Hi, it has been some time since this all started, in the case you haven't heard of this layer yet I wrote an introduction.
Introduction: This layer provides recipes for KDE 4 and plasma active. Plasma Active is the "next generation" GUI - optimized for touch screen input methods (see http://plasma-active.org/). This layer also provides Plasma Desktop (although it is not exactly suited for embedded devices). It is no longer necessary to install kdelibs-dev or something like that, currently it just lacks one tool for non KDE hosts and that is work in progress. The layer can be found here: https://gitorious.org/openembedded-core-layers/meta-kde To provide some visual content, here are some screenshots of KDE Plasma Desktop cross compiled with OE: Gumstix Overo KDE 4.8.2 https://docs.google.com/open?id=0Bx-m3uk1yDB-bkVXZk1EUUk2Y00 Gumstix Overo KDE 4.8.2 - konqueror https://docs.google.com/open?id=0Bx-m3uk1yDB-VDZjc0hXU1lna00 Gumstix Overo KDE 4.8.2 - plasma netbook https://docs.google.com/open?id=0Bx-m3uk1yDB-YWRuc09qZkR5RG8 Gumstix Overo KDE 4.8.2 - alt+tab graphic performance https://docs.google.com/open?id=0Bx-m3uk1yDB-cWZjbGx0OEx5ZzQ The device is a Gumstix Overo Water running the Angstrom distribution. The window manager kwin_gles works good with the SGX 530 / OpenGL ES hardware acceleration. Overall this could be considered "usable", but the time it takes to start Plasma Desktop seems to be a bit too long for a coffee break. Maybe I can provide a video in the future, but it doesn't look any different from the usual KDE stuff (except that it is slower). Koen Kooi made a video of the Plasma Active system-settings running on a beagleboard, you can find it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtevobU3A1g Current issues: soprano-native - The onto2vocabulary application is needed in a native flavor. - This is necessary to build this layer, if the build machine itself does not have soprano installed plasma-active / kde-runtime - Plasma active needs the appletscript declarative scriptengine to work. - Currently the related library does not work properly. okular / kconfig_compiler - This issue blocks all builds of the KDE office suite Calligra, which has wonderful alternatives to well known office / paint programs (e.g. Krita) There are other issues but these have the highest impact. Testing meta-kde: Currently it won't work until you can provide soprano-native from your host or elsewhere. After this issue is resolved it will be easy to archive on OpenEmbedded if you use the branch sst-test-images: https://gitorious.org/openembedded-core-layers/meta-kde/trees/sst-test-images/recipes-images *just talking to myself* Maybe it would be a good idea to have a git subtree providing the images, so parsing won't fail over "systemd-image.bb not found" on Poky? Yocto Project Poky and meta-kde: A few off-list mails indicate that there is quite some interest in running Plasma Active on top of the Poky stack. It is planned to support Poky, and chances are good that after soprano-native is finished, KDE can be build with Poky. -- Regards Samuel _______________________________________________ Openembedded-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel
