On Jan 26, 2011, at 6:00, Thierry de Coulon <tdecoulon@...> wrote: > On 1/25/11, Robert Xu <robxu9@...> wrote: >> >> TQt - the brains behind Trinity, using Qt3 and (soon) Qt4 to render >> our Desktop Environment. >> If any app wanted to, they could start using TQt and then not worry >> about Qt3 -> Qt4 -> Qt5 changes. > > Interresting. How do one start TQt? You don't need to start it. The application will automatically call TQt to render its interface. It's been doing that for most 3.5.12 applications... > >> You have to run a separate script to launch Trinity apps? I have never had >> to. > > Well, at the moment I run Ubuntu Maverick Meerkat with Trinity > installed _but_ a Gnome/AWN Desktop (actually I recently moved to > Ubuntu because Mepis was going KDE 4, and I at first did not trust > "K"ubuntu, then for the moment stayed there) I do have a test install > of Debian lenny + Trinity, but Debian tends to be a little old in > stable. > > So, if I try to start a KDE3 (sorry, Trinity :) app I get "the program > is not installed". Following some info I start my apps with scripts > like: > > #!/bin/bash > PATH=/opt/kde3/bin:/opt/kde3/games:/opt/kde3/bin:$PATH > KDEDIRS=/usr/:/opt/kde3/ KDEHOME=$HOME/.kde3 > XDG_DATA_DIRS=/opt/kde3/share/:/usr/share/ MANPATH=/opt/kde3/share/man > kalzium > > I imagine I should be able to setup these paths somewhere, but did not > have time to look where until now. Try throwing all these paths into your ~/.bashrc for now. I know that the variables are supposed to be set, so I'd have to look into it more. > > As I like Mepis better than Ubuntu, I do hope that Trinity will > developp to a stage where Warren decides to use it (as he wisely did > not take up KDE 4 for a long time). > > More support is always nice :)