Re: [gentoo-desktop] KDE-Sunset : anyone home ?

[Philip Webb]

121029 Fat-Zer wrote:
> 2012/10/29 Philip Webb <purslow@××××××××.net>
>> I sent in a msg last week re failure of kdelibs-3.5.10-r6 to compile.
>> Sadly, no-one has responded.
>> No complaint to anyone, but is the Kde-Sunset overlay still supported ?
>> If no-one remains interested in it, I can drop it & move on ;
>> if someone who knows re it is still around, can they advise ?
>> Without Kdelibs KDE is unusable.
> AFAIR kdelibs fails to compile with avahi use
> since the creation of the kde-sunset overlay...
> I'm not a gentoo developer or a kde-sunset maintainer
> so i can't speak from their names, but I consider kde-sunset is broken
> and I'm not sure if it will be fixed some time.
> It really needs a lot of fixes to make it work and compile normally
> with modern libs and I see no enthusiasm among it's maintainers.
> I'm currently using an old build of kde-3.5
> but it seems my system is turning to dump with each update
> because I believe if I'll run an  emerge --depclean
> next time I won't be able to rebuild most of needed stuff.
> Currently I'm trying to make an overlay for the Trinity project
> but it's still quite crappy and not ready to be announced to the public.

Thanks for the reply ! -- I just want to go on using  2  apps
-- Kmahjongg, which lacks a removed-tiles display in KDE 4 ,
& Kworldclock, which is useful for quickly finding local times, --
& had them working on my older machine, which I moved out of September.
The real solution for me is to get KDE to add these features to 4.x.x
with the latter added to the new Marble app: I sent in bugs long ago
& plan to resubmit them & see if such prods produce results.

I have subscribed to the Trinity mailing-lists,
but they are obviously very short-handed & unlikely to support Gentoo;
it mb possible to compile the essentials from source into  /opt/trinity/ .
Please feel enouraged to get Trinity working here (big smile):
there are clearly some people who want to go on using a version of KDE 3 ,
tho' I'm happily at home these days generally with Fluxbox + KDE 4 apps.

Anyone else have comments ?

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