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, k...@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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