This is an incremental update and should be much easier to handle than
the transition from 4.6.5 to 4.7.2 in the ports tree.
The official release notes can be found at
http://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-4.7.3.php.
Approved by: avilla (mentor), makc (mentor), portmgr (miwi)
Feature safe: yes
4.7.2. The official release notes can be found at:
http://kde.org/announcements/announce-4.7.2.php
This release ships with many improvements. Read more about them here:
http://FreeBSD.kde.org/news.php#itemKDESC472availableinports
We'd like to say thanks to all testers and contributors, especially to
lwhsu@ for his effort on hosting our test packages.
PR: 156293 [1]
159219 [2]
160164 [3]
Submitted by: Oleg Sidorkin <osidorkin@gmail.com> [1]
Alvaro Castillo <gobledb@gmail.com> [2]
dkeav04@gmail.com [3]
Tested by: exp-run via pav
Software Compilation: 4.6.2, codename "Congrats". Read the full
announcement here: http://kde.org/announcements/announce-4.6.2.php.
Special thanks to Raphael Kubo da Costa who ported the release.
a bugfix, translation and maintenance update. Release note can be found
at http://kde.org/announcements/announce-4.3.1.php
We would like to thank all our contributors and testers. My personal
thanks to miwi and makc for coaching me through my first KDE commit.
for FreeBSD. The official KDE 4.3.0 (Codename: "Caizen") release
notes can be found at:
http://kde.org/announcements/4.3/index.php.
We'd like to say thanks to all helpers and submitters.
Tested by: pointyhat-exp-run (pav/miwi)
See original release announcement for details:
http://kde.org/announcements/announce-4.2.3.php
New ports:
devel/kdebindings4:
Meta port of KDE bindings for C#, Java, PHP, Python and Ruby.
Currently only Python bindings are supported.
devel/kdebindings4-python, devel/kdebindings4-python-krosspython,
devel/kdebindings4-python-pykde4:
Python bindings for KDE.
print/kdeutils4-printer-applet:
printer-applet is a system tray utility. It shows current print jobs,
shows printer warnings and errors and shows when printers that have
been plugged in for the first time are being auto-configured by
hal-cups-utils. It replaces kjobviewer in KDE 3.
print/system-config-printer-kde
A port of Gnome system-config-printer to KDE.
multimedia/phonon port has been split into phonon itself, phonon-xine
and phono-gstreamer backends. After updating phonon port you have
to install at least one backend. phonon-xine backend is recommended
for KDE.
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.
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
hebrew/kde4-l10n Hebrew
misc/kde4-l10n-bn_IN Bengali (India)
misc/kde4-l10n-eu Basque
misc/kde4-l10n-gu Gujarati
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
Unfortunately 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,
Diego Depaoli, Mats Andreassen, portmgr for exp-run and repocopies.
for FreeBSD. The official KDE 4.1.1 release notes can be found at
http://www.kde.org/announcements/changelogs/changelog4_1to4_1_1.php.
KDE Community ships sirst translation and service release of the 4.1
dree desktop, containing numerous bugfixes, Performance Improvements
and Translation Updates.
Pretty much all applications have received the developers' attention,
resulting in a long list of bugfixes and improvements. The most significant
changes are:
* Significant performance, interaction and rendering correctness
improvements in KHTML and Konqueror, KDE's web browser
* User interaction, rendering and stability fixes in Plasma,
the KDE4 desktop shell
* PDF backend fixes in the document viewer Okular
* Fixes in Gwenview, the image viewer's thumbnailing, more
robust retrieval and display of images with broken metadata
* Stability and interaction fixes in KMail
New Ports:
- graphics/kcoloredit
* KColorEdit is a palette files editor. It can be used
for editing color palettes and for color choosing and
naming.
- graphics/kgraphviewer
* KGraphViewer is a GraphViz DOT graph viewer for KDE. The
GraphViz programs are free-software layout engines for graphs.
KGraphViewer displays the graphs in a modern, user-friendly GUI
with all the power of a well integrated KDE application.
- graphics/kiconedit
* KIconEdit is designed to help create icons for KDE using the standard
icon palette.
- graphics/skanlite
* Skanlite is a simple image scanning application that does nothing
more than scan and save images. Skanlite can open a save dialog for
every image scanned or save the images immediately in a specified
directory with auto-generated names and format. The user can also
choose to show the scanned image before saving.
for FreeBSD. The official KDE 4.1.0 release notes can be found at
http://www.kde.org/announcements/4.1/.
Some note:
* Prefix
KDE4 will be install into a custom prefixes namely ${LOCALBASE}/kde4.
KDE4 and KDE3 can co-exist
* Sound
For sound to work, it is necessary to have dbus and hal enabled
in your system. Please see the respective documentation on how
to enable these.
For more Informations see the HEADS UP at ports@ and kde-freebsd@
or our wiki page http://wiki.freebsd.org/KDE4/Install.
Have fun!
