Re: [blfs-dev] [blfs-book] r10439 - in trunk/BOOK: . introduction/welcome kde4/core postlfs/security

2012-07-21 Thread Armin K.
On 07/21/2012 08:12 PM, rthom...@linuxfromscratch.org wrote: Author: rthomsen Date: 2012-07-21 12:12:47 -0600 (Sat, 21 Jul 2012) New Revision: 10439 Added: trunk/BOOK/kde4/core/polkit-kde-agent.xml Modified: trunk/BOOK/general.ent trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml

Re: [blfs-dev] [blfs-book] r10439 - in trunk/BOOK: . introduction/welcome kde4/core postlfs/security

2012-07-21 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 08:40:49PM +0200, Armin K. wrote: From my English knowledge I don't think that Create such a script is correct. I guess Create the script by running ... would be more suitable. Also, thanks for other corrections, they look good to me. Seems perfectly good English

Re: [blfs-dev] [blfs-book] r10408 - in trunk/BOOK: introduction/important kde4/add kde4/core postlfs/filesystems postlfs/virtualization

2012-07-11 Thread Ragnar Thomsen
On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 9:02 PM, Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: We've had discussions here before about this type of use. Generally we want to use 'an' to prevent two adjacent vowel sounds. In this case I think of lvm as 'ell vee em', so the 'an' is appropriate to to avoid the 'a

Re: [blfs-dev] [blfs-book] r10408 - in trunk/BOOK: introduction/important kde4/add kde4/core postlfs/filesystems postlfs/virtualization

2012-07-11 Thread DJ Lucas
On 07/11/2012 08:11 AM, Ragnar Thomsen wrote: On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 9:02 PM, Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: We've had discussions here before about this type of use. Generally we want to use 'an' to prevent two adjacent vowel sounds. In this case I think of lvm as 'ell vee em',

Re: [blfs-dev] [blfs-book] r10408 - in trunk/BOOK: introduction/important kde4/add kde4/core postlfs/filesystems postlfs/virtualization

2012-07-10 Thread Bruce Dubbs
rthom...@linuxfromscratch.org wrote: - an lvm configuration file./para + a lvm configuration file./para We've had discussions here before about this type of use. Generally we want to use 'an' to prevent two adjacent vowel sounds. In this case I think of lvm as 'ell vee

Re: [blfs-dev] KDE4 builds

2012-07-07 Thread Ragnar Thomsen
On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 6:06 PM, Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: OK. Thanks. Do you know of any changes for kde-4.8.4 that would affect the 4.8.3 build instructions in the book? If not, it would be easy for me to test that out. The point releases of KDE are bugfix-only releases, so

Re: [blfs-dev] KDE4 builds

2012-07-06 Thread Ragnar Thomsen
On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 5:32 AM, Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: When I started KDE, I couldn't get any keyboard input and the mouse was not working right. With a little research I found that cmake did not find libXi properly in kde-workspace. That's because libXi is in /opt.

Re: [blfs-dev] KDE4 builds

2012-07-06 Thread Bruce Dubbs
a ~/.xsession* file. In any case, I still had the input problem when I started up the kde window manager. I did make some errors earlier and I may just remove /opt/kde4 completely and start over. That's one advantage with a separate kde directory. In the meantime, I am going to try xfce. That's

Re: [blfs-dev] [blfs-book] r10078 - in trunk/BOOK: . introduction/welcome kde4/add multimedia/audioutils multimedia/cdwriteutils multimedia/libdriv postlfs/security

2012-05-04 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Armin K. wrote: On 05/04/2012 11:09 PM, bdu...@linuxfromscratch.org wrote: Author: bdubbs Date: 2012-05-04 15:09:18 -0600 (Fri, 04 May 2012) New Revision: 10078 I am not sure if you missed it or wanted to be like this, but I noticed that you upgraded cdrtools to new version, but you still

Re: [blfs-dev] Removal of additional KDE4 packages

2012-03-23 Thread Bruce Dubbs
. And the entire KDE4 development section: -kdesdk -kdewebdev -kdevplatform -kdevelop The rationale for this is: -the current instructions are outdated/incomplete -the download links are dead -the packages are not required/recommended by other packages -i don't use these packages and don't have

Re: [blfs-dev] Removal of additional KDE4 packages

2012-03-23 Thread Bruce Dubbs
those remain in the book if possible. My point was not that they are unavailable. The edu and accessibility packages are also still available, although they have been split up into several smaller packages. My point was: There are 90+ packages in the kde4 software compilation and I think

Re: [blfs-dev] New BLFS Editor the KDE4 section

2012-03-02 Thread Eduardo Batalha
On Thursday 01 March 2012 18:57:49 Ragnar Thomsen wrote: Thanks for the welcome guys. As Ken noted I have contributed with some patches for KDE4 packages. I will be updating the KDE4 section to version 4.8 in the immediate future. Can't wait to see it. I have been running KDE4.8

Re: [blfs-dev] New BLFS Editor the KDE4 section

2012-03-01 Thread Ragnar Thomsen
Thanks for the welcome guys. As Ken noted  I have contributed with some patches for KDE4 packages. I will be updating the KDE4 section to version 4.8 in the immediate future. I have been running KDE4.8 on my LFS7.0 system since it got released. The build instructions already in the book

Re: [blfs-dev] New BLFS Editor the KDE4 section

2012-03-01 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ragnar Thomsen wrote: Thanks for the welcome guys. As Ken noted I have contributed with some patches for KDE4 packages. I will be updating the KDE4 section to version 4.8 in the immediate future. I have been running KDE4.8 on my LFS7.0 system since it got released. The build

Re: [blfs-dev] New BLFS Editor the KDE4 section

2012-03-01 Thread Ken Moffat
On Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 07:57:49PM +0100, Ragnar Thomsen wrote: Thanks for the welcome guys. As Ken noted  I have contributed with some patches for KDE4 packages. I will be updating the KDE4 section to version 4.8 in the immediate future. I have been running KDE4.8 on my LFS7.0 system

Re: KDE4 commited

2011-04-06 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Thomas Trepl wrote: On Sunday 03 April 2011 20:21:01 Bruce Dubbs wrote: Thomas Trepl wrote: I just commited a set of new pages with instructions for KDE4. Thomas, I finally got around to trying to update the packages master repository and cannot find the sources where the book specifies

Re: KDE4 commited

2011-04-03 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Thomas Trepl wrote: I just commited a set of new pages with instructions for KDE4. Thomas, I finally got around to trying to update the packages master repository and cannot find the sources where the book specifies. The following directory has moved. ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/ I

Re: KDE4 commited

2011-03-10 Thread Waleed Hamra
On 03/09/2011 10:41 PM, Thomas Trepl wrote: Hi all, while facing the possibility of being killed, hated and banned by all the other book maintainers I just commited a set of new pages with instructions for KDE4. I know the pages are full of textual insufficiences and I'm sure technical

Re: KDE4 commited

2011-03-10 Thread DJ Lucas
to the book, even more so for one as large as the KDE distribution. Thank you for doing this! Got a shiny new 6.8 build that will get to test it out next week/weekend. I just commited a set of new pages with instructions for KDE4. I know the pages are full of textual insufficiences and I'm

KDE4 commited

2011-03-09 Thread Thomas Trepl
Hi all, while facing the possibility of being killed, hated and banned by all the other book maintainers I just commited a set of new pages with instructions for KDE4. I know the pages are full of textual insufficiences and I'm sure technical changes will happen. If there are great lacks

Re: KDE4 commited

2011-03-09 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Thomas Trepl wrote: Hi all, while facing the possibility of being killed, hated and banned by all the other book maintainers I just commited a set of new pages with instructions for KDE4. I know the pages are full of textual insufficiences and I'm sure technical changes will happen

Re: Xorg/KDE4 slow on ATI

2010-08-19 Thread DJ Lucas
On 08/19/2010 12:34 AM, Thomas Trepl wrote: Hi all, long time i was disappointed by the speed of KDE4. Moving, but especially resizing windows was terrible slow, the mouse pointer was always far ahead of the window frame. Yesterday I throw KDE4 slow resize to google and found a solution

Xorg/KDE4 slow on ATI

2010-08-18 Thread Thomas Trepl
Hi all, long time i was disappointed by the speed of KDE4. Moving, but especially resizing windows was terrible slow, the mouse pointer was always far ahead of the window frame. Yesterday I throw KDE4 slow resize to google and found a solution in the very first link: http

Re: KDE4

2010-03-10 Thread Thomas Trepl
Am Tuesday 09 March 2010 20:51:48 schrieb Robert Xu: ... well, kde3 is still nice... we should try to do a gradual change to kde4, otherwise it might seem like BLFS is becoming obsolete :-\ Thats the other side of the medal. I also think that the time doesn't stand still even we refuse to add

Re: KDE4

2010-03-10 Thread Petr Ovtchenkov
-server for a *desktop* environment! Akonadi (i.e. PIM in KDE4) require MySQL. KMail's mails storage ported to Akonadi in KDE4.5... -- - Petr -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: KDE4

2010-03-10 Thread Matthew Burgess
(!) to each other, just to have a desktop. Its a fact that we need a SQL-server for a *desktop* environment! Akonadi (i.e. PIM in KDE4) require MySQL. KMail's mails storage ported to Akonadi in KDE4.5... What's wrong with maildir or mbox as mail storage formats? Aside from that, why a SQL

Re: KDE4

2010-03-10 Thread Guy Dalziel
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 03:19:49AM -0700, Matthew Burgess wrote: I guess this is the wrong forum to be ranting in about this though, and as others have pointed out, walking away from the behemoth that is KDE now is an option open to anyone, like me, who's had enough of the bloat. The trouble I

Re: KDE4

2010-03-10 Thread Ken Moffat
(but nobody reported any vulnerabilities in 3.5.10), or if they only care about kde4. A quick search on lwn suggests debian know of at least one vulnerability in kdelibs-3.5.10 ( DSA-1998-1 although the link from that to Mitre may, or may not, be the correct link). My gut feeling isthat anyone using

Re: KDE4

2010-03-10 Thread Robert Xu
is maintaining it.  Looking at the kde site, I'm not clear if there is an upstream (but nobody reported any vulnerabilities in 3.5.10), or if they only care about kde4. I don't know of any distribution maintaining this anymore. Even debian has marked it non-supported.  A quick search on lwn suggests

Xorg-7.5 very soon (Was: Re: KDE4)

2009-10-03 Thread DJ Lucas
On 09/30/2009 07:18 PM, Trent Shea wrote: On Tuesday 29 September 2009 23:26:59 DJ Lucas wrote: Trent, Ken, Thomas, (others?): I would be quite interested in any notes, patches, or scripts that you have laying around for KDE4. I won't be able to get to it for a couple of weeks yet

Re: Xorg-7.5 very soon (Was: Re: KDE4)

2009-10-03 Thread Thomas Trepl
Hi, next time, when Xorg-7.5 will be out, I'll update to the latest version of KDE4. I hope that this will solve a problem i have with X or/and KDE4 when enabling all those animations and gimmicks in kwin (like rolling the desktops, displaying them as a cube, falling snow etc). It all works

Re: Xorg-7.5 very soon (Was: Re: KDE4)

2009-10-03 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 4:02 AM, Thomas Trepl tho...@equinox.homelinux.org wrote: Hi, next time, when Xorg-7.5 will be out, I'll update to the latest version of KDE4.  I hope that this will solve a problem i have with X or/and KDE4 when enabling all those animations and gimmicks in kwin (like

Re: KDE4 (was: Re: Xorg-server-1.6)

2009-10-01 Thread Christoph Berg
Am Donnerstag 01 Oktober 2009 00:59:10 schrieb DJ Lucas: On 09/30/2009 11:36 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: It does prompt for an 'o' for the open source version and then for 'yes' to accept the GPL. That makes it difficult to script, but other than that, it's straight forward. I haven't tried

Re: KDE4 (was: Re: Xorg-server-1.6)

2009-09-30 Thread Ken Moffat
2009/9/30 DJ Lucas d...@linuxfromscratch.org: Trent, Ken, Thomas, (others?):   I would be quite interested in any notes, patches, or scripts that you have laying around for KDE4. I've given up on kde4, my last builds were for 4.2 and I assume a lot has changed since then. FWIW, the straw

Re: KDE4 (was: Re: Xorg-server-1.6)

2009-09-30 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: FWIW, the straw that broke the camel's back for me was the QT-4.5.2 upgrade - appeared to need *two* different responses to accept the gpl / licensing questions, my script just hung for ever. Actually qt4 is quite good. I have been doing a lot of programming with it in

Re: KDE4 (was: Re: Xorg-server-1.6)

2009-09-30 Thread Trent Shea
On Tuesday 29 September 2009 23:26:59 DJ Lucas wrote: Trent, Ken, Thomas, (others?): I would be quite interested in any notes, patches, or scripts that you have laying around for KDE4. I won't be able to get to it for a couple of weeks yet. I've been building vanilla kde from: http

Re: KDE4 (was: Re: Xorg-server-1.6)

2009-09-30 Thread DJ Lucas
On 09/30/2009 11:36 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: It does prompt for an 'o' for the open source version and then for 'yes' to accept the GPL. That makes it difficult to script, but other than that, it's straight forward. I haven't tried this, :-) but couldn't you do something like 'yes yes |

KDE4 [Re: Xorg-server-1.6]

2009-08-12 Thread Thomas Trepl
On Tuesday 11 August 2009 03:30:48 DJ Lucas wrote: ... BTW, does anybody have a goal or plans in mind for KDE-4? If so, I'll need to do that too (specifically to test the KDE equivalent of gnome-keyring, who's name slips my mind ATM). http://cblfs.cross-lfs.org/index.php/KDE4 will probably

Re: KDE4 [Re: Xorg-server-1.6]

2009-08-12 Thread tom
2009/8/12 Thomas Trepl tho...@equinox.homelinux.org WRT? What does that mean? with respect to bezüglich in german -- tom -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: KDE4

2009-07-22 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Thomas Trepl wrote: In the meanwhile I have a quite fine KDE4 (4.2.4) installation running. It seems to make great progress to reach the quality/stability of 3.5.10. Not to far in the future, 4.3 will be out and this is what we should have a look on for the book, I think. Don't you

Re: KDE4

2008-01-29 Thread Robert Daniels
Development List blfs-dev@linuxfromscratch.org Subject: Re: KDE4 And a few questions/comments... kdelibs Required: strigi, jpeg, giflib, libpng, libxml2, libxslt, shared-mime-info, qt4 Optional: alsa, openssl, libintl, xorg, soprano, jasper, openexr, gssapi (kerberos), gamin, acl, avahi

Re: KDE4

2008-01-29 Thread Chris Staub
Robert Daniels wrote: Thought I'd share my progress on building KDE4 with everyone. I think the biggest contribution I have is a nearly-complete dependency list. Because of the list, this will be a somewhat long message. A few notes beforehand, I made this list by grepping all

Re: KDE4

2008-01-29 Thread Ken Moffat
On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 08:35:44PM -0600, Robert Daniels wrote: Thought I'd share my progress on building KDE4 with everyone. I think the biggest contribution I have is a nearly-complete dependency list. Because of the list, this will be a somewhat long message. Thanks, very useful

Re: KDE4

2008-01-28 Thread Robert Daniels
Thought I'd share my progress on building KDE4 with everyone. I think the biggest contribution I have is a nearly-complete dependency list. Because of the list, this will be a somewhat long message. A few notes beforehand, I made this list by grepping all the CMakeLists.txt for every package

Re: KDE4

2008-01-28 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Robert Daniels wrote: Thought I'd share my progress on building KDE4 with everyone. I think the biggest contribution I have is a nearly-complete dependency list. Thanks Robert. The dependency list will be very helpful. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev

Re: KDE4

2008-01-14 Thread Hans-Joachim Widmaier
Bruce Dubbs wrote: I've started to look at KDE4 and wondered if anyone else has started to build it. Since I never managed to get qt3 and qt4 installed in parallel (with both working), and some programs wanting qt4, I was waiting for KDE4 so I could put qt3 to rest. (Although I don't use a KDE

KDE4

2008-01-13 Thread Bruce Dubbs
I've started to look at KDE4 and wondered if anyone else has started to build it. According to http://techbase.kde.org/Getting_Started/Build/KDE4 it looks like there will be several new packages needed: qt4 libclucene librdf boost cmake as well as some others that I'm not sure about. arts

Re: KDE4

2008-01-13 Thread Christoph Berg
Am Sonntag, 13. Januar 2008 18:19:28 schrieb Bruce Dubbs: I've started to look at KDE4 and wondered if anyone else has started to build it. I have started building KDE4 from SVN a month ago and the dependencies haven't changed that much. According to http://techbase.kde.org/Getting_Started

Re: KDE4

2008-01-13 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 11:19:28AM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: I've started to look at KDE4 and wondered if anyone else has started to build it. According to http://techbase.kde.org/Getting_Started/Build/KDE4 it looks like there will be several new packages needed: qt4 libclucene librdf

Re: KDE4

2008-01-13 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 09:07:15PM +0100, Christoph Berg wrote: Am Sonntag, 13. Januar 2008 20:59:40 schrieb Ken Moffat: I'm not sure how much of the patch is actually needed. I'm fairly sure the changes to make1.c are mandatory, and probably native.c, newstr.c, but the addition of

Re: KDE4

2008-01-13 Thread Wilco Beekhuizen
2008/1/13, Ken Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED]: As for hal, you guys seem to have it working, so I suppose it isn't a problem. I still can't figure out why anybody would *want* it, maybe that just shows a lack of imagination, or excessive suspicion about automation tools which try to guess what I