KDE1 1.2.2 Anyone interested in running this?

cb88 · n00b Joined: 26 Dec 2011 Posts: 28

You know for nostalgia or just because its an awesome retro desktop?

I didn't experience it back in the day... but several of the SparcStations I have run it (as they have RedHat 5.6 on them)

I don't see any ebuilds for it.. but I might get around to it if I get bored on a work trip next week. Just be warned that my ebuild skills are noobish unless someone else wants to lend a hand.

Just for reference/whistle-wetting a SUSE iso with it preinstalled: https://susestudio.com/a/VU5ypu/kde1-tumbleweed-32-bit

Blog post of they guy that did the port/toolchain update: http://www.heliocastro.info/?p=291

kensington · Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2016 11:31 am Post subject:

I've pushed some basic ebuilds to the KDE overlay. However, there are a couple of issues. Everything is hard-coded to operate out of /opt and I haven't looked at fixing that yet. This means it will be necessary to export to the environment something like PATH="/opt/kde1/bin:${PATH}" and LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/opt/qt1/lib64:/opt/kde1/lib64:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}".

I was able to launch a kwm session but unfortunately it immediately crashed and I haven't been able to determine the cause yet.

cb88 · n00b Joined: 26 Dec 2011 Posts: 28

Would that be layman -a kde? Which I did and it doesn't seem to be there... but it is still in the kde repo you linked to what am I missing?

that's really strange.. it is definitly there but emerge can't see it neither eix.... even though eix scans that repo.

asturm · Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2017 9:25 pm Post subject:

Yes they are, but as live versions without keywords.
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backend.cpp:92:2: warning: #warning TODO - this error message is about as useful as a cooling unit in the arctic

cb88 · n00b Joined: 26 Dec 2011 Posts: 28

asturm · Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2017 9:42 pm Post subject:

If you use '=', then you also want/need to append a desired version number to the package (in this case, 9999).
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backend.cpp:92:2: warning: #warning TODO - this error message is about as useful as a cooling unit in the arctic

cb88 · n00b Joined: 26 Dec 2011 Posts: 28

I did I just forgot to post that part... it still never found it.

asturm · Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2017 9:25 pm Post subject:

You haven't properly setup layman. https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Layman

Again though, don't expect too much from KDE1.
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backend.cpp:92:2: warning: #warning TODO - this error message is about as useful as a cooling unit in the arctic

Cyker · Veteran Joined: 15 Jun 2006 Posts: 1746

Sounds fun

I'm still currently in the process of moving KDE3 into its own kde3-base and kde3-util dirs so it doesn't break every time they move things around, which seems to be every time I runs sync (Now there are kde-base, kde-utils, kde-apps and kde-framewaork now kde-plasma!)

and ultimately I want to get TDE building (It's not to hard to roll it by hand, but for some reason it's a PITA getting it to build cleanly and consistently in Portage

If the convoluted eclasses for KDE3 are anything to go by it's gonna take some heavy kludging... :S )

KDE1 could be nice tho' - I bet I'd find it nicer to use than KDE4 or 5, and it'd have a higher chance of working properly in vncserver than KDE4/5! I bet it'd run a lot faster too...!