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. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > trinity-users-unsubscribe@... For additional > commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@... Read > list messages on the web archive: > http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to > top-post: > http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting 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>