[Kdenlive-devel] New version of Kdenlive Builder Wizard - please help me test it for KDE 4

[Mads Bondo Dydensborg]

torsdag 14 August 2008 skrev reinhard:
> On Sat, 2008-08-09 at 18:29 -0200, Mads Bondo Dydensborg wrote: 
> > It has been tested on a clean kubuntu 8.04 with KDE 4.1 applied, where it 
> > appears to work [see below for steps]. But, in keeping with Dan Dennedys 
> > advice, I would really (really really) love to get some feedback from this 
> > list, before I start blowing the horn for it. 
> 
> ok, so why is kde 4.1 the minimal requirement?
> Works fine with 4.0.5 on ubuntu 8.04 ;)

Thats what jb said was the minimal ... so I stuck to that.

> 
> > 
> > Oh, and perhaps an important note: the wizard configures mlt 
> > with --disable-qimage because I simply could not figure out a way to 
reliably 
> > let the mlt configure system know where to find qimage.h. (Shouldn't the 
> > sources include Qt/qimage.h at the least, or something?).
> 
> Will be of not much help for you (but maybe for other having the same
> problem), but personally I could solve this on my machine by changing a
> line in the configure script in mlt/src/modules/qimage:
> 
> from
> 
> qimage_libdir=/usr/lib/qt4
> 
> to 
> 
> qimage_libdir=/usr/lib

Are you then sure that it links against qt4? Because it will compile, but not 
work, with qt3. (If I understand jb correctly).

> 
> > 
> > I have made the wizard available for testing at 
> > http://www.dydensborg.dk/software/kbw/kdenlive_builder_wizard.kmdr
> > 
> 
> Works fine using kde4 but would be nice if your wizard would also work for 
users of other environments beside of kde4 ;)
> Running gnome or xfce the wizard gives an error, since kioclient and 
kde4-config could not be found.

Thanks a lot for the report!

Did you try to run it through the kdenlive_start script?

Working with gnome or xfce has not been really high on my list (but maybe not 
clear from the name, although the graphic does state "for kde") - but I am 
willing to give it a thought. Here are my rationale:

- for kioclient/kfmclient - this is just to allow version checks (of the 
wizard) and open up the folder with the bins in (the very last step/button). 
I think it states it is optional now? Or I could state it more explicit.

- for kde4-config - I did not want people to try and compile it on kde 4.0.x, 
when jb stated that kde 4.1.x was a requirement. Also, I need to check for 
Qt4.4 - again, because "jb said so" :-). Also, I take the presence of 
kde4-config as an indicator that they do actually have something resembling 
the build environment for kde4(?). Do you know of a better way to check for 
it?

Again, thanks a lot for trying it out. I am quite happy it actually worked for 
smeone, although it appears it does not run as trouble free as I would have 
liked.

Regards

Mads

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