Sorry, one more comment, about a different subject.. On Monday 25 February 2008 00:17:19 Martin Wilke wrote: > On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 10:44:03PM +0100, Adriaan de Groot wrote: > > I've been away, watching only the commits to area51 now and then. At > > FOSDEM I mostly fiddled with OSOL thingies, but fielded a few FreeBSD > > questions as well, along the lines of "how well does KDE4 work on FreeBSD > > right now?" I answered "ports are in preparation, which means it 'just > > works'; certainly the basic desktop is in place with audio and web > > browsing and stuff." Is that at all accurate? > > > > > > Do systemsettings and system info give sensible answers at all? > > Hi Adriaan > > Last week I've Blogged about the KDE4 status on FreeBSD. > (http://miwi.bsdcrew.de/2008/02/21/freebsd-kde4-status/) > > Generally KDE4 works ok here, but we have a Big list of open tasks. > > Some Open Issues: > * The checks cmake does against library versions (xine/samba/qca2) is > broken. (example: Xine: xine-lib v1.1.10 was found on your system. > This version is known to have problems when playing short > sounds. Consider upgrading to version 1.1.9 or above.) > * kopete Crash with video session (we need here someone with a webcam > :P) * The network folder in kopete does not connect to ssh/ftp$ > * kcd crashes at start > * The Ctrl key does not seem to work like it should (US Keyboardlayout). > * System Monitor crashes > * Desktops Effects cause X11 to crash (with nividia)
I have seen and read about problems with libxcb when (Q?)Xembed is used. That might be relevant here. They seem thread-related (known problems with xine in the past, which uses embedding, and I've seen similar a while ago when I had experimentally built qt4 with libxcb and in both kbtv1 and kbtv2 if the video was playing in the embedded SDL viewer, if I would for example resize a modal window it would crash. I'm afraid that the libxcb (freedesktop?) people got a little too enthusiastic when exterminating X threading problems (when more than one thread touches the same screen item) and this may not be entirely made fallout-free. What I mean is that properly threaded apps using embedding (and thus are itself responsible for thread safety -- not X) may be considered faulty by libxcb leading to crashes. I'm not sure if that is or will be relevant in a KDE4 context, but I would like to let you know what I've gathered about this. It may be a potential problem and we get to see systemic problems with (Q)Xembed then this is one place to look. Dan > * IPv6 borken > * konqueror crashes on JavaScript > * konqueror takes a long time to load html pages > * klauncher dumps core sometimes > > Actually, I'm working on the switch to USE_CMAKE and doing the first > build tests on a tinderbox to set the correct dependencies. Yesterday > I started to write the first parts on the new bsd.kde(4).mk framework. > The proposal for it will come later. > > - Martin > > > [ade] > > _______________________________________________ > > kde-freebsd mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-freebsd _______________________________________________ kde-freebsd mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-freebsd
