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/ -- Sl�vek