>   One thing that I have found very useful in KDE3 was
> the ability to view and
> use medical image file formats (MRI,CT,etc..).  The
> functionality is provided
> through libksquirrel. However, the xmedcon library must be
> present on the system
> for libksquirrel to provide this capability. I have tested
> and built xmedcon
> with current (bleeding edge) libraries and it works fine.
> For TDE to be able to
> handle medical image formats -> that's a pretty good
> feather in it's cap :)
> 
> source=('http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/xmedcon/XMedCon-Source/0.11.0/xmedcon-0.11.0.tar.gz')
> md5sums=('99646261a5cfa4898956de876e99abeb')
> 
> _prefix=/usr
> 
>   ./configure \
>     --prefix=${_prefix} \
>     --sysconfdir=/etc \
>     --localstatedir=/var \
>     --libdir=/usr/lib
> 
>   make
> 
>   Simple build. I'll test later today or tomorrow. I'll
> have to pull CTs from
> closed files to test with the medical images, but I don't
> anticipate problems.
> 
>   There are a few other file formats that I have to
> work on (CAD DXF, etc..),
> but I would like to see TDE ship with all capabilities
> working (or at least be
> able to have all of them working)

Nice ideas. :)

Looks like xmedcon is actively maintained. As Trinity provides libksquirrel and ksquirrel packages, seems a how-to article in the community section of the wiki is appropriate for providing this type of extended support.

Darrell