Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 16:05:19 +0300 From: Max Brazhnikov <makc@issp.ac.ru> To: kde-freebsd@kde.org Cc: David Naylor <naylor.b.david@gmail.com>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, Martin Wilke <miwi@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: [kde-freebsd] Call for Testing KDE 4.2 for FreeBSD Message-ID: <200902031605.19263.makc@issp.ac.ru> In-Reply-To: <200902030831.14118.naylor.b.david@gmail.com> References: <20090201210227.GB31414@bsdcrew.de> <200902021201.14917.naylor.b.david@gmail.com> <200902030831.14118.naylor.b.david@gmail.com>
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On Tue, 3 Feb 2009 08:31:10 +0200, David Naylor wrote: > On Monday 02 February 2009 12:01:10 David Naylor wrote: > > On Sunday 01 February 2009 23:02:28 Martin Wilke wrote: > > > Howdy Guys, > > > > > > The KDE FreeBSD team is happy to announce the first public > > > Call for Testing for KDE 4.2. Over the past weeks we have > > > focused on the complex and very time consuming task to get > > > KDE 4.2 running. > > > > > > Please read UPDATING-area51 before you start your update. > > > > > > To get KDE 4.2: > > > try > > > svn co https://kf.athame.co.uk/kde-freebsd/trunk/area51/ > > > /path/to/area51 > > > > > > More info here: > > > https://kf.athame.co.uk/access.php > > > > > > - Martin (on behalf of the KDE FreeBSD team) > > > > Hi, > > > > I'll get started on testing today. I however have this strange desire to > > use USB2 (the new USB stack introduced to FreeBSD-Current). > > Just finished compiling on FreeBSD 7.1 and have found the following > problems: 1. The fonts are not being anti-aliased? (Using default fonts > and "Use anti-aliasing: Enabled {with sub-pixel rendering [RGB]}). man fonts-conf? Never had problems with fonts, can't help here :( > 2. Network Settings doesn't detect anything to do with FreeBSD (it > probably still needs to be told about FreeBSD). This part surely requires someone who can add support for FreeBSD. Btw, kde@freebsd team are seeking for developers who would like to improve KDE4 support for FreeBSD. > 3. ksudo does not install? ${KDE$_PREFIX}/lib/kde4/libexec/kdesu Ask kde devs why kdesu is there. > 4. Samba config module doesn't find smb.conf by default. It should look > in multiple places? This could be fixed easily I believe. > 5. When I was changing desktop effects X froze. It was a once off thing... > > Items 1,2, 4, (5) probably qualify for a PR, can anyone confirm these? > > Item 3 probably has something to do with our ports. I really prefer to use > (k)sudo (since ksu doesn't like root without a password). Item 4 should be > fixed with a patch (until upstream comes with a proper solution). > > If you wait a few hours I'll see what I can do about providing patches for > items 3, 4. Welcome! > > Is KDE4 happy with USB2 (or to be more precise, is hald happy with USB2 > > yet)? > > I'll try compile hald with USB2. If that doesn't work (i.e. starts taking > 100% CPU on a core) then I will not persue the issue. I'm not sure ports > has been converted to handle the base system's libusb20 in -current? > > Oh and I am still having problems with HTTPS and proxy. I am going to try > put up a Squid proxy and see if Squid behaves better then WinGate. And I > am hoping Qt 4.5 will fix this proxy/socks problem (if it will hurry up and > get released :-)). > > Everything else is looking good :-) and working on the FreeBSD side. > > Thanks > > David > > P.S. Any hope in getting Amarok 2 into ports with KDE 4.2. Last I saw it > was pending on a PR to fix mysql_embedded? I'll ping Alex about the status of mysql_embedded. Meantime you can try ports/128757 for mysql_embedded and ports/130634 for amarok port. Max.
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