libkscreen without wayland backend and doctor.

[Tobias C. Berner]

yes :) -- I don't think we imported anything else into our plasma5 branch.


mfg Tobias

On 23 January 2017 at 13:01, Tijl Coosemans <tijl at freebsd.org> wrote:

> 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.
>
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