Following up to the last week's post about something new coming up, so here we are with the reveal:
I'll be participating in Season of KDE 2014 as a student.
This blog will be brought back to life owing to a new project I have been given the opportunity to work on.
I'll be participating in Season of KDE 2014 as a student.
This blog will be brought back to life owing to a new project I have been given the opportunity to work on.
A bit about the project
I hope put my winters to good use and will be working on a project for KWin. The project involves creating a test framework for KWin effects.
What have I been upto?
In-case you're wondering, nothing much. I've been occupied with my academic work for the last couple of weeks. Though the little spare time I've had has been spent prepping for the project. Finally after weeks of struggling with building locally I was able to finally build KWin and Frameworks locally so now the next step is figuring out how to go about designing the framework and coding it up.
It took you weeks to build KDE5?
Yep, you heard it right basically. With this project I thought why not try out a debian based distro (having used rpm based fedora and openSUSE for last 3 years). Turns out Kubuntu 14.10 with next ppa was a bad idea. The desktop seemed fairly stable so I spent a week playing around and trying to build KWin on its own from the repository. As the folks on the ml pointed out later I needed the frameworks to build it (I had thought being on the latest bleeding edge release would suffice). So next step was kdesrc-build.
The interesting stuff then happened with me deciding I should build the Qt5 release from their repository and turns out it way too much post build that my Kubuntu partition began overflowing. Also, given I had found Dolphin way too unstable and overall the next ppa too bleeding edge for my use I decided to do a clean install.
Back with a fresh install I tried the ./run install of Qt5 which somehow didn't work for me and then kdesrc-build wont build dependencies for KWin and I had to build the frameworks completely which led to interesting errors and dependencies and so on. All of which eventually took way too long to resolve with the couple of hours I could spare on some days in the weeks cluttered with exams etc. So, that's how I ended up using two weeks for building KWin *sighs*.
The interesting stuff then happened with me deciding I should build the Qt5 release from their repository and turns out it way too much post build that my Kubuntu partition began overflowing. Also, given I had found Dolphin way too unstable and overall the next ppa too bleeding edge for my use I decided to do a clean install.
Back with a fresh install I tried the ./run install of Qt5 which somehow didn't work for me and then kdesrc-build wont build dependencies for KWin and I had to build the frameworks completely which led to interesting errors and dependencies and so on. All of which eventually took way too long to resolve with the couple of hours I could spare on some days in the weeks cluttered with exams etc. So, that's how I ended up using two weeks for building KWin *sighs*.
What's next?
Well next is diving into code and building something up. Things will be slow for a bit due to the little time I'll have for a week or so due to end semester exams. (Final year students have all the time in the world free from worries, they said. They lied.)
Also, I'll probably start blogging again atleast for the duration of the project.
Thanks for reading. (If you made it till this point!)
Also, I'll probably start blogging again atleast for the duration of the project.
Thanks for reading. (If you made it till this point!)
