KDevelop 3.1.0 (for KDE3.3)

I couldn't get the kdevelop 3.0 in current to work or the -devel version. The -devel cvs build doesn't appear to be the latest version anyway.
This is just the current KDevelop 3.0 PKGBUILD modified for the latest and greatest. I have a pre-built binary package but I'm not sure if that's appropriate to put in incoming since eventually (I assume) the package maintainer will do an update.
# $Id: PKGBUILD,v 1.11 2004/06/11 17:00:08 lou Exp $
# Maintainer: damir <[email protected]>
# Committer: Judd Vinet <[email protected]>
pkgname=kdevelop
pkgver=3.1.0
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="A C/C++ development environment for KDE"
depends=('kdebase>=3.3.0' 'kdesdk>=3.3.0' 'graphviz' 'flex>=2.5.4' 'gcc' 'perl' 'make' 'automake>=1.6' 'autoconf>=2.52' 'gettext' 'db' 'cvs')
url="http://www.kdevelop.org/"
replaces=('kdevelop3-cvs') # compatibility reasons
conflicts=('kdevelop-devel')
# for easier build, just uncomment the mirror you want to use --- remember: source is about 7MB!
# mirror="ftp.solnet.ch/mirror/KDE" # updated every 2 hours, very fast for Europe
mirror="ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/" # main server
# mirror="ibiblio.org/pub/mirrors/kde/" # ibiblio mirror
source=(ftp://$mirror/stable/$pkgname-latest/src/$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.bz2)
build() {
cd ${startdir}/src/${pkgname}-${pkgver}
./configure --prefix=/opt/kde --disable-debug
make || return 1
make DESTDIR=$startdir/pkg install
rm -f ${startdir}/pkg/opt/kde/bin/extractrc

no need to upload to incoming - i'll update asap
i was away about a day - kdevelop is on the way :-)
(quanta too :-) )

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Is arch tweaked for KDE3.5?

Hi
Just wondering if arch is tweaked for KDE3.5.
I've tried many distros: *buntu, SuSE, RH, FC, Zenwalk, Vector, Saby, Mandrake, Mint, Gentoo, PClos, Debian, Mepis, Knoppix and DSL.
On all of them, GNOME 2.22 was more responsive than KDE3.5 - that is my experience.
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keratos wrote:
Hi
Just wondering if arch is tweaked for KDE3.5.
I've tried many distros: *buntu, SuSE, RH, FC, Zenwalk, Vector, Saby, Mandrake, Mint, Gentoo, PClos, Debian, Mepis, Knoppix and DSL.
On all of them, GNOME 2.22 was more responsive than KDE3.5 - that is my experience.
However, Arch KDE3.5 is more responsive than GNOME2.2 on arch.
Thus, begs the question - has something been done to make KDE3.5 harmonise with Arch?
Just wondering.
And when I say responsive, I refer to the overall desktop experience .. opening apps, windows, point-n-click . I do not refer to questionable benchmarks that standalone outside of the desktop experience, such as hdparm, and the other "benchmarking tools". My experience could be "subjective" nevertheless, it is my experience.
Strange... the Ubuntu guys normally say that KDE is much faster for them...

Kde3 packages: "non existant prefix '' for kdelibs3"

I have no ide what happend but today I'm getting this error for all packages for kde3:
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking for kde-config... /opt/kde/bin/kde-config
configure: error: /opt/kde/bin/kde-config --prefix outputed the non existant prefix '' for kdelibs.
This means it has been moved since you installed it.
This won't work. Please recompile kdelibs for the new prefix.
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.
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Last edited by zyghom (2008-11-19 23:09:33)

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[Request] call for Digikam 0.10: beta6 and kipi0.2.0-beta4

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http://www.digikam.org/drupal/node/381
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bye,
cray
Last edited by cray (2008-11-28 16:45:10)

pressh wrote:
Check this repo [1], digikam is in the extragear-graphics package, not sure if it is compatible with either [extra] kde4 or kdemod stuff.
[1] http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=44507
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I'm looking for a more simple solution here...

Strigiapplet's cmake doesn't find my libqt-mt.so

Hi all,
I have been trying to update strigiapplet (from AUR) to the new version.
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Here's my PKGBUILD:
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license="GPL"
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[ 67%] Building CXX object src/kickerapplet/CMakeFiles/strigiapplet.dir/moc_hitmenuitem.o
[ 70%] Building CXX object src/kickerapplet/CMakeFiles/strigiapplet.dir/moc_hitsview.o
[ 72%] Building CXX object src/kickerapplet/CMakeFiles/strigiapplet.dir/moc_qt3strigiclient.o
[ 75%] Building CXX object src/kickerapplet/CMakeFiles/strigiapplet.dir/moc_strigilineedit.o
[ 78%] Building CXX object src/kickerapplet/CMakeFiles/strigiapplet.dir/moc_trayicon.o
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Strigi does not compile

Hello,
I get the following when I try to compile strigi. Any suggestions?
$ makepkg
==> Entering fakeroot environment
==> Making package: strigi 0.3.9-1 (Tue Dec 5 15:10:05 CET 2006)
==> Checking Runtime Dependencies...
==> Checking Buildtime Dependencies...
==> Retrieving Sources...
==> Found strigi-0.3.9.tar.bz2 in build dir
==> WARNING: MD5sums are missing or incomplete. Cannot verify source integrity.
==> Extracting Sources...
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-- Found CLucene include dir: /opt/strigi-clucene/include
-- Found CLucene library dir: /opt/strigi-clucene/lib
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-- Found Iconv: /usr/lib/libc.so
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-- Found libmagic: /usr/lib/libmagic.so
-- Found libsqlite: /usr/lib/libsqlite3.so
-- Found xattr.h
-- Qt4 was not found. No GUI will be built.
CMake Error: Error in cmake code at
/home/packages/strigi/src/strigi-0.3.9/CMakeLists.txt:73:
MESSAGE Could not find DBus
Current CMake stack: /home/packages/strigi/src/strigi-0.3.9/CMakeLists.txt;/usr/share/CMake/Modules/CMakeCInformation.cmake;/usr/share/CMake/Modules/CMakeCXXInformation.cmake
-- Configuring done
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.
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I dont know whats happening here... Du you have dbus properly installed? On my system i have dbus, dbus-glib and dbus-qt3 installed, and it works perfectly...
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Try it with these PKGBUILDs:
clucene:
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pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="Strigi Desktop Search"
license="GPL"
arch=(i686)
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source=(http://www.vandenoever.info/software/$pkgname/$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.bz2
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pkgver=0.3.10
pkgrel=1
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license="GPL"
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source=(http://www.vandenoever.info/software/strigi/$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.bz2)
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Slackware 12.2 remix - a project

Okay... Right now I am pretty dissatisfied with the distributions available for old computers. They ones available seem to be either too limited, too difficult for novices, or unmaintained.
So I'm planning on creating... Well, not quite a distro. More like a Fedora-style "spin" I guess. But yeah. I want to take everything necessary for a Slackware 12.2 environment with KDE3, and put it on a single CD. Sort of like Slax, only not live, and with multiuser support and normal Slackware package management.
Why Slackware?
- It's more "Windows-like" than other distros. Most dependencies are preinstalled, so you can grab binaries off the net and install them. Not that that's always a good idea (again, as with Windows), but you can.
- Version 12.2 has KDE3 and is still maintained (thank you very much Patrick Volkerding and company). KDE3 is basically the ideal desktop environment for old computers; it will run with 256 MB of RAM and do everything most users need.
- It's simpler and more dependable than Debian Lenny.
But anyway. I want to take all the stuff needed for KDE3, plus typical dependencies needed for compiling stuff, and put it on one CD. Maybe have the internationalization stuff for KDE on a second CD. If this is actually possible, does anyone know how I might go about doing it? e.g. how I would create the install CD, put the necessary packages in their places, make sure it didn't try to install stuff that wasn't on it?

Gullible Jones wrote:
Okay... Right now I am pretty dissatisfied with the distributions available for old computers. They ones available seem to be either too limited, too difficult for novices, or unmaintained.
So I'm planning on creating... Well, not quite a distro. More like a Fedora-style "spin" I guess. But yeah. I want to take everything necessary for a Slackware 12.2 environment with KDE3, and put it on a single CD. Sort of like Slax, only not live, and with multiuser support and normal Slackware package management.
Why Slackware?
- It's more "Windows-like" than other distros. Most dependencies are preinstalled, so you can grab binaries off the net and install them. Not that that's always a good idea (again, as with Windows), but you can.
- Version 12.2 has KDE3 and is still maintained (thank you very much Patrick Volkerding and company). KDE3 is basically the ideal desktop environment for old computers; it will run with 256 MB of RAM and do everything most users need.
- It's simpler and more dependable than Debian Lenny.
But anyway. I want to take all the stuff needed for KDE3, plus typical dependencies needed for compiling stuff, and put it on one CD. Maybe have the internationalization stuff for KDE on a second CD. If this is actually possible, does anyone know how I might go about doing it? e.g. how I would create the install CD, put the necessary packages in their places, make sure it didn't try to install stuff that wasn't on it?
To be honest, you're better off basing this whole thing on PC-LINUX-OS.
Package management is much better than compilation on old machines, especially old machines with limited memory and hard disk space. Not only that but PC-LINUX-OS is already somewhat 'modified' for speed as a desktop machine whereas Slackware is really vanilla everything with absolutely no optimizations which could be beneficial for your project.
For example PCLINUXOS is using the BFS patch, could it provide a bit of extra 'speed' possibly, but it's better than nothing at all, no?
And all of this stuff has already been done for you so you don't have to mess around and tweak slackware for months testing and re-testing the speed... you'll spend a lot less time in PCLINUXOS getting to end of your goal.
Why do I recommend PCLINUXOS? - I had it running on a PIII 650MHZ, 256MB RAM and it FLEW it was faster than even XP on the machine, I was very impressed.

GTK+ and QT fonts

How can I make fonts in QT applications look the same as in GTK+?
Here is a screenshot to illustrate the difference:
Last edited by Mad Fish (2009-11-27 11:14:50)

qt3 or qt4?
As far as i know, qt4 has his own engine to render the fonts (it dowsn't use xft anymore), while with qt3 you can make them appear the same, with qt4 is not possible, but playing with subpixel hinting in your fonts.conf, you can make them look "almost" the same.
Depending on your DE, you will have some tools for that.
kcontrol for kde3
systemsettings for kde4
gnome-font-properties or gnome-appearance-properties (i think as i don't use it)
If you're on kde3/4, extra/gtk-qt-engine may be useful.
You can even edit ~/.fonts.conf, and Gtk apps should obey to it.
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Konqueror+flash

Well, on some sites, Flash stuff doesn't work all the time. A black or white box shows up where the flash should be, and when I right click it it even shows the Flash menu, but it stays blank. For some things (like Youtube) refreshing fixes it (on Youtube for a while I haven't needed to, but have before), but some sites it doens't fix it at all. Any ideas what's causing it? It works fine in Firefox. I have Konqueror 4.2.00 and the flashplugin (x86_64) from [extra]. I've had this problem lots on i686, other distros, and on older versions too, is there any fixes? "Use Firefox" doesn't count!!

==> ERROR: opera-devel-qt4 is not available for the 'x86_64' architecture.
Note that many packages may need a line added to their ./PKGBUILD
such as arch=('x86_64').
And I have never found QT4 builds of Opera for x86_64. QT3 builds look like crap no matter what for me, and even the 32 bit Qt4 ones don't look too good either. I want to use Konqueror, not an alternative, as I said already
This guide's a year old, and likely for KDE3, but it works great for me actualy No midifications needed, except libflashplayer is locaded somewhere else. Yay http://mikearthur.co.uk/2007/12/konquer … ash-howto/
Last edited by doorknob60 (2009-01-30 03:01:00)

KDE slowness

I haven't used KDE in ages so I was considering switching back. When I installed KDE and found it now took 40 seconds too boot into a usable desktop as opposed to XFCE (20 seconds) I decided to remove KDE and stick with XFCE.
I just like the kde PDF reader. It renders quickly, scrolls fast. I don't understand why none of the other DE's have a good fast PDF reader. I didn't really want to install the kde libs just for okular but maybe I will. Acrobat reader needs more dependencies than okular I think (for my system).
Would kdemod be faster to boot. Boot time is a bit important to me since I'm running this on my notebook. If it was on my desktop I wouldn't care as much.
I know my post is all over the place, but if any of my problems can be addressed I will be happy.
Cheers.

mrpringle wrote:
I did restart the PC several times. Still slow. There are a few things which put me off KDE anyway. The start menu is very slow and inefficient to use, I couldn't find any network card configuration (I use netcfg under xfce, but thought KDE would come with a graphical network configuration tool).
I'll just stick with xfce because I feel comfortable with it. Even though it doesn't look anywhere near as fancy as KDE4.
Uhm what about knetworkmanager???
[vamp898@VampLap vamp898]$ yaourt -Ss knetwork
aur/knetworkmanager 0.2.2-4 (69)
A NetworkManager front-end for kde3 and kde4, based in version 0.2.2 stable
aur/knetworkmanager-unstable 737532-1 (Out of Date) (5)
A NetworkManager front-end for KDE
[vamp898@VampLap vamp898]$
or what about this?
aur/networkmanager-plasmoid-svn 1007572-1 (169)
KDE4 NetworkManager plasmoid
The Startmenü can be quickly changed with a right click and than to "standard menu" or something else
Maybe you want to try GNOME. I looks a bit fancier than XFCE and is much more comfortable^^
Last edited by Vamp898 (2009-10-02 16:47:48)

Desktop apps developing: where to start

Hi!
I wanna develop some nifty little helpers doing common daily stuff, like checking the up time of the internet connection and displaying it anywhere on the desktop or in the gnome-panel. that's just an example. a lot of this tasks can be done with cronjobs and bash-scripts, but for graphical stuff there's somethin' else needed.
The question: Where to start? I know, a forum search and googling brings up a lot of tutorials, but I even don't have a point where to start, which programming language is best for apps like this.
And no, I'm not looking for general programming tutorials.
Thanks in advice!

Well there's plethora of ways you can do build desktop apps. The language is mostly irrelevant nowadays, choose whichever you prefer, C, C++, C#, python, perl, tcl. You may start with deciding on language and possibly toolkint you would wish to use. Some hints, using C you have GTK as your primary toolking, then goes GNUstep thing, Xlib as an option if you need sort of hackish feeling, Motif if you have access to libraries and some ancient Unix system. If you would prefer C++, there's Qt (excellent documentation on http://doc.trolltech.com) and GTKmm. I personally prefer Qt since it's easy, intuitive and is a base of KDE.
You may end up using python which, surprisingly, seems to be preferred by most of people on the forums. If so then pygtk or pyqt is a must.
I would discourage from using horrid toolkits like wxWidgets, no fun at all.
Other thing for desktop apps would be inter-app communication and sharing common functionality, which is handled by Kparts & DCOP for KDE3, and (correct me if I'm wrong) bonobo - a CORBA-like thing for gnome (?).
For KDE these will be useful:
http://developer.kde.org/documentation/
API reference
http://developer.kde.org/documentation/library/
Both Qt and GTKmm have nice tutorial which help you get started quite easily.
However if you would like to write conky like stuff, then unfortunately Xlib is the way:
http://www.tronche.com/gui/x/
Some common desktop standards (system tray, iccm window manager etc.) are provided here:
http://standards.freedesktop.org/

Just installed Arch again on my laptop, have some questions

Hi there.
After a few months of being linux-less, i decided to install it again (I corrupted my partition last time and have been too lazy to fix it =P). I'm also currently using KDEmod, which is great.
However, I have some questions.
1) It doesn't seem that the sound settings are being saved when I log out of KDE. It's always at 100%, and I always have to turn it down.
2) I have this little cell-phone looking icon in the systray, and when i mouse over it it tell me:
Network Management is changing!
it is highly unstable and will crash your desktop. Until further notice, please use KDE 4 knetworkmanager instead
Well, I looked an I've already got knetworkmanager installed:
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kdemod-core/kdemod-networkmanagement-knetworkmanager-kde4 1030904-1 [installed] (kdemod kdemod-complete kdemod-networkmanagement kdemod-uninstall)
KNetworkManager for KDE4
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aur/knetworkmanager 0.2.2-4 (71)
A NetworkManager front-end for kde3 and kde4, based in version 0.2.2 stable
aur/knetworkmanager-unstable 737532-1 (Out of Date) (6)
A NetworkManager front-end for KDE
I remember when i had Arch before that I used ArchAssistant to manage my wired/wireless connections. Is that still around? Can anyone recommend anything else, cause I also remember getting ArchAssistant to work was a hell of a project.
3) When I first logged in, the Akonadi Server Self-report popped up. I rememebr this from before, and could never get it to work (I really don't even know what Akonadi is, tbh). It says that the control and server process is not register to D-Bus. How can I fix this? Would I have to start and configure the MySQL daemon?
Thanks for any help!

For the first one, set the volume to your desired startup level, open a terminal window and run "sudo aslactl store"
Then in your startup daemons add @alsa. That will restore your volume settings on boot, not sure about just logging in and out of KDE though. (I don't run KDE)
see:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ALS … at_startup

Is Arch the best distro for a friend with a "computer curse?"

Hey, guys! I need some advise. I have a friend who has a "computer curse." It runs in his family as well. Computers break down FAST in his house. He was running Windows initially, but he switched to Linux because he kept getting NASTY viruses. Viruses so nasty, I would often have to use Windows Repair Install. Linux, obviously, eliminated that problem. It created a new problem, though. Linux constantly BREAKS on him! To be more specific, he's been using Debian-based distros. Ubuntu, Linux Mint, etc. All of them have been breaking on him. It's incredibly frustrating.
I've used Arch many times before. I absolutely love it, and I'm beginning to wonder if it would work for him (after I set it up for him, of course). I'm worried, though, about two things directly related - package management, and the system breaking. He ALWAYS finds a way to break the system. ALWAYS. I can lock down package management, but if I do that, he will go months and months without an update; increasing his chances of a breakage if a major security update is needed. Is there a way to balance this out?

I agree, debian stable is the winner choice for him. That's unbreakable without root perms. And I think anyone who uses linux for more then a year, finishes at arch, debian or gentoo (and some insists on slackware). Reason is: full customizability, no company background (mp3 in fedora/suse add repos issue) basic configs didn't variated, gentoo+arch:stable rolling release (innovations 5 years later even with this install, imagine you installed an xp in 2001 and now that install is a win7), debian: stable till die (but out of date)
I killed my first 2 ubuntus one and a half a year ago, and I made panicing kernel half a year ago in gentoo, which even paniced other linux installers if that hard drive was plugged in
If the guy loves innovations, you can set him up arch (or maybe the chakra project) but I basically say, the perfect solution is debian lenny with stable kde3. Old but more stable then anything I've ever seen, and fast (even on an 800Mhz 128 mb ram laptop)
And another advise: don't install him sudo. He may know google too well to use it
Last edited by Vegita (2010-01-02 19:47:03)

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