> Unfortunately, (Embarassingly?) I do not have a running GIT
> system. Now that David Rankin has finished successfully building
> arch and TDE I will spend some time getting a git system running on my
> computer. The problem is that I use TDE for my work - so I don't want
> to break it :p

I understand. I'm fortunate to have a nice desktop machine. I set up virtual machines to test my GIT packaging. That way I don't mess my production desktop. I also have a separate partition on the hard drive that has TDE installed. I have to reboot, of course, but when I am satisfied with my VM testing I then reboot, reinstall the latest packages, and then test. For example, I can't test tuner card issues in my VM (Kaffeine). I have to have a real hardware desktop for that. But overall, the VMs save me gobs of time.

> Luckily this patch is just implementing a small
> configuration option related to bug 251. Should be easy enough to use my 3.5.13
> sources and not break anything.

If you resolve bug report 251 then I'll buy you a round of virtual beers. :) Let me know your progress --- I'll be the first in line to test!

> > To all: after building from the latest GIT you notice
> other branding issues, please post a note to the list and
> I'll try to fix the problem ASAP.
> 
> have you tried to just grep for all strings related to KDE?
> I found a regular grep doesn't work well, but doing a pipe helps
> 
> grep "i18n" * -r | grep "KDE"
> 
> this will show all the KDE's in any string recursively.

More or less, yes. However, I am not a skilled C++ hacker. Someday, maybe, but not today. :) I also don't know the big picture of how all the various files interrelate. I can't blindly search and replace strings. I tried that a few times and humbled myself by how much things broke. :) Not all strings that SEEM to need replacing should be replaced. I have to be careful because although certain text strings get replaced, I can't replace strings that actually are part of the app name or code base. For example, I can replace user related text strings about "K Menu" -> to "TDE Menu" but kmenu itself remains named the same.

Thus a basic search still requires manually looking at code and context before replacing text.

Further complicating the topic is translations. With many *.desktop files I can replace singular characters like KDE -> TDE and presume I am not doing any serious damage. Yet I can't fix only the English text strings in [Comments] because I can't translate those changes in the other languages. I have to leave those text strings untouched regardless of how much I want to change them.

I have the same challenge with updating the help files. Except for minor entity fixes, I can't touch the tde-i18n versions. I don't know how we'll ever fix those files. At times I am inclined to delete them all. That would cause the system to use the default English versions, but that likely would upset TDE users who do not use English.

So in summary, these branding issues are not all proverbial walks on the beach. My basic approach now is to slow down and only fix what I actually see and not try to guess what could be fixed. :)

Darrell