moving from KDE4 to KDE5

[Dwayne MacKinnon]

"kf5" is KDE Frameworks 5.

https://techbase.kde.org/KDE_Frameworks

Cheers,
DMK

On Monday, June 17, 2019 3:02:21 P.M. EDT Matthias Apitz wrote:
> El día lunes, junio 17, 2019 a las 09:50:47a. m. -0400, Dwayne MacKinnon 
escribió:
> > Hi Matthias,
> > 
> > If I'm not using sddm, I use the following in my .xinitrc for kf5:
> > 
> > exec ck-launch-session startkde
> > 
> > There are advantages, I've found, to having ConsoleKit invoked.
> > 
> > As for poudriere, doing a bulk build on x11/kde5 should pull in everything
> > you need. I use poudriere all the time with that entry in my build file.
> Hi,
> 
> I have a poudriere build file of around 400++ lines of ports:
> 
> $ wc -l myThings/FreeBSD/poudriere-list
>      432 myThings/FreeBSD/poudriere-list
> 
> among these (now) x11/kde5. My poudriere oven (a rackmount Dell
> PowerEdge r210) builds based on this around 2100 packages in around 48
> hours. This afternoon I installed the system (r349041) and the repo of
> the 2100 ports to an external USB disk, pkg-installed kde5 and xorg
> while chrooting into it, rebooted from it, tweaked a bit my home and
> KDE5 came up fine with 'startx' with the .xinitrc as you say, just for
> run a test. Ofc there is a lot to change/configure inside KDE5 (and a
> lot to learn if one comes from KDE4).
> 
> A big thanks to all KDE @ FreeBSD folks to bring this to our ports tree.
> 
> Btw: What is 'kf5' exactly as naming?
> 
> 	matthias