Chromium? Yeah, that's a *lot* of patches. I wish I could offer to help with the port, but my coding skills are way too rusty to wade into that.
When it's ready though, I will happily volunteer to test it. For the time being I'm going to stick with KF5 and use Thunderbird. Cheers, DMK On September 20, 2016 06:31:02 PM Tobias C. Berner wrote: > Hi, > > Yes, it is a sucky situation. > > It's basically chromium, and needs patches, lots and lots of patches, as > none of the BSDs are supported. > See https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=212817#c1 for some > more detail. > > > > mfg Tobias > > On 20 September 2016 at 18:11, Dwayne MacKinnon <d...@ncf.ca> wrote: > > Ouch. That might be a show-stopper for me. I use kmail a *lot*. > > > > Out of curiosity, what's the issue with Qt5WebEngine? It doesn't do > > anything silly like depend on systemd does it? > > > > Cheers, > > DMK > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Tobias C. Berner" <tcber...@freebsd.org> > > To: "d...@ncf.ca d...@ncf.ca" <d...@ncf.ca> > > Cc: "Tobias" <tcber...@freebsd.org>, "Adriaan" <gr...@kde.org>, "KDE" < > > kde-freebsd@kde.org> > > Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2016 11:36:27 AM > > Subject: Re: getting started with KF5 > > > > Hi there > > > > > > Unfortunately kdepim-16.* requires Qt5WebEngine. So it cannot be built at > > the > > moment on FreeBSD. > > On the other hand kdepim-4* conflicts with components installed by the > > plasma5 > > Desktop. So it cannot be installed either. > > > > > > > > In short: at the moment, you cannot have a KDE Pim Suite. > > > > > > > > I have ~100 patches locally to make it build against Qt5WebKit again, > > which > > in > > turn let's it be installed again. However, one of the reasons WebEngine > > was > > chosen upstream to replace WebKit was security. So I'm not quite sure, > > these > > patches are really the "right" thing to do. Also they need more work =) > > > > > > > > > > mfg Tobias > > > > On 20 September 2016 at 06:24, Dwayne MacKinnon <d...@ncf.ca> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > Decided to give kf5 a go on my system. I was wondering, do I have to go > > > back to kdepim4? I get a message that the new akonadi needs > > > > qt5-webengine, > > > > > which hasn't been ported yet. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > DMK > > > On Sep 19, 2016 3:14 AM, "Tobias C. Berner" <tcber...@freebsd.org> > > > > wrote: > > > Hi > > > > > > On 19 September 2016 at 00:54, Adriaan de Groot <gr...@kde.org> wrote: > > > > > > On Monday 19 September 2016 08:45:39 Graham Menhennitt wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > > > I'm new to this and would like to test some KF5 stuff. I'm running > > > > FreeBSD stable-11 on AMD64. Could somebody please tell me how to get > > > > started. > > > > > > > > I know that I have to get the SVN repo from area51. But what's the > > > > next > > > > step? Do I copy that over the top of a standard ports repo? Or do I > > > > have > > > > > > to merge things somehow? And then what - "cd /usr/ports/x11/kde; > > > > make"? > > > > > > - Get area51. Get the plasma5/ branch, because it's where the current > > > > > > state- > > > of-the-art lives. > > > > > > - (optional) get a separate ports checkout somewhere > > > - in the plasma5/ checkout, run > > > > > > $ sh Tools/scripts/kdemerge -a /path/to/ports > > > > > > This will merge all the KDE area51 ports into that ports tree (which > > > > is > > > > > why > > > you might want to use a separate ports checkout, so it's easy to undo). > > > > > > - For the biggest effect, build x11/kde5 > > > - It might be good to switch off your display manager (if you have one > > > > > > already > > > on your FreeBSD system) and using startx for a bit. You probably just > > > > need > > > > > exec /usr/local/bin/startkde in .xinitrc (note that the plasma5 branch > > > shuffles > > > some KDE4 ports around, and what used to be startkde becomes startkde4). > > > > > > There are also packages provided by swills@ which might be the fastest > > > way to > > > give it a go: > > > There is a script to add the repo here [if I picked the right one]: > > > https://gist.github.com/swills/8a9a9f8a529256f134830c2a1476db0c > > > or you can of course also manually add/modify a repo.conf. > > > > > > > Is there a list of what I can expect to work and what won't? > > > > > > I think tcb uses plasma5 on FreeBSD as his primary desktop, so "most" > > > things > > > apparently work. I've got to admit to sticking with KDE4 desktop, mostly > > > out > > > of inertia. > > > > > > Indeed I do :) -- things mostly seem to work. > > > > > > > > > > > > [ade] > > > > > > > > > mfg Tobias
