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Werner Holtfreter

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Freshness of the programs

Hello,

in my installation of Q4OS Orion I found a much older version of digikam compared with the offered debian-version in Synaptic.

I installed both versions and both are working, but it has a lot of dependencies, of course.

What is the reason for the age of the Trinity-version of digikam? (I want to understand the work-flow.)

I found also a list of 17  programs on the homepage under "Software downloads". The same list I can see in the Q4OS. What about this small selection compared with the huge offer in Synaptic?

Werner

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Re: Freshness of the programs

What is the reason for the age of the Trinity-version of digikam?

TDE applications are maintained and fixed by the TDE devs. The main advantage of TDE applications over the KDE4/5 apps is their speed, lightness and native integration into the TDE desktop. You can use both versions, you are free to choose which one to install.

I found also a list of 17  programs on the homepage under "Software downloads". The same list I can see in the Q4OS. What about this small selection compared with the huge offer in Synaptic?

These installers brings some significant applications, configure and integrate them into to the Q4OS, please see http://www.q4os.org/dqa006.html , chapter '2. Q4OS software resources'

Werner Holtfreter

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Re: Freshness of the programs

What is the reason for the age of the Trinity-version of digikam?

TDE applications are maintained and fixed by the TDE devs. The main advantage of TDE applications over the KDE4/5 apps is their speed, lightness and native integration into the TDE desktop.

Thanks!

Is portable to TDE each Linux program and each KDE4 program?
How is the effort for that and what has to do the maintainer for that, in simple words? Only compiling with special parameters?

Werner

Last edited by Werner Holtfreter (2016-10-11 01:06)

q4osteam

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Re: Freshness of the programs

Is portable to TDE each Linux program and each KDE4 program?

Yes, TDE follows desktop standards, so all compliant applications should work out of the box.

Werner Holtfreter

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Re: Freshness of the programs

My question has a other direction: Can any non TDE program for TDE be compiled with fair effort?

q4osteam

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Re: Freshness of the programs

You don't need to compile an application specifically for TDE, as it works out of the box. There are usually no configurable options to compile an application for particular Desktop environment, for ex. LXDE, Gnome, TDE, etc...

Werner Holtfreter

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Re: Freshness of the programs

Sorry for my miss understandable English: I know, I do not need a compiler. But the TDE team will need it. And my thinking was: Only a low effort for the TDE team made possible a big number of TDE programs.

q4osteam

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Re: Freshness of the programs

Ok, we understand now. TDE developers don't need to compile applications specifically for TDE too. For example, 'digikam' and 'digikam-trinity' is not single application with different versioning based on the same code, but two completely independent applications with its own source repositories. 'digikam' is based on the QT4/5 libraries compared to 'digikam-trinity' based on TQT - a TDE fork of QT3 libraries.

Werner Holtfreter

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Re: Freshness of the programs

Thank you for your patience, I understand now: Different source code! Like the source code of Gnome differs from a source code of KDE. We can use all of this programs in parallel, but they all need the installation of own libraries.

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Re: Freshness of the programs

Yes, exactly written.