Re: [Libreoffice] re-enable icons on Linux for KDE

On Thursday 10 of February 2011, Fridrich Strba wrote:
> Hello, good people,
>
> On Wed, 2011-02-09 at 20:24 +0000, Michael Meeks wrote:
> > >  Hmm, how does this actually work? This file has --disable-kde4
> > > (and --disable-kde too I presume, I can't actually find this file
> > > anywhere), so there the option seems appropriate the way it is.
>
> We disable kde4 integration indeed, nevertheless, we ship kde3
> integration with our generic build.

 Which is presumably exactly the other way around most people would want :).

> >     Oh - goodness; then it looks like we're not shipping KDE integration at
> > all in the generic builds which is odd; but quite a big change to put
> > that code in between RC1 and release.
>
> Even if it was not big change, it is not trivial. We are building our
> generic builds on a CentOS4 (pretty old system) enhanced with these
> packages
> http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/fstrba:/GoOoLinux/RHEL_4/
...
> I tried to package relatively newer crippled version of kde4 libraries
> just to be able to build against them, but I failed because the machine
> has an archaic dbus and upgrading that one would basically break all the
> system. If someone comes with a way to produce packages of just the
> needed libraries and nothing more, the integration will come into
> question.

 As far as I'm aware D-Bus itself (i.e. the bus) is not needed for building, 
only the libraries are, so I expect you can use a newer dbus package and 
build with it without problems. I don't know what that would mean for running 
the resulting build.

> Nevertheless, many distros that distribute this fabulous 
> office suite that is LibreOffice do their own kde4 integration, so I
> assumed that the generic builds are good for QA and for folks doing
> computer archeology.

 And I'd encourage this. Some of the fixes I've done in the KDE4 integration 
code work much better with recent Qt4/kdelibs4 versions, so distributions 
should build with whatever Qt4/kdelibs4 packages they have.

-- 
 Lubos Lunak
 l.lunak@suse.cz