In this file: * About kdebase * Thank you * Common Mistakes * Configuring * Debugging * Upgrading * Removal/Uninstallation * More Info About kdebase ------------- kdebase is the second mandatory package (besides kdelibs) for the K Desktop Environment. Here we have various applications and infrastructure files and libraries. Here is an overview of the directories: == WARNING THIS OVERVIEW IS OLD; things have been separated into submodules nowadays == * doc XML formatted documentation files for the apps * drkonqi If ever an app crashes (heaven forbid!) then Dr.Konqi will be so kind and make a stack trace. This is a great help for the developers to fix the bug. * kappfinder Searches for non-KDE applications, e.g. Acrobat Reader (tm) and installs those apps under the K start button. * kcheckpass Small program to enter and check passwords, to be used by other programs. * kcontrol The KDE Control Center allows you to tweak the KDE settings. * kdebugdialog Allows you to specify which debug messages you want to see. * kdesu A graphical front end to "su". * kdialog Allows to display menu boxes from shell scripts. * kdm Replacement for XDM, for those people that like graphical logins. * kfind File find utility (standalone and in Konqueror's file manager). * khelpcenter Used to to read all great documentation about KDE, unix man pages, info pages etc. * khotkeys Intercepts keys and can call applications. * kioslave Infrastructure that helps make every application internet enabled e.g. to directly save a file to ftp://place.org/dir/file.txt * klipper Taskbar applet that enhances and extenses the X clipboard. * kmenuedit Edit for the menu below the K start button. * konqueror The file manager and web browser you get easily used to. * konsole A shell program similar to xterm. * kreadconfig A tool for shell scripts to get info from KDE's config files. * kscreensaver The KDE screensaver environment and some basic screensavers. More of them are in the kdeartwork package. * ksmserver The KDE session manager (saves program status on login, restarts those program at the next login). * kdepasswd A KDE frontend for passwd. Also contains the "Password & User Information" KCM. * ksplashml The screen displayed while KDE starts. * kstart Launches applications with special window properties such as iconified, etc. * ksysguard Task manager and system monitor, can work with remote systems. * ksystraycmd Allows to run any application in the system tray. * ktip Gives you tips how to use KDE. * kwin The KDE window manager (moves, resizes and decorates windows). * kxkb A keyboard map tool. * l10n l-10letters-n: localization. Mostly country flags. * libkonq Some libraries needed by Konqueror. * nsplugins Together with OSF/Motif or Lesstif allows you to use Netscape (tm) plugins in Konqueror. * pics Various icons and wallpapers. Thanks! ------- Thank you Steven M. Scotten and Kuno Raffi (weave) for creating artwork specifically for the K Desktop Environment. Your efforts are much appreciated. Mr. Scotten has created: blue_angle_swirl, bluecheck, bluegreencrisscross, bluegreensilver, candystripe_chainlink, charcoal_sunset, fadedpaint, garden_lattice, ghost_lightning, glassywarpcheck, gold_crinkle, greenish, heavens_hex, latte, lime_vibration, liquid_canvas, northbeach, orange_stacks, purple_swirl, string_theory, sunday_brunch, toothofthehoundthatbitcha, vegetative_fog, wavetron, woodcheck Common Mistakes --------------- IMPORTANT: most applications need KDEDIRS as the directory where KDE is installed. Please set this in your login file. KDEDIR is deprecated starting with KDE 4. Instead use KDEDIRS, which can also hold a list of directories. If XPM support wasn't configured, it may be that configure has no idea where your XPM libraries are. If so, set XPM_INCLUDE and XPM_LDFLAGS to the paths where configure should look for XPM. But if you haven't installed XPM or it didn't come with your system, that's no problem. You will only miss a few screensavers. The same thing applies with OPENGL support. Here you have to set GL_INCLUDE and GL_LDFLAGS. If configure claims Qt cannot be found, have a look at ftp://ftp.trolltech.com and download the latest Qt 4.x.x release, at least Qt 4.4.0. Be advised, if you're using FreeBSD, then please do not use the Qt port that comes along with it. Configuring ----------- KDE 4 is built using CMake (http://www.cmake.org), version 2.4.5 is the minimum required version. This means there is no configure-script anymore, but you need to run cmake. Before building kdebase, you need to build and install kdepimlibs, this is new compared to KDE < 4. Most of the options which were supported by the "old" configure script are already also supported with the new buildsystem. To adjust these options, use ccmake, there you can see them all. They have been slightly renamed compared to the configure-options: These are the installation directories, by default they are all located beneath /usr/local, but you can adjust each of them individually. CONFIG_INSTALL_DIR - the config file install dir DATA_INSTALL_DIR - the parent directory where applications can install their data HTML_INSTALL_DIR - the HTML install dir for documentation ICON_INSTALL_DIR - the icon install dir (default prefix/share/icons/) INFO_INSTALL_DIR - the kde info install dir (default prefix/info) KCFG_INSTALL_DIR - the install dir for kconfig files LIB_INSTALL_DIR - the subdirectory relative to the install prefix where libraries will b LOCALE_INSTALL_DIR - the install dir for translations MAN_INSTALL_DIR - the kde man page install dir (default prefix/man/) MIME_INSTALL_DIR - the install dir for the mimetype desktop files PLUGIN_INSTALL_DIR - the subdirectory relative to the install prefix where plugins will be SERVICES_INSTALL_DIR - the install dir for service (desktop, protocol, ...) files SERVICETYPES_INSTALL_DIR - the install dir for servicestypes desktop files SOUND_INSTALL_DIR - the install dir for sound files TEMPLATES_INSTALL_DIR - the install dir for templates (Create new file...) WALLPAPER_INSTALL_DIR - the install dir for wallpapers KCONF_UPDATE_INSTALL_DIR - the kconf_update install dir XDG_APPS_INSTALL_DIR - the XDG apps dir XDG_DIRECTORY_INSTALL_DIR- the XDG directory SYSCONF_INSTALL_DIR - The kde sysconfig install dir AUTOSTART_INSTALL_DIR - The install dir for autostart files CMAKE_SKIP_RPATH: set it to TRUE to disable RPATH completely KDE4_USE_ALWAYS_FULL_RPATH: set it to TRUE to use the full RPATH everywhere Use ccmake to see all available settings. Debugging --------- You can use --enable-debug with the configure script, if you want to have debug code in your KDE apps and libs. To get another build of KDE, you have to adjust the CMake variable CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE. The following build types are supported: "RELWITHDEBINFO" - optimized and debug info "RELEASE" - optimized "DEBUG" - optimizied, debug info, some optimizations disabled "DEBUGFULL" - more debug info, no optimizations "PROFILE" - full debug, coverage and profile info If you experience problems and want to report problems to the KDE Bugs database, it is recommended to recompile with this switch enabled to make the backtraces more verbose (and thus giving the developer more information about the cause of the bug). Removal/Uninstallation ---------------------- You can use 'make uninstall' if you want to remove the kde from the dirs. This feature has not been tested completely, and is depreciated. On a system where KDEDIRS is specific to KDE (i.e. not /usr) and contains only a single directory, rm -rf $KDEDIRS does it as well. More Info --------- If your system supports PAM (Plugable Authentication Modules), please see the README.pam file in the workspace directory for more information about using KDE with PAM. Have a look at the individual subdirectories, if you would like to find out more about a specific application included in kdebase. More FAQs on http://www.kde.org/info/faq.html If you have problems compiling and installing this package, please check the kde-devel@kde.org mailing list archive (see http://lists.kde.org) to see if somebody had a similar problem already. If not, try posting a message to the list with detailed information about the compile problem. General KDE discussions should go to the KDE mailing list (kde@kde.org).