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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 27 May '12

27 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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automoc question with regard to KDE3/4
by Marko Käning 27 May '12

27 May '12

Hi devs, I've got a question for the KDE/Qt specialists: I was just wondering whether the automoc version 0.9.88 is actually still able to work with Qt3… (If I am not completely mistaken an automoc 0.9.88 must have worked just fine building kmymoney 1.0.5 still half a year ago on MacOSX through MacPorts…) Greets, Marko

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Commit c94de3af (GCC 4.7 fix) × KMail
by Slávek Banko 27 May '12

27 May '12

Darrell, David, François, I found that the first part of the commit c94de3af causes incorrect computation of unread messages in KMail - in the tray icon. Every time you switch to any folder, the number of unread messages is increased. I could easily revert that part, but I fear that it will return a problem with gcc 4.7. You look at it? I do not know if a problem does not even rename "it" in the second part - for KOrganizer. Slávek --

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lsm files
by Darrell Anderson 26 May '12

26 May '12

Do lsm files provide us any value or serve any purpose? Should we continue maintaining them or purge them from the source tree? http://lsm.execpc.com/LSM.README http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Software_Map Darrell

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basket notepads - add simple indent (like kwrite) how difficult?
by David C. Rankin 26 May '12

26 May '12

All, I have an idea to make the killer-app basket-notepads, that much better. When entering notes, I use indent levels to format information in basic heading/subheading style within simple text baskets. Basket currently lacks an indent feature such as kwrite/kate have where pressing enter starts the next line with the indent of the current line (similar to vim ':set autoindent') Since the code exists for kwrite/kate/quanta+ how hard would it be to add that capability to basket? I guess it would be adding the kpart feature to whatever the 'text edit' widget in basket is. Anybody looked at that code in kwrite/kate to know what it is called or how difficult it looks to implement in something like basket? That would be a killer addition to this killer app. Screenshot example: http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/dt/trinity/ss/basket-indent.jpg -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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ABI break for kate/kwrite
by Timothy Pearson 24 May '12

24 May '12

Just a heads up, the ABI for kate/kwrite broke in GIT hash 08c816f. A rebuild/reinstall of tdelibs, followed by tdebase, should clear up any potential issues caused by this commit. Tim

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Que Pasa Bro -- What be the Story Tim?
by David C. Rankin 22 May '12

22 May '12

Tim, The manhunt had begun -- What had happened to Tim? TDE GIT -> dead, mailing list -> dead, Tim -> ? We were beginning to worry... What's up? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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TDE programming tutorial - may want to collect info, KDE is pulling the KDE3 tutorials
by David C. Rankin 22 May '12

22 May '12

Tim, All, If we want to preserve the application building tutorials for TDE, we may want to collect those that are applicable from kde.org before they are all removed. I have found several instances where the examples are either gone or are labeled to be removed. I've annotated the pages at kde.org for preservation, but in some seeming "erase all reference to kde3" move, most are slated for deletion. (the storage and bandwidth requirements for the tutorials are minuscule, so the need to delete is somewhat confusing) As food for thought, between the kde3 tutorials at kde.org and the gtk tutorials at developer.gnome.org/gtk-tutorial/, the gtk tutorial is laid out much more logically and thoroughly. If we do preserve some of the tutorials for TDE user/developer reference, my vote would be to follow the gtk lead concerning depth of explanation and layout. (not the web format, the content level) Not priority, but I would be interested in what others think regarding preserving/creating some developer information such as examples and tutorials to show what is new/changed for TDE development verses KDE3 development. (T/Q naming, etc..) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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