I can play cannonball in qt-win32 :-)

[Ralf Habacker]

> > Can you reports this issues ?
> >
> i think it will be better when i will clean my changes up and ask
> if i will be allowed to apply that patch somewhen. this month i have
> to work on other stuff though.
>
This sounds good, because currently I'm working on recent cvs kde 3.1/cygwin
port.
The build system is 99% running out of the box and I've got already running arts
1.1.0 using oss driver,
kdelibs about 90% and some kdebase applications. I will commit this into cvs in
the near future.
First I have thought about submitting these changes to the kde guys and only
working with their cvs repository, but at the current "alpha" state this gives
no advantage, so probably I will add a kde 3 cygwin branch to the kde-cygwin cvs
repository. From this we can create a win32 native branch or so.

> > > and i also was able to work with a kde konsole under qt/embedded.
> >
> > Using a frame buffer ? Can you give a short description how do you have got
> > this working ?
>
> the short description is this:
> get qt-embedded 3.1, compile it for framebuffer, test if it works with the
> tutorial programs, you have to add the -qws flag when starting the programs.
> then compile kde 3.1 with the --enable-embedded flag, and fix all problems
> in the code as you find them ;-)...
>
Very interesting, perhaps I find some time to evalute this. Thanks for this
pointer.
> >
> > > konqueror and all the other "bigger" programs are still segfaulting,
> > > because i
> >
> > simply commented out all stuff that
> >
> > >was dependant on X.
> >
> > Very interesting. Which kde release you are using ?
> >
> kde 3.1. the problem is that nobody seems to care if this works with the
> actual kde, but i guess somebody was working on this "many moons ago",
> so there is not so much code which is not working.
I have recognized similar things, for example the ':' problem in DISPLAY env var
used by kdeinit and friends, which OI have applied last year seems to be
removed. (This seems to be an additional reason for using the kde-cygwin cvs
area)

As far as I remember was this stuff implemented by Simon Hausmann, whoported
konqueror to qt/embedded.

> mainly it is the code to get keypresses, the shortcut and global shortcut
> stuff, and the netwm stuff, that is the code to handle the number of virtual
> displays and so on...
>
Okay.
>
> > >i also have to tell you that i do work for a company, which pays me to
> > > work

> > > so i think i won't be able to work on the windows port of qt
> > >any more, because i will have the files i was working on in source code
> > > from trolltech. :-(
> >
> > Holger, you have done a great work. Thanks for all your efforts on the
> > qt/win32 port.
> > I see this with one laughing and one weeking eye. Laughing, because you've
> > got this chance for you personally and that you are able to figure out some
> > of the win32 kde issues and weeking, because the port seems to be stopped
> > temporary.
> >
> me too, but i think when there is a kde on windows, this will come to speed
> quite fast again, so i decided to focus on kde for now...
>
> > One question: Can you send a commented update of the ported class list to
> > this list ?  Then I can update the website with the open issues, so that
> > others will know where to go one.
> >
> i will do this, but i canīt say when i will have time for it exactly.
>
Thanks
Ralf