December 2003 Archives

I've got a new kdelibs patch. With this patch, I've gotten konqueror to run!

Considering Konqueror is a fairly complex application, it looks like we're hitting a point where apps will start getting easier to build. I'm gonna try to finish getting kdebase built so the patches are all nice and tidy, and then I suppose next up is KOffice.

YAY!

[Update:] For those of you wondering how to get it, there's no binaries yet, probably won't be for a bit until things get cleaned up more. If you want to give it a shot yourself though, see the wiki. It's got pretty much step-by-step instructions on getting as far as we have. Also, yes, I know it's a bit ugly, KDE styles are a bit messed up. When you run anything it always complains "KThemeStyle cache seems corrupt!" Haven't figured out why, I'm sure you can understand that it's not the top priority. <grin>

So far, no problems with the slashdotting. Hooray for ServerBeach.

Made a little progress on making KDE applications happy with Qt/Mac (as far as giving the full path to the executable and such). It unfortunately doesn't fix the application exiting upon startup, so we're going to have to look somewhere else for the trouble.

The latest patch is here if you want to give it a shot. As always, instructions on working with the KDE/Mac codebase is on the wiki.

So a recent reawakening of the subject of porting KDE to Qt/Mac has started a flurry of development, and it looks like actual progress is being made.

We've set up a wiki with all of the requisite information needed to get started and there's finally more than just me looking into building and hacking on it.

Thanks to some help from IceFox we've got a few simple apps running (although KUniqueApplication needs fixing before more complex apps work).

Woot!

[Update:] Looks like Benjamin Meyer got a bunch of kdegames to build. Spiffy.

Been working on doing test builds of the Gnome 2.4 stuff and looking for missing build dependencies; it's starting to look *really* good. All of the major bugs seem to be worked out, only a few minor things until it's releasable, if I had to bet.

Also, I've made a newer xfree86 snapshot. If you're running unstable on 10.3, you should be able to "fink install xfree86" after a selfupdate and get 4.3.99.901-2. This is roughly equivalent to the 4.4 release candidate that Torrey announced, although it's a slightly newer CVS snapshot. Please let me know if you run into any problems with it, initial testing shows it to be pretty stable on my system.

Yes, I'm still working on KDE 3.2 beta packages for Fink. 3.1.94 (beta 2) just went to packagers and it's looking a *lot* cleaner than beta 1 was.

So of my previous TODO list, here's where I'm at:

• aRts works again (thanks, Justin, for remembering we'd patched the esound driver ourselves, previously!)
• KDevelop builds and works great on 10.3. On 10.2-gcc3.3, it has some issues because it appears exceptions are seriously screwed on the gcc 3.3 that you can get for Jaguar. Ada, Java, and I think a few others will have to be disabled. Other than that, it appears to be looking pretty good.
• KOffice is the last thing I need to dig into, but that's not in Fink right now anyways, so nothing's stopping me from releasing the rest of KDE right away.

I'll post a note here when I've got 3.1.94 ready for release; I expect just a few more days if nothing goes wrong. Cross your fingers!