updates and all
Ok...time for another update email. :)
KDE 2.0.1 status:
kde-i18n-* packages are still being tweaked...next round (currently
building) will fix the kde-i18n-es problems as well as the problem
with the ../common link that plagues all of the kde-i18n-* packages.
Alpha packages for woody were finally successfully created by
Christopher C. Chimelis the Alpha guru. For those of you who don't
know he's been struggling with the problems with getting apps built
against QT to work for quite some time now (and he doesn't even use
KDE). Well, he has unofficial .deb's up for woody (as hacks to
egcs were made that still need to be merged into Debian's package).
I'm mirroring those packages on kde.tdyc.com for those of you who
want/need them.
Alpha packages for potato are being built. Christopher created a potato
version of the egcs fix for me and I'm currently building QT. So
sometime in the next few days expect potato packages to show up on
kde.tdyc.com.
New kdm and it's problems...to my knowledge there are currently 2 problems
users are experiencing with the new kdm package:
1: UserView=false not working
2: (un-noticed until the above was pointed out) kdm kcontrol module
not properly creating kdmrc file.
This was all caused by me not noticing that the upstream guy who has
been working on kdm had changed some things...I basically replaced the
kde 2.0.1 version of kdm with the kde 2.1 version. The 2.1 version is
a new port of xdm 4.0.1 and (even though not finished) is more functional
and less buggy than the 2.0.1 version. So..in this process I forgot
to backport the kdm kcontrol module as well. :) So..a new version of
kdebase packages are being built which will take care of this.
/usr/bin/kde2 disappearing from x-window-manager alternative list.
Ok...I was approached the other day about the fact that I putting
/usr/bin/kde2 into the x-window-manager alternative was breaking policy.
After I finished telling the guy he was smoking crack I allowed him to
explain... /usr/bin/kde2 is a script which calls KDE's session manager
and is thus a session manager and not a window manager. The problem
with this is that one could potentially load up 2 session managers and
have them fight for control...which is how he found out about this in
the first place. (example...a gnome-session user who wants to use kde
as his wm would have problems)...
So...currently a request has gone in for a way to properly handle this and
potentially have a x-session-manager alternative for things like this.
I attempted to register /usr/bin/kwin as the x-window-manager but it
doesn't seem to like to be used that way so it's being removed again.
i81n xim issues - A ad hoc fix for the xim problems has been created that
will allow both xim and the lack of funky bugs that were reported due to
the xim patches. (basically disables xim in kdesktop) If this fails then
I'll yank xim support for good until it's implemented upstream.
arts has been removed from kdelibs3...well, I've created 2 new packages out
of the kdelibs3 package...libarts and libarts-dev...I did this for the sole
reason that this allows non-kde users the ability to use artsd or build apps
that use arts without having to install kde. I haven't fully tested this
yet so I'm not sure how well this is going to work. :) But it should work
just the same for those who have both kdelibs3 installed...(i'm just curious
about those who don't)...
ohh...and I migrated mpeglib out of kdemultimedia. I grabbed the upstream
tarball and am going with that instead as it works alot better and has
ogg/vorbis functional in it.
KDE 2.1 -
Well, work on KDE 2.1 is moving right along...I build new .debs for woody
1 to 2 times a day (depending on how bored I am with work) so when beta1 comes
out the packages should be in fairly good shape already.
pixie is back
kpilot is alive and functional
kivio is now a part of koffice
and there are a few other new packages, more cleanup (which will make
coexistance with kde1 easier) as well as other things you missed in kde 2.0.x
like kthememgr. (kpackage can use apt-get now...RedHat's lilo configuration
tool is now included, and much more...)
I still have no plans on making kde 2.1 potato packages until the beta. But I'll
keep woody packages going.
Ivan
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