Hi,<br><br>Great work!!<br><br>Now where might we download this version from for general use?<br><br>Thanks,<br><br>Stephen<br><br>--<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/6/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Heiko Falk</b>
<<a href="mailto:Heiko.Falk@udo.edu">Heiko.Falk@udo.edu</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Dear all,<br>
<br><br>I'm happy to announce that I was finally able to create a build of KDE 3.5.3<br>for Sparc Solaris 10. In contrast to the painful work done by Stefan Teleman,<br>I didn't use the SunStudio compiler. Instead, I used a really cool GCC 4
<br>derivate, see<br><br><a href="http://cooltools.sunsource.net/gcc/index.html">http://cooltools.sunsource.net/gcc/index.html</a><br><br>This gccfss compiler consists of a standard GCC 4.0.2 parser, frontend and<br>optimizer. However, it is coupled to the backend, optimizer and code
<br>generator of SunStudio so that highly optimized Sparc code is generated. This<br>compiler has the advantage that only very few KDE source codes need to be<br>patched in order to build the entire KDE - totally, I needed to path 44
<br>files. Additionally, the resulting code quality is extremely high.<br><br>In addition, I tried to use as many standard libraries delivered with Solaris<br>10 as possible. This includes e.g. zlib, bz, gtk, usb, fontconfig and lots
<br>more. I believe that this is better than re-building really all the libraries<br>from scratch since hopefully, the Sun people took care and did some testing<br>concerning the stuff delivered with Solaris 10...<br><br>
The resulting KDE 3.5.3 is relatively nice. The individual KDE tools are<br>pretty robust and work fine. However, there are some things I'd like to ask<br>you since they're are annoying:<br><br>a) The time displayed by e.g
. kicker's clock or korganizer etc. doesn't<br> treat my timezone correctly. My box is configured for MEST, but the<br> KDE tools all use GMT/UTC so that I have an offset of 2 hours.<br> Does anybody know how to correct this?
<br>b) What is more serious and where I really need your expertise:<br> When modifying the appearance of the KDE-GUI within the control center<br> (window decorations, background, ...) I regularly reach the point in<br>
time where kwin misbehaves. All windows are placed at the top border<br> of the screen. You can move them left/right and enlarge them, but you<br> can't move them away from the upper screen border. After that, this
<br> behavior is 'stable', i.e. logging out and in leads to the same<br> style of window positioning.<br> I was unable to identify/isolate where this misbehavior comes from.<br> Has anybody else already reported this behavior? I'm also not sure
<br> whether this stems from KDE/kwin or from my qt build. I had some<br> trouble building qt-3.3.4 with the gccfss compiler, maybe this is the<br> reason. I tried several other ways to build qt but finally wasn't<br>
successful.<br><br>Kind regards from Germany<br><br> Heiko Falk<br><br>_______________________________________________________________________<br><br>Dr. Heiko Falk<br><br>University of Dortmund<br>Department of Computer Science 12 (Embedded Systems Group)
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