welcome page woes

[Milian Wolff]

On Friday 27 April 2012 11:50:08 Milian Wolff wrote:
> Hey Aleix,
> 
> here some feedback (the other thread got too big already :P). Sorry I didn't
> have time to check this earlier...
> 
> a) on ubuntu machines, one needs to install kdelibs5-experimental-dev
> otherwise kdeclarative.h is not found. Can we get a proper cmake check for
> that please and disable the welcome page otherwise?
> 
> b) I get this error:
> 
> Error loading component qrc:/code.qml:22 module "org.kde.plasma.components"
> is not installed
> 
> Again, this should be detected somehow and the welcome page disabled
> otherwise. Right now I just see a "white screen of death" which is worse
> than the grey thingy before...
> 
> These two things are *crucial* and must be fixed ASAP otherwise people with
> older KDELibs won't be able to compile KDev*, or if they can, it looks far
> worse than before.

And Apaku just said: KDevelop now needs Qt 4.8 to be build, I bet this crept 
in with the welcomepage as well.

Please, make sure that the welcome page is optional for those that don't have 
Qt 4.8 or kdeclarative or the plasma components and leave our grey screen as-
is for them.

> c) why is the code in kdevelop? should this not be in kdevplatform (for
> quanta in the future e.g.)? Maybe making it a plugin would also make a) and
> b) simpler.
> 
> More feedback once I can actually use it (i.e. if someone knows where to get
> the plasma components from on ubuntu 11.10 with kde 4.7.4).
> 
> bye
-- 
Milian Wolff
mail at milianw.de
http://milianw.de
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