Hi all;
I did solve the previous complaint about the TDE version of kcalc losing its binary input and bitfield display, by making two links in the menu's, one to the old KDE kcalc, and one to the TDE kcalc.
But I/we have another problem. Back around kubuntu 6.04 LTS time, kcalc had a pair of menu macros to do inch to metric, and metric to inch.
By ubu 10.04 LTS, those disappeared, apparently never to be seen again.
Whats chances those could be resurrected for the R14.2 version of TDE?
Surely the older codebase still exists someplace, and for us who live in both worlds as I was in electronics for 55 years of my working life, and that pair of macro's were, while they existed, handier than bottled beer & sliced bread in keeping the two measurement worlds on the same page around my piece of this planet. But now its gone. Sniff...
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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Hi all;
I did solve the previous complaint about the TDE version of kcalc losing its binary input and bitfield display, by making two links in the menu's, one to the old KDE kcalc, and one to the TDE kcalc.
But I/we have another problem. Back around kubuntu 6.04 LTS time, kcalc had a pair of menu macros to do inch to metric, and metric to inch.
By ubu 10.04 LTS, those disappeared, apparently never to be seen again.
Whats chances those could be resurrected for the R14.2 version of TDE?
Surely the older codebase still exists someplace, and for us who live in both worlds as I was in electronics for 55 years of my working life, and that pair of macro's were, while they existed, handier than bottled beer & sliced bread in keeping the two measurement worlds on the same page around my piece of this planet. But now its gone. Sniff...
Cheers, Gene Heskett
I don't have the Ubuntu source archive from that long ago; if you can dig up a working source (I need the source .debs, not the binary .debs) it should be trivial to port.
Tim
On Tuesday 07 April 2015 17:50:58 Timothy Pearson wrote:
Hi all;
I did solve the previous complaint about the TDE version of kcalc losing its binary input and bitfield display, by making two links in the menu's, one to the old KDE kcalc, and one to the TDE kcalc.
But I/we have another problem. Back around kubuntu 6.04 LTS time, kcalc had a pair of menu macros to do inch to metric, and metric to inch.
By ubu 10.04 LTS, those disappeared, apparently never to be seen again.
Whats chances those could be resurrected for the R14.2 version of TDE?
Surely the older codebase still exists someplace, and for us who live in both worlds as I was in electronics for 55 years of my working life, and that pair of macro's were, while they existed, handier than bottled beer & sliced bread in keeping the two measurement worlds on the same page around my piece of this planet. But now its gone. Sniff...
Cheers, Gene Heskett
I don't have the Ubuntu source archive from that long ago; if you can dig up a working source (I need the source .debs, not the binary .debs) it should be trivial to port.
Tim
Gah, obviously I don't either Tim. Have the older repos at ubuntu, say for 8.04LTS been recycled by now? I would hope not, but lemme see what google upchucks. Looks like the src repo's are the first to go, nothing older than 10.04 LTS and that is at least a version newer.
I'll ask on the kubuntu list.
Thanks Tim.
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Cheers, Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 08 of April 2015 00:11:39 Gene Heskett wrote:
On Tuesday 07 April 2015 17:50:58 Timothy Pearson wrote:
Hi all;
I did solve the previous complaint about the TDE version of kcalc losing its binary input and bitfield display, by making two links in the menu's, one to the old KDE kcalc, and one to the TDE kcalc.
But I/we have another problem. Back around kubuntu 6.04 LTS time, kcalc had a pair of menu macros to do inch to metric, and metric to inch.
By ubu 10.04 LTS, those disappeared, apparently never to be seen again.
Whats chances those could be resurrected for the R14.2 version of TDE?
Surely the older codebase still exists someplace, and for us who live in both worlds as I was in electronics for 55 years of my working life, and that pair of macro's were, while they existed, handier than bottled beer & sliced bread in keeping the two measurement worlds on the same page around my piece of this planet. But now its gone. Sniff...
Cheers, Gene Heskett
I don't have the Ubuntu source archive from that long ago; if you can dig up a working source (I need the source .debs, not the binary .debs) it should be trivial to port.
Tim
Gah, obviously I don't either Tim. Have the older repos at ubuntu, say for 8.04LTS been recycled by now? I would hope not, but lemme see what google upchucks. Looks like the src repo's are the first to go, nothing older than 10.04 LTS and that is at least a version newer.
I'll ask on the kubuntu list.
Thanks Tim.
Ubuntu 8.04 == KDE 3.5.9 => kcalc is from source package kdeutils 3.5.9 => see sources in http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/k/kdeutils/
On Tuesday 07 April 2015 19:48:16 Slávek Banko wrote:
On Wednesday 08 of April 2015 00:11:39 Gene Heskett wrote:
On Tuesday 07 April 2015 17:50:58 Timothy Pearson wrote:
Hi all;
I did solve the previous complaint about the TDE version of kcalc losing its binary input and bitfield display, by making two links in the menu's, one to the old KDE kcalc, and one to the TDE kcalc.
But I/we have another problem. Back around kubuntu 6.04 LTS time, kcalc had a pair of menu macros to do inch to metric, and metric to inch.
By ubu 10.04 LTS, those disappeared, apparently never to be seen again.
Whats chances those could be resurrected for the R14.2 version of TDE?
Surely the older codebase still exists someplace, and for us who live in both worlds as I was in electronics for 55 years of my working life, and that pair of macro's were, while they existed, handier than bottled beer & sliced bread in keeping the two measurement worlds on the same page around my piece of this planet. But now its gone. Sniff...
Cheers, Gene Heskett
I don't have the Ubuntu source archive from that long ago; if you can dig up a working source (I need the source .debs, not the binary .debs) it should be trivial to port.
Tim
Gah, obviously I don't either Tim. Have the older repos at ubuntu, say for 8.04LTS been recycled by now? I would hope not, but lemme see what google upchucks. Looks like the src repo's are the first to go, nothing older than 10.04 LTS and that is at least a version newer.
I'll ask on the kubuntu list.
Thanks Tim.
Ubuntu 8.04 == KDE 3.5.9 => kcalc is from source package kdeutils 3.5.9 => see sources in http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/k/kdeutils/
I hope that one is old enough, thank you Slávek.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 07 April 2015 19:48:16 Slávek Banko wrote:
On Wednesday 08 of April 2015 00:11:39 Gene Heskett wrote:
On Tuesday 07 April 2015 17:50:58 Timothy Pearson wrote:
Hi all;
I did solve the previous complaint about the TDE version of kcalc losing its binary input and bitfield display, by making two links in the menu's, one to the old KDE kcalc, and one to the TDE kcalc.
But I/we have another problem. Back around kubuntu 6.04 LTS time, kcalc had a pair of menu macros to do inch to metric, and metric to inch.
By ubu 10.04 LTS, those disappeared, apparently never to be seen again.
Whats chances those could be resurrected for the R14.2 version of TDE?
Surely the older codebase still exists someplace, and for us who live in both worlds as I was in electronics for 55 years of my working life, and that pair of macro's were, while they existed, handier than bottled beer & sliced bread in keeping the two measurement worlds on the same page around my piece of this planet. But now its gone. Sniff...
Cheers, Gene Heskett
I don't have the Ubuntu source archive from that long ago; if you can dig up a working source (I need the source .debs, not the binary .debs) it should be trivial to port.
Tim
Gah, obviously I don't either Tim. Have the older repos at ubuntu, say for 8.04LTS been recycled by now? I would hope not, but lemme see what google upchucks. Looks like the src repo's are the first to go, nothing older than 10.04 LTS and that is at least a version newer.
I'll ask on the kubuntu list.
And here is the reply that query generated: From Colin Watson:
Depending on just how old you mean, as kcalc was at one point part of kdeutils and was later split out into its own source package:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kdeutils https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kcalc
The main display here only shows Ubuntu releases that are still supported, but you can get to everything from the "View full publishing history" or "View full change log" links at the top right.
Which looks like a promising starting point.
Thanks Tim.
Ubuntu 8.04 == KDE 3.5.9 => kcalc is from source package kdeutils 3.5.9 => see sources in http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/k/kdeutils/
Cheers, Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 07 of April 2015 11:58:28 Gene Heskett wrote:
Hi all;
I did solve the previous complaint about the TDE version of kcalc losing its binary input and bitfield display, by making two links in the menu's, one to the old KDE kcalc, and one to the TDE kcalc.
But I/we have another problem. Back around kubuntu 6.04 LTS time, kcalc had a pair of menu macros to do inch to metric, and metric to inch.
By ubu 10.04 LTS, those disappeared, apparently never to be seen again.
Whats chances those could be resurrected for the R14.2 version of TDE?
Surely the older codebase still exists someplace, and for us who live in both worlds as I was in electronics for 55 years of my working life, and that pair of macro's were, while they existed, handier than bottled beer & sliced bread in keeping the two measurement worlds on the same page around my piece of this planet. But now its gone. Sniff...
Cheers, Gene Heskett
Actually, I tried now kcalc in Ubuntu 8.04 and I see no difference from kcalc in TDE R14.0.x.
On Wednesday 08 of April 2015 02:45:41 Slávek Banko wrote:
On Tuesday 07 of April 2015 11:58:28 Gene Heskett wrote:
Hi all;
I did solve the previous complaint about the TDE version of kcalc losing its binary input and bitfield display, by making two links in the menu's, one to the old KDE kcalc, and one to the TDE kcalc.
But I/we have another problem. Back around kubuntu 6.04 LTS time, kcalc had a pair of menu macros to do inch to metric, and metric to inch.
By ubu 10.04 LTS, those disappeared, apparently never to be seen again.
Whats chances those could be resurrected for the R14.2 version of TDE?
Surely the older codebase still exists someplace, and for us who live in both worlds as I was in electronics for 55 years of my working life, and that pair of macro's were, while they existed, handier than bottled beer & sliced bread in keeping the two measurement worlds on the same page around my piece of this planet. But now its gone. Sniff...
Cheers, Gene Heskett
Actually, I tried now kcalc in Ubuntu 8.04 and I see no difference from kcalc in TDE R14.0.x.
I performed a second test - Ubuntu 6.06 == KDE 3.5.2. Kcalc again looks identical to the TDE R14.0.x.
On Tuesday 07 April 2015 20:45:41 Slávek Banko wrote:
On Tuesday 07 of April 2015 11:58:28 Gene Heskett wrote:
Hi all;
I did solve the previous complaint about the TDE version of kcalc losing its binary input and bitfield display, by making two links in the menu's, one to the old KDE kcalc, and one to the TDE kcalc.
But I/we have another problem. Back around kubuntu 6.04 LTS time, kcalc had a pair of menu macros to do inch to metric, and metric to inch.
By ubu 10.04 LTS, those disappeared, apparently never to be seen again.
Whats chances those could be resurrected for the R14.2 version of TDE?
Surely the older codebase still exists someplace, and for us who live in both worlds as I was in electronics for 55 years of my working life, and that pair of macro's were, while they existed, handier than bottled beer & sliced bread in keeping the two measurement worlds on the same page around my piece of this planet. But now its gone. Sniff...
Cheers, Gene Heskett
Actually, I tried now kcalc in Ubuntu 8.04 and I see no difference from kcalc in TDE R14.0.x.
Humm, now ancient memories are floating to the surface of my 80 yo wet ram.
I think I may have a box in the garage, an old HP of some sort, that may have the version needed, IIRC its Hardy Heron installed? I'll have to clear off some of the midden heap on the workbench under it, hook up a monitor & see if it still boots. That would give me a version number to look for. I had originally set it up as an internet radio receiver for Pandora, but one of us didn't have a big enough pipe to make it work well, or the 1Ghz Athlon in that box was too slow, so its been a good 5 or 6 years since it was powered up.
This may have to simmer on the back burner for a few days as its coming up on tax time here in the states plus I have a sump pump install in progress in the basement. First things first IOW.
I'll check back in when I can confirm the kcalc version that still had it.
Thanks Tim, and Slávek.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 07 April 2015 22:46:42 Gene Heskett wrote:
On Tuesday 07 April 2015 20:45:41 Slávek Banko wrote:
On Tuesday 07 of April 2015 11:58:28 Gene Heskett wrote:
Hi all;
I did solve the previous complaint about the TDE version of kcalc losing its binary input and bitfield display, by making two links in the menu's, one to the old KDE kcalc, and one to the TDE kcalc.
But I/we have another problem. Back around kubuntu 6.04 LTS time, kcalc had a pair of menu macros to do inch to metric, and metric to inch.
By ubu 10.04 LTS, those disappeared, apparently never to be seen again.
Whats chances those could be resurrected for the R14.2 version of TDE?
Surely the older codebase still exists someplace, and for us who live in both worlds as I was in electronics for 55 years of my working life, and that pair of macro's were, while they existed, handier than bottled beer & sliced bread in keeping the two measurement worlds on the same page around my piece of this planet. But now its gone. Sniff...
Cheers, Gene Heskett
Actually, I tried now kcalc in Ubuntu 8.04 and I see no difference from kcalc in TDE R14.0.x.
Humm, now ancient memories are floating to the surface of my 80 yo wet ram.
I think I may have a box in the garage, an old HP of some sort, that may have the version needed, IIRC its Hardy Heron installed? I'll have to clear off some of the midden heap on the workbench under it, hook up a monitor & see if it still boots. That would give me a version number to look for. I had originally set it up as an internet radio receiver for Pandora, but one of us didn't have a big enough pipe to make it work well, or the 1Ghz Athlon in that box was too slow, so its been a good 5 or 6 years since it was powered up.
This may have to simmer on the back burner for a few days as its coming up on tax time here in the states plus I have a sump pump install in progress in the basement. First things first IOW.
I'll check back in when I can confirm the kcalc version that still had it.
Thanks Tim, and Slávek.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
Possibly we don't need it. "convertall", while klunky to run because of its huge 2 pane mode selection menu's, would appear to be capable of doing all those pesky conversions.
I'll get me coat & go take a nap now. Thanks all.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
Gene Heskett composed on 2015-04-07 05:58 (UTC-0400):
But I/we have another problem. Back around kubuntu 6.04 LTS time, kcalc had a pair of menu macros to do inch to metric, and metric to inch.
By ubu 10.04 LTS, those disappeared, apparently never to be seen again.
Whats chances those could be resurrected for the R14.2 version of TDE?
I just booted openSUSE 10.0, which was released same month as Breezy 5.10. I didn't see anything that looks like what you describe in its KDE 3.4.2b version of KCalc 1.8.1, or in 10.2/3.5.5/2.0.5 from a year later, or in 11.0/3.5.9/2.0.6 from June 2008.
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