libkscreen without wayland backend and doctor.

[Tijl Coosemans]

On Mon, 23 Jan 2017 13:06:12 +0100 "Tobias C. Berner" <tcberner at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 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.
>
> yes :) -- I don't think we imported anything else into our plasma5 branch.

Bapt, can you look into (and commit) graphics/wayland?  It's the only
thing blocking KDE5.