Richard Daemon wrote:
On Jan 17, 2008 3:06 PM, Predrag Punosevac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
Gustavo Polillo wrote:
> How can use k3b on openbsd 4.2?
>
>
The short answer is that K3b is not in packages so you can not use it
unless you compile from the source.
The long answer is that K3b is just a front end for cdrtools and
dvd+rw
and those tools are of course available so
you can do on 4.2 OpenBSD whatever you could do with K3b. The
problem is
that you might need to write
few simple scripts which will make it easier to do some things.
K3b heavily depends on Qt libraries (used for KDE) so it is really
bloated in terms of compiling.
There is a very light alternative among packages called TkDVD
which does
most of the things K3b but is in particularly
good for ISO images.
You should also look the following packages
abcde
cdrachive
cdrdao
dvdauthor
dvdbackup
dvdrip
All of the above being said, as a primarily desktop user, I think that
K3b should be ported to OpenBSD.
I use it all the time on my only remaining FreeBSD box and I believe
that is the best KDE application written out there.
If you carefully read misc archives you will see that there was a guy
who tired to compile K3b to OpenBSD couple of years ago.
He and me accidentally share the same name Predrag. Obviously he
was not
very persistent and didn't finish the job.
I am a new OpenBSD (only three months) and I am still learning about
current branch and creating new packages.
At this point I would like to port shimmer (security) and PDFedit to
OpenBSD. Obviously not being developer this is the most (besides
money
and hardware of course) I can contribute to the project.
K3b should be little bit more difficult to compile than the above
packages because of already mentioned Qt libraries and
dependencies with
other parts of KDE desktop. I would like to try to do that. I would
suggest that you also try to compile K3b from the source.
K3b web site is well written and there is a fairly good documentation
that explains how you compile K3b from the source.
You should probably subscribe to ports mailing list and try at
least to
talk to KDE port maintainer and ask him for some kind of guidance.
Please, do not try to push him or anybody else for that matter to port
K3b for you as these people are all volunteers.
Most Kind Regards,
Predrag Punosevac
P. S. I do not know if the current Gnome port for OpenBSD includes
CD/DVD creator (I think it is called Gnome Backer). It might be among
Gnome utilities. I know that the Gnome port for stable version is
2.18
which is almost 2.20 which was released fairly recently. I used
CD/DVD creator on FreeBSD. It is in my point of view worse than
K3b but
I would love to see it ported to OpenBSD. I personally use only
AbiWord
and Gnumeric packages from the Gnome port and I have no intentions of
even trying to compile myself.
Thanks for this info, answered some of my questions too and I wasn't
aware of PDFEdit (which I needed something like this).
I'm not a developer myself but I'm working on some other things
already to give back to OpenBSD and all OpenBSD users who can use it,
due this week or the next.
Will any of these 'decrypt' DVD movies too, similar to AnyDVD or
DVDShrink, etc, in Windows Terms?
BTW, what is shimmer?
Dear Richard,
I am not so much in DVD authoring and in particular I am not familiar
with the applications you mentioned ( I am not a Windows user, I shifted
to OpenBSD from FreeBSD and before that I used Solaris and Irix)
If you are locking for the applications that will compress 9h DVD onto
4h I have seen on FreeBSD questions mailing list and also I think on
this that there are some very good programs in the open source that it
can do that. What is the names of applications and if they are ported to
OpenBSD I do not know. There are some people who really know that stuff
lurking around here so I hope they can help you.
A very useful link http://www.dvddemystified.com/dvdfaq.html
If you decide to investigate issue further and compare the available
applications to the one you are familiar with please post your finding
on this list for other people to see.
You can read about shimmer https://sourceforge.net/projects/shimmer
There are already many deficiencies with the project but by porting
it I hope to give people at least opportunity to play with it and
do thinking. It is also useful against low level attacks.
Speaking of PDFEdit I use it on FreeBSD and I want to say immediately
that is not even close to Adobe suit. It is very hard to use but
to my knowledge is only free alternative to Adobe software which cost
thousands of dollars (we have it at the University where I work).
The OpenBSD is the first *BSD to have TeXLive (some Linux distros have
it but they didn't resolve many problems caused by switching form
teTeX to TeXLive) and by having in PDFEdit would make it probably most
suitable platform for
mathematicians, physicists, and similar to author their papers.
Kind Regards from Arizona
Predrag
