libkscreen without wayland backend and doctor.

[Tijl Coosemans]

On Thu, 19 Jan 2017 21:40:48 +0100 "Tobias C. Berner" <tcberner at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On 19 January 2017 at 17:13, Jesper Schmitz Mouridsen <jesper at schmitz.computer>
> wrote:  
>> I've been working a little on LXQt (https://wiki.freebsd.org/LXQt)
>> LXQt only misses plasma5-libkscreen in the offical portstree to build in
>> the offical portstree.
>>
>> Therefore I patched plasma5-libkscreen [1] to build without wayland, e.g
>> commenting out the wayland specific parts in CMakeLists and by skipping the
>> "doctor" subdir. It builds and work with lxqt-config. Just want to know if
>> there is an interest to have lib/libKF5Screen.so in the offical tree without
>> wayland support?
>>
>> 1 http://lxqt-freebsd.schmitz.computer/ \
>> plasma5-libkscreen-port-without-wayland.tar.gz
>
> I added a slightly modified version of your idea to the plasma5 branch in
> r13609.
> 
> I'm not quite sure if it is ideal to have just "bits" of plasma5 in the
> ports tree, when we cannot provide the whole desktop -- which we can't
> until wayland is in... But we should maybe think about it ^^

If libkscreen is the only thing blocking LXQt it should definitely be
added to the tree.

Wayland on FreeBSD is still several months away I think so how critical is
it for plasma5?  Surely it should work with a pure X11 system?