Hello all,
I've been watching the conversations on your Trinity users lists with great interest, but haven't had much time to participate myself. (I am not really a lurker, just busy!) Over the past couple years I keep trying to upgrade my system, especially after the Ubuntu family released 12.04 LTS. I got TDE to run pretty well on top of Ubuntu, Kubuntu and Lubuntu, with varying degrees of success. It seems to run best on Lubuntu for some reason, perhaps because it is less cluttered with possibly conflicting software. When I get frustrated, I go back to go old Hardy Heron 8.04.2, which still runs best on my system; however, I am determined to stick with an up-to-date system, sooner or later, for obvious reasons. Hardy gets less and less functional with every passing day. But I like how it runs (or ran), with all my personal modifications. So I much appreciate all the hard work of the developers. I've read most of your discussions, trying to keep up with problems and fixes, and almost feel like I know some of you personally.
Right now I'm running Trinity on top of Lubuntu 12.04 Precise, and it is stable and fast, and I've managed to fix a few problems myself, like windows that crash in Konqueror or Nautilus, etc.
A couple things I really miss from my Hardy system, though: kshowmail and TorK. I like kshowmail, but any good email checker, which just shows headers, senders, etc. would be just as good. However, I have tried various biff-type programs, and they don't even seem to run. There are a couple others that look promising, but which either don't run at all, or at any rate don't run on Trinity.
If somebody could create Trinity packages for kshowmail and TorK, I would be glad to give up my left arm, as I don't use it much anyway. TorK is the one that I really miss. Vidalia just doesn't cut it for me, and TorK had some special features that I miss. I looked through the packages and dependencies, and it seems like most or all of the dependencies are already part of Trinity.
By the way, I did do a little research into alternative solutions. I tried enabling Maverick repositories, as suggested on one site, but it doesn't work. I tried downloading archived packages from various sources, then installing with gdebi-kde, etc.; that sometimes appears to work, but when I run TorK, nothing happens. I tried converting Slackware packages to .deb files using alien, but these also do not actually install. I tried compiling from source, and again, it seems to work, but only creates folders, and my system says that it is a virtual program.
Any ideas, and I would be glad to try them, as I seem to have run out of other options. At present, building my own packages for TorK and dependencies is beyond my skill level.
Thanks for any help,
Bill Morder
On Thursday 25 April 2013 00:00:53 William Morder wrote:
A couple things I really miss from my Hardy system, though: kshowmail
If I have understood correctly what kshowmail does/did, surely KMail can be set up to do the same, via the settings page?
Lisi
On Wednesday 24 Apr 2013 16:00:53 William Morder wrote:
A couple things I really miss from my Hardy system, though: kshowmail
There is a way KMail can do a KShowmail kind of thing - but it doesn't work with the GMail server:
- Open Kmail - Click Settings -- Configure KMail... - In the left sidebar, click Accounts, select one, and click Modify... - On the Advanced tab, click Filter Messages If They Are Greater Than, and set the size to 1 byte Now whenever you fetch messages, a table will appear, listing all messages waiting on the server, with three radio buttons in front of each: fetch now, fetch later, delete.
N.B. This is with pre-KMail2 versions of KMail; haven't used it for a long time as the SO uses GMail.
Good hunting
Hello all,
I've been watching the conversations on your Trinity users lists with great interest, but haven't had much time to participate myself. (I am not really a lurker, just busy!) Over the past couple years I keep trying to upgrade my system, especially after the Ubuntu family released 12.04 LTS. I got TDE to run pretty well on top of Ubuntu, Kubuntu and Lubuntu, with varying degrees of success. It seems to run best on Lubuntu for some reason, perhaps because it is less cluttered with possibly conflicting software. When I get frustrated, I go back to go old Hardy Heron 8.04.2, which still runs best on my system; however, I am determined to stick with an up-to-date system, sooner or later, for obvious reasons. Hardy gets less and less functional with every passing day. But I like how it runs (or ran), with all my personal modifications. So I much appreciate all the hard work of the developers. I've read most of your discussions, trying to keep up with problems and fixes, and almost feel like I know some of you personally.
Right now I'm running Trinity on top of Lubuntu 12.04 Precise, and it is stable and fast, and I've managed to fix a few problems myself, like windows that crash in Konqueror or Nautilus, etc.
A couple things I really miss from my Hardy system, though: kshowmail and TorK. I like kshowmail, but any good email checker, which just shows headers, senders, etc. would be just as good. However, I have tried various biff-type programs, and they don't even seem to run. There are a couple others that look promising, but which either don't run at all, or at any rate don't run on Trinity.
If somebody could create Trinity packages for kshowmail and TorK, I would be glad to give up my left arm, as I don't use it much anyway. TorK is the one that I really miss. Vidalia just doesn't cut it for me, and TorK had some special features that I miss. I looked through the packages and dependencies, and it seems like most or all of the dependencies are already part of Trinity.
By the way, I did do a little research into alternative solutions. I tried enabling Maverick repositories, as suggested on one site, but it doesn't work. I tried downloading archived packages from various sources, then installing with gdebi-kde, etc.; that sometimes appears to work, but when I run TorK, nothing happens. I tried converting Slackware packages to .deb files using alien, but these also do not actually install. I tried compiling from source, and again, it seems to work, but only creates folders, and my system says that it is a virtual program.
Any ideas, and I would be glad to try them, as I seem to have run out of other options. At present, building my own packages for TorK and dependencies is beyond my skill level.
Thanks for any help,
Bill Morder
Hi Bill,
Can you please file request for packaging bug reports for both of those packages at http://bugs.trinitydesktop.org? We normally want to see links to the latest source tarball of a particular software package in a request for packaging bug as well. This process ensures that we a.) do not overlook a request and b.) that we can find the source files when the request is being worked on.
Thanks!
Tim
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