KDE Frameworks 5 Tech Preview Released

[mgraesslin]

I found a dummy backend for kwindowsystem in a search http://web.archiveorange.com/archive...qujHcjXHpr3Yg6, that was added in early 2012. I had to modify it a bit, but it seems that it was officially removed... I think looking at the git log, it was removed sometime in June 2013.

June 2012 - looks like it was a dummy implementation. "Delete _qws and _qpa stubs for kwindowsystem, we need the x11 one on x11."

I don't know why it was removed, I didn't test it in runtime, I had to make minor tweaks to other frameworks. I have 57/57 building without X, with a few tweaks, all of them are in this SVN folder. Only one Framework that depends on X in ldd is kdewebkit, because it's linked into qtwebkit.
http://rebeccablackos.svn.sourceforg...kdeframeworks/

well there's nothing wrong with the libs still linking X IMHO. I don't expect most distros to do that in the next few years. So the focus is at the moment more on getting it runtime selectable. That was also a problem with the dummy implementation - it was a compile time instead of a runtime switch.

[nerdopolis]

June 2012 - looks like it was a dummy implementation. "Delete _qws and _qpa stubs for kwindowsystem, we need the x11 one on x11."


well there's nothing wrong with the libs still linking X IMHO. I don't expect most distros to do that in the next few years. So the focus is at the moment more on getting it runtime selectable. That was also a problem with the dummy implementation - it was a compile time instead of a runtime switch.

I see. The dummy backend works for me for now as I make a Wayland distro for testing over production, but I guess I should at least try to upstream those other patches? I was able to get all of Frameworks to compile with them, and now more things run without crashing due to X calls, but do they look good enough?

[mgraesslin]

I see. The dummy backend works for me for now as I make a Wayland distro for testing over production, but I guess I should at least try to upstream those other patches? I was able to get all of Frameworks to compile with them, and now more things run without crashing due to X calls, but do they look good enough?

yes, upstreaming is a good idea. Whether it makes sense to upstream a dummy backend, I'm not really sure. The idea I have in mind is something like https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/114922/ what I wrote this morning. If the approach is liked I will go for the same for the other classes.