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Hello Internet, We the FreeBSD KDE Team are happy to let you know KDE SC 4.4.0 was released few mins ago, and we’re ready for a public test. Before you ask we don’t want to put KDE 4.4.0 in the ports tree before FreeBSD 7.3 was released. What is new: KDE SC 4.4.0 provide many new features, designed to integrate local and [...]

Howdy, The official release notes for this release can be found at here . KDE 4.3.5 the last bugfix release in 4.3.x series. It was not planned to have KDE 4.3.5 in our Ports Tree, because we, the FreeBSD KDE Team spend all our energy to port KDE 4.4 release. But we thought it would be good to have it in [...]

Sorry for the long Offline time, my server was crashed with bad disk, seems all works now fine.

I am pleased to announce my latest mentee, Alberto Villa. Alberto has been a dedicated contributor with the FreeBSD KDE team, and it was finally time to punish him with a ports commit bit.

Martin Wilke will be Alberto’s co-mentor in this little adventure!

Congratulations Alberto!

Dima “Red Fox” Panov, aka fluffy@ has been a dedicated contributor to the FreeBSD KDE team, and his hard work has paid off, miwi@ and I have cast him loose to collect pointy hats on his own.

It has been a pleasure being your mentor, Dima, good look, and may your INDEX breakages be elusive

Max has announce the QT 4.6.0 public  test. see his Announcement. The FreeBSD KDE team is pleased to announce public call for testing Qt-4.6.0. Ports can be downloaded from area51 repository: svn co http://area51.pcbsd.org/trunk/area51/QT and integrated into portstree using ‘qtmerge’ script from http://area51.pcbsd.org/trunk/area51/Tools/scripts/ Alternatively you can use patch vs portstree: http://people.freebsd.org/~makc/patches/qt460.patch.bz2 Knowing issues: devel/qt4-designer fails to build when previous version is installed, so you [...]

I wish a Happy New Year to all readers.

The KDE FreeBSD team is proud to announce the release of KOffice2 suite for FreeBSD. The official KOffice 2.1.0 notes can be found here. We’d like to say thanks to all helpers, testers and submitters.

Few hours after the Official Release we’re happy to announce that KDE-4.3.4 is now available in the FreeBSD ports tree. KDE-4.3.4 is only a Bugfix release. A full changelog is available here.

So FreeBSD 8.0 was now officially released, and the ports tree was now opened. I’ve taken the night and updated python to 2.6.4. Also as i wrote, I am back to the KDE game, we have updated Qt to 4.5.3. fluffy@ spend a lot time to update py-qt4 which is now 4.6.2, and py-sip is 4.9.3 and as finally we updated KDE [...]

We’re happy to announce that KDE-4.3.2 is ready for testing. KDE-4.3.2 is only a Bugfix release. If you want to play with KDE 4.3.2 please checkout all ports from area51. A note about area51, we have changed the repo layout, Qt and KDE is now split between area51/QT and area51/KDE. If you have an old check out please delete all and [...]

So beat@ did the Gecko job more or less alone . So I thought it’s a good idea to help a bit the KDE Team.. I’ve started with a rework of the area51 repo. We splitted now Qt and KDE into 2 seperated repo’s. Makes the life a bit easier in future. Also I rewrote the build system [...]

Nokia announced the release of Qt 4.5.3 today. It is a bug release version leading up to 4.6.0.

I updated area51 branches/qt-4.5 to 4.5.3. It is not quite ready for general use at this time. Contributors are welcome to check it out and provide patches as needed to make it build.

On a related note, KDE 4.3.2 will be tagged soon, so we need to decide what version of Qt to run with, feedback to kde-freebsd@kde.org is appreciated

The FreeBSD KDE team is pleased to announce the first public call to test Qt-4.6.0-tp1. It can downloaded from the area51 repo with the following command

svn co http://area51.pcbsd.org/branches/qt-4.6tp/

From there you can use kdemerge to overlay the changes to your ports tree. Please note that you will require some patches from the repo to get games/kdegames4 and net/kdenetwork4 to build.

Our initial testing has yielded a binary compatibility between 4.6.0 and 4.5.2. Please be aware that this needs more testing.

One other warning, the py-qt* bindings are still a work in progress. Dima Panov, aka fluffy@, is currently working on it.

Please send feedback to kde-freebsd@kde.org.

This branch was made possible by the hard work of Alberto Villa and other contributors.

The FreeBSD KDE team is pleased to report that Raphael Kubo da Costa has joined the team. He is a KDE contributor, maintaining the ark tool, and a recent convert to FreeBSD

More recently Raphael has been our man in the middle, getting the FreeBSD Qt patches merged upstream to Nokia via Gitorious.

Congratulations and welcome aboard!

Nokia recently released Qt 4.6-tp1, and I included it in our repository
so we could get some run time with it.

Virtually every port *will* require some tender loving care. We are looking to you, our contributors, to hack it and provide the fixes to make it build.

Here are some instructions for testing and preparing patches for
inclusion to the area51 repository.

svn co http://area51.pcbsd.org/branches/qt-4.6tp ./area51

Overlay this area51 directory with your ports tree. I will leave
that as an exercise for you the reader. **HINT** checkout
http://area51.pcbsd.org/trunk/area51/Tools/scripts/kdemerge

Now do this

cd /usr/ports/devel/qt4
make

See what breaks, or won’t compile and fix it. It is as easy as that

You can do some recreational reading at
http://doc.qt.nokia.com/4.6-snapshot/installation.html to get some pointers on building the package.

For instance, through initial testing I noticed the plist was wrong
for misc/qt4-doc, so I fixed it and prepared a diff

svn diff pkg-plist > ~/qt4-doc-4.6.0.patch

Mail the patch as an attachment to kde-freebsd@kde.org, and await
one of our developers to test and include into the repo.

Please note that we have not tested KDE4 builds with Qt 4.6 yet,
so the usual disclaimer applies, “Beware, here be dragons”.

I am pleased to announce the addtion of Alberto Villa to the FreeBSD KDE team. Alberto has been an active contributor on the mailing lists, and now he will be directly contributing to the area51 repository.

Congratulations, and welcome aboard, Alberto!

With the coa[ch|x]ing of miwi and makc I did my first KDE mega commit to the ports repository, http://www.freshports.org/commit.php?message_id=200909012219.n81MJlwK055334@repoman.freebsd.org.

KDE 4.3.1 is a bugfix, translation and maintenance update. KDE users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.

A big thanks to Martin and Max for their help, and let us not forget the contributors, testers and submitters that also made this happen.

I will be mentoring Dima along with Martin Wilke. Dima was instrumental working behind the scenes in preparing the FreeBSD port of KDE 4.3 and as a result we are punishing him with a commit bit.

Dima’s new handle is fluffy@FreeBSD.org.

Just remember Dima, you are not a real committer until you break the INDEX, then fix it!

We’re happy to announce that following was updated: - Update py-qt4 to py-qt4.5.4 - Update qscintilla-2* to 2.4 - Update py-sip to 4.8.2 - Update py-kde to 1.16.3 - Update py-qt to 1.18.1 - Update Qt4 to 4.5.2 - Update KDE to KDE-4.3.0 and is now available in the FreeBSD ports tree. So what’s new in KDE: The KDE Desktop Workspace provides a powerful [...]