kde 4.2 on slackware 12.2
 

i put kde 4.2 packages and dependencies on
http://slackware.go.ro/
tomorrow i will put somme screenshots ans somme software compiled for qt4
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ps. sorry cause i was put compiled packages on free server because i don't have a personal server .
ps1. only download dependencies , packages and modify /etc/rc.d/rc.4 to run init in /opt/kde4/bin/kdm and copy /usr/etc/d-bus/* to /etc/d-bus/
cause it 's not start console kit and u can't logon on kde
good luck

I hate to burst your bubble: http://packages.slackware.it/browse....kages/kde4/kde

Nice of you, cpiliviu, but KDE4.2 packages are already available in -current/testing, known to work on 12.2, see e.g. this thread and this other thread

It looks (because of the /opt/kde4 prefix cpliviu mentions) like his KDE4 packages are made to co-exist with Slackware 12.2's KDE3 packages. This is different from the KDE4 packages in slackware-current which are meant to replace KDE3.

However, since the SlackBuild scripts and build instructions are not available on that web site there is no way to judge the quality of the packages. That is why I personally would not touch them. Even though it is a nice enough effort.

Eric

yes i understand and i downladed the kde 4.2 from that thread but has a lot o errors .. and the optional packages is not compiled like (jasper or sip etc)
however i compiled myself with all optional packages . that is so big
and i put in /opt/kde4 cause i don't want to uninstall kde3
bash-3.1$ du -h /kit/
261M /kit/kde/test
203M /kit/kde/libs
223M /kit/kde/workspace
215M /kit/kde/kdeedu
1.3G /kit/kde
1.4G /kit/
bash-3.1$

i put amarok but u need to put & mysql . both packages is in
http://www.slackware.go.ro/altele.html

Great, I've tried it!
One question, Why all my applications' icon a blank, how to change it ?
Thanks

enter in pkgtool and rebuild
mkfontdir
fontconfig
update-desktop
update-mime-data
gtkupdate
and if is not working append at profiles that lines /etc/profiles

export QTDIR=/usr/local/qt4
prepend PATH $QTDIR/bin
prepend LD_LIBRARY_PATH $QTDIR/lib
prepend PKG_CONFIG_PATH $QTDIR/lib/pkgconfig
export KDEDIR=/opt/kde4
export KDEHOME=$HOME/.kde4
export KDETMP=/tmp/kde4-$USER
export KDEDIRS=$KDEDIR
prepend PATH $KDEDIR/bin
prepend LD_LIBRARY_PATH $KDEDIR/lib
prepend PKG_CONFIG_PATH $KDEDIR/lib/pkgconfig
prepend QT_PLUGIN_PATH $KDEDIR/lib/kde4/plugins
$PATH=$PATH:/opt/kde4/bin:/usr/local/qt4/bin

and after that run as root
kbuildsycoca4 --noincrementalq

if wen click on start menu appear a blank menu try to resize the windows
i was see that wen i install all packages on a fresh machine

Can anyone provide a link or post the official minimum hardware requirements to run KDE4? I spent quite a while on the kde.org site searching but apparently the information found http://docs.kde.org/development/en/k...html#id2527141 refers to the KDE3 series.

I did find some rather sketchy information on some other forums but nothing based on the official source.

Regards

had to build and install smartpm for kpackage manager got it here Hope this comes with the new distro. my old nvida card 64 mb I need to up grade it . but it still works great and the desk top runs a lot smoother than Mandriva or fc9 and fc10 not sure why. much more responsive.
and the 3d is alot of fun. very easy to configure. I really did not like kde 4.2 on Mandriva or fc10. but for some reason slackware just faster. Now this is just a test version.

cat /proc/cpuinfo |grep mode
model : 6
model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz


free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 497 487 9 0 4 104
-/+ buffers/cache: 378 118
Swap: 1929 178 1751

lspci|grep VGA
04:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV505 CE [Radeon X1550 64-bit]

the reason for this is that the icons pixmaps have changed locations or the name of the pixmaps are changed. so you will have to re-associate them with new pixmaps or use the new one that are now in there.
you may have to right click them and go to properties and set them to executable.

It seems to me that there is a little more to this icon thing. In kde 4 I can not right click and create icons because the desktop doesn't work the same way and the only way to create and use icons as in kde 3.x is to have a folder on the desktop and this seems to be kde.org's suggested workaround but there is another way to do it.

The icons are all the result of text files in /user/share/applications. If you go there in konqueror or dolphin you will see icon images but all the desktop files are really text files referring to icon image files elsewhere.

Any one of those files can be dragged/dropped onto your desktop and it will work. You can even make your own or modify an existing one to suit another application.

I just sent a post to a kde list explaining how to do this and I can post it here to if anyone would like. Perhaps on a new thread so that others can benefit as well.