[csw-users] Blastwave KDE and antialiased fonts

[ken mays]

As they said in the Matrix trilogies, there is no spoon.... (aka KDE 3.5.5 for Blastwave).

Seriously, focus your sites on KDE 4.0. We have Qt 4.2.0 ready and will spin off KDE 4.0 when it is officially released. If you want to help in this venture, work on building and testing KDE 4.0 (i.e. currently 3.80.2) for Solaris. Provide feedback of your issues and concerns.

Ref: http://www.kde.org/info/3.80.2.php

Cory Omand already has the KDE components in place for the build system and I just have to have him update this for KDE 4.0.

As for the antialiased fonts, I have freetype 2.2.1 available in /testing so just build KDElibs against that and maybe Qt. Turn on the options in the display and font control panels.

~ Ken


----- Original Message ----
From: Mark McCoy <realmcking at gmail.com>
To: questions and discussions <users at lists.blastwave.org>
Sent: Monday, November 6, 2006 9:54:10 AM
Subject: Re: [csw-users] Blastwave KDE and antialiased fonts


On 11/6/06, Dennis Clarke <dclarke at blastwave.org> wrote:
>
> > Hi list,
> >
> > This might be a FAQ, but I'd like to see this cleared up anyway. Why are the
> > kdelibs not compiled with antialiased fonts (freetype) support?
>
> I think that there actually is a good reason.  It may not be a permanent one
> but its a good one.  I will await the arrival of Ken Mays to address that
> issue.
>
> > I can't really find a conclusive answer about that with Google, so
> > I'm asking here.
>
>  Sometimes google brings up advertisements faster than answers.
>
>  I know that is a useless answer also.
>
>  Sorry .. its early here.
>
>  Let me break the rest of your post into digestable chunks :
>
> > Is there any way I can recompile the kdelibs package myself and have it
> > replace the blastwave package?
>
>  Let's call that Question 1.
>
> > Have you made any patches to kdelibs to get it to compile cleanly?
>
>  That will be Question 2.
>
> > If yes, where are they?
>
>  That can be Question 2.1 which is a sub-section of (2) above.
>
> > I could make a anti-aliasing-supporting version of kdelibs and
> > distribute it if you don't have the time or will to do it.
>
>  That will be Statement 1.
>
> > Oh, any chance of seeing KDE 3.5.x some time on blastwave?
>
>  Finally we have Question 3.
>
>  Question 3 should be addressed first.
>
>  KDE 3.5.5 just shipped recently.  Well, last month.  By internet speed
>  measurements it may as well be last year.
>
>      http://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-3.5.5.php
>
>  I think we discussed this and are looking at a big leap in KDE at some
> point in the near future.  See http://www.kde.org/info/3.80.2.php
>
> Re : Statement (1)
>
>    If you want to participate then great!
>
>    Join up via the sign up page and then let's see if we can get your
> packages built, tested, integrated into KDE and released.
>
>    http://www.blastwave.org/maintainer-signup.php
>
> The other questions will await the arrival of Ken Mays.  He is Mr. KDE
> around here and after the last few months he is Mr. GNOME also.
>
> Let me look into a few of those questions and get back to you.
>
> Dennis
>
>
>
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Since blastwave is now using the GAR ports system to manage building
their packages, and KDE's Konstruct utility is based on GAR, could
Konstruct be somehow merged into blastwave's GAR tree to build the KDE
packages?

I tried building KDE from Konstruct last week, and ran into some
errors that I didn't know how to solve right away, so it went back on
the shelf until I can get a few moments to look at it again.  If we
could get someone who is more knowledgable about GAR to get the ball
rolling, I would be happy to help test.

-- 
Mark McCoy -- Professional Unix geek

Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from
revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dared to dissent from
accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent
with disloyal subversion. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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