A few weeks ago I searched for sponsors for new
hardware. Uwe Laverenz contacted me 3 weeks ago
and asked about my request for new hardware.
He visited me few days ago and brought along
two new PCs and two monitors. I’m really exited
about it and versy grateful for that.

I’d like to note that the KDE FreeBSD Team now has
help from PCBSD. I’d like to say thanks to PCBSD
for their generous donation of a build machine
to test KDE. This has solved a lot of problems
with slow builds and package tests.

We are really happy to announce and saymany thanks
to Kris Moore and his Team.

Hardware facts:

Model:          Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 920 @ 2.67GHz
CPU Speed    2.67 GHz
Processors     8
Memory        6GB

PCI Devices
Intel PCI DevicesCorporation – 82801 Family (ICH2/3/4/4/5/5/6/7/8/9,63xxESB) Hub Interface to PCI Bridge
Marvell Semiconductor (Was: Galileo Technology Ltd) – 6121 SATA2 Controller
ad6: Seagate ST31000340NS SN05 (931.51 GB)

I’ve committed python 2.5.4 and python 2.6.1 updates. Exp-run was without any Problems.

I generated a new GPG key for my daily use. So please update your keyring with my new key.

1024D/B1E6FCE9 2009-01-31
Key fingerprint = C022 7D60 F598 8188 2635  0F6E 74B2 4884 B1E6 FCE9
uid                  Martin Wilke <miwi@FreeBSD.org>

http://bsdcrew.de/blog/miwi/Martin_Wilke.pub.txt

Last week i was looking to update python. I’ve created some patches
and If you want to play a bit with the new one, try following patchset.

http://people.freebsd.org/~miwi/py/python254-261.diff
I plan to commit this after a exp-run on pointyhat.

Happy Playing

A few days ago, I started work on RC1 and here the results.
If you want to test QT 4.5.0 feel free to checkout and test.
Please note, KDE 4.2 will currently not work with QT 4.5.0.
Also, you should know it is experimental. Please build QT
with debug flags.

To get QT4.5 try

# svn co https://kf.athame.co.uk/kde-freebsd/branches/qt-4.5/

Happy Testing

I’m happy to announce that KDE-4.2.0 is now available inthe FreeBSD ports tree.


The KDE FreeBSD team is proud to announce the release of KDE 4.2.0
for FreeBSD. The official KDE 4.2.0 (Codename: "The Answer") release
notes can be found at: http://kde.org/announcements/4.2/index.php.

What is new:

Where KDE 4.1 was, according to the development team,
"aimed at casual users", KDE 4.2 is billed as a "compelling
offering for the majority of end users." There have been further
enhancements to the plasma desktop with new applets allowing
better desktop customisation. The configuration options for the
desktop have also been expanded and the revamped system tray
shows reports from every conceivable process, from system messages
to the status of large downloads.

The KWin window manager has learned a couple of new tricks.
By default, it now switches on 3D and compositing effects automatically,
on suitable hardware and manages these effects autonomously, without
the aid of Compiz. With the help of the new Kephal library, the window
manager now offers additional options for running multiple monitors.

The Dolphin file manager has been partly revised, and should now be
easier to use. As part of the Google Summer of Code, KMail has been
redesigned, resulting in both a better appearance and better IMAP support.
The KDE browser Konqueror also includes several new features.

New supported languages include Arabic, Icelandic, Basque,
Hebrew, Romanian, Tajik and several Indian languages (Bengali India,
Gujarati, Kannada, Maithili, Marathi) indicating a rise in popularity in
this part of Asia.

 New ports for KDE 4.2.0:
  arabic/kde4-l10n		Arabic
  misc/kde4-l10n-bn_IN		Bengali (India)
  misc/kde4-l10n-eu		Basque
  misc/kde4-l10n-gu		Gujarati
  hebrew/kde4-l10n		Hebrew
  misc/kde4-l10n-is		Icelandic
  misc/kde4-l10n-kn		Kannada
  misc/kde4-l10n-mai		Maithili
  misc/kde4-l10n-mr		Marathi
  misc/kde4-l10n-ro		Romanian
  misc/kde4-l10n-tg		Tajik
  math/eigen2			Lightweight library for vector and matrix math
  graphics/kipi-plugins-kde4	KDE4 kipi graphics plugins
  sysutils/policykit-kde	PolicyKit manager for KDE

FreeBSD 6.4 support is dropped.

We'd like to say thanks for feedback and help to:
	Matt Tosto, Kris Moore, stickibit, David Johnson, Markus Brueffer,
	David Naylor, Thomas Schlesinger, Warren Liddell, Thomas Abthorpe,
	portmgr for exp-run and repocopies, Diego Depaoli, Mats Andreassen

Call for Testing KDE 4.2 for FreeBSD

Howdy Guys,

The KDE FreeBSD team is happy to announce the first public
Call for Testing for KDE 4.2. Over the past weeks we have
focused on the complex and very time consuming task to get
KDE 4.2 running.

What is new:

Where KDE 4.1 was, according to the development team,
"aimed at casual users", KDE 4.2 is billed as a "compelling
offering for the majority of end users." There have been further
enhancements to the plasma desktop with new applets allowing
better desktop customisation. The configuration options for the
desktop have also been expanded and the revamped system tray
shows reports from every conceivable process, from system messages
to the status of large downloads.

The KWin window manager has learned a couple of new tricks.
By default, it now switches on 3D and compositing effects automatically,
on suitable hardware and manages these effects autonomously, without
the aid of Compiz. With the help of the new Kephal library, the window
manager now offers additional options for running multiple monitors.

The Dolphin file manager has been partly revised, and should now be
easier to use. As part of the Google Summer of Code, KMail has been
redesigned, resulting in both a better appearance and better IMAP support.
The KDE browser Konqueror also includes several new features.

New supported languages include Arabic, Icelandic, Basque,
Hebrew, Romanian, Tajik and several Indian languages (Bengali India,
Gujarati, Kannada, Maithili, Marathi) indicating a rise in popularity in
this part of Asia.

Some note:

The CFT is now without FreeBSD 6.4 support. We will see
what we can do over the week now but I do not promise
that we can get this fixed. If you want to help us, your patches are
welcome.

We suggest that you exit from KDE4 before you update, backup your ~/.kde4
configuration dir and start with a clean config.

New Ports:

  arabic/kde4 l10n
  misc/kde4-l10n-eu
  hebrew/kde4-l10n
  misc/kde4-l10n-is
  misc/kde4-l10n-ro
  misc/kde4-l10n-tg

Please read UPDATING-area51 before you start your update.

To get KDE 4.2:

try
svn co https://kf.athame.co.uk/kde-freebsd/trunk/area51/ /path/to/area51

More info here:
https://kf.athame.co.uk/access.php

Here few Screenshots:

http://bsdcrew.de/blog/screens/kde42

I'd like to say thanks to all helpers and submitters on the kde-freebsd@
mailinglist.

That's all for the moment. Happy Testing!