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Visual facelifting proposals
by Thomas Maus 22 Mar '16

22 Mar '16

Conversative stance and traditions not withstanding, TDE might profit from some visual improvements, IMHO. Nothing fundamental, just some low-hanging fruits. Perhaps worth considering: The icon sets from "http://www.ravefinity.com/". They claim to do only Open-Source work, so this should be feasible -- either for direct inclusion, or as a theme source. The "vibrantly simple" icon set works very well vor me, for example. Over the years I've collected a lot of Xcursor icon sets for various purposes and reasons: * color variants of classic sets, better harmonizing with my colorscheme(s) ** Oxygen -- wide spectrum of colors, some slightly textured ** DMZ -- small spectrum of colors ** Komix -- wide color spectrum, somewhat flippant, but excellent in combination with e.g. the "Kids" icon set, and quite usable ** Popsicle -- wide color spectrum, quite flippant, but excellent in combination with e.g. the "Kids" icon set * dynamic/pulsating cursors, easier to locate (helpful accessibility feature for some people) ** e.g. "flame" rotating pseudo-3D object, but not to fidgety ** "GreenLight"-series, slowly pulsating glow, in the actual color of the cursor (not necessarily green ;-) ** "Pulse-Glass"-series, slowly pulsating glow ** "bCircle" and "Tanga" -- very unusual, but interesting design, with very strong visual cues maybe helpful in terms of accessibility I attach a few (static) screenshots of the cursors -- if there is interest for some of them, I can dig into the license issues ... Some of the icon sets have problems, e.g. * TDE-LoColor -- does this actually has still an use-case? your are not aiming at car dashboard display, aren't you? it is very low-res, too. * iKons -- IMHO nice, but quite incomplete? * Tango -- only apps icons!? You might ask "so what?". Well, they might scare off some users, before they find the more pleasing themes. For discussion: What about having a kind of "tag mechanism" for artwork? We could then tag artwork as "colorful", "dark theme", "light theme", "monochromatic", "accesibility optimzed", "nostalgia", "kids", "modern", "conversative", "flippant", etc. (multiple tags can be applied to an artwork!). The user might set preferences in the control-center, which limit the artwork actually presented for selection -- this would be innovative, improve the harmony of the resulting setup, reduce the clutter in the selection lists and would enable a harmonic co-existence of old and new visual styles, without need to drop legacy artwork. Finally, about the TDE/Trinity logos, which are still very KDE-ish: If that is wanted -- OK. If more visual distance would be welcomed, have a view at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triquetra https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triskelion Would some simple, color-ramped (to stay clear of well-established meanings) Triquetra or Triskelion be of interest? I can draft those on positive feedback. Best regards, ThoMaus

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VCardConverter parseVCard problem
by deloptes 19 Mar '16

19 Mar '16

Hi I filed a bug 2613 (https://bugs.trinitydesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2613) This is really blocking me ATM, hence the high prio I set. How does the fix cycle looks like from time line perspective? I'm considering downloading the source and patching myself. thanks in advance

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Warnings about missing embedded icons
by Slávek Banko 19 Mar '16

19 Mar '16

Hi all, try the following: Open Konqueror and in Konqueror then open /opt/trinity/bin or /bin and watch ~/.xsession-errors. You'll see a lot of warnings about the missing embedded icons. Because many binaries do not have an embedded icon, and the user can not change it in any way, seem to me these reports unnecessary. I propose to change these messages from kdWarning to kdDebug. What do you think about it? -- Slávek

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Having a problem compiling tdepim libs for Gentoo packaging
by E. Liddell 18 Mar '16

18 Mar '16

The short version: some auxiliary build commands are trying to touch directories the package manager doesn't want them to touch, resulting in sandbox violation failures of the following format: === VERSION 1.0 FORMAT: F - Function called FORMAT: S - Access Status FORMAT: P - Path as passed to function FORMAT: A - Absolute Path (not canonical) FORMAT: R - Canonical Path FORMAT: C - Command Line F: mkdir S: deny P: /root/.trinity A: /root/.trinity R: /root/.trinity C: /usr/trinity/14/bin/tdeconfig_compiler /var/tmp/portage/trinity-base/libkcal-14.0.0/work/tdepim/libkcal/htmlexportsettings.kcfg /var/tmp/portage/trinity-base/libkcal-14.0.0/work/tdepim/libkcal/htmlexportsettings.kcfgc === I've attacked a full build log for libtdepim which ends in a couple of failures of the same type. The long(er) version: Gentoo is a source distribution, so Gentoo packages are more or less glorified build scripts. The package manager creates a per-package sandbox in /var/tmp/portage/ which is used during build and install to keep failures from spewing files all over the system. For some reason, both tdeconfig_compiler and maketdewidgets are trying to do a mkdir in (probably) ~/.trinity . They don't, as far as I can tell, put anything in the resulting directories. Regardless, this breaks the sandbox and the build can't complete. This is in 14.0.0, but if there's been a commit that has changed any of this since then, I can't find it. It's possible that there's an additional CMake variable I need to set, in which case feel free to hit me over the head with it. Otherwise, I need some way of either redirecting those mkdir commands so that they land inside the sandbox, or keeping them from being issued in the first place. E. Liddell

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Git mirror to use
by Fat-Zer 17 Mar '16

17 Mar '16

I'm wondering, if something changed over years. Which mirror I supposed to use for scripts which meant to be used to build trinity on end-user machines from source (gentoo ebuilds)? Now I use http://scm.trinitydesktop.org/scm/git/<package name>. Is it correct, or there is something better? I don't think it will make a high load any day, unless TDE will become anyway popular, but you never know and it's better to ask...

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CMake × tquic
by Slávek Banko 16 Mar '16

16 Mar '16

Hi Fat-Zer, all, I saw that in CMake processing of UIC files is a called command with redirect of output. I think that's not the ideal way. Therefore, I propose to modify it so that it will be used CMake method of processing outputs. See proposed patch. Cheers -- Slávek

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[Patch] tdegames: initial cmake conversion
by Fat-Zer 14 Mar '16

14 Mar '16

subj; Build files are mostly identical but usability test are required.

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[patch] Initial cmake convertion for k3b-i18n
by Fat-Zer 13 Mar '16

13 Mar '16

subj;

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[patch]Initial cmake conversion for k3b
by Fat-Zer 13 Mar '16

13 Mar '16

Unlike autotools this one doesn't installs headers. Why may we need k3b headers in system? Is there something linking against it? If so, I'll add install statements for them... Also it doesn't installs k3bsetup2 by default because mostly every modern linux have sane permissions to allow user to burn cd's whithout such hacky crap. +musepack is disabled due to k3b doesn't builds against recent versions (tested with 465)

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TQT DBus
by deloptes 10 Mar '16

10 Mar '16

Hi The context to my questions is the project I started about integrating syncevolution in TDE. I finished the basic plugin part and would like to write the platform part, which seems to use dbus from within the plugin to provide password read/write in the tdewallet. 1. Question what would be the best place to start reading about using dbus from within trinity? What is the preferred library to use for the future - it says dbus-1-tqt is qt4 bindings backport? I guess the dbus-tqt should serve my needs as I'm targeting the TDE wallet, but still I would appreciate some advise. http://git.trinitydesktop.org/cgit/dbus-tqt/ http://git.trinitydesktop.org/cgit/dbus-1-tqt/ http://git.trinitydesktop.org/cgit/kdbusnotification/ 2. Question For Calendar/Todo/Memo and Addressbook we hit some issue in syncevolution that child sends via dbus the final sync report message to the parent but the return message does not result in the defined callback and both parent and child are stuck. Patrick Ohly from Syncevolution is looking into it but I think asking here is worth in this case. Are you aware of some side effects in DBus context when used in Trinity? Are there some recommendations - examples, application code? thanks in advance

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