getting started with KF5

[Dwayne MacKinnon]

Chromium? Yeah, that's a *lot* of patches. I wish I could offer to help with 
the port, but my coding skills are way too rusty to wade into that.

When it's ready though, I will happily volunteer to test it. For the time 
being I'm going to stick with KF5 and use Thunderbird. 

Cheers,
DMK

On September 20, 2016 06:31:02 PM Tobias C. Berner wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Yes, it is a sucky situation.
> 
> It's basically chromium, and needs patches, lots and lots of patches, as
> none of the BSDs are supported.
> See https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=212817#c1 for some
> more detail.
> 
> 
> 
> mfg Tobias
> 
> On 20 September 2016 at 18:11, Dwayne MacKinnon <dmk at ncf.ca> wrote:
> > 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