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sandsmark

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KDEmod 4.1 (RC1) packages

It doesn't look like many people know of them, and since we could use some more testing before 4.1 is released, I'm posting here.
An up-to-date-ish post here, about how to install it:
http://www.kdemod.ath.cx/bbs/viewtopic.php?pid=4611
In addition to the normal KDE packages, we provide some extra plasmoids and other nice packages, like Yakuake, Arxin and Shaman. We also have some KOffice 2 pre-alpha packages, if you want to try it out (thanks to boom1992 ).
I have made PKGBUILDs for the kde-nepomuk stuff from playground (tags:/-kio-slave and the like), but because funkyou is on holiday, it isn't added to the repo's yet (the x86_64-version can be gotten from http://kdemod41.likbilen.com/ however, and everything should be kosher by monday).

If the official repo is slow, there's a complete mirror at:

http://kdemod.iskrembilen.com/repo/unstable/i686/
http://kdemod.iskrembilen.com/repo/unstable/x86_64/

Please note that these packages are still rather unstable, but they are really getting there. Stuff that's missing is the language packs and kdebindings (looking into it this weekend, together with building 4.0.84).
(Oh, and before someone starts mentioning duplication of effort, these are split packages, like the kdemod 3.5 packages, and also, we just build the snapshots, we don't do daily rebuilds of SVN trunk. )

Last edited by sandsmark (2008-07-16 13:56:09)

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staple

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Re: KDEmod 4.1 (RC1) packages

yakde4repo

imagelife

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Re: KDEmod 4.1 (RC1) packages

yeah,i use it somedays ago ,every thing seems so good,
but i cant save the widgets ,every time after i reboot my computer,
i cant see these widgets ,so ...........

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sandsmark

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Re: KDEmod 4.1 (RC1) packages

yeah,i use it somedays ago ,every thing seems so good,
but i cant save the widgets ,every time after i reboot my computer,
i cant see these widgets ,so ...........

If you want to make sure the plasma state is saved, you can use kquitapp to make it exit manually, peacefully:

kquitapp plasma
plasma&

And I repeat, this isn't primarily a KDE 4 repo, it is just the continuation of the kdemod project

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ozar

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Registered: 2005-02-18

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Re: KDEmod 4.1 (RC1) packages

I'm using the KDE4 builds by tanis and the majority of the icons are present:

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=49454

All the other KDE4 builds that I've tried are missing lots of icons, but I'm not sure why.

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sandsmark

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Re: KDEmod 4.1 (RC1) packages

I'm using the KDE4 builds by tanis and the majority of the icons are present:

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=49454

All the other KDE4 builds that I've tried are missing lots of icons, but I'm not sure why.

Have you tried the KDEmod packages? I have all icons on my laptop (which runs exclusively own dog-food, as in KDEmod 4.1 beta+svn).

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ozar

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Re: KDEmod 4.1 (RC1) packages

Have you tried the KDEmod packages? I have all icons on my laptop (which runs exclusively own dog-food, as in KDEmod 4.1 beta+svn).

Yes, the last time I tried KDEmod 4 packages, lots of icons were missing.  I've not tried them in the last couple of months, though.  I personally prefer the more generic KDE installations over the KDEmod ones.

Glad to hear it's working well for you.

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xdeusx

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Re: KDEmod 4.1 (RC1) packages

I've tried these packages a couple times, they never worked.
No panels, no shortcuts and just a blank screen with conky loaded up for whatever reason.

sandsmark

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Re: KDEmod 4.1 (RC1) packages

Yes, the last time I tried KDEmod 4 packages, lots of icons were missing.  I've not tried them in the last couple of months, though.  I personally prefer the more generic KDE installations over the KDEmod ones.

Glad to hear it's working well for you.

The 4.1-beta-ish packages aren't patched at all by us, yet, just split.

I've tried these packages a couple times, they never worked.
No panels, no shortcuts and just a blank screen with conky loaded up for whatever reason.

Sure you selected the right session in your login manager?

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xdeusx

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Re: KDEmod 4.1 (RC1) packages

Yeah it must have been the right one, I did see the KDE splashscreen.
And I tried also creating the plasmarc as it was suggested in the forum.

ozar

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Re: KDEmod 4.1 (RC1) packages

The 4.1-beta-ish packages aren't patched at all by us, yet, just split.

Yeah, I noticed that before I installed it.  Thanks for the info, though.

It's just that I've installed the KDEmod4 packages at least half a dozen different times on fresh Arch installs and have done some upgrades, too, but as it turns out the Kde4 packages released by tanis have always worked better on my end than any of the others I've tried.  That said, I'll probably stick with them until the official release goes into the Arch repos.

Please don't think I'm criticizing any of the kdemod stuff, because I'm not.  It just hasn't worked out all that well for me when I've installed it.  I'm actually very glad it's available for those that want it.

Thanks if it is you that makes it available. 

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sandsmark

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Re: KDEmod 4.1 (RC1) packages

The 4.1-beta-ish packages aren't patched at all by us, yet, just split.

Yeah, I noticed that before I installed it.  Thanks for the info, though.

It's just that I've installed the KDEmod4 packages at least half a dozen different times on fresh Arch installs and have done some upgrades, too, but as it turns out the Kde4 packages released by tanis have always worked better on my end than any of the others I've tried.  That said, I'll probably stick with them until the official release goes into the Arch repos.

Please don't think I'm criticizing any of the kdemod stuff, because I'm not.  It just hasn't worked out all that well for me when I've installed it.  I'm actually very glad it's available for those that want it.

Thanks if it is you that makes it available. 

No problem at all, and thanks for the kind words
But, if you have time and patience, it would be nice if you posted a bug about the problems in the bug tracker at http://kdemod.ath.cx/bugs/

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venky80

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Re: KDEmod 4.1 (RC1) packages

Sandsmark what is the deal with this new repo? Is funkyou gone for a long holiday? Do you intend to keep this repo running forever?
Is it more updated than kdemod 4 unstable official repo?

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sandsmark

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Re: KDEmod 4.1 (RC1) packages

Sandsmark what is the deal with this new repo?

No new repos, just a mirror, and the dir where makepkg puts built packages on my build-host.

Is funkyou gone for a long holiday?

iirc, it was just this weekend.

Do you intend to keep this repo running forever?

Yes, as I am the new x86_64 makepkg-monkey, I will help funkyou keep this repo running until pretty much forever.

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Tinuva

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Re: KDEmod 4.1 (RC1) packages

I am using kdemod4 and every release so far it has worked beautiful. Give or take a few bugs here and there but I believe that to be direct kde bugs most of the time. Currently I have kdemod4 running on both my laptop and this gaming pc just fine.

Can't wait till I convert my work desktop pc to Arch as well, then I will probably use kdemo4 again.

rZn

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Registered: 2008-05-16

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Re: KDEmod 4.1 (RC1) packages

Im using kdemod4 on my lapie now and "it just works"

Used marcs daily kde4 svn builds before.. switched just becouse I like the idea of split ebui .. uuum .. pkg.

Nice work!!!

regards rZn

P.S I must say I really like this dist (Arch) really easy to maintaine only used it for about a week toh D.S

Mikko777

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Re: KDEmod 4.1 (RC1) packages

Testimonial:

Omg! Thanks for these packages, These are by far the best maintained kde packages i've ever seen.
Having almost lost hope of getting kde4 reliably running on my machine, I found these packages and been happily running kde4 ever since!

This kdemod must be the work of gods, there really is no other explanation.

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Re: KDEmod 4.1 (RC1) packages

say hello to mikko, our most devoted fan/stalker

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elocal

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Re: KDEmod 4.1 (RC1) packages

good stuff.  my kio_slave http handler is broken for some reason, i can't user konqueror...

imagelife

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Re: KDEmod 4.1 (RC1) packages

If you want to make sure the plasma state is saved, you can use kquitapp to make it exit manually, peacefully:

kquitapp plasma
plasma&

And I repeat, this isn't primarily a KDE 4 repo, it is just the continuation of the kdemod project

thank you guy!

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sandsmark

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Re: KDEmod 4.1 (RC1) packages

good stuff.  my kio_slave http handler is broken for some reason, i can't user konqueror...

We don't compile against the testing repo. I think heimdal is the only package in testing breaking things, so you can downgrade that, but the best bet would be to remove testing and downgrade all packages you have installed from there.

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ashunter

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Re: KDEmod 4.1 (RC1) packages

Im using kdemod4 and it's really nice.
Thanks a lot

ould

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Re: KDEmod 4.1 (RC1) packages

Decided to give these packages a try and while everything seemed to fire up I am getting a lot of mime-type errors. When I open up dolphin or konqueror I get this:

Could not find mime type "application/octet-stream"

Followed by:

Could not find mime types:
"inode/directory"
"inode/blockdevice"
"inode/chardevice"
"inode/socket"
"inode/fifo"
"application/x-shellscript"
"application/x-executable"
"application/x-desktop"

Any ideas?

Thanks.

Kevin

Emess

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Re: KDEmod 4.1 (RC1) packages

Decided to give these packages a try and while everything seemed to fire up I am getting a lot of mime-type errors. When I open up dolphin or konqueror I get this:

Could not find mime type "application/octet-stream"

That's not necessarily a KDE4 problem, as I have the same problem in KDEmod 3.5.9, AND KDE4, on different boxes. At first I thought it was due to changing a file association, but now I'm not so sure, as it was just after an update.

Kbuildsycoa is giving all sorts of warnings about incorrect mime-types as well.

E~

sandsmark

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Re: KDEmod 4.1 (RC1) packages

I also experienced this problem, but it went away by itself after «update-mime-database /usr/share/mime», kbuildsycoca4, and a reboot. I'm not sure if this is what solved it, but that's the only relevant things I did, that I can think of.

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