By RangerRick, on March 16th, 2007
First of all, I released a new snapshot of KDE/Mac on the KDE4/Mac site. These include support for the phonon-xine plugin, and sound in Amarok (and presumably other things that use phonon) now works! Unfortunately, the collections code seems to have issues, so no collections yet. 🙁
Second, I finally got KDE/X11 3.5.6 out the door in Fink unstable, along with KOffice 1.6.2. Nothing mac-specific changed, just the new features discussed in the upstream announcements.
As always, if you have any questions or comments, please let me know!
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By RangerRick, on February 28th, 2007
Last night I finished a new build of KDE/Mac which includes Amarok, building on the great work the Amarok team's done on Amarok 2.0 porting.
In theory, sound should work (I've added GStreamer and kdemultimedia's phonon-gst backend to the mix) but in practice it doesn't. Now that I have a solid build working, I'm going to try digging into figuring out why that is the case.
As always, please bang on it, and let me know if you see any major issues.
Also, I've started working on packaging kde4 for fink. For now it is the X11 version, but as I get things cleaned up, I'll add the Qt/Mac version to the mix. I'll put a note up when there's something useful along those lines...
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By RangerRick, on February 8th, 2007
FYI, I put out a new KDE/Mac snapshot a few days ago. Nothing major other than refreshing with the latest SVN and adding oKular into the build. It looks like something's wrong with plugin-loading, though, oKular can't find any file plugins.
I'll look into getting it fixed soon, and see if we can get oKular actually opening documents. 😉
I stand corrected, I must have run kbuildsycoca on one machine but started it up on another. =)
And to prove it...
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By RangerRick, on February 8th, 2007
I've released updated PostgreSQL packages from version 7.3 and up. They fix a number of security problems (as well as a bug in the 8.x series that has been in the wild for a couple of days).
All users are encouraged to update.
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By RangerRick, on January 7th, 2007
So there was a little bitrot since my last packaging run in November, but I've finally managed to get a new KDE build done. If you're downloading in pieces, Qt and kdesupport have been updated too, so make sure you grab them as well as whatever else you're looking to install.
It looks like starting from the Finder works again, so my patches haven't totally rotted, and one big new thing is working -- input methods!
Unfortunately, SSL is still not happy, I've not had a chance to investigate yet. Otherwise, though, things are looking up. Please give them a shot and let me know if you run into any issues, and if you're willing to help out, join us on irc, in #kde-darwin on freenode.
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By RangerRick, on December 20th, 2006
When I went to OSCON 2006, I ran into Alex Russell of dojo and sitepen fame. He mentioned that they used Fink a lot (especially KDE) and wanted to help out.
Yesterday, I was walking out the door to head to work, and the doorbell rang. Fresh from the FedEx guy was a nice shiny new core duo 2 mac mini!
I've got it configured to the point that I can use it, and now need to get my KDE stuff building on it. This should cut the time it takes to build KDE down to the order of hours instead of days... (Even with distcc, it took 4 or 5 days to do a full build from qt up on my laptop.)
Thanks again!
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By RangerRick, on December 4th, 2006
I've been working on packages and catching up on quite a bit of stuff for a while now, but hadn't gotten around to posting about it, so I guess it's time to do so. 🙂
I've got some more coming down the line -- a big reworking of the PostgreSQL packages (including 8.2) as well as a few other things. At that point, I should actually be reasonably caught up.
Big Updates:
- KDE: finally got 3.5.5 out the door. Mostly just version bumps, although I did add some code to allow you to easily disable quartz-wm for clipboard synchronization (in some cases, folks were seeing quartz-wm hog memory with a huge leak). You can do so by adding
export DISABLE_PROXY=1 in your .xinitrc before you run startkde.
- Mono: various Mono updates, including a number of compile fixes and stuff. Everything (but MonoDevelop, as always) works now on OSX. Yay!
Other Stuff:
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By RangerRick, on November 13th, 2006
I've put out a new D-Bus package for Fink with the official 1.0 release. It's been sitting in my experimental tree for a while but it seems to be pretty solid and I never heard back from the previous maintainer. If you are using anything that wants D-Bus, please let me know how it works out.
Also, while I haven't really had any time to do real development on it, I did kick off a new build of the KDE/Mac binaries and put them up on the web site -- please let me know if you run into any issues.
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By RangerRick, on October 26th, 2006
It looks like some of the kde4 build issues have been fixed, I was able to complete an unassisted run of the KDE/Mac build. New binaries are up and Konqueror and other complex stuff runs again. Dirk is putting out a 3.80.2 Krash release too, and this will pretty closely correspond to that release. I'll do another build when 3.80.2 is finalized.
There's already 3 seeders, so feel free to give the torrents a shot and let me know how things work.
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By RangerRick, on October 23rd, 2006
...I'm now Mr. Benjamin Reed.
Er, waitaminute... <grin>
On October 7th, I married Cynthia Fulbright at the Longview Center in downtown Raleigh. We had our reception at the Matthews House in Cary. We honeymooned in Scotland. (It was awesome!)
It was an incredible ceremony, we got a ton of compliments on it, which means a lot since we put it together ourselves. Cynthia was stunning. I'm glad we did the "you can't see her in the dress until the wedding day" thing, it was wonderful seeing her dressed up like a princess, coming down the aisle. We both smiled the whole time (I'm told I "grinned like an idiot"), and while I was nervous before everything started, once we were up there it was like it was just the two of us and the rest of the world didn't exist anymore.
Cynthia, I love you, and I can't be happier to spend the rest of my life with you!
We've put up a web site for the wedding, although it doesn't have much on it yet. The goal is to have the ceremony as well as photos of everything from the rehearsal to the honeymoon (no, not those photos), but it will take a while, we took over 1500 pictures in Scotland. We're getting there. 🙂
Thanks to everyone who's wished us well, and to those of you who were able to come to the wedding!
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