On Tuesday 07 April 2015 19:48:16 Sl�vek Banko wrote: > On Wednesday 08 of April 2015 00:11:39 Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Tuesday 07 April 2015 17:50:58 Timothy Pearson 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 > > > > > > I don't have the Ubuntu source archive from that long ago; if you > > > can dig up a working source (I need the source .debs, not the > > > binary .debs) it should be trivial to port. > > > > > > Tim > > > > Gah, obviously I don't either Tim. Have the older repos at ubuntu, > > say for 8.04LTS been recycled by now? I would hope not, but lemme > > see what google upchucks. Looks like the src repo's are the first > > to go, nothing older than 10.04 LTS and that is at least a version > > newer. > > > > I'll ask on the kubuntu list. > > > > Thanks Tim. > > Ubuntu 8.04 == KDE 3.5.9 => kcalc is from source package kdeutils > 3.5.9 => see sources in > http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/k/kdeutils/ I hope that one is old enough, thank you Sl�vek. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>