Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2013 13:05:38 GMT From: Hendrik Lugtenburg <hendrik.lugtenburg@gmail.com> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: docs/181353: [handbook] Remove KDE3 Message-ID: <201308171305.r7HD5cAa052124@oldred.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <201308171310.r7HDA0m4033556@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 181353 >Category: docs >Synopsis: [handbook] Remove KDE3 >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-doc >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: change-request >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Sat Aug 17 13:10:00 UTC 2013 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Hendrik Lugtenburg >Release: 9 >Organization: >Environment: >Description: As KDE 3 is removed from ports (see ports/UPDATING 20130726) I have taken the liberty to wipe it out of the X11 section in the handbook. By the way, this is my first contribution to docs, so I hope you'll forgive me if I did something wrong. >How-To-Repeat: >Fix: Patch attached with submission follows: Index: books/handbook/x11/chapter.xml =================================================================== --- books/handbook/x11/chapter.xml (revision 42558) +++ books/handbook/x11/chapter.xml (working copy) @@ -1581,15 +1581,6 @@ <application>KDE</application>, consult the <ulink url="http://freebsd.kde.org/">KDE/FreeBSD initiative</ulink>'s website.</para> - - <para>There are two versions of - <application>KDE</application> available on FreeBSD. - Version 3 has been around for a long time, and is still - available in the Ports Collection though it's now - unmaintained and partially broken. Version 4 is - punctually updated and is the default choice for - <application>KDE</application> users. They can even be - installed side by side.</para> </sect3> <sect3 id="x11-wm-kde-install"> @@ -1599,30 +1590,23 @@ other desktop environment, the software can be easily installed from a package or the Ports Collection:</para> - <para>To install the <application>KDE 3</application> package - from the network, type:</para> - - <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>pkg_add -r kde</userinput></screen> - - <para>To install the <application>KDE 4</application> package - from the network, type:</para> - <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>pkg_add -r kde4</userinput></screen> <para>&man.pkg.add.1; will automatically fetch the latest version of the application.</para> + <para>Or if you use <application>pkgng</application>: + </para> + <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>pkg install kde4</userinput></screen> - <para>To build <application>KDE 3</application> from source, + <para>To build <application>KDE</application> from source, use the ports tree:</para> - <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>cd /usr/ports/x11/kde3</userinput> -&prompt.root; <userinput>make install clean</userinput></screen> - - <para>To build <application>KDE 4</application> from source, - use the ports tree:</para> - <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>cd /usr/ports/x11/kde4</userinput> &prompt.root; <userinput>make install clean</userinput></screen> + <para>This will pop up a curses based menu that let you choose + which modules to install. Note that it is a very large port + and will take quite some time to compile. + </para> <para>After <application>KDE</application> has been installed, the X server must be told to launch this application @@ -1629,12 +1613,6 @@ instead of the default window manager. This is accomplished by editing the <filename>.xinitrc</filename> file:</para> - <para>For <application>KDE 3</application>:</para> - - <screen>&prompt.user; <userinput>echo "exec startkde" > ~/.xinitrc</userinput></screen> - - <para>For <application>KDE 4</application>:</para> - <screen>&prompt.user; <userinput>echo "exec /usr/local/kde4/bin/startkde" > ~/.xinitrc</userinput></screen> <para>Now, whenever the X Window System is invoked with @@ -1684,18 +1662,7 @@ <application>GNOME</application>, or something else) to run after logging on.</para> - <para>To enable <application>KDM</application>, different - files need to be edited depending on the version of - <application>KDE</application>.</para> - - <para>For <application>KDE 3</application>, the - <literal>ttyv8</literal> entry in - <filename>/etc/ttys</filename> has to be adapted as - follows:</para> - - <programlisting>ttyv8 "/usr/local/bin/kdm -nodaemon" xterm on secure</programlisting> - - <para>For <application>KDE 4</application>, you have to mount + <para>For <application>KDE 4</application>, you have to mount &man.procfs.5; and add the following line to <filename>/etc/rc.conf</filename>:</para> >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:help
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