[kde-freebsd] Status of KDE4 on FreeBSD

[Danny Pansters]

On Monday 25 February 2008 00:17:19 Martin Wilke wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 10:44:03PM +0100, Adriaan de Groot wrote:
> > I've been away, watching only the commits to area51 now and then. At
> > FOSDEM I mostly fiddled with OSOL thingies, but fielded a few FreeBSD
> > questions as well, along the lines of "how well does KDE4 work on FreeBSD
> > right now?" I answered "ports are in preparation, which means it 'just
> > works'; certainly the basic desktop is in place with audio and web
> > browsing and stuff." Is that at all accurate?
> >
> >
> > Do systemsettings and system info give sensible answers at all?
>
> Hi Adriaan
>
> Last week I've Blogged about the KDE4 status on FreeBSD.
> (http://miwi.bsdcrew.de/2008/02/21/freebsd-kde4-status/)
>
> Generally KDE4 works ok here, but we have a Big list of open tasks.
>
> Some Open Issues:
>   * The checks cmake does against library versions (xine/samba/qca2) is
> broken. (example: Xine: xine-lib v1.1.10 was found on your system.
>         This version is known to have problems when playing short
> 	sounds. Consider upgrading to version 1.1.9 or above.)
>    * kopete Crash with video session (we need here someone with a webcam

Just a comment about this: I want to make kbtv2 and kopete work together so 
that anything that "plays" though kbtv2 can be used for kopete webcam. 
Possibly, it will hinge on simply grabbing pixmaps via qt4 (with kbtv2 GUI 
itself being the "my webcam" view), at least for a first start. If you can 
shove in qpixmaps (not qimage) at the right stage, you can avoid costly 
conversions in kopete webcam handler.

This is from what I know about kopete3, I assume kopete4 doesn't really differ 
all that much. Except of course that the functions used will (eventually) be 
phonon standardized. I'm not sure if any v4l stuff is already in phonon 
proper, I don't think so.

Anyway, I'm still in beta stage with kbtv2 (of course everything works great 
here, but there's still plenty to do/fix). I want to dip into the phonon 
stuff once phonon becomes part of qt, e.g. after (py-) qt-4.4 release.

Cheers,

Dan


> :P) * The network folder in kopete does not connect to ssh/ftp$
>    * kcd crashes at start
>    * The Ctrl key does not seem to work like it should (US Keyboardlayout).
>    * System Monitor crashes
>    * Desktops Effects cause X11 to crash (with nividia)
>    * IPv6 borken
>    * konqueror crashes on JavaScript
>    * konqueror takes a long time to load html pages
>    * klauncher dumps core sometimes
>
> Actually, I'm working on the switch to USE_CMAKE and doing the first
> build tests on a tinderbox to set the correct dependencies. Yesterday
> I started to write the first parts on the new bsd.kde(4).mk framework.
> The proposal for it will come later.
>
> - Martin
>
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