Kexi 3 Alpha landed on Windows

Boudewijn Rempt boud at valdyas.org
Wed Aug 12 09:57:33 BST 2015


On Wed, 12 Aug 2015, Jaroslaw Staniek wrote:

> Thanks,
> One observation: depending on kdelibs4support causes crashes in kdbus when nothing like dbus
> installed/configured. If you use KActionCollection, global accel implementation uses dbus -> crash on
> startup :/. (KActionCollection is actually the only reason for Kexi to use libkxmlgui). I patched
> that part of libkxmlgui (and kdbus IIRC).
> 
> Kexi does not depend on kdelibs4support directly but uses a bit of calligralibs that does. I reduced
> this dependency a bit (patches will follow).
> 
> I guess it's interesting for Krita to have kf5 stripped down of the dependencies coming from the
> Linux world?

Yes, once I've fixed the basic functionality, I intend to remove as much 
usage of frameworks as possible to simplify building. On the other hand, 
Michael already builds the frameworks branch on Windows (using a patched 
emerge). So it might not be too big a problem.

Boudewijn



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