On 13 November 2011 15:41, Timothy Pearson kb9vqf@pearsoncomputing.netwrote:
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.
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For most applications, moving ~/.kde to ~/.trinity and replacing all instances of .kde with .trinity in the ~/.trinity folder will suffice. There are a few "gotchas" to be aware of (listed somewhat poorly on the Etherpad), but they do not come up very frequently in practice.
Tim
I see many projects are against supporting other FOSS systems, but I think we need to take all the patches we can. Until there is a reason not to, we should do it. This goes for distros as well. By allowing development on all platforms it also helps expose issues (think about all the FTBFS we get on fedora but not ubuntu :P)
Calvin Morrison