For CeBIT2007, many visitors were asking for KDE4 at the KDE booth and during the weekend I've attempted to rpmbuild kdelibs4, kdepimlibs4 and kdebase4. To my surprise, I had a fully logged KDE4 session on my fedora 7-devel. Well with some workarounds :)
The public prefers fully logged KDE4 session running rather than having a kde3 session firing kde4 applications.
Some screenshots for the eyes:
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Though it is still unstable, I could demonstrate kde4 as a fully logged KDE4 session and on fedora 7. I'll talk about CeBIT and KDE booth in the next post. Let's not hijack this KDE4 post :)
Here are my srpms and rpms for testing purposes only.
http://tux.u-strasbg.fr/~chit/KDE4/
Symptoms:
konqueror crashes all the time. dolphin, alt-f2 (krunner) and kcontrol work without crashing. Till now plasma is disabled, but oxygen icons are present :)
The work around was to
1)write a script kde4.sh
#!/bin/bash
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/kde4/lib
export KDEDIR=/opt/kde4
export PATH=/opt/kde4/bin/:$PATH
export KDEHOME=~/.kde4
startkde&
2) Press ctrl+alt+f1
3) logged in as another user (kdedevel)
4) xinit -- :1&
5) ./kde4.sh
In the future, I'll be tuning KevinKofler's patches and if i have time I'll package kdenetwork and the rest. If you are already working on it or have materials to help me in packaging KDE4, I'll listen:)
6 comments:
Great work - I hope you are releasing new rpm on a weekly rhythm? Or even on a daily rhythm? I mean, I don't know how much spare build power you have ;)
But: looking at the spec file for kdebase4 there should be a patch included for the home directory, but I can't see it in the srpm. In fact, in the spec in the srpm the patch is deactivated.
What is this about?
And about the howto:
You could add that it is also possible to add the necessary information to ~/.bashrc and that there is the possibility to create a kdm/gdm kde4-entry. This is well documented at the section "Solitary KDE 4 session" at
http://techbase.kde.org/Getting_Started/Set_up_KDE_4_for_development
In the best case you would even include such a file in your kdebase4 rpm :D
liquidat
Hello liquidat, we actually did talk about you at the KDE booth in CeBIT :) You are well known for your kde articles :)
My RPMS were originally intended for a trial to demonstrate at Cebit. I personally didn't expect that those rpms could work. Now that they are working with work around, I actually share them.
Right now, as you have seen the parallel stability patches of KevinKofler aren't used during the build. It's normal :)
I didn't have time to go through it and fix the broken patches. I'll do when I have time so for the rest of the kde packages (kdenetwork,kdeartwork...). I can't build the daily snapshots and weekly snapshots on my laptop. However I'm planning to build on a two weeks basis.
If anyone is willing to work on the KDE4 packages for fedora, I'm willing to host them.
Thanks for the flowers :)
Anyway, I would like to help with the KDE-packages, but I will be away from any internet connection for weeks soon. Therefore can't help with anything atm :/
But I will be back ;)
It is great to have some kde4 packages for
FC6. However I've problems installing the kdesdk4 package. It fails reporting it is not an rpm package.
I could help with the building of those packets - but I've no idea about specs file and patches and such stuff. Anyway, I wouldn't have the time to maintain such stuff.
But as I said, I could build the packages - I sleep some hours every day and my notebook is more or less idle in that time. And anyway, it's a dual core CPU and most of the time I can do with one core.
So the built should go as non-interactive as possible - if you can do this, I can provide the building time.
I can't promise any release rhythm though. Weekly or even more often should be possible.
This is why I love linux so much, because its open source, everyone is so helpful. Not like those charge you an arm and a leg windows guys.
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