[Kdenlive-devel] New to list

[Jason Wood]

On Saturday 22 Nov 2003 4:57 am, Varol Okan wrote:
> Hey,
>
> I am new to the list and hope I will not be bashed.
>
>  I have compiled piave and kdenlive and found it rather hard to do so
> but with a little twisting I could get it to run under SuSE 8.2. However
> I have one major problem.

What kind of difficulties did you have? I think that you are the first person 
on the list using SuSE.

> The menu has only : File, Edit, Settings, Help. There are no menu items
> Project, Render, Timeline, Layout. What happened ? Any suggestions ?

It sounds like you have not performed a "make install".

Or, it is possible that you need to specify the base KDE directory when you 
./configure kdenlive.

Here's how I do it :

Find out where the following diectory structure exists for your distro :

/share/apps/konqueror

(I use konqueror as a standard KDE application, but you could use any other 
KDE application as the example)

The bit preceeding /share should be used in a  --prefix= option when 
configuring Kdenlive.


For example, on Mandrake, the directory is at :

/usr/share/apps/konqueror

So the correct ./configure line is :

./configure --prefix=/usr

This will ensure that when compiling and installing Kdenlive, the correct 
files will be put into the correct places.

> I am new to the whole DV and thus there is a lot for me to learn.

This is more a general "learning how to compile KDE applications" issue. Don't 
worry, it's not as complicated as it first seems, and once you've done it a 
couple of times you get used to it :-)

Cheers,
Jason

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Jason Wood
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