On Thu, 19 Jan 2017 21:40:48 +0100 "Tobias C. Berner" <[email protected]> wrote: > On 19 January 2017 at 17:13, Jesper Schmitz Mouridsen > <[email protected]> > wrote: >> I've been working a little on LXQt (https://wiki.freebsd.org/LXQt) >> LXQt only misses plasma5-libkscreen in the offical portstree to build in >> the offical portstree. >> >> Therefore I patched plasma5-libkscreen [1] to build without wayland, e.g >> commenting out the wayland specific parts in CMakeLists and by skipping the >> "doctor" subdir. It builds and work with lxqt-config. Just want to know if >> there is an interest to have lib/libKF5Screen.so in the offical tree without >> wayland support? >> >> 1 http://lxqt-freebsd.schmitz.computer/ \ >> plasma5-libkscreen-port-without-wayland.tar.gz > > I added a slightly modified version of your idea to the plasma5 branch in > r13609. > > I'm not quite sure if it is ideal to have just "bits" of plasma5 in the > ports tree, when we cannot provide the whole desktop -- which we can't > until wayland is in... But we should maybe think about it ^^
If libkscreen is the only thing blocking LXQt it should definitely be added to the tree. Wayland on FreeBSD is still several months away I think so how critical is it for plasma5? Surely it should work with a pure X11 system?
