On Sun, 22 Jan 2017 21:44:59 +0100 "Tobias C. Berner" <[email protected]> wrote: > On 22 January 2017 at 16:46, Tijl Coosemans <[email protected]> wrote: >> 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? > > plasma5 requires graphics/wayland [1] from [2] for the screenlocker > component for example -- even for X11 based sessions [3]. (So by the same > argument we could/should/have request[ed] graphics/wayland to be added to > the ports tree :P -- wayland may be months out, but that port has been > used for nearly two years now in the plasma5 branch). > > I'll create a diff for a patched plasma5-libkscreen for the ports tree.
Is the graphics/wayland port the only thing you need? Because that looks like a very simple component. It should definitely be added to the tree if that's the only thing blocking plasma5, and then you don't need this libkscreen hack.
