Re: [kde-freebsd] Call for Testing KDE 4.2 for FreeBSD
Max Brazhnikov wrote: On Wed, 4 Feb 2009 02:57:53 -0800 (PST), Silver Salonen wrote: Max Brazhnikov wrote: On Wed, 4 Feb 2009 01:37:37 -0800 (PST), Silver Salonen wrote: Silver Salonen wrote: I managed to install KDE 4.2 with Xorg 7.4 successfully on PC-BSD 7.0.2, I'm using nvidia-driver-177.80 though. One problem is that every time I log into KDE, plasma crashes. There seems to be some configuration problem (from 4.2beta2), because when I delete ~/.kde4/share/config/plasma-appletsrc, it doesn't crash, but looks weird in other ways. And when I delete the whole ~/.kde4, it works perfectly OK. I haven't investigated it further yet.. Anyway, at least it's working. One more problem - when I load Konqueror's profile Web Browsing, it crashes. It doesn't help to delete ~/.kde4/share/config/konqueror* and/or ~/.kde4/share/apps/konqueror*. It works when I deinstall misc/konq-plugins-kde4. Do you use the latest konq-plugins port? Yes, updated from SVN 3.5 hours ago. Just checked for 'Web Browsing' and other profiles. Konqueror with konq- plugins works fine for me. Lucky you :P -- Silver -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Call-for-Testing-KDE-4.2-for-FreeBSD-tp21780360p21847874.html Sent from the freebsd-ports mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: [kde-freebsd] Call for Testing KDE 4.2 for FreeBSD
Silver Salonen wrote: Kris Moore-3 wrote: Have any of you guys been able to get KDE 4.2 to work with the latest Xorg 7.4 in ports, and the nvidia driver? I'm playing with it here, and it always seems to crash X right after KDE finishes logging into my desktop. When I switch to vesa it works just fine. Using nvidia 180.25, Xorg 7.4, KDE 4.2, etc. I managed to install KDE 4.2 with Xorg 7.4 successfully on PC-BSD 7.0.2, I'm using nvidia-driver-177.80 though. One problem is that every time I log into KDE, plasma crashes. There seems to be some configuration problem (from 4.2beta2), because when I delete ~/.kde4/share/config/plasma-appletsrc, it doesn't crash, but looks weird in other ways. And when I delete the whole ~/.kde4, it works perfectly OK. I haven't investigated it further yet.. Anyway, at least it's working. One more problem I've had since KDE 4.2beta2 - KDE4 apps' toolbars' configurations aren't remembered. The configuration is there when I press the Configure Toolbar button. When I reset toolbar configuration to default, I can configure it again afterwards. -- Silver -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Call-for-Testing-KDE-4.2-for-FreeBSD-tp21780360p21825975.html Sent from the freebsd-ports mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: [kde-freebsd] Call for Testing KDE 4.2 for FreeBSD
Silver Salonen wrote: I managed to install KDE 4.2 with Xorg 7.4 successfully on PC-BSD 7.0.2, I'm using nvidia-driver-177.80 though. One problem is that every time I log into KDE, plasma crashes. There seems to be some configuration problem (from 4.2beta2), because when I delete ~/.kde4/share/config/plasma-appletsrc, it doesn't crash, but looks weird in other ways. And when I delete the whole ~/.kde4, it works perfectly OK. I haven't investigated it further yet.. Anyway, at least it's working. One more problem - when I load Konqueror's profile Web Browsing, it crashes. It doesn't help to delete ~/.kde4/share/config/konqueror* and/or ~/.kde4/share/apps/konqueror*. It works when I deinstall misc/konq-plugins-kde4. Anone else experiencing this? Any fixes? Any suggestions? -- Silver -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Call-for-Testing-KDE-4.2-for-FreeBSD-tp21780360p21827160.html Sent from the freebsd-ports mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: [kde-freebsd] Call for Testing KDE 4.2 for FreeBSD
On Wed, 4 Feb 2009 01:37:37 -0800 (PST), Silver Salonen wrote: Silver Salonen wrote: I managed to install KDE 4.2 with Xorg 7.4 successfully on PC-BSD 7.0.2, I'm using nvidia-driver-177.80 though. One problem is that every time I log into KDE, plasma crashes. There seems to be some configuration problem (from 4.2beta2), because when I delete ~/.kde4/share/config/plasma-appletsrc, it doesn't crash, but looks weird in other ways. And when I delete the whole ~/.kde4, it works perfectly OK. I haven't investigated it further yet.. Anyway, at least it's working. One more problem - when I load Konqueror's profile Web Browsing, it crashes. It doesn't help to delete ~/.kde4/share/config/konqueror* and/or ~/.kde4/share/apps/konqueror*. It works when I deinstall misc/konq-plugins-kde4. Do you use the latest konq-plugins port? Anone else experiencing this? Any fixes? Any suggestions? -- Silver ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: [kde-freebsd] Call for Testing KDE 4.2 for FreeBSD
David Naylor-3 wrote: On Tuesday 03 February 2009 15:05:19 Max Brazhnikov wrote: On Tue, 3 Feb 2009 08:31:10 +0200, David Naylor wrote: On Monday 02 February 2009 12:01:10 David Naylor wrote: Just finished compiling on FreeBSD 7.1 and have found the following problems: 1. The fonts are not being anti-aliased? (Using default fonts and Use anti-aliasing: Enabled {with sub-pixel rendering [RGB]}). man fonts-conf? Never had problems with fonts, can't help here :( I suspect this has something to do with nvidia driver. If one changes the fonts to bitstream then anti-aliasing does work (but not with the default fonts). It doesn't change anything in my case and I don't think it's FreeBSD's fault. I've communicated quite a lot about it in KDE Forums: http://forum.kde.org/fonts-in-konqueror-look-ugly-t-17451.html - the current state is that KDE4's anti-aliasing works sometimes on my OpenSuse, but I haven't seen it working on FreeBSD :( -- Silver -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Call-for-Testing-KDE-4.2-for-FreeBSD-tp21780360p21827352.html Sent from the freebsd-ports mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: [kde-freebsd] Call for Testing KDE 4.2 for FreeBSD
Max Brazhnikov wrote: On Wed, 4 Feb 2009 01:37:37 -0800 (PST), Silver Salonen wrote: Silver Salonen wrote: I managed to install KDE 4.2 with Xorg 7.4 successfully on PC-BSD 7.0.2, I'm using nvidia-driver-177.80 though. One problem is that every time I log into KDE, plasma crashes. There seems to be some configuration problem (from 4.2beta2), because when I delete ~/.kde4/share/config/plasma-appletsrc, it doesn't crash, but looks weird in other ways. And when I delete the whole ~/.kde4, it works perfectly OK. I haven't investigated it further yet.. Anyway, at least it's working. One more problem - when I load Konqueror's profile Web Browsing, it crashes. It doesn't help to delete ~/.kde4/share/config/konqueror* and/or ~/.kde4/share/apps/konqueror*. It works when I deinstall misc/konq-plugins-kde4. Do you use the latest konq-plugins port? Yes, updated from SVN 3.5 hours ago. -- Silver -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Call-for-Testing-KDE-4.2-for-FreeBSD-tp21780360p21828309.html Sent from the freebsd-ports mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: [kde-freebsd] Call for Testing KDE 4.2 for FreeBSD
Max Brazhnikov ha scritto: P.S. Any hope in getting Amarok 2 into ports with KDE 4.2. Last I saw it was pending on a PR to fix mysql_embedded? I'll ping Alex about the status of mysql_embedded. Meantime you can try ports/128757 for mysql_embedded and ports/130634 for amarok port. I'm quite busy at the moment, but mysql_embedded port is one of my priorities. -- Alex Dupre ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: [kde-freebsd] Call for Testing KDE 4.2 for FreeBSD
On Wed, 4 Feb 2009 02:57:53 -0800 (PST), Silver Salonen wrote: Max Brazhnikov wrote: On Wed, 4 Feb 2009 01:37:37 -0800 (PST), Silver Salonen wrote: Silver Salonen wrote: I managed to install KDE 4.2 with Xorg 7.4 successfully on PC-BSD 7.0.2, I'm using nvidia-driver-177.80 though. One problem is that every time I log into KDE, plasma crashes. There seems to be some configuration problem (from 4.2beta2), because when I delete ~/.kde4/share/config/plasma-appletsrc, it doesn't crash, but looks weird in other ways. And when I delete the whole ~/.kde4, it works perfectly OK. I haven't investigated it further yet.. Anyway, at least it's working. One more problem - when I load Konqueror's profile Web Browsing, it crashes. It doesn't help to delete ~/.kde4/share/config/konqueror* and/or ~/.kde4/share/apps/konqueror*. It works when I deinstall misc/konq-plugins-kde4. Do you use the latest konq-plugins port? Yes, updated from SVN 3.5 hours ago. Just checked for 'Web Browsing' and other profiles. Konqueror with konq- plugins works fine for me. Max ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: [kde-freebsd] Call for Testing KDE 4.2 for FreeBSD
On Tuesday 03 February 2009 15:05:19 Max Brazhnikov wrote: On Tue, 3 Feb 2009 08:31:10 +0200, David Naylor wrote: On Monday 02 February 2009 12:01:10 David Naylor wrote: Just finished compiling on FreeBSD 7.1 and have found the following problems: 1. The fonts are not being anti-aliased? (Using default fonts and Use anti-aliasing: Enabled {with sub-pixel rendering [RGB]}). man fonts-conf? Never had problems with fonts, can't help here :( I suspect this has something to do with nvidia driver. If one changes the fonts to bitstream then anti-aliasing does work (but not with the default fonts). 2. Network Settings doesn't detect anything to do with FreeBSD (it probably still needs to be told about FreeBSD). This part surely requires someone who can add support for FreeBSD. Btw, k...@freebsd team are seeking for developers who would like to improve KDE4 support for FreeBSD. Should I file a PR for this, considering there probably isn't enough man-power to actually resolve it? 3. ksudo does not install? ${KDE$_PREFIX}/lib/kde4/libexec/kdesu Ask kde devs why kdesu is there. Please ignore. It appears ksudo or kdesudo is a Kubuntu specific program (why haven't they pushed the changes upstream?) 4. Samba config module doesn't find smb.conf by default. It should look in multiple places? This could be fixed easily I believe. One the correct place in the code is found, yes it is. See attached. Patch does compile cleanly and samba config module does not find smb.conf. Makefile should probably be extended to change the lookup patch if ${LOCALBASE} isn't /usr/local? If so just # sed -e s|/usr/local/etc/smb.conf|${LOCALBASE}/etc/smb.conf|' $WRKSRC/kio/kio/ksambashare.cpp I have also filed a PR (bug #183006) with an improved patch. 5. When I was changing desktop effects X froze. It was a once off thing... If it reappears I will file a PR. I'll ping Alex about the status of mysql_embedded. Meantime you can try ports/128757 for mysql_embedded and ports/130634 for amarok port. I already have :-). I had a problem with downloading the patch... But once that was done amarok2 installed fine :-) The only app now that is really missing is k3b. Grrr... :-( Regards, David signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [kde-freebsd] Call for Testing KDE 4.2 for FreeBSD
David Naylor wrote: On Tuesday 03 February 2009 15:05:19 Max Brazhnikov wrote: On Tue, 3 Feb 2009 08:31:10 +0200, David Naylor wrote: On Monday 02 February 2009 12:01:10 David Naylor wrote: Just finished compiling on FreeBSD 7.1 and have found the following problems: 1. The fonts are not being anti-aliased? (Using default fonts and Use anti-aliasing: Enabled {with sub-pixel rendering [RGB]}). man fonts-conf? Never had problems with fonts, can't help here :( I suspect this has something to do with nvidia driver. If one changes the fonts to bitstream then anti-aliasing does work (but not with the default fonts). Have any of you guys been able to get KDE 4.2 to work with the latest Xorg 7.4 in ports, and the nvidia driver? I'm playing with it here, and it always seems to crash X right after KDE finishes logging into my desktop. When I switch to vesa it works just fine. Using nvidia 180.25, Xorg 7.4, KDE 4.2, etc. -- Kris Moore PC-BSD Software http://www.pcbsd.com ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: [kde-freebsd] Call for Testing KDE 4.2 for FreeBSD
On Tuesday 03 February 2009 18:44:55 Kris Moore wrote: David Naylor wrote: On Tuesday 03 February 2009 15:05:19 Max Brazhnikov wrote: On Tue, 3 Feb 2009 08:31:10 +0200, David Naylor wrote: On Monday 02 February 2009 12:01:10 David Naylor wrote: Just finished compiling on FreeBSD 7.1 and have found the following problems: 1. The fonts are not being anti-aliased? (Using default fonts and Use anti-aliasing: Enabled {with sub-pixel rendering [RGB]}). man fonts-conf? Never had problems with fonts, can't help here :( I suspect this has something to do with nvidia driver. If one changes the fonts to bitstream then anti-aliasing does work (but not with the default fonts). Have any of you guys been able to get KDE 4.2 to work with the latest Xorg 7.4 in ports, and the nvidia driver? I'm playing with it here, and it always seems to crash X right after KDE finishes logging into my desktop. When I switch to vesa it works just fine. Using nvidia 180.25, Xorg 7.4, KDE 4.2, etc. I had some problems with Xorg and undefined symbols but that was just for probing. Another problem I had was my previous xorg.conf didn't work, I needed to provide BusID in my Device section. Other then that now everything appears fine. Desktop Effects are working without glitch. I did have some problems logging in, X/KDE just freezes but Ctrl-Alt-Backspace and relogin works just fine? I'm using nvidia-driver-177.80, xorg-7.4 on FreeBSD 7.1 (Nvidia 7600GT x2). Does you xorg.log say anything useful, have you tried with a new config file (Xorg -configure, nvidia-settings)? signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [kde-freebsd] Call for Testing KDE 4.2 for FreeBSD
Kris Moore-3 wrote: Have any of you guys been able to get KDE 4.2 to work with the latest Xorg 7.4 in ports, and the nvidia driver? I'm playing with it here, and it always seems to crash X right after KDE finishes logging into my desktop. When I switch to vesa it works just fine. Using nvidia 180.25, Xorg 7.4, KDE 4.2, etc. I managed to install KDE 4.2 with Xorg 7.4 successfully on PC-BSD 7.0.2, I'm using nvidia-driver-177.80 though. One problem is that every time I log into KDE, plasma crashes. There seems to be some configuration problem (from 4.2beta2), because when I delete ~/.kde4/share/config/plasma-appletsrc, it doesn't crash, but looks weird in other ways. And when I delete the whole ~/.kde4, it works perfectly OK. I haven't investigated it further yet.. Anyway, at least it's working. -- Silver -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Call-for-Testing-KDE-4.2-for-FreeBSD-tp21780360p21815312.html Sent from the freebsd-ports mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: [kde-freebsd] Call for Testing KDE 4.2 for FreeBSD
On Tue, 3 Feb 2009 08:31:10 +0200, David Naylor wrote: On Monday 02 February 2009 12:01:10 David Naylor wrote: On Sunday 01 February 2009 23:02:28 Martin Wilke wrote: Howdy Guys, The KDE FreeBSD team is happy to announce the first public Call for Testing for KDE 4.2. Over the past weeks we have focused on the complex and very time consuming task to get KDE 4.2 running. Please read UPDATING-area51 before you start your update. To get KDE 4.2: try svn co https://kf.athame.co.uk/kde-freebsd/trunk/area51/ /path/to/area51 More info here: https://kf.athame.co.uk/access.php - Martin (on behalf of the KDE FreeBSD team) Hi, I'll get started on testing today. I however have this strange desire to use USB2 (the new USB stack introduced to FreeBSD-Current). Just finished compiling on FreeBSD 7.1 and have found the following problems: 1. The fonts are not being anti-aliased? (Using default fonts and Use anti-aliasing: Enabled {with sub-pixel rendering [RGB]}). man fonts-conf? Never had problems with fonts, can't help here :( 2. Network Settings doesn't detect anything to do with FreeBSD (it probably still needs to be told about FreeBSD). This part surely requires someone who can add support for FreeBSD. Btw, k...@freebsd team are seeking for developers who would like to improve KDE4 support for FreeBSD. 3. ksudo does not install? ${KDE$_PREFIX}/lib/kde4/libexec/kdesu Ask kde devs why kdesu is there. 4. Samba config module doesn't find smb.conf by default. It should look in multiple places? This could be fixed easily I believe. 5. When I was changing desktop effects X froze. It was a once off thing... Items 1,2, 4, (5) probably qualify for a PR, can anyone confirm these? Item 3 probably has something to do with our ports. I really prefer to use (k)sudo (since ksu doesn't like root without a password). Item 4 should be fixed with a patch (until upstream comes with a proper solution). If you wait a few hours I'll see what I can do about providing patches for items 3, 4. Welcome! Is KDE4 happy with USB2 (or to be more precise, is hald happy with USB2 yet)? I'll try compile hald with USB2. If that doesn't work (i.e. starts taking 100% CPU on a core) then I will not persue the issue. I'm not sure ports has been converted to handle the base system's libusb20 in -current? Oh and I am still having problems with HTTPS and proxy. I am going to try put up a Squid proxy and see if Squid behaves better then WinGate. And I am hoping Qt 4.5 will fix this proxy/socks problem (if it will hurry up and get released :-)). Everything else is looking good :-) and working on the FreeBSD side. Thanks David P.S. Any hope in getting Amarok 2 into ports with KDE 4.2. Last I saw it was pending on a PR to fix mysql_embedded? I'll ping Alex about the status of mysql_embedded. Meantime you can try ports/128757 for mysql_embedded and ports/130634 for amarok port. Max. ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: [kde-freebsd] Call for Testing KDE 4.2 for FreeBSD
Kris Moore schrieb: David Naylor wrote: On Tuesday 03 February 2009 15:05:19 Max Brazhnikov wrote: On Tue, 3 Feb 2009 08:31:10 +0200, David Naylor wrote: On Monday 02 February 2009 12:01:10 David Naylor wrote: Just finished compiling on FreeBSD 7.1 and have found the following problems: 1. The fonts are not being anti-aliased? (Using default fonts and Use anti-aliasing: Enabled {with sub-pixel rendering [RGB]}). man fonts-conf? Never had problems with fonts, can't help here :( I suspect this has something to do with nvidia driver. If one changes the fonts to bitstream then anti-aliasing does work (but not with the default fonts). Have any of you guys been able to get KDE 4.2 to work with the latest Xorg 7.4 in ports, and the nvidia driver? I'm playing with it here, and it always seems to crash X right after KDE finishes logging into my desktop. When I switch to vesa it works just fine. Using nvidia 180.25, Xorg 7.4, KDE 4.2, etc. Have you first installed Xorg and then nvidia-drivers or vice versa? They install files in the same place, libGLu or whatever... It's 180.22 btw, I just start compiling on my i386 nvidia box and then I'll see if it reproduces, may last until tomorrow. Are you loggin in through kdm, or do you use startx? Regards, Dorian ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: [kde-freebsd] Call for Testing KDE 4.2 for FreeBSD
On February 1, 2009 11:03 pm David Johnson wrote: The KDE FreeBSD team is happy to announce the first public Call for Testing for KDE 4.2. Over the past weeks we have focused on the complex and very time consuming task to get KDE 4.2 running. Here are some random notes of mine. Some are tips, some are problems, some are just observations. * I am getting the vista-effect as my older 2.8Gz P4 / Radeon 9000 aren't up to the task of KDE4. I have desktop effects turned off. I've heard some rumours that Qt 4.5 may improve things, but I really do need to get a new computer. The days of refurbishing older hardware by installing *Nix may be drawing to an end... You definitely should not be getting a vista-effect with that hardware. I also have a P4 2.8 GHz CPU, but with crappy onboard Intel i915 graphics (8 MB shared RAM), and 2 GB of RAM; and I don't have any noticeable slowdown in the GUI. The only time things are slow is when I try to load multiple apps at once, and the harddrive grinds away. Once apps are loaded, things are smooth and quick, and the desktop is always smooth and quick. I even ran with desktop effects on with KDE 4.1 for a couple of weeks, but there were visual glitches with the Intel graphics. * All my KDE3 apps are showing up in my menus. I've even set XDG_DATA_DIRS, to no effect. Does anyone know of an easy way to segregate them out into their own menu? That's because there's only 1 application launcher menu, for all your installed apps, whether they be KDE3, KDE4, GNOME, XFce, X11, etc. If you don't want an app to show in the menu, you either have to manually edit the menu, or uninstall the app. What you're asking for is like running Windows Vista, but having all your Windows XP and Win98 apps show up in a separate menus. * The main menu is very slow, whether it's kickoff or classic. Opening up a submenu may take ten to fifteen seconds, with some noticeable disk activity. Very annoying. That's not right. Something strange is going on, but not sure where to even begin diagnosing something like that. -- Freddie fjwc...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: [kde-freebsd] Call for Testing KDE 4.2 for FreeBSD
On Sunday 01 February 2009 23:02:28 Martin Wilke wrote: Howdy Guys, The KDE FreeBSD team is happy to announce the first public Call for Testing for KDE 4.2. Over the past weeks we have focused on the complex and very time consuming task to get KDE 4.2 running. Please read UPDATING-area51 before you start your update. To get KDE 4.2: try svn co https://kf.athame.co.uk/kde-freebsd/trunk/area51/ /path/to/area51 More info here: https://kf.athame.co.uk/access.php - Martin (on behalf of the KDE FreeBSD team) Hi, I'll get started on testing today. I however have this strange desire to use USB2 (the new USB stack introduced to FreeBSD-Current). Is KDE4 happy with USB2 (or to be more precise, is hald happy with USB2 yet)? Is there anything special required to compile KDE4 (and all other ports) to support USB2? I assume installing with KERNCONF=USB2 is a requirement :-) Thanks for the great work, much appreciated. Regards, David signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [kde-freebsd] Call for Testing KDE 4.2 for FreeBSD
On Sunday 01 February 2009 21:02:28 Martin Wilke wrote: Howdy Guys, The KDE FreeBSD team is happy to announce the first public Call for Testing for KDE 4.2. Over the past weeks we have focused on the complex and very time consuming task to get KDE 4.2 running. What is new: Where KDE 4.1 was, according to the development team, aimed at casual users, KDE 4.2 is billed as a compelling offering for the majority of end users. There have been further enhancements to the plasma desktop with new applets allowing better desktop customisation. The configuration options for the desktop have also been expanded and the revamped system tray shows reports from every conceivable process, from system messages to the status of large downloads. The KWin window manager has learned a couple of new tricks. By default, it now switches on 3D and compositing effects automatically, on suitable hardware and manages these effects autonomously, without the aid of Compiz. With the help of the new Kephal library, the window manager now offers additional options for running multiple monitors. The Dolphin file manager has been partly revised, and should now be easier to use. As part of the Google Summer of Code, KMail has been redesigned, resulting in both a better appearance and better IMAP support. The KDE browser Konqueror also includes several new features. New supported languages include Arabic, Icelandic, Basque, Hebrew, Romanian, Tajik and several Indian languages (Bengali India, Gujarati, Kannada, Maithili, Marathi) indicating a rise in popularity in this part of Asia. Some note: The CFT is now without FreeBSD 6.4 support. We will see what we can do over the week now but I do not promise that we can get this fixed. If you want to help us, your patches are welcome. We suggest that you exit from KDE4 before you update, backup your ~/.kde4 configuration dir and start with a clean config. New Ports: arabic/kde4 l10n misc/kde4-l10n-eu hebrew/kde4-l10n misc/kde4-l10n-is misc/kde4-l10n-ro misc/kde4-l10n-tg Please read UPDATING-area51 before you start your update. To get KDE 4.2: try svn co https://kf.athame.co.uk/kde-freebsd/trunk/area51/ /path/to/area51 More info here: https://kf.athame.co.uk/access.php Here few screenshots: http://miwi.bsdcrew.de/screens/kde42/ I'd like to say thanks to all helpers and submitters on the kde-freebsd@ mailinglist. That's all for the moment. Happy Testing! - Martin (on behalf of the KDE FreeBSD team) Awesome, as far as I can see :-) My plasmoids and kicker are back working on my nv-based system, propably not an improvement of kde4.2 but a result of wiping all ports when xorg upgrade to 7.4 failed. Overall speed has improved due to one of those actions. juk is picky now concerning 's and umlauts in filenames, therefore it doesn't skip tracks anymore with raising info (error) windows. ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: [kde-freebsd] Call for Testing KDE 4.2 for FreeBSD
On Monday 02 February 2009 12:01:10 David Naylor wrote: On Sunday 01 February 2009 23:02:28 Martin Wilke wrote: Howdy Guys, The KDE FreeBSD team is happy to announce the first public Call for Testing for KDE 4.2. Over the past weeks we have focused on the complex and very time consuming task to get KDE 4.2 running. Please read UPDATING-area51 before you start your update. To get KDE 4.2: try svn co https://kf.athame.co.uk/kde-freebsd/trunk/area51/ /path/to/area51 More info here: https://kf.athame.co.uk/access.php - Martin (on behalf of the KDE FreeBSD team) Hi, I'll get started on testing today. I however have this strange desire to use USB2 (the new USB stack introduced to FreeBSD-Current). Just finished compiling on FreeBSD 7.1 and have found the following problems: 1. The fonts are not being anti-aliased? (Using default fonts and Use anti-aliasing: Enabled {with sub-pixel rendering [RGB]}). 2. Network Settings doesn't detect anything to do with FreeBSD (it probably still needs to be told about FreeBSD). 3. ksudo does not install? 4. Samba config module doesn't find smb.conf by default. It should look in multiple places? 5. When I was changing desktop effects X froze. It was a once off thing... Items 1,2, 4, (5) probably qualify for a PR, can anyone confirm these? Item 3 probably has something to do with our ports. I really prefer to use (k)sudo (since ksu doesn't like root without a password). Item 4 should be fixed with a patch (until upstream comes with a proper solution). If you wait a few hours I'll see what I can do about providing patches for items 3, 4. Is KDE4 happy with USB2 (or to be more precise, is hald happy with USB2 yet)? I'll try compile hald with USB2. If that doesn't work (i.e. starts taking 100% CPU on a core) then I will not persue the issue. I'm not sure ports has been converted to handle the base system's libusb20 in -current? Oh and I am still having problems with HTTPS and proxy. I am going to try put up a Squid proxy and see if Squid behaves better then WinGate. And I am hoping Qt 4.5 will fix this proxy/socks problem (if it will hurry up and get released :-)). Everything else is looking good :-) and working on the FreeBSD side. Thanks David P.S. Any hope in getting Amarok 2 into ports with KDE 4.2. Last I saw it was pending on a PR to fix mysql_embedded? signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [kde-freebsd] Call for Testing KDE 4.2 for FreeBSD
The KDE FreeBSD team is happy to announce the first public Call for Testing for KDE 4.2. Over the past weeks we have focused on the complex and very time consuming task to get KDE 4.2 running. Here are some random notes of mine. Some are tips, some are problems, some are just observations. * I am getting the vista-effect as my older 2.8Gz P4 / Radeon 9000 aren't up to the task of KDE4. I have desktop effects turned off. I've heard some rumours that Qt 4.5 may improve things, but I really do need to get a new computer. The days of refurbishing older hardware by installing *Nix may be drawing to an end... * Any hints or tips on slimming down KDE? * The default font was sans serif, which is not aliased (I'm not sure what it's aliased to). Changing this to bitstream vera sans solved the problem. * I was getting nepomuk cores, so I turned off nepomuk in the Desktop Search configuration page. This isn't used much in KDE4, so it's safe to turn off. * Konsole does not have a title in the title bar, only a :. This is configurable in the Tabs Titles page, but it isn't working. * All my KDE3 apps are showing up in my menus. I've even set XDG_DATA_DIRS, to no effect. Does anyone know of an easy way to segregate them out into their own menu? * The main menu is very slow, whether it's kickoff or classic. Opening up a submenu may take ten to fifteen seconds, with some noticeable disk activity. Very annoying. * Setting the folderview as a desktop activity crashes plasma. Using a normal folderview is okay. -- David Johnson ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org