[Kdenlive-devel] New version of Kdenlive Builder Wizard - please help me test it for KDE 4

[reinhard]

On Thu, 2008-08-14 at 11:20 -0200, Mads Bondo Dydensborg wrote: 
> torsdag 14 August 2008 skrev reinhard:
> > On Sat, 2008-08-09 at 18:29 -0200, Mads Bondo Dydensborg wrote: 
> > > It has been tested on a clean kubuntu 8.04 with KDE 4.1 applied, where it 
> > > appears to work [see below for steps]. But, in keeping with Dan Dennedys 
> > > advice, I would really (really really) love to get some feedback from this 
> > > list, before I start blowing the horn for it. 
> > 
> > ok, so why is kde 4.1 the minimal requirement?
> > Works fine with 4.0.5 on ubuntu 8.04 ;)
> 
> Thats what jb said was the minimal ... so I stuck to that.
> 
> > 
> > > 
> > > Oh, and perhaps an important note: the wizard configures mlt 
> > > with --disable-qimage because I simply could not figure out a way to 
> reliably 
> > > let the mlt configure system know where to find qimage.h. (Shouldn't the 
> > > sources include Qt/qimage.h at the least, or something?).
> > 
> > Will be of not much help for you (but maybe for other having the same
> > problem), but personally I could solve this on my machine by changing a
> > line in the configure script in mlt/src/modules/qimage:
> > 
> > from
> > 
> > qimage_libdir=/usr/lib/qt4
> > 
> > to 
> > 
> > qimage_libdir=/usr/lib
> 
> Are you then sure that it links against qt4? Because it will compile, but not 
> work, with qt3. (If I understand jb correctly).
> 

Good point.
Not sure if ANYTHING works correctly...how can I check this?

> > 
> > > 
> > > I have made the wizard available for testing at 
> > > http://www.dydensborg.dk/software/kbw/kdenlive_builder_wizard.kmdr
> > > 
> > 
> > Works fine using kde4 but would be nice if your wizard would also work for 
> users of other environments beside of kde4 ;)
> > Running gnome or xfce the wizard gives an error, since kioclient and 
> kde4-config could not be found.
> 
> Thanks a lot for the report!
> 
> Did you try to run it through the kdenlive_start script?

Yep, right now ;)
Works fine so far - I just used normal mode, but will try dbg mode when
I found some free time...

> 
> Working with gnome or xfce has not been really high on my list (but maybe not 
> clear from the name, although the graphic does state "for kde") - but I am 
> willing to give it a thought. Here are my rationale:
> 
> - for kioclient/kfmclient - this is just to allow version checks (of the 
> wizard) and open up the folder with the bins in (the very last step/button). 
> I think it states it is optional now? Or I could state it more explicit.
> 
> - for kde4-config - I did not want people to try and compile it on kde 4.0.x, 
> when jb stated that kde 4.1.x was a requirement. Also, I need to check for 
> Qt4.4 - again, because "jb said so" :-). Also, I take the presence of 
> kde4-config as an indicator that they do actually have something resembling 
> the build environment for kde4(?). Do you know of a better way to check for 
> it?

No, sorry.

greetings
reinhard




> 
> 
> Again, thanks a lot for trying it out. I am quite happy it actually worked for 
> smeone, although it appears it does not run as trouble free as I would have 
> liked.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Mads
>