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2007-10-10 , 21:26
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Well I said I was not going to put another version of KDE 3.5.6 out, but it would appears as though I was wrong.


I am taking my original KDE tarball and updating it. I am removing the non-working cups install and replacing it with my new version that works.

I have tested printing from the browser, pdf's, pictures, screenshot tool, and others. Printing is working great. I am however looking at adding a few other things to KDE, while also stripping out some doc and man files.

Adding
vnc server
xrdp server
sylpheed, or perhaps other mail client, kmail does not work.
Thinking of some type of media player, maybe gqmpeg?

So far thats about it. I am looking for some input, now is your time
 
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2007-10-10 , 23:10
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Great stuff penguinbait!

That would be an awesome idea, especially if all that extra stuff was taken out. (Non-working KDE suite, the man pages, docs, some games that don't work with onscreen keyboard well enough to be playable, etc).

Maybe for the media player, you could do Beep? I think it will be small an efficient enough.

VNC server would be greatly appreciated by default, instead of the stupid KDE invite thing.

Thanks a lot for all the work you've put in! Best of luck
 
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2007-10-10 , 23:35
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Originally Posted by Aisu View Post
Great stuff penguinbait!

That would be an awesome idea, especially if all that extra stuff was taken out. (Non-working KDE suite, the man pages, docs, some games that don't work with onscreen keyboard well enough to be playable, etc).

Maybe for the media player, you could do Beep? I think it will be small an efficient enough.

VNC server would be greatly appreciated by default, instead of the stupid KDE invite thing.

Thanks a lot for all the work you've put in! Best of luck
I had not considered software removal, but I am listening. feel free to list anything you think should be removed. I know there is probably plenty, but I am lazy. I am dumping headers, man, help files already...
 
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2007-10-11 , 00:04
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Penguin.. a suggestion. If you're going to do a new KDE tarball, just wait a few days first. KDE 3.5.8 was just tagged.

Beep would require all the GTK libraries (newer ones than what Maemo comes with, as far as I know) and after all of that is loaded, Juk is still less resource-intensive.
 
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2007-10-11 , 00:29
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Originally Posted by zerojay View Post
Penguin.. a suggestion. If you're going to do a new KDE tarball, just wait a few days first. KDE 3.5.8 was just tagged.

Beep would require all the GTK libraries (newer ones than what Maemo comes with, as far as I know) and after all of that is loaded, Juk is still less resource-intensive.

Well, again this is a repackaging and fix, not a recompile. KDE4 beta 2 is out, perhaps when that final release I will look at a new compile.
 
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2007-10-11 , 06:59
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Great, PB. Now I'll ask something which might be nonsense, so in the case please forgive my insufficient knowledge and - if possible - please explain. Here it is:
What about making a virtual appliance, i.e. for vmware or qemu (or virtualbox) with your kde-containing scratchbox environment with so that it is easy to go on compiling kde apps?
 
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2007-10-11 , 11:47
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Originally Posted by debernardis View Post
Great, PB. Now I'll ask something which might be nonsense, so in the case please forgive my insufficient knowledge and - if possible - please explain. Here it is:
What about making a virtual appliance, i.e. for vmware or qemu (or virtualbox) with your kde-containing scratchbox environment with so that it is easy to go on compiling kde apps?

well, if you download my original kde tarball and untar it inside of scratchbox to /target/SDK_ARMEL/ you can compile against it.

As far aS setting up scratchbox goes, I use ubuntu cd, boot from it, then you can install ubuntu locally, or on vmware, For scratchbox I user the install scripts, they download and install scratchbox and the maemo sdk for you.


I spent tiME tRyiing o make the virtual aappliance work, this is much easier
 
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2007-10-12 , 19:20
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Not to confuse this with debernardis's request but...

With all the cool operating systems your enabling for us i was wondering how hard it would be to create images like this :
http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...ad.php?t=10449

... kind of like an iso or vmware appliance for operating systems.. all users would enable multiboot on device and then insert an mmc containing one of your existing or future builds.
 
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2007-10-13 , 01:05
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Not to confuse this with debernardis's request but...

With all the cool operating systems your enabling for us i was wondering how hard it would be to create images like this :
http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...ad.php?t=10449

... kind of like an iso or vmware appliance for operating systems.. all users would enable multiboot on device and then insert an mmc containing one of your existing or future builds.
Well this is what I was testing the waters with XFCE install script, it creates a dd file 500MB, mkfs.ext2 dd file. mount dd file on /usr/local then untars to it.

http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...highlight=XFCE

This made it so the image can be made on the client machine then the 60MB file untarred into a 220MB. instead of downloading a 512MB image that can not be compressed. I could have made it 256, but I wanted to leave room for other things, like printing

My goal was to finish up KDE and get it out to anyone who wants to boot from mmc. Then work on another easy install script.

I am kinda looking forward to the new hardware, quake, quake 2, KDE, cruising right along, will you have to recompile q and q2 for the new hardware?
 
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2007-10-13 , 05:04
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I must have blinked and missed that ... (note to self : blink less)... this forum moves too fast for me to keep up with... thats a good thing though

I need to read more... perhaps a kde install image on 1 mmc can be written/extracted to another mmc to make clean bootable image.

I hope i dont need to recompile... more likely chinook would require that than hardware but i can rebuild if needed. Would be nice for some opengl drivers though... that would open up some cool stuff but thats probably doubtful. And if they turn it into an iphone i think you will be seeing mad dash to download the latest uber kde iso (mr penguin wheres the fiasco release?)!
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