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Re: porting Kdepimpi PIM suite to N8*0 (status, help needed)

I found that apt-get -f install always wants to uninstall kdepimpi because libqt3-mt is not installed. This is because the libqt3-3.3.deb installs itself as just libqt3 (without the "-mt") and kdepimpi_2.2.10_armel.deb depends on libqt3-mt. I believe this is also the reason why you need to use --force-depends. I found this quite annoying.

So I took the kdepimpi .deb and extracted it on my desktop with dpkg-deb, hacked the control file so it depends on libqt3 and rebuilt the .deb with "dpkg-deb -b".

Now it installs without problems and apt-get -f no longer complains.
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Another thing I did, was to disable to full menu in kopi. This gives you a little more screen real-estate and makes the ok/cancel buttons visible in some cases.

Re: porting Kdepimpi PIM suite to N8*0 (status, help needed)

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My work-around is to change the DIALOGMODE so that the dialog windows float freely....so that you can drag them up, hiding the top of the window off-screen, but exposing the buttons at the bottom of the window.

For some reason this does not work for me. While I can drag dialog boxes around that stupid matchbox window manager cripples the bottom edges of the dialog boxes. This is especially annoying when editing a todo-list item. It seems like my matchbox never gives dialog boxes more room than from the bottom of the screen to the bottom of the titlebar. If I could change this all would be fine.

I tried the following:

Launch easyDebian and set DISPLAY=:1.0. Kopi is then displayed in the lxde window and dialogs are fully painted (but still too large)
Set TITLEBAR=no in /etc/osso-af-inits/matchbox.defs. This given the dialog boxes more room and they become usable. But loosing the titlebar is a high price to pay.