> 2011/11/13 Laurent Dard <f.couperin@...>: >> 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 >> Â (http://openports.se/devel/cmake) >> >> * As a beginning, you need to build and install: >> Â http://mirror.its.uidaho.edu/pub/trinity/releases/3.5.13/dependencies/qt3-3.3.8.d.tar.gz >> Â http://mirror.its.uidaho.edu/pub/trinity/releases/3.5.13/dependencies/tqtinterface-3.5.13.tar.gz >> Â http://mirror.its.uidaho.edu/pub/trinity/releases/3.5.13/dependencies/arts-3.5.13.tar.gz >> Â http://mirror.its.uidaho.edu/pub/trinity/releases/3.5.13/kdelibs-3.5.13.tar.gz >> Â http://mirror.its.uidaho.edu/pub/trinity/releases/3.5.13/kdebase-3.5.13.tar.gz >> >> * You must copy the content of the kde3 home directory to the new >> trinity >> Â home directory if you want to preserve personal settings >> >> Take a look at: >> Â http://www.trinitydesktop.org/wiki/bin/view/Developers/HowToBuild >> Adapt to your system the configure options: >> Â http://www.trinitydesktop.org/wiki/bin/view/Developers/DistroSpecificBuilds >> Choose other packages from here: >> Â http://mirror.its.uidaho.edu/pub/trinity/releases/3.5.13/ >> And ask for help on the users mailing list: >> Â 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. <snip> 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