Le 21/04/2012 11:17, Martin Gräßlin a écrit :
On Saturday 21 April 2012 09:57:36 François ANDRIOT wrote:
All distro do not have the bleeding edge QT4 or KDE4 version. For example, RHEL use QT 4.6 and KDE 4.3 . In that case, is TDE supposed to provide QT 4.7 (or newer) and the latest kdelibs just to provide the latest kwin ? I don't think so.
I highly recommend to not use KWin 4.3 anymore. And RHEL or SLES are very bad examples. Users of those want the old versions and do neither want to install a recent version of KDE software nor of TDE software. They use the old system because of the provided security by RedHat or SUSE. Installing anything third party invalidates the reason to use RHEL/SLES in the first place.
Well, in fact, I'm using RHEL at work (I've not chosen to, It was already there). Some day I opened a support case to indicate that the KDE4 they provided did not work as expected, whereas KDE3 had no problem in previous RHEL releases. The only answer I got from RH was "would you mind switching to gnome ?".
The funny thing is that, if they had solved my KDE4 problem, I would never have built TDE for RHEL :-) The TDE community can thank the RHEL tech support.
kwin 4.3 does not use anything of Nepomuk. That indirect and optional runtime (!) dependency got added around 4.7. Cheers Martin
Okay, nepomuk was just an example, I do not know what Kwin 4.3 requires exactly to run. My wish is that we could install a kwin4 version on every distro, that would NOT require a QT4 upgrade and/or lots of unwanted KDE4 stuff .
My guess is that kwin 4.9 will not build against older qt4/kde4. That's why I suggested to stick with the distribution-provided Kwin version, modifying just the small parts that we want.
If I'm wrong and that there is a way to build Kwin 4.9 on older QT4/KDE4, I would of course prefer using Kwin 4.9 .
Francois