[kde-solaris] KDE 3.5.3 build for Solaris 10

[Heiko Falk]

Hi Stephen,


I didn't publish this KDE 3.5.3 for Solaris yet for some reasons. Firstly, 
there are some issues still unsolved (windows glued at the top screen border, 
screen locking). Secondly, the KDE I've built so far is tuned to the NFS 
directory structures of our department. It wouldn't make sense to generate 
Solaris packages since they would result in tons of strange non-default 
directories and paths at your site. I'll need to rebuild my KDE 3.5.3 
together with the transitive shell of dependent software using 'exportable 
and packageable' paths.

If there is some interest out there in the KDE/Solaris community to check this 
KDE 3.5.3, I can build the packages right now without further debugging and 
publish them. Any feedback esp. about this kwin-window-glue would be highly 
appreciated. Just tell me...!			:)

  Heiko


On Saturday 15 July 2006 23:18, Stephen Fitch wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Great work!!
>
> Now where might we download this version from for general use?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Stephen
>
> --
>
> On 7/6/06, Heiko Falk <Heiko.Falk at udo.edu> wrote:
> > Dear all,
> >
> >
> > I'm happy to announce that I was finally able to create a build of KDE
> > 3.5.3
> > for Sparc Solaris 10. In contrast to the painful work done by Stefan
> > Teleman,
> > I didn't use the SunStudio compiler. Instead, I used a really cool GCC 4
> > derivate, see
> >
> > http://cooltools.sunsource.net/gcc/index.html
> >
> > This gccfss compiler consists of a standard GCC 4.0.2 parser, frontend
> > and optimizer. However, it is coupled to the backend, optimizer and code
> > generator of SunStudio so that highly optimized Sparc code is generated.
> > This
> > compiler has the advantage that only very few KDE source codes need to be
> > patched in order to build the entire KDE - totally, I needed to path 44
> > files. Additionally, the resulting code quality is extremely high.
> >
> > In addition, I tried to use as many standard libraries delivered with
> > Solaris
> > 10 as possible. This includes e.g. zlib, bz, gtk, usb, fontconfig and
> > lots more. I believe that this is better than re-building really all the
> > libraries
> > from scratch since hopefully, the Sun people took care and did some
> > testing
> > concerning the stuff delivered with Solaris 10...
> >
> > The resulting KDE 3.5.3 is relatively nice. The individual KDE tools are
> > pretty robust and work fine. However, there are some things I'd like to
> > ask
> > you since they're are annoying:
> >
> > a) The time displayed by e.g. kicker's clock or korganizer etc. doesn't
> >    treat my timezone correctly. My box is configured for MEST, but the
> >    KDE tools all use GMT/UTC so that I have an offset of 2 hours.
> >    Does anybody know how to correct this?
> > b) What is more serious and where I really need your expertise:
> >    When modifying the appearance of the KDE-GUI within the control center
> >    (window decorations, background, ...) I regularly reach the point in
> >    time where kwin misbehaves. All windows are placed at the top border
> >    of the screen. You can move them left/right and enlarge them, but you
> >    can't move them away from the upper screen border. After that, this
> >    behavior is 'stable', i.e. logging out and in leads to the same
> >    style of window positioning.
> >    I was unable to identify/isolate where this misbehavior comes from.
> >    Has anybody else already reported this behavior? I'm also not sure
> >    whether this stems from KDE/kwin or from my qt build. I had some
> >    trouble building qt-3.3.4 with the gccfss compiler, maybe this is the
> >    reason. I tried several other ways to build qt but finally wasn't
> >    successful.
> >
> > Kind regards from Germany
> >
> >   Heiko Falk
> >
> > _______________________________________________________________________
> >
> > Dr. Heiko Falk
> >
> > University of Dortmund
> > Department of Computer Science 12 (Embedded Systems Group)
> > Otto-Hahn-Strasse 16, Room E-19
> >
> > 44221 Dortmund
> > Germany
> >
> >
> > Phone:  +49 231 755 6124
> > Fax:    +49 231 755 6116
> > Mail:   Heiko.Falk at udo.edu
> > WWW:    http://ls12-www.cs.uni-dortmund.de/~falk
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Dr. Heiko Falk

University of Dortmund
Department of Computer Science 12 (Embedded Systems Group)
Otto-Hahn-Strasse 16, Room E-19

44221 Dortmund
Germany


Phone:  +49 231 755 6124
Fax:    +49 231 755 6116
Mail:   Heiko.Falk at udo.edu
WWW:    http://ls12-www.cs.uni-dortmund.de/~falk
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