2011/11/13 Laurent Dard f.couperin@online.fr:
Vadim Zhukov wrote :
Anyway, I've seen that Trinity does not allow easy migration from KDE3, so one of the main points to port it here is gone.
What's the difficulties you are expecting with the migration? Just do it!
- You need cmake
(http://openports.se/devel/cmake)
- As a beginning, you need to build and install:
http://mirror.its.uidaho.edu/pub/trinity/releases/3.5.13/dependencies/qt3-3.... http://mirror.its.uidaho.edu/pub/trinity/releases/3.5.13/dependencies/tqtint... http://mirror.its.uidaho.edu/pub/trinity/releases/3.5.13/dependencies/arts-3... http://mirror.its.uidaho.edu/pub/trinity/releases/3.5.13/kdelibs-3.5.13.tar.... http://mirror.its.uidaho.edu/pub/trinity/releases/3.5.13/kdebase-3.5.13.tar....
- You must copy the content of the kde3 home directory to the new trinity
home directory if you want to preserve personal settings
Take a look at: http://www.trinitydesktop.org/wiki/bin/view/Developers/HowToBuild Adapt to your system the configure options: http://www.trinitydesktop.org/wiki/bin/view/Developers/DistroSpecificBuilds Choose other packages from here: http://mirror.its.uidaho.edu/pub/trinity/releases/3.5.13/ And ask for help on the users mailing list: http://www.trinitydesktop.org/mailinglist.php
(Trinity developpers: please correct me if I'm wrong)
Thanks, Laurent. Problem is not in the packaging itself; I want to have ability to migrate KDE3 users to something better (read: something that's not dead upstream), either TDE or KDE4. If the profiles could be easily migrated from KDE3 to TDE (preferrably with no more changes than ~/.kde => ~/.tde), it's what I'm searching for. I don't care about binary or ever source compatibility with KDE3, while all apps needed are ported to TDE. But I care about existing setups. I need to know, what can/should be done for seamless migrate from (possibly heavily tweaked) KDE3 profile to TDE.
I also want to make KDE4 packages co-exist with KDE3/TDE ones. I already got that it is a work-in-progress. Brief looking at the recent commits gives me impression that it's already moving fast - cool. :)
-- WBR, Vadim Zhukov