>Number: 181353
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: [handbook] Remove KDE3
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-doc
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: change-request
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Sat Aug 17 13:10:00 UTC 2013
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Hendrik Lugtenburg
>Release: 9
>Organization:
>Environment:
>Description:
As KDE 3 is removed from ports (see ports/UPDATING 20130726) I have taken the
liberty to wipe it out of the X11 section in the handbook.
By the way, this is my first contribution to docs, so I hope you'll forgive me
if I did something wrong.
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
Patch attached with submission follows:
Index: books/handbook/x11/chapter.xml
===================================================================
--- books/handbook/x11/chapter.xml (revision 42558)
+++ books/handbook/x11/chapter.xml (working copy)
@@ -1581,15 +1581,6 @@
<application>KDE</application>, consult the <ulink
url="http://freebsd.kde.org/";>KDE/FreeBSD
initiative</ulink>'s website.</para>
-
- <para>There are two versions of
- <application>KDE</application> available on FreeBSD.
- Version 3 has been around for a long time, and is still
- available in the Ports Collection though it's now
- unmaintained and partially broken. Version 4 is
- punctually updated and is the default choice for
- <application>KDE</application> users. They can even be
- installed side by side.</para>
</sect3>
<sect3 id="x11-wm-kde-install">
@@ -1599,30 +1590,23 @@
other desktop environment, the software can be easily
installed from a package or the Ports Collection:</para>
- <para>To install the <application>KDE 3</application> package
- from the network, type:</para>
-
- <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>pkg_add -r kde</userinput></screen>
-
- <para>To install the <application>KDE 4</application> package
- from the network, type:</para>
-
<screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>pkg_add -r kde4</userinput></screen>
<para>&man.pkg.add.1; will automatically fetch the latest
version of the application.</para>
+ <para>Or if you use <application>pkgng</application>:
+ </para>
+ <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>pkg install kde4</userinput></screen>
- <para>To build <application>KDE 3</application> from source,
+ <para>To build <application>KDE</application> from source,
use the ports tree:</para>
- <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>cd /usr/ports/x11/kde3</userinput>
-&prompt.root; <userinput>make install clean</userinput></screen>
-
- <para>To build <application>KDE 4</application> from source,
- use the ports tree:</para>
-
<screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>cd /usr/ports/x11/kde4</userinput>
&prompt.root; <userinput>make install clean</userinput></screen>
+ <para>This will pop up a curses based menu that let you choose
+ which modules to install. Note that it is a very large port
+ and will take quite some time to compile.
+ </para>
<para>After <application>KDE</application> has been installed,
the X server must be told to launch this application
@@ -1629,12 +1613,6 @@
instead of the default window manager. This is accomplished
by editing the <filename>.xinitrc</filename> file:</para>
- <para>For <application>KDE 3</application>:</para>
-
- <screen>&prompt.user; <userinput>echo "exec startkde" >
~/.xinitrc</userinput></screen>
-
- <para>For <application>KDE 4</application>:</para>
-
<screen>&prompt.user; <userinput>echo "exec
/usr/local/kde4/bin/startkde" > ~/.xinitrc</userinput></screen>
<para>Now, whenever the X Window System is invoked with
@@ -1684,18 +1662,7 @@
<application>GNOME</application>, or something else) to
run after logging on.</para>
- <para>To enable <application>KDM</application>, different
- files need to be edited depending on the version of
- <application>KDE</application>.</para>
-
- <para>For <application>KDE 3</application>, the
- <literal>ttyv8</literal> entry in
- <filename>/etc/ttys</filename> has to be adapted as
- follows:</para>
-
- <programlisting>ttyv8 "/usr/local/bin/kdm -nodaemon" xterm on
secure</programlisting>
-
- <para>For <application>KDE 4</application>, you have to mount
+ <para>For <application>KDE 4</application>, you have to mount
&man.procfs.5; and add the following line to
<filename>/etc/rc.conf</filename>:</para>
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