[Kde-nonlinux] KDE-3.0 FreeBSD port first look

Jim Durham kde-nonlinux@kde.org
Sat, 13 Apr 2002 21:28:27 -0400


On Friday 12 April 2002 09:16 am, Lauri Watts wrote:
> On Friday 12 April 2002 06.51, Jim Durham wrote:
(snip)
> >
> > However, I'm not able to get Konqueror to display java at all.
> > I have jdk1.3.1 installed and the path set to the java executable.
> > Yes, java is enabled globally 8-)  !
> >
> > I also saw some info about linking the libjavaplugin.so library
> > to the netscape plugins directory. However, the FreeBSD version
> > of jdk1.3.1 doesn't seem to have this plugin lib.  ???
> >
> > Does anyone have java rendering on Konqueror 3.0 ?
>
> Yes, sort of.
>
> Some java applets run perfectly well, including several I've found lying
> around Sun's site.  Java applications appear to be working quite happily.
> Others, I just get a grey "loading applet" box where it ought to be shiny
> happy moving text or something, and nothing much happens.  Sometimes
> hitting reload lots of times makes it work again.
>
> I don't *think* this is a FreeBSD problem, at least, it's been reported on
> other OS's too.
>
What's interesting is that the jdk1.3.1 appletviewer seems to work.
So, I assume it's a linking problem, not a jdk problem.

-Jim