Testing kde-3.5_beta1 small howto

ChrisWhite · Posted: Sun Sep 25, 2005 12:49 am Post subject:

I just put the kde-base beta1 ebuilds in gentopia. You can find more info at http://gentopia.gentooexperimental.org.

They're all keyworded ~x86 to make it easier for most users here. Any other architectures such as ~ppc and ~sparc
will need to use the package.keywords trick still.

Tyris · Posted: Sun Sep 25, 2005 5:19 pm Post subject:

I tried to use these ebuilds, but as far as I can tell all the patches weren't copied over for each ebuild. As a result, lots of packages can't be installed until you supply the patches from the main portage tree. I'm guessing you just forgot to grab those too?

ChrisWhite · Posted: Sun Sep 25, 2005 6:41 pm Post subject:

Yah, I did miss some, but it's not all that obvious which ones.

If you post a list here I'll fix um.

ChrisWhite · Posted: Sun Sep 25, 2005 6:57 pm Post subject:

(some minutes later...)

I fixed 2 missing ones in arts, and that's all that I can tell as far as missing patches.

Tyris · Posted: Sun Sep 25, 2005 9:18 pm Post subject:

I think that some of the patches listed with this grep are still missing:

Headrush · Posted: Sun Sep 25, 2005 9:23 pm Post subject:

Maybe the title should be changed to differentiate between the beta1 ebuilds in portage and the gentopia beta1 ebuilds to avoid any confusion.

StringCheesian · l33t Joined: 21 Oct 2003 Posts: 887

EDIT: Disregard please. I now suspect my problem was due to USE="-pam"

It doesn't finish loading... the second icon just keeps flashing until the splash goes away. Then I'm left with only a black screen and the mouse.

EDIT: slash->splash

SoylentGreen · l33t Joined: 19 Aug 2005 Posts: 904 Location: The Hostel

hmm, still no go with i18n german..

DocterD · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 15 May 2004 Posts: 129

aitch · Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2005 9:18 pm Post subject:

I'm having great trouble trying to compile dbus.
I've read that I should get it using CVS, but the Project Utopia thread is about a year old, and it seems as though users have been able to compile it without needing to do this.
I'm running x86, and I'm also using the gentopia ebuilds for KDE-3.5_beta1.
any help would be much appreciated - here's the error output I get when trying to emerge dbus-0.36.2

Redhatter · Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2005 1:38 am Post subject:

Well, I've been trying KDE 3.5b1 on my SGI Indigo2 Impact ... and so far, I'm impressed.

My Indigo2 runs Gentoo/MIPS with an n32 userland, which is usually highly unstable. (Let's put it this way ... us MIPS devs don't officially support it, it's that unstable)

KDE 3.3.2 used to run just fine, until an upgrade of glibc broke Konqueror -- it then started crashing when I changed URLs (e.g. clicking links, typing new address, etc)
KDE 3.4.1 was highly unstable, apps used to crash rather than close properly... Konqueror was totally broken, b0rking before loading a page.
KDE 3.5b1 has been rock solid. It compiled fine, right off the bat, and runs just fine.

I've only got kdelibs, kdebase, kde-i18n (with the UK English locale) and kdegames installed at present, but it's slowly chewing away at the rest. (Hey, 2 days compiling isn't bad for a 64-bit RISC machine running at 195MHz) So we'll probably be marking the ebuilds ~mips shortly.
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ChrisWhite · Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2005 5:06 am Post subject:

aitch · Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2005 11:55 am Post subject:

yup, using 3.3.4-r8 here too.
I'm sure it'll be something painfully obvious..

cabbagewalker · Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2005 12:06 pm Post subject:

ChrisWhite · Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2005 2:46 pm Post subject:

Ok, I've uploaded the last of the missing patches. You all should be clear against that now.

btw, all packages compile for me now (and by all I mean everything beta1 in /usr/portage/kde-base/)

ChrisWhite · Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2005 4:45 pm Post subject:

Ok, this is going to be REALLY long.. but here we go. The keys are as follows:

cnt = cannot test. In this case I simply don't have the hardware/software to test it (or I don't want to install the software ;p)
tcn = test case needed. In this case I have no clue whatsoever on how to test this package
? = haven't had a chance to test it yet
good = take a guess ;p

http://dev.gentoo.org/~chriswhite/kde_list.txt

i92guboj · Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2005 4:46 pm Post subject:

Is it just me or... ?

The taskbar properties tab is gone from kcrontrol->desktop->panels, now there is only arrangement, hiding, menus and appearance. But no taskbar properties. If I try to open the module directly from the taskbar, by clicking in the arrow at the left side of the taskbar applet and selecting "Configure Taskbar" then the Arrangement tab of the panel is opened.

If Im not becoming mad, in alpha1 that was there, that is why I post this in this thread. I wanted to open it to change the settings from transparent to elegant. Since my taskbar now is white and the characters seems too bold and too grey over that colour. I can alway edit my config by hand thou......

firephoto · Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2005 4:54 pm Post subject:

i92guboj · Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2005 5:00 pm Post subject:

The problem is that it "was"

The modules, if present, are put as tabs, and as menu options, and also in the kcontrol tree menu and in the kioslave, they all are the same module, so if it is not in one place, it isnt in any of the other, which is my case.

The question is: why everyone using beta1 do, indeed, has that module installed and mine isnt there???

I will try to reinstall kicker and then kcontrol again.... Ill tell you if it does any change. Thanks for the response.

EDIT: I know that this is not user config related. But still, I tried a clean user account. Same problem. Still compiling kicker...

EDIT2: Compiling kicker did nothing. And I doubt that recompilation of kcontrol will help anything. So, the more probable solution that I will go with is to draw that tab into my screen with a ball-pen so I dont miss it.

LAST EDIT: I was wrong, reemerging kcontrol did it. Dunno what can have happened, but is solved.

cocoliso · n00b Joined: 07 Mar 2004 Posts: 68

this may sound stupid but which ebuilds should i use the ones in portage or gentopia??

cabbagewalker · Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2005 7:15 am Post subject:

j0ff · n00b Joined: 04 Dec 2004 Posts: 12

I'm still having problems with kopete

Everything else compiles fine - all looking good

Shienarier · Apprentice Joined: 16 Jun 2003 Posts: 278

Everything worked fine for me. Except that the "Terminal-Emulation" button don't work.
When i click it, nothing happens. Anyone knows how to fix that?

gmichels · Guru Joined: 20 Jun 2003 Posts: 480 Location: Brazil

Ok, quick question: do I still need to build kdelibs with +arts to get sound notifications? My soundcard has hardware mixing so no software mixing, thanks.