Hi all, Am Dienstag, 5. Februar 2008 07:30:29 schrieb DJ Lucas: > Ag. D. Hatzimanikas wrote: ...snipp-snipp... > KDE-4, pretty major change here which I've not played with. Can it > reliably be beat into shape before a release? How about 3.5.8 or do we > again want to wait? KDE 4 is supposed to be a pretty major feature > update and pretty exciting for the KDE crowd. I'm a gnome user myself, > but I use parts of KDE, so I'm kind of waiting to check it out too. I'd > also like to get these big version bumps out of the way before the 7.0 > release. We'll be movin enough to follow LFS's lead for multiple > architectures in BLFS-7.0.
I would like to say that the KDE3 line should be continued as long as possible/required since KDE4 actually isn't in the state to be a full replacement of KDE3. KDE4.0 now is not KDE4, some of the KDE gurus said. I would suggest to upgrade to 3.5.8 and with this, provide a full-featured KDE desktop and additionally add KDE4 to the book. There is no need to *replace* KDE3 by KDE4 because you can (but must not) have both KDE versions installed in parallel (of course in different dirs). When introducing KDE4 to the BLFS-book you need to add QT4 and cmake etc. too. I never understood why QT4 has not managed to be described in the book. Everyone must have seen that QT4 is (one of) the base of KDE4, so we could have used the time to the release of KDE4 to become familar with QT4. Now, we need to have a look on all of those packages at once. As far as I remember the days where i did the upgrade to 3.5.8 - it is a quite harmless drop-in. But there is a bug somewhere in kontact which occures when trying to store contacts and calendars on an IMAP resource. But there are fixes around for that (no need to patch sources but a config file). Xorg7.3 works for me well but i used the build-from-tarballs.sh script (somewhere at http://www.x.org/wiki/ModularDevelopersGuide) as a base for my own adoption. just another 2 cents, Thomas -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
