2 Jun
2015
2 Jun
'15
12:17 a.m.
On Tue, Jun 02, 2015 at 09:06:37AM +0900, Michele Calgaro wrote:
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On 06/02/2015 02:35 AM, Fede Galland wrote:
Alright, that answers all my questions for now! I'll take a look at the
git repo. I didn't know about the qt3-tqt3 converter.
Thanks a lot!
hi all, I'm a newcomer to trinity, so I might
be using the wrong channel for my question.
Hi Fede, welcome to TDE!
First of all, let me state that I had grown
dissapointed by the trend current linux is going, but I installed the
trinity repos just to have the old rosegarden easily installed on my wheezy systems and I
just can't believe how
lightweight and featureful TDE is. It seems to perform better than the good old KDE3.5
Sure it is, since TDE forked from KDE3.5 and fixed and improved several things over
time :-)
To the point:
Is anybody mantaining the rosegarden version shipping in trinity's repos?
It
is maintained in the same way other packages are, i.e. we try to make sure the package
builds and install over time.
I mean, is it expected to report stability bugs
on it?
If you mean "someone is adding patches/fixes from outside", the
answer is most likely "no", but if you wish to
contribute to that you are welcome. You can suggest required patches or even trying
adding them yourself at first. Any
good patch can then be pushed to the source repo.
Why did you ship with version 1.7.0 instead of the latest 1.7.x series, 1.7.3 (as per
rosegarden's sourceforge)?
Not sure, probably at the time TDE was forked, 1.7.0
was the version in the KDE repo and then no one worked on that.
You can file an enhancement bug report to TDE bugszilla, possibly pointing to a location
where to download 1.7.3. Or
again feel free to contribute yourself.
I tried compiling Rosegarden 1.7.3 just to see if it was easily achievable, but I got
only as far as to point cmake
to the tqt3 libs. It fails searching for KDE3's kcfg and whatnot. If this indeed is
the correct channel I will
provide debugging info. In a somewhat unrelated topic: Is it still possible to build
KDE3.5 minded applications on
trinity? Is there a guide with steps to change the dependencies? In other words, is
trinity backwards compatible
with KDE3.5?
Yes and no. TDE is not backward compatible with KDE3.5 as is, since
many things have been renamed to avoid conflicts
with KDE and because an intermediate layer (tqinterface) was added between qt/tqt and TDE
apps.
But an old KDE3.5 app can be converted to a TDE application and rebuilt. See the scripts
in the experimental/kde-tde
folder in the git repo. As a quick guide:
1) import the KDE code
2) convert qt to tqt (see experimental/qt3-tqt3/convert_existing_qt3_app_to_tqt3)
3) convert kde code to tde (see experimental/kde-tde)
4) import the admin and cmake code from the main repo
5) build and hunts for errors :-)