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Re: [trinity-users] kcalc, revisited, FEATURE REQUEST

From: Slávek Banko <slavek.banko@...>
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2015 03:35:42 +0200
On Wednesday 08 of April 2015 02:45:41 Slávek Banko wrote:
> On Tuesday 07 of April 2015 11:58:28 Gene Heskett wrote:
> > Hi all;
> >
> > I did solve the previous complaint about the TDE version of kcalc losing
> > its binary input and bitfield display, by making two links in the
> > menu's, one to the old KDE kcalc, and one to the TDE kcalc.
> >
> > But I/we have another problem.  Back around kubuntu 6.04 LTS time, kcalc
> > had a pair of menu macros to do inch to metric, and metric to inch.
> >
> > By ubu 10.04 LTS, those disappeared, apparently never to be seen again.
> >
> > Whats chances those could be resurrected for the R14.2 version of TDE?
> >
> > Surely the older codebase still exists someplace, and for us who live in
> > both worlds as I was in electronics for 55 years of my working life, and
> > that pair of macro's were, while they existed, handier than bottled beer
> > & sliced bread in keeping the two measurement worlds on the same page
> > around my piece of this planet.  But now its gone.  Sniff...
> >
> > Cheers, Gene Heskett
>
> Actually, I tried now kcalc in Ubuntu 8.04 and I see no difference from
> kcalc in TDE R14.0.x.

I performed a second test - Ubuntu 6.06 == KDE 3.5.2. Kcalc again looks 
identical to the TDE R14.0.x.

-- 
Slávek