libkscreen without wayland backend and doctor.

[Tijl Coosemans]

On Sun, 22 Jan 2017 21:44:59 +0100 "Tobias C. Berner" <tcberner at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On 22 January 2017 at 16:46, Tijl Coosemans <tijl at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> 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?
> 
> plasma5 requires graphics/wayland [1] from [2] for the screenlocker
> component for example -- even for X11 based sessions [3]. (So by the same
> argument we could/should/have request[ed] graphics/wayland to be added to
> the ports tree :P -- wayland may be months out, but that port has been
> used for nearly two years now in the plasma5 branch).
> 
> I'll create a diff for a patched plasma5-libkscreen for the ports tree.

Is the graphics/wayland port the only thing you need?  Because that looks
like a very simple component.  It should definitely be added to the tree
if that's the only thing blocking plasma5, and then you don't need this
libkscreen hack.