tde-devels May 2012

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Workaround for bad Qt4 performance
by Sanne 07 Jan '13

07 Jan '13

Hi all, I was listening in on the last irc meeting and caught an aftermeeting mentioning about bad Qt4 performance. I offered an article and a possible workaround I found recently, in case people are not aware of it, and was asked to bring it to attention to other developers also, so here goes: I'm suffering bad graphical performance in Qt4 and PyQt4 applications and searched for solutions. I found a post on nokia.com [1] that mentions a command line switch that might help. In short: adding "-graphicssystem raster" to my Qt4 applications' command line improved performance drastically for me. There's also a method to set it programmatically, and an environment variable [2]. [1] http://labs.qt.nokia.com/2008/10/22/so-long-and-thanks-for-the-blit/ [2] http://doc.qt.nokia.com/4.7/qapplication.html#setGraphicsSystem Thanks and much regards, Sanne

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New backend for the media:/ kioslave
by Timothy Pearson 12 Nov '12

12 Nov '12

All, I recently pushed a new (alpha quality) backend for the media:/ kioslave which uses udev/pmount and therefore does not rely on HAL. I encourage developers here to try it out! Please report failures to this list, not to the bugtracker, as it has not been tested much beyond mounting simple flash drives. Encryption support is buggy, but repairing it is my next task. Rhis will NOT be made default for R14.0 due to the vast array of hardware that it still needs to be tested on, but if your distribution no longer works with HAL it may be better than nothing even in this alpha form. To enable it, pass the -DWITH_TDEHWLIB="on" option to tdebase CMake. Enjoy! Tim

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build kdebase 3.5.12 - configure: error: libhpi.so not found
by David C. Rankin 15 Sep '12

15 Sep '12

All, I was trying to do a quick backport of the sftp kio fix to TDE 3.5.12, however, it looks like libhpi.so from jre has changed names or disappeared altogether. (It's not in jre or jdk 7.4) Does anyone know if this file has been dropped from jre? Is there a patch that will fix configure? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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TDE 3.5.13 for Fedora 17
by Francois Andriot 10 Jun '12

10 Jun '12

Hello, a little message to inform you that TDE 3.5.13 (+some updates) is successfully compiled and packaged for Fedora 17 (gcc 4.7), i386 and x86_64. Now some work for Tim or anyone with sufficient access :-) Can you please: - Add Fedora 16 and Fedora 17 on the main page: http://www.trinitydesktop.org/ - Add Fedora 17 to the download instructions page: http://www.trinitydesktop.org/installation.php#redhat (copy/paste Fedora 16, replace f16 with f17 ...) - Enable the replication of the "f17" folder from my server to the TDE mirrors. I hope that we freeze a TDE 3.5.13.1 very soon so that I can build a Fedora 17 liveCD with the latest stable TDE version. Thanks François

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twin4 (game)
by Darrell Anderson 07 Jun '12

07 Jun '12

I'm looking for breakage with a patch set for bug report 892. In that testing I tried to play twin4, a Connect Four type game. The game is broken here. All I'm asking is for somebody who is using GIT packages to test whether the game works. Select one of the arrows in the top row to insert a disk in a column. That's all. :-) The game is listed as kwin4 in the TDE menu (Games/Board games). I have a patch for those branding issues. Thanks! Darrell

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udisks2 support for mediamanager
by Serghei Amelian 31 May '12

31 May '12

Hello, After a lot of headache because Qt3 dbus binding bugs, udisks2 support is finally available. The patch is here: https://github.com/serghei/kde3-kdebase/commit/27cc062c6b172fd6e93addb51026… -- Serghei

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Nightlies on Ubuntu Precise, some bugs
by Julius Schwartzenberg 31 May '12

31 May '12

Hi, I just upgraded to the nightlies on Ubuntu Precise. Some issues I noticed: The python-sip package has incorrect 'provides'. Instead of: Provides: python2.7-sip, sip-api-7.0, sip-api-7.1 It should be: Provides: python2.7-sip, sip-api-8.0, sip-api-8.1 The shortcut to open the process list, ctrl+esc does not work. It is set up correctly according to the keybindings configuration. When looking at the process table in ksysguard, the table just keeps flashing. It's impossible to actually use ksysguard to kill a program. Should I report these bugs (or other problems like this)? I tried everything both with my normal user and with a new test user (clean homedir). Best regards, Julius

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Mysterious hard-coding
by Darrell Anderson 30 May '12

30 May '12

Resolving bug report 892 includes important patches to reduce potential conflict with KDE4 and to make our own *.desktop files XDG compliant (recently Trinity/TDE was added to the list of registered environments: http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/latest/apb.html). Resolving this bug report is important to release R14. The gritty work of creating patches to update all *.desktop files for each module is complete. Yet there is hard-coding somewhere deep in the tdelibs/tdebase sources that affixes the location of $PREFIX/share/applications/kde. I want to change that location to $PREFIX/share/applications/tde. During testing, to change the location to $PREFIX/share/applications/tde, I modify the sources on-the-fly of every module by running the following snippet in my master build script: echo "Fixing applications path in $APP_SOURCES_DIR." if [ -d $APP_SOURCES_DIR/cmake ];then find $APP_SOURCES_DIR/cmake -name TDESetupPaths.cmake -exec sed -i 's|\${SHARE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/applications/kde|\${SHARE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/applications/tde|g' {} \; fi if [ -d $APP_SOURCES_DIR/admin ]; then find $APP_SOURCES_DIR/admin -type f -exec sed -i 's|{datadir}/applications/kde|{datadir}/applications/tde|g' {} \; fi find $APP_SOURCES_DIR -type f -exec sed -i 's|share/applications/kde/|share/applications/tde/|g' {} \; echo After I resolve the mysterious hard-coding I'll patch each module with this on-the-fly snippet. tdelibs/tdecore/kstandarddirs.cpp has this snippet: if (!strcmp(type, "xdgdata-apps")) return "applications/"; Notice there is no "kde" affixed to the path. Therefore the "kde" subdirectory is being added somewhere else. The on-the-fly changes work great and all desktop files get installed to $PREFIX/share/applications/tde. Nonetheless, there is breakage. The hard-coding is real because various components stop working in Trinity. For example, opening the Konqueror Settings dialog reveals that most of the configuration options in the icon list are missing. I can temporarily create a sym link from $PREFIX/share/applications/tde to $PREFIX/share/applications/kde and then everything works again --- evidence of hard-coding. I've looked and looked and I can't find anything. I would be grateful anybody would help me find this mysterious hard-coding. Darrell

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Massive branding updates
by Darrell Anderson 28 May '12

28 May '12

I spent much of the day updating various text strings of branding issues, such as KDE -> TDE, K Desktop -> Trinity Desktop. These strings included What's This, Quick Help, KMessageBox, printf, i18n strings, etc. There was no easy search-and-replace method because many strings had to be read in context before deciding to change anything. Grunt work --- but I think most of this is now behind us. I still have the lsm files to update. Please let me know after rebuilding with the latest GIT sources when you notice remnant strings needing attention and let me know whether I got cross-eyed and changed something I should not have. Darrell

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Updated lsm files
by Darrell Anderson 28 May '12

28 May '12

I updated all of the lsm files. I used this guide: http://lsm.execpc.com/LSM.README All of the Trinity lsm files follow the same internal pattern: Begin4 Title: Version: R14.0.0 Entered-date: 2012-05-10 Description: .... for the Trinity Desktop Environment Keywords: TDE Qt Author: Maintained-by: The Trinity Desktop Environment (TDE) http://www.trinitydesktop.org/ Primary-site: http://git.trinitydesktop.org/cgit/ Alternate-site: Original-site: Platforms: Linux and other Unices running TDE Copying-policy: End When the Original-site URL proved stale I changed the URL to http://www.kde.org/. I maintained original authors throughout. Instructions for updating the lsm files with each new Trinity release are in the etherpad check list. There now is a high degree of consistency among all lsm files. They all are not exactly the same, but now should be easier to search and update if you want to fine-tune field entries. I only updated existing lsm files. I did not add any new files. I did notice some packages do not have any lsm files, such as gwenview. Darrell

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