pulsating glow, in the actual color of the cursor (not necessarily green ;-) ** "Pulse-Glass"-series, slowly pulsating glow ** "bCircle" and "Tanga" -- very unusual, but interesting design, with very strong visual cues maybe helpful in terms of accessibility I attach a few (static) screenshots of the cursors -- if there is interest for some of them, I can dig into the license issues ... Some of the icon sets have problems, e.g. * TDE-LoColor -- does this actually has still an use-case? your are not aiming at car dashboard display, aren't you? it is very low-res, too. * iKons -- IMHO nice, but quite incomplete? * Tango -- only apps icons!? You might ask "so what?". Well, they might scare off some users, before they find the more pleasing themes. For discussion: What about having a kind of "tag mechanism" for artwork? We could then tag artwork as "colorful", "dark theme", "light theme", "monochromatic", "accesibility optimzed", "nostalgia", "kids", "modern", "conversative", "flippant", etc. (multiple tags can be applied to an artwork!). The user might set preferences in the control-center, which limit the artwork actually presented for selection -- this would be innovative, improve the harmony of the resulting setup, reduce the clutter in the selection lists and would enable a harmonic co-existence of old and new visual styles, without need to drop legacy artwork. Finally, about the TDE/Trinity logos, which are still very KDE-ish: If that is wanted -- OK. If more visual distance would be welcomed, have a view at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triquetra https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triskelion Would some simple, color-ramped (to stay clear of well-established meanings) Triquetra or Triskelion be of interest? I can draft those on positive feedback. Best regards, ThoMaus

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VCardConverter parseVCard problem
by deloptes 19 Mar '16

19 Mar '16

Hi I filed a bug 2613 (https://bugs.trinitydesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2613) This is really blocking me ATM, hence the high prio I set. How does the fix cycle looks like from time line perspective? I'm considering downloading the source and patching myself. thanks in advance

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Warnings about missing embedded icons
by Slávek Banko 19 Mar '16

19 Mar '16

Hi all, try the following: Open Konqueror and in Konqueror then open /opt/trinity/bin or /bin and watch ~/.xsession-errors. You'll see a lot of warnings about the missing embedded icons. Because many binaries do not have an embedded icon, and the user can not change it in any way, seem to me these reports unnecessary. I propose to change these messages from kdWarning to kdDebug. What do you think about it? -- Slávek

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Having a problem compiling tdepim libs for Gentoo packaging
by E. Liddell 18 Mar '16

18 Mar '16

The short version: some auxiliary build commands are trying to touch directories the package manager doesn't want them to touch, resulting in sandbox violation failures of the following format: === VERSION 1.0 FORMAT: F - Function called FORMAT: S - Access Status FORMAT: P - Path as passed to function FORMAT: A - Absolute Path (not canonical) FORMAT: R - Canonical Path FORMAT: C - Command Line F: mkdir S: deny P: /root/.trinity A: /root/.trinity R: /root/.trinity C: /usr/trinity/14/bin/tdeconfig_compiler /var/tmp/portage/trinity-base/libkcal-14.0.0/work/tdepim/libkcal/htmlexportsettings.kcfg /var/tmp/portage/trinity-base/libkcal-14.0.0/work/tdepim/libkcal/htmlexportsettings.kcfgc === I've attacked a full build log for libtdepim which ends in a couple of failures of the same type. The long(er) version: Gentoo is a source distribution, so Gentoo packages are more or less glorified build scripts. The package manager creates a per-package sandbox in /var/tmp/portage/ which is used during build and install to keep failures from spewing files all over the system. For some reason, both tdeconfig_compiler and maketdewidgets are trying to do a mkdir in (probably) ~/.trinity . They don't, as far as I can tell, put anything in the resulting directories. Regardless, this breaks the sandbox and the build can't complete. This is in 14.0.0, but if there's been a commit that has changed any of this since then, I can't find it. It's possible that there's an additional CMake variable I need to set, in which case feel free to hit me over the head with it. Otherwise, I need some way of either redirecting those mkdir commands so that they land inside the sandbox, or keeping them from being issued in the first place. E. Liddell

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Git mirror to use
by Fat-Zer 17 Mar '16

17 Mar '16

I'm wondering, if something changed over years. Which mirror I supposed to use for scripts which meant to be used to build trinity on end-user machines from source (gentoo ebuilds)? Now I use http://scm.trinitydesktop.org/scm/git/<package name>. Is it correct, or there is something better? I don't think it will make a high load any day, unless TDE will become anyway popular, but you never know and it's better to ask...

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CMake × tquic
by Slávek Banko 16 Mar '16

16 Mar '16

Hi Fat-Zer, all, I saw that in CMake processing of UIC files is a called command with redirect of output. I think that's not the ideal way. Therefore, I propose to modify it so that it will be used CMake method of processing outputs. See proposed patch. Cheers -- Slávek

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[Patch] tdegames: initial cmake conversion
by Fat-Zer 14 Mar '16

14 Mar '16

subj; Build files are mostly identical but usability test are required.

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[patch] Initial cmake convertion for k3b-i18n
by Fat-Zer 13 Mar '16

13 Mar '16

subj;

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[patch]Initial cmake conversion for k3b
by Fat-Zer 13 Mar '16

13 Mar '16

Unlike autotools this one doesn't installs headers. Why may we need k3b headers in system? Is there something linking against it? If so, I'll add install statements for them... Also it doesn't installs k3bsetup2 by default because mostly every modern linux have sane permissions to allow user to burn cd's whithout such hacky crap. +musepack is disabled due to k3b doesn't builds against recent versions (tested with 465)

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