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

I don't provide dbus-qt3 in the Trinity source. Already applied. My other notes are in parenthesis below: from the users?) they need to enter their password) (duplicate functionality) configuration files directly to disk? Personally I hate it when I configure something, apply it, and the computer crashes/goes down nearly simultaneously for a different reason. Then I have to *re*-configure everything; this makes for a bad user experience) Tim

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

You shouldn't need to do anything fancy. No, that is an old Ubuntu-Lucid-only archive. All new development takes place on the internal QuickBuild system due to build time constraints on the shared Launchpad system. I have added installation instructions to the main Trinity web page at: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/ Just click on your distro and follow the instructions. ;-) Not sure, sorry. I remember some discussion about that many years ago, but I do not know if that feature ever made it in to Debian. Much appreciated; I already have a few Debian testers but more is always better. Tim

Not that I'm aware of; if you would like to test it that would be great! I have added a distribution test matrix here: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/wiki/bin/view/Developers/FunctionalityT… When you have given it a thorough testing, add the distribution to the appropriate table along with some comments and a rating from 0 to 5. Anyone can edit the test matrix if they would like to test a new distribution. If you are re-testing an existing distribution, add yourself to the Individual Test Results table, then average the individual ratings for the main distribution test table. Tim

FTBFS. Build log attached. First noticeable error messages: icalformatimpl.cpp:34:28: error: libical/ical.h: No such file or directory icalformatimpl.cpp:35:34: error: libical/icalparser.h: No such file or directory icalformatimpl.cpp:36:39: error: libical/icalrestriction.h: No such file or directory From icalformatimpl.cpp: extern "C" { #include <libical/ical.h> #include <libical/icalparser.h> #include <libical/icalrestriction.h> } I can't find any such directory or files on my build system. I just updated svn. All packages that have been built are installed. Darrell

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

Yes, when backtraces are required (e.g. for crash reports). Build time change should be minimal, but you will end up with a large amount of debugging symbol files which will inflate the total package size significantly. 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

This is a list of KDE 3.5.10 core packages provided with Slackware 12.2. (Building other packages requires using third-party build scripts.) This batch is the most important. Here is the short list of packages I haven't been able to build: kdebindings kdemultimedia kdepim koffice Here are the packages I can build: arts kdelibs kdebase kdeaccessibility kdeutils kdenetwork kdeadmin kdeartwork kdegames kdetoys kdeedu kdegraphics kdesdk kdevelop kdeaddons kdewebdev k3b amarok knemo ktorrent Still much to do, but looking better than a few days ago! Darrell

<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

Check the list messages at Friday, September 10, 2010 11:34 AM. Subject: Building kdemultimedia.