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Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 20:09:00 +0100
From: francois.andriot@free.fr
To: trinity-users@lists.pearsoncomputing.net
Subject: Re: [trinity-users] Trinity packages for PCLinuxOS 2012

Le 14/11/2012 14:33, Alexandre Couture a écrit :

Thank you Francois!
It works very well. It is amazingly fast on PCLinuxOS and it is stable.
Here a 2 ''problems'' that are not that much important that I have found:
-It installs base packages of KDE4 as dependencies of TDE. It is not a big problem since I won't use KDE4 but it takes more disk space.

Hello,

the KDE4 stuff are installed because of a (wrong, imho) dependency in the distribution.
In order to get the PCLInuxOS wallpapers in TDE, I need  to install this package: "wallpaper-theme-default"
It contains only ".jpg" wallpapers.
But this package has a requirement for "kde-workspace-core".
Why do wallpapers require KDE4 ? It should be the contrary. ...
I suggest you fill a bug report in PCLinuxOS web site...

-On the login screen, it says Welcome to and after that there are system variables instead of just TDE or PCLinuxOS. I plan to use autologin so it will not even be seen.

OK, this one will be fixed when I rebuild the package.

I will need other packages such as KCalc, Ark, K3B, amarok, Dolphin and deKorator.
If someone can take all these packages and their dependencies from the Mandriva 2011 repo to copy them in the repo made by Francois for PCLinuxOS, it would be very appreciated. Since PCLOS, Mandriva and Mageia are in the same family, it think that these packages would be a direct fit without having to rebuild them.

Alas, even though you may install packages from MGA or MDK, they are likely not to work correctly.
Both Mandriva 2011 and Mageia 2 use libpng15, but PCLOS still use libpng12. That means most (if not all) of Trinity applications must be rebuilt for libpng12.
But don't worry, I will build the remaining packages soon.


Francois



Hi Francois,

It's funny to see that the wallpapers would need kde4. In my opinion, the trinity packages shouldn't have the PCLOS wallpapers as a dependency too. I'll check if I can force the removal of the wallpaper package and then if I can remove KDE4, but at the same time, it can be useful to have the base packages of KDE4 if I want to add KDE4 apps later, so I'll think about it!

For the login, I found out that I could write the text in the login manager page in the TDE control center...

I have installed qtcurve theme for qtk2, qt3 and qt4. Since I have some apps written in qt3 (as QCad and TDE) and some that looks like qt3 apps (as DraftSight) but is made in fact in qt4 and pure qt4 apps (as VLC media player and Clementine). Now, I have 2 or more qtconfig. PCLOS has one QT3 and one QT4, DraftSight seems to have a QT3 (probably that it isn't completely ported to qt4) In some qtconfig, I don't see my qtcurve theme but I see support for GTK theme, which is QTCurve, so I ended up having QTCurve in every apps.

Thank you!

-Alexandre