DeveloperWiki:KDE
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Packagers
Plan
- remove gnome dependencies in phonon-gstreamer (need to split them)
- check for new/removed dependencies
- check for new/removed sub modules (we have a script for that)
- we should probably add some replaces
- update package descriptions (we have a script for that)
- recheck kde-meta
- review build logs
- check packages which are not part of KDE SC but depend on it or Qt
- check packages which depends on splitted libraries (eg. libksane, libkdcraw, libkexiv2,...)
Packages
kdebindings-python
- enable python3 only support? (some plasmoid will not work)
kdebase-workspace
- GoogleGadgets (Needed to build plasma scriptengine for Google Gadgets)
- libgps (GPS support for geolocation)
- XMMS (Support for XMMS in the Now Playing data engine)
kdeedu-stars
- XPlanet (support for xplanet)
kdegames
- qvoronoi (Part of the qhull package, needed for the irregular grid from the Palapeli Slicer Collection)
kdenetwork
- XMMS (Used by the Kopete nowlistening plugin to support the XMMS player)
- libmeanwhile (Required for the Kopete Meanwhile protocol)
- msiLBC (Needed to build Google Talk libjingle voice call support with iLBC codec)
Build fails for:
- kdebindings-korundum: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=287057
Todo / Notes
common tasks
- change url to application homepage (e.g. http://kde.org/applications/utilities/ark/ instead of just kde.org)
- write a Howto for packaging KDE-related apps
- check this Bug report: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=189465
- update KDE and KDE Packages
packages to be removed
Users
Using the kde-unstable repository
- kde-unstable is based upon testing. Therefore, you need to enable the repositories in the following order: kde-unstable, testing, core, extra, community-testing, community.
- To update from a previous KDE installation, run:
pacman -Syu
orpacman -Sy kde-unstable/kde
- If you don't have KDE installed, you might have difficulties to install it by using groups (limitation of pacman)
- subscribe and read arch-dev-public
- report packaging bugs to our bugtracker (don't forget to mention you are using kde-unstable)
Known issues
- If any problem occurs try a new user or (re)move ~/.kde4 /tmp/kde-* /var/tmp/kdecache-*