KDE4 on openmoko?

Sander van Grieken sander at 3v8.net
Mon Nov 3 10:44:05 CET 2008


> On Sunday 02 November 2008 07:59:14 Pietro "m0nt0" Montorfano wrote:
>> Leonti Bielski ha scritto:
>> > Hello!
>> > I've just seen this screenshot on scap.linuxtogo.org:
>> > http://scap.linuxtogo.org/files/a4100c3bb6a5f2c7d9789da03fc2caa3.png
>> > How does it work? Is speed acceptable or not?
>> > Thanks.
>> > Leonti
>>
>> No speed is not acceptable, is fun to show your FR to your linux friend
>> saying "hey i've got kde4 on my phone!!" but if they ask you to open the
>> menu or to start something, the magic is gone.
>> It tooks about 6-7 mins to start kde and don't try to do anything at all
>> if you don't want to wait for a long long time :D
> Those times are greatly exaggerated, or you've done something seriously wrong.
> Even on my 'old' neo1973 it took less than a minute to fully start plasma,
> and while slow, I think for many things the speed was quite acceptable on a
> neo freerunner. Running a full kde session (with kwin as window manager)
> doesn't make any sense anyway on such small screens, as kwin was never
> designed for something like that, but just running kde applications works
> quite well.

Plasma would be great on the FR IMHO, and I wanted to experiment with that, but
unfortunately qt4 doesn't yet build using openembedded.

I also am unable to do a succesful build of FSO since upgrading to ubuntu 8.10. gcc-4.3
is unable to build OE's gcc-native, and after switching to gcc-4.2 I cannot get past
compiling qemu-native. using ubuntu-provided qemu instead results in a crash. sigh. Very
demotivating. Hope this will be fixed soon.

Anyone else experiencing this in Ubuntu 8.10?

grtz,
Sander








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