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Testing TDE on the latest ubuntu
by Diego M. Vadell 17 Apr '16

17 Apr '16

Hi everybody, I was thinking about helping by testing TDE on the upcoming Ubuntu release (16.04). Do you think is useful? Should I test git, the nightly snapshot or 14.0.3? Or all of them? Cheers, -- Diego.

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TDEPIM TDEABC backup or cache files
by deloptes 16 Apr '16

16 Apr '16

I start new thread here to track this phenomenon. I'm really p*ss*d off, because something is really wrong with that. Luckily I make backup before playing around and based on my experience from the past. So here are my findings - no deeper code analyses yet. When syncing 220 contacts to empty address book it ended up with only 72 in the address book (vcf) configured. This magic number 20 seem to be hardcoded undo steps. So what tdeabc was doing, is saving couple of contacts and making backup and again and again. Why the last copy of the vcf file had only 72 is still a mystery, but I already had some headache with this phenomenon. I think I'll have a closer look and play with it a bit. Perhaps I'll come up with some improvement. I hope I'll be able to reproduce this with the filesync or some test code. Oh and BTW if one does copy-paste of contact from one address book into another the encoding/conversion issue gets visible. I'll test the Fat-Zer patch and get back reporting to the bug we opened. I now understand what was wrong with opensync as well (haha - obviously nothing) ... it took me just another 10y to come to the rootcause. (to be continued) regards

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TDEPIM with SyncEvolution
by deloptes 10 Apr '16

10 Apr '16

Hi all, I now have one version that I would consider working and of preproduction state. Next steps Is someone willing to test it, or how would you proceed in this case? I do not have cal/carddav accounts or any of the other supported peers. I have only two phones I could test with - Nokia 5530 and Nokia N9. It would be interesting to test with other phones, devices, systems etc. - at least the contacts and the calendar ( which I believe work fine now). Contacts and Calendar I tested address book (contacts) and calendar (events) extensively on both phones. Todos and Memos (journal) The 5530 has some strange calendar type, so todo and memo worked only from phone to TDE, but not v.v. for obvious reason. I am waiting now for some hints on how to configure (perhaps virtual calendar or special settings). On the N9 I did not test those extensively. I tested briefly todos and it works fine. Memos in N9 are TDE/Knotes (see below). Notes I also did not implement the classical KDE/TDE notes - but I will soon do so as this will be helpful for the N9 (and perhaps other phones/systems/peers too). I have the basic structure and functions, but this goes into a separate plugin and was not a prio. Build As SyncEvolution is using the automake system, the code is integrated into it. (Not sure if this is of any interest) Packaging SyncEvolution is provided by debian main line. Should the code be pushed there or we could provide a deb package with the tdepim part from within trinity? I am not sure if the debian main line will work with it. I had to explicitly disable some configure options to have it working. What does one do in such a case? Provide the full package? I would need some help here and brainstorming as well. Code availability Where would you upload the code for testing in this case? What is the "standard" procedure. I dislike google but have account @sourceforge Is the latter good to go? Optimization There were some good advises from Fat-Zer regarding string encoding, but I couldn't follow (as my time window is closing now), so I still convert the TQString into std::string and then assign the content. (One could save some memory here and there). valgrind does not complain about the code - it looks clean. Fun I had some issue yesterday on the test env (2G mem) where it crashed, because of memory exhausted. It turned out that opening the log file in konqueror consumed 1,7G :D ... I was thinking for a moment - come one, you were just syncing fine until last start of the virutal machine ... WTF happened, but it was the konqueror and the log file :D I also didn't follow up with the parseVCard - I'm not sure if it needs to be handled as a bug - it seems to be left over from the babylonian times, but someone has to retest and work it out properly and I do not think that I could spend the time now and take the responsibility. thanks in advance for your patience and support regards

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tdelibs FTBFS
by Fat-Zer 31 Mar '16

31 Mar '16

subj; The complete build log is attached.

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TQString::fromUtf8 vs TQString::fromLatin1
by deloptes 28 Mar '16

28 Mar '16

Hi all, I need some help again. Which is the preferred function to use when creating TQString from std::string and how can I make sure that I end up with Utf-8. The thing is that input in std::string can be either UTF-8 or not UTF-8. What is the standard way of doing this in TDE (TQt)? I am really confused, because I was looking in some KDE3/TDE code and I see both used. My problem is that some older phones would most likely lack UTF and newer would do only UTF. So how can I make sure to "speak the right language" with them? A hint would be appreciated. regards

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No system sounds on openSUSE 42.1
by Slávek Banko 25 Mar '16

25 Mar '16

François, please, you can take a look at the bug report 2612? http://bugs.pearsoncomputing.net/show_bug.cgi?id=2612 Thank you. -- Slávek

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Help porting KDE3 app to trinity
by russell＠lls.lls.com 22 Mar '16

22 Mar '16

Hi I'm trying to migrate our systems to a 'pure' TDE 14 environment on Debian Jessie (previously used Wheezy with a TDE and KDE3 mix) and having real problems porting an old KDE3.5 application (it's a modified version of kconsole that's needed to run some of our legacy stuff). I freely admit I don't understand the build process/kde-tde changes and flailing around with configure/make isn't getting me anywhere apart from deeper into a hole :-( Is there anyone on this list that would be willing to port it for me? If someone can do this, as a form of thank-you, I'll donate $500 to TDE. PS - I do hope this request/offer won't be regarded as inappropriate and I will be making my annual-ish donation to TDE regardless of the above. -- Regards, Russell -------------------------------------------------------------------- | Russell Brown | MAIL: russell(a)lls.com PHONE: 01780 471800 | | Lady Lodge Systems | WWW Work: http://www.lls.com | | Peterborough, England | WWW Play: http://www.ruffle.me.uk | --------------------------------------------------------------------

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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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