getting started with KF5

[Dwayne MacKinnon]

Ouch. That might be a show-stopper for me. I use kmail a *lot*.

Out of curiosity, what's the issue with Qt5WebEngine? It doesn't do 
anything silly like depend on systemd does it?

Cheers,
DMK

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tobias C. Berner" <tcberner at freebsd.org>
To: "dmk at ncf.ca dmk at ncf.ca" <dmk at ncf.ca>
Cc: "Tobias" <tcberner at freebsd.org>, "Adriaan" <groot at kde.org>, "KDE" <kde-freebsd at kde.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2016 11:36:27 AM
Subject: Re: getting started with KF5

Hi there


Unfortunately kdepim-16.* requires Qt5WebEngine. So it cannot be built at
the
moment on FreeBSD.
On the other hand kdepim-4* conflicts with components installed by the
plasma5
Desktop. So it cannot be installed either.



In short: at the moment, you cannot have a KDE Pim Suite.



I have ~100 patches locally to make it build against Qt5WebKit again, which
in
turn let's it be installed again. However, one of the reasons WebEngine was
chosen upstream to replace WebKit was security. So I'm not quite sure, these
patches are really the "right" thing to do. Also they need more work =)




mfg Tobias

On 20 September 2016 at 06:24, Dwayne MacKinnon <dmk at ncf.ca> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Decided to give kf5 a go on my system. I was wondering, do I have to go
> back to kdepim4? I get a message that the new akonadi needs qt5-webengine,
> which hasn't been ported yet.
>
> Thanks,
> DMK
> On Sep 19, 2016 3:14 AM, "Tobias C. Berner" <tcberner at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> On 19 September 2016 at 00:54, Adriaan de Groot <groot at kde.org> wrote:
>
> On Monday 19 September 2016 08:45:39 Graham Menhennitt wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm new to this and would like to test some KF5 stuff. I'm running
> > FreeBSD stable-11 on AMD64. Could somebody please tell me how to get
> > started.
> >
> > I know that I have to get the SVN repo from area51. But what's the next
> > step? Do I copy that over the top of a standard ports repo? Or do I have
> > to merge things somehow? And then what - "cd /usr/ports/x11/kde; make"?
>
>  - Get area51. Get the plasma5/ branch, because it's where the current
> state-
> of-the-art lives.
>  - (optional) get a separate ports checkout somewhere
>  - in the plasma5/ checkout, run
>         $ sh Tools/scripts/kdemerge -a /path/to/ports
>    This will merge all the KDE area51 ports into that ports tree (which is
> why
> you might want to use a separate ports checkout, so it's easy to undo).
>  - For the biggest effect, build x11/kde5
>  - It might be good to switch off your display manager (if you have one
> already
> on your FreeBSD system) and using startx for a bit. You probably just need
> exec /usr/local/bin/startkde in .xinitrc (note that the plasma5 branch
> shuffles
> some KDE4 ports around, and what used to be startkde becomes startkde4).
>
> There are also packages provided by swills@ which might be the fastest
> way to
> give it a go:
> There is a script to add the repo here [if I picked the right one]:
> https://gist.github.com/swills/8a9a9f8a529256f134830c2a1476db0c
> or you can of course also manually add/modify a repo.conf.
>
>
>
> > Is there a list of what I can expect to work and what won't?
>
> I think tcb uses plasma5 on FreeBSD as his primary desktop, so "most"
> things
> apparently work. I've got to admit to sticking with KDE4 desktop, mostly
> out
> of inertia.
>
> Indeed I do :) -- things mostly seem to work.
>
>
>
> [ade]
>
>
> mfg Tobias
>
>