KDE4

2008-01-13 Thread Bruce Dubbs
I've started to look at KDE4 and wondered if anyone else has started to build it. According to http://techbase.kde.org/Getting_Started/Build/KDE4 it looks like there will be several new packages needed: qt4 libclucene librdf boost cmake as well as some others that I'm not sure about

Re: KDE4

2009-07-22 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Thomas Trepl wrote: > In the meanwhile I have a quite fine KDE4 (4.2.4) installation running. It > seems to make great progress to reach the quality/stability of 3.5.10. Not to > far in the future, 4.3 will be out and this is what we should have a look on > for the book, I thin

Re: KDE4

2010-03-10 Thread Thomas Trepl
Am Tuesday 09 March 2010 20:51:48 schrieb Robert Xu: > ... > well, kde3 is still nice... we should try to do a gradual change to > kde4, otherwise it might seem like BLFS is becoming obsolete :-\ Thats the other side of the medal. I also think that the time doesn't stand still eve

Re: KDE4

2010-03-10 Thread Petr Ovtchenkov
t we need a SQL-server > for a *desktop* environment! Akonadi (i.e. PIM in KDE4) require MySQL. KMail's mails storage ported to Akonadi in KDE4.5... -- - Petr -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: Se

Re: KDE4

2010-03-10 Thread Matthew Burgess
systems talking via > ODBC(!) >> to each other, just to have a desktop. Its a fact that we need a > SQL-server >> for a *desktop* environment! > > Akonadi (i.e. PIM in KDE4) require MySQL. KMail's mails storage ported to > Akonadi > in KDE4.5... What's wrong with m

Re: KDE4

2010-03-10 Thread Guy Dalziel
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 03:19:49AM -0700, Matthew Burgess wrote: > I guess this is the wrong forum to be ranting in about this though, and as > others have pointed out, walking away from the behemoth that is KDE now is > an option open to anyone, like me, who's had enough of the bloat. The trouble

Re: KDE4

2010-03-10 Thread Ken Moffat
there is an upstream (but nobody reported any vulnerabilities in 3.5.10), or if they only care about kde4. A quick search on lwn suggests debian know of at least one vulnerability in kdelibs-3.5.10 ( DSA-1998-1 although the link from that to Mitre may, or may not, be the correct link). My gut feelin

Re: KDE4

2010-03-10 Thread Robert Xu
ed someone is maintaining it.  Looking at the > kde site, I'm not clear if there is an upstream (but nobody reported > any vulnerabilities in 3.5.10), or if they only care about kde4. > I don't know of any distribution maintaining this anymore. Even debian has marked it non-sup

KDE4 commited

2011-03-09 Thread Thomas Trepl
Hi all, while facing the possibility of being killed, hated and banned by all the other book maintainers I just commited a set of new pages with instructions for KDE4. I know the pages are full of textual insufficiences and I'm sure technical changes will happen. If there are great lacks

Re: KDE4

2008-01-13 Thread Christoph Berg
Am Sonntag, 13. Januar 2008 18:19:28 schrieb Bruce Dubbs: > I've started to look at KDE4 and wondered if anyone else has started to > build it. I have started building KDE4 from SVN a month ago and the dependencies haven't changed that much. > According to http://techbase.kde.

Re: KDE4

2008-01-13 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 11:19:28AM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > I've started to look at KDE4 and wondered if anyone else has started to > build it. > > According to http://techbase.kde.org/Getting_Started/Build/KDE4 it looks > like there will be several new packages needed: &

Re: KDE4

2008-01-13 Thread Christoph Berg
Am Sonntag, 13. Januar 2008 20:59:40 schrieb Ken Moffat: > Boost is "interesting" - it uses its own build system (bjam), but > fortunately there is a version shipped with it: > cd tools/bin/src && ./build.sh gcc && cd ../../../ > > For gcc-4.2.2, and perhaps for 4.1, that needs a patch - I got t

Re: KDE4

2008-01-13 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 09:07:15PM +0100, Christoph Berg wrote: > Am Sonntag, 13. Januar 2008 20:59:40 schrieb Ken Moffat: > > I'm not sure how much of the patch is actually needed. I'm fairly > > sure the changes to make1.c are mandatory, and probably native.c, > > newstr.c, but the addition of

Re: KDE4

2008-01-13 Thread Wilco Beekhuizen
2008/1/13, Ken Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > As for hal, you guys seem to have it working, so I suppose it isn't > a problem. I still can't figure out why anybody would *want* it, > maybe that just shows a lack of imagination, or excessive suspicion > about automation tools which try to guess wha

Re: KDE4

2008-01-14 Thread Hans-Joachim Widmaier
Bruce Dubbs wrote: > I've started to look at KDE4 and wondered if anyone else has started to > build it. Since I never managed to get qt3 and qt4 installed in parallel (with both working), and some programs wanting qt4, I was waiting for KDE4 so I could put qt3 to rest. (Although I

Re: KDE4

2008-01-28 Thread Robert Daniels
Thought I'd share my progress on building KDE4 with everyone. I think the biggest contribution I have is a nearly-complete dependency list. Because of the list, this will be a somewhat long message. A few notes beforehand, I made this list by grepping all the CMakeLists.txt for every pa

Re: KDE4

2008-01-28 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Robert Daniels wrote: > Thought I'd share my progress on building KDE4 with everyone. I > think the biggest contribution I have is a nearly-complete dependency > list. Thanks Robert. The dependency list will be very helpful. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman

Re: KDE4

2008-01-29 Thread Robert Daniels
PROTECTED]>, BLFS Development List > >Subject: Re: KDE4 >And a few questions/comments... > >> kdelibs >>Required: strigi, jpeg, giflib, libpng, libxml2, libxslt, >> shared-mime-info, qt4 >>Optional: alsa, openssl, libintl, xorg, soprano, jasper,

Re: KDE4

2008-01-29 Thread Chris Staub
Robert Daniels wrote: > Thought I'd share my progress on building KDE4 with everyone. I think the > biggest contribution I have is a nearly-complete dependency list. > Because of the list, this will be a somewhat long message. > > A few notes beforehand, I made this list

Re: KDE4

2008-01-29 Thread Ken Moffat
On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 08:35:44PM -0600, Robert Daniels wrote: > Thought I'd share my progress on building KDE4 with everyone. I think the > biggest contribution I have is a nearly-complete dependency list. > Because of the list, this will be a somewhat long message. Thank

Re: KDE4 commited

2011-03-09 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Thomas Trepl wrote: > Hi all, > > while facing the possibility of being killed, hated and banned by all the > other book maintainers I just commited a set of new pages with instructions > for KDE4. I know the pages are full of textual insufficiences and I'm sure > techni

Re: KDE4 commited

2011-03-10 Thread Waleed Hamra
On 03/09/2011 10:41 PM, Thomas Trepl wrote: > Hi all, > > while facing the possibility of being killed, hated and banned by all the > other book maintainers I just commited a set of new pages with instructions > for KDE4. I know the pages are full of textual insufficienc

Re: KDE4 commited

2011-03-10 Thread DJ Lucas
lete desktop environment to the book, even more so for one as large as the KDE distribution. Thank you for doing this! Got a shiny new 6.8 build that will get to test it out next week/weekend. > I just commited a set of new pages with instructions > for KDE4. I know the pages are full of textual

Re: KDE4 commited

2011-04-03 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Thomas Trepl wrote: > I just commited a set of new pages with instructions for KDE4. Thomas, I finally got around to trying to update the packages master repository and cannot find the sources where the book specifies. The following directory has moved. ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/

Re: KDE4 commited

2011-04-06 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Thomas Trepl wrote: > On Sunday 03 April 2011 20:21:01 Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> Thomas Trepl wrote: >>> I just commited a set of new pages with instructions for KDE4. >> Thomas, >> >> I finally got around to trying to update the packages master repository >

[blfs-dev] KDE4 builds

2012-07-05 Thread Bruce Dubbs
I finally finished my KDE4 build. After I finished Xorg, it took about 185 packages to complete including most optional dependencies. There are a couple of extras that number, but not many. When I started KDE, I couldn't get any keyboard input and the mouse was not working right. W

KDE4 [Re: Xorg-server-1.6]

2009-08-12 Thread Thomas Trepl
On Tuesday 11 August 2009 03:30:48 DJ Lucas wrote: >... > BTW, does anybody have a goal or plans in mind for KDE-4? If so, I'll > need to do that too (specifically to test the KDE equivalent of > gnome-keyring, who's name slips my mind ATM). > http://cblfs.cross-lf

Xorg/KDE4 slow on ATI

2010-08-18 Thread Thomas Trepl
Hi all, long time i was disappointed by the speed of KDE4. Moving, but especially resizing windows was terrible slow, the mouse pointer was always far ahead of the window frame. Yesterday I throw "KDE4 slow resize" to google and found a solution in the very first

Re: [blfs-dev] KDE4 builds

2012-07-06 Thread Ragnar Thomsen
On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 5:32 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > When I started KDE, I couldn't get any keyboard input and the mouse was > not working right. With a little research I found that cmake did not > find libXi properly in kde-workspace. That's because libXi is in /opt. > Adding LIBRARY_PATH=/op

Re: [blfs-dev] KDE4 builds

2012-07-06 Thread Bruce Dubbs
ntain alot of > them. The warning > message is fixed in Kde 5. Considering the warning message is normally not > visible to the user, I don't think we need to add this patch to the book. I don't appear to have a ~/.xsession* file. In any case, I still had the input problem when I

Re: [blfs-dev] KDE4 builds

2012-07-07 Thread Ragnar Thomsen
On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 6:06 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > OK. Thanks. Do you know of any changes for kde-4.8.4 that would affect > the 4.8.3 build instructions in the book? If not, it would be easy for > me to test that out. The point releases of KDE are bugfix-only releases, so usually there are n

Re: KDE4 [Re: Xorg-server-1.6]

2009-08-12 Thread tom
2009/8/12 Thomas Trepl > > WRT? What does that mean? with respect to "bezüglich" in german -- tom -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

KDE4 (was: Re: Xorg-server-1.6)

2009-09-29 Thread DJ Lucas
On 08/10/2009 08:30 PM, DJ Lucas wrote: > BTW, does anybody have a goal or plans in mind for KDE-4? If so, I'll > need to do that too (specifically to test the KDE equivalent of > gnome-keyring, who's name slips my mind ATM). > http://cblfs.cross-lfs.org/index.php/KDE4 wil

Re: Xorg/KDE4 slow on ATI

2010-08-19 Thread DJ Lucas
On 08/19/2010 12:34 AM, Thomas Trepl wrote: > Hi all, > > long time i was disappointed by the speed of KDE4. Moving, but especially > resizing windows was terrible slow, the mouse pointer was always far ahead of > the window frame. > Yesterday I throw "KDE4 slow resize

Re: KDE4 (was: Re: Xorg-server-1.6)

2009-09-30 Thread Ken Moffat
2009/9/30 DJ Lucas : > Trent, Ken, Thomas, (others?):   I would be quite interested in any > notes, patches, or scripts that you have laying around for KDE4. I've given up on kde4, my last builds were for 4.2 and I assume a lot has changed since then. FWIW, the straw that broke

Re: KDE4 (was: Re: Xorg-server-1.6)

2009-09-30 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: > FWIW, the straw that broke the camel's back for me was the > QT-4.5.2 upgrade - appeared to need *two* different responses to > accept the gpl / licensing questions, my script just hung for ever. Actually qt4 is quite good. I have been doing a lot of programming with it in

Re: KDE4 (was: Re: Xorg-server-1.6)

2009-09-30 Thread Trent Shea
On Tuesday 29 September 2009 23:26:59 DJ Lucas wrote: > Trent, Ken, Thomas, (others?): I would be quite interested in any > notes, patches, or scripts that you have laying around for KDE4. I > won't be able to get to it for a couple of weeks yet. > I've been bui

Re: KDE4 (was: Re: Xorg-server-1.6)

2009-09-30 Thread DJ Lucas
On 09/30/2009 11:36 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > > It does prompt for an 'o' for the open source version and then for 'yes' to > accept the GPL. That makes it difficult to script, but other than that, it's > straight forward. > I haven't tried this, :-) but couldn't you do something like 'yes yes

Re: KDE4 (was: Re: Xorg-server-1.6)

2009-10-01 Thread Christoph Berg
Am Donnerstag 01 Oktober 2009 00:59:10 schrieb DJ Lucas: > On 09/30/2009 11:36 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > > It does prompt for an 'o' for the open source version and then for 'yes' > > to accept the GPL. That makes it difficult to script, but other than > > that, it's straight forward. > > I haven'

Xorg-7.5 very soon (Was: Re: KDE4)

2009-10-03 Thread DJ Lucas
On 09/30/2009 07:18 PM, Trent Shea wrote: > On Tuesday 29 September 2009 23:26:59 DJ Lucas wrote: > >> Trent, Ken, Thomas, (others?): I would be quite interested in any >> notes, patches, or scripts that you have laying around for KDE4. I >> won't be able to ge

Re: [blfs-dev] [blfs-book] r10408 - in trunk/BOOK: introduction/important kde4/add kde4/core postlfs/filesystems postlfs/virtualization

2012-07-10 Thread Bruce Dubbs
rthom...@linuxfromscratch.org wrote: > - an lvm configuration file. > + a lvm configuration file. We've had discussions here before about this type of use. Generally we want to use 'an' to prevent two adjacent vowel sounds. In this case I think of lvm as 'ell vee em', so the

Re: [blfs-dev] [blfs-book] r10408 - in trunk/BOOK: introduction/important kde4/add kde4/core postlfs/filesystems postlfs/virtualization

2012-07-11 Thread Ragnar Thomsen
On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 9:02 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > We've had discussions here before about this type of use. Generally we > want to use 'an' to prevent two adjacent vowel sounds. In this case I > think of lvm as 'ell vee em', so the 'an' is appropriate to to avoid > the 'a ell' combination.

Re: [blfs-dev] [blfs-book] r10408 - in trunk/BOOK: introduction/important kde4/add kde4/core postlfs/filesystems postlfs/virtualization

2012-07-11 Thread DJ Lucas
On 07/11/2012 08:11 AM, Ragnar Thomsen wrote: > On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 9:02 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> We've had discussions here before about this type of use. Generally we >> want to use 'an' to prevent two adjacent vowel sounds. In this case I >> think of lvm as 'ell vee em', so the 'an' is a

Re: Xorg-7.5 very soon (Was: Re: KDE4)

2009-10-03 Thread Thomas Trepl
Hi, next time, when Xorg-7.5 will be out, I'll update to the latest version of KDE4. I hope that this will solve a problem i have with X or/and KDE4 when enabling all those animations and gimmicks in kwin (like rolling the desktops, displaying them as a cube, falling snow etc). It all

Re: Xorg-7.5 very soon (Was: Re: KDE4)

2009-10-03 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 4:02 AM, Thomas Trepl wrote: > Hi, > > next time, when Xorg-7.5 will be out, I'll update to the latest version of > KDE4.  I hope that this will solve a problem i have with X or/and KDE4 when > enabling all those animations and gimmicks in kwin (like

Re: [blfs-dev] Removal of additional KDE4 packages

2012-03-23 Thread Bruce Dubbs
the book if possible. > And the entire KDE4 development section: > -kdesdk > -kdewebdev > -kdevplatform > -kdevelop > > The rationale for this is: > -the current instructions are outdated/incomplete > -the download links are dead > -the packages are not required/

Re: [blfs-dev] Removal of additional KDE4 packages

2012-03-23 Thread Bruce Dubbs
irrors.isc.org/pub/kde/stable/4.8.0/src/ >> >> I'd like to see those remain in the book if possible. > > My point was not that they are unavailable. The edu and accessibility > packages are also still available, although they have been split up > into several smaller p

Re: [blfs-dev] New BLFS Editor & the KDE4 section

2012-03-01 Thread Ragnar Thomsen
Thanks for the welcome guys. As Ken noted  I have contributed with some patches for KDE4 packages. I will be updating the KDE4 section to version 4.8 in the immediate future. I have been running KDE4.8 on my LFS7.0 system since it got released. The build instructions already in the book are

Re: [blfs-dev] New BLFS Editor & the KDE4 section

2012-03-01 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ragnar Thomsen wrote: > Thanks for the welcome guys. > > As Ken noted I have contributed with some patches for KDE4 packages. > > I will be updating the KDE4 section to version 4.8 in the immediate future. > > I have been running KDE4.8 on my LFS7.0 system since it got

Re: [blfs-dev] New BLFS Editor & the KDE4 section

2012-03-01 Thread Ken Moffat
On Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 07:57:49PM +0100, Ragnar Thomsen wrote: > > Thanks for the welcome guys. > > As Ken noted  I have contributed with some patches for KDE4 packages. > > I will be updating the KDE4 section to version 4.8 in the immediate future. > > I have been run

Re: [blfs-dev] New BLFS Editor & the KDE4 section

2012-03-02 Thread Eduardo Batalha
On Thursday 01 March 2012 18:57:49 Ragnar Thomsen wrote: > Thanks for the welcome guys. > > As Ken noted I have contributed with some patches for KDE4 packages. > > I will be updating the KDE4 section to version 4.8 in the immediate future. > Can't wait to see it.

Re: [blfs-dev] [blfs-book] r10439 - in trunk/BOOK: . introduction/welcome kde4/core postlfs/security

2012-07-21 Thread Armin K.
On 07/21/2012 08:12 PM, rthom...@linuxfromscratch.org wrote: > Author: rthomsen > Date: 2012-07-21 12:12:47 -0600 (Sat, 21 Jul 2012) > New Revision: 10439 > > Added: > trunk/BOOK/kde4/core/polkit-kde-agent.xml > Modified: > trunk/BOOK/general.ent > trun

Re: [blfs-dev] [blfs-book] r10439 - in trunk/BOOK: . introduction/welcome kde4/core postlfs/security

2012-07-21 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 08:40:49PM +0200, Armin K. wrote: > > From my English knowledge I don't think that "Create such a script" is > correct. I guess "Create the script by running ... " would be more > suitable. Also, thanks for other corrections, they look good to me. Seems perfectly good

Re: [blfs-dev] [blfs-book] r10078 - in trunk/BOOK: . introduction/welcome kde4/add multimedia/audioutils multimedia/cdwriteutils multimedia/libdriv postlfs/security

2012-05-04 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Armin K. wrote: > On 05/04/2012 11:09 PM, bdu...@linuxfromscratch.org wrote: >> Author: bdubbs >> Date: 2012-05-04 15:09:18 -0600 (Fri, 04 May 2012) >> New Revision: 10078 > I am not sure if you missed it or wanted to be like this, but I noticed > that you upgraded cdrtools to new version, but yo