I see you merged many of the Chakra patches. Here is what I found that does not seem to be in trinity kde. Of course, you know best whether the patches should be merged. dbus-qt3 dbus-qt3-compile-fix-thoenig-01.patch dbus-qt3-do-not-close-shared-connection-thoenig-01.patch gtk-qt-engine fix-konqueror-flash.patch kdebase 04-safely_remove_umount_progress_dialog.patch (seems useful; there is no feedback or progress bar when unmounting, just the icon disappearing; and the icon does not always disappear on 3.5.10) 05-transparent_lock_logout_applet.patch 08-hide_unneeded_menu_entries.patch 09-better_screen_icon_in_desktop_prefs.patch 10-disable_kpersonalizer.patch (I don't like this patch) 15-various_less_verbal_kdesu.patch 20-ksmserver_theme_support.patch 21-ksmserver_fade.patch (if merging this one please see bug 258) 22-add_change_session_icon.patch 24-startkde_source_profile_directly.patch (seems distro-specific, expects /etc/profile.d) 26-bigger_title_icons_in_kcontrol.patch fix-async_history.patch fix-kde3and4.diff (seems to be distro-specific and is looking for hard-coded directories) post-build-dunkelstern-ksmserver-theme-kcm-fix.patch (I don't know what this is) post-build-fix-zsh_profile.patch (seems distro-specific) I hope this helps. Just ignore if you already looked at those patches! Darrell

Once again, you're way ahead of the curve. :) Seems you already looked at those patches too. Only one you provided no comment: 04-safely_remove_umount_progress_dialog.patch Seems that might be useful, but your decision!

I have Debian Lenny installed on some separate partitions in my office system. During all of our conversations and work I had plain forgotten about that install. I have KDE 3.5.9/10 or whatever the default Debian system provides. The system is current to about April or May 2010. Do I need to uninstall those KDE 3 packages before installing Trinity nightlies? Or will apt-get/synaptic handle the updates? Do I need only add the Trinity PPA to the sources.list to find to install the nightlies? (Is this the correct web page?: https://launchpad.net/~kde3-maintainers/+archive/trinity-svn-nightly/+index…) Does apt-get or Synaptic provide a way to reduce download bandwidth by updating only the differences in packages (like rsync) rather than an entire package? I realize these are not developer specific questions. I'm not a Debian guru or main user, but I might be able to help with some testing by installing Trinity in my Debian install. Darrell

Are any of your Debian testers going to test Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) with Trinity? If not then perhaps put out the word to try? Basically LMDE is Debian Testing, which should work, but I'm curious if anybody has or will perform actual tests with that version. Darrell

I'll give it a go, later on today URL (don't have the time to search now). Kate On Friday 10 September 2010, Timothy Pearson wrote:

kdepim needs libical, available from here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/freeassociation/ It's a relatively small parser for PIM files. You will also need libcaldav and libcarddav, both of which are available on the Trinity home page under "Related Projects". Tim

A heavily patched libical was originally included as part of the kdepim source code. For the Trinity project this was split into an external dependency, as other programs also use libical and there was no more need for the KDE-specific patches to the upstream code. This is a dependency that will need to be filled even for basic functionality. libcaldav and libcarddav are for the new CalDAV and CardDAV resources, for korganizer and kaddressbook respectively. You can disable them, but you will lose interoperability with newer PIM suites such as Google Calendar and Zimbra. Tim

Yes. It is used by libkcal though; it is a replacement for the old internal version of libical. Trust me; it's much better this way--the old integrated libical had many bugs, including random changing of Korganizer appointment times. The resources that use them *should* shut down automatically when those libraries are not detected. If this does not occur, let me know and I will fix it ASAP. Look for the .tar.gz file--it is in that list somewhere. Yes it would. However, security certificates cost money. Lots of it. Unless someone would like to donate a site-wide certificate for *.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net, I don't think that will change. ;-) Tim

No. libical is maintained upstream in a separate source control system; the Trinity project merely uses it and does not have any control over it (rather like Qt). OK, I'm going to make them both required. They are less than 150Kb each when built and add significant functionality. As these two libraries originated within the Trinity project, and are maintained by the same, I also agree that they should be placed in svn/dependencies. Yeah, I find it annoying as well. This looks like it might work (I haven't tried it yet): http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~perspectives/firefox.html Tim

<snip> I should say so! ;-) Have you had a chance to fire up a Trinity session yet to ensure that it works properly? Tim

OK, sounds like a plan. Working on kdepim now; looks like the libical API changed slightly in 0.46. Regarding libcaldav and libcarddav, both will build with this sequence: ./autogen.sh ./configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man make make install Tim

Not sure when I'll get around to it. The build process will be exactly the same either way through. Also, try updating kdepim to SVN revision 1174005. I have added some autoconf magic to detect libical 0.46 and compensate; let me know if the build gets any farther. Tim

I don't think you posted the kdemultimedia build log...would you mind sending it over? Thanks! Tim

Currently I have the --disable-debug option in my build script configure options. Am I correct that if I want to send debug reports I need to change that option to --enable-debug=full? How much does that add to building times and package sizes? Darrell

Building kdebindings FTBFS. Build log and build script attached. Darrell