Well, all this work has a sense: to modernize the KDE4 source code, which is anyway impressively well made and reliable.

I for one, honestly I have intention to port kde4town also to Slackware 15.1 when it will be released, but I have no plans to follow the slackware-current, neither today or in the future. Because unfortunately is too much work to do.

Further, who knows? Probably the kde4town will go through the Slackware 15.x releases, but who knows how will look Slackware 16.0 ? Maybe with Plasma6 and cough, cough, you know what...

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So, one of my computers now chews on what would be the 5th update of kde4town.

But do not expect a new upload sooner than tomorrow, considering the kind of junkware I'm fan of it (which some people here suspects that was donated by Fred Flintstone and his friends - and honestly I can't argue with them).

Again it's a full rebuild of the KDE4 packages, because I have messed with kdelibs, which is the base of everything related to KDE4.

The major news are a build of poppler-qt4 in the new style, resulting in a working PDF support on Okular, and a heavily improved NetworkManager integration - all according with the latest patches made by @BrunoLafleur for PBSLACKS.

This NetworkManager integration is now visible better even in comparation with the one shipped by latest v4.

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@BrunoLafleur


I would like to raise to your attention a KInfoCenter page from Katana Desktop (which is a seriously slimmed fork of KDE4)

https://github.com/fluxer/kde-extraa...r/about-distro

This About Distro is exactly the page used as main page by KInfoCenter from Plasma5 - which page this guy seems to be (back)ported to Katana DE.

I believe that would be very nice if you can (back)port this About Distro page of KInfoCenter from Plasma5 to KDE4 as we known and making it the main page of KInfoCenter.

But honestly, I have no idea how simpler (or complicated) would be to do this task. Just asking.

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So, there's the 5th upload of tarballs containing the latest build of mine for kde4town :

https://easyupload.io/m/8tfloi

As usual, there are two big tarballs uploaded - one with the packages built by myself for Slackware 15.0 x86_64, named kde4town-packages-20230416.tar and having the size 1.07 GB, the second one being kde4town-source-20230416.tar with a size of 1.6 GB and containing the complete build system made in the KTown style, with all source tarballs, patches and scripts which are needed to build your own packages set.

The SHA256 checksums of those tarballs are bellow:
Please bear in mind that this upload of mine targets (as all previous others until now) the 64bit Slackware 15.0 and the usage of packages of build system on other Slackware releases may work or glorious fail.

You are more than welcome to go wild and experiment as you like, but probably you will hit lesser or bigger issues, to which would be nice to report back - preferably with patches.

I for one, I doubt seriously that you can build the kde4town packages under Slackware-current, because various libraries updates, specially the OpenSSL. However, a (test) build under 32bit Slackware 15.0 would be much appreciated.

In a previous post I have explained already what you should expect as news: a full rebuild of the KDE4 packages because tuning the build of kdelibs, a poppler-qt4 package built in the new style invented by @BrunoLafleur, ending with a functional on Okular for PDF files and a much better NetworkManager integration using the latest patches released yesterday by @BrunoLafleur, so... Have fun!

PS. As all other previous uploads, this 5th packages set uploaded for kde4town was made with a box with reasonable build performances for this purpose, hosting an Intel i3-3220T processor with socket 1155, and which processor has the following info
Please be kind to tell me if by fortune are picked somewhere the SSE 4.1 or SSE 4.2 instructions, to take counter-measures.

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As usual, the same available on Mega:

https://mega.nz/folder/BZ8BmKyR#YAcPD-bpzAoZu85Z-OI-QA

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Thank you very much!
Just installed it on the latest -current and it is working as advertised.

Okular now displays .pdf files and, as before, every application I run works as it should, e.g., LibreOffice, VirtualBox, VLC, WINE, et al.
Thanks, again. Your hard work is greatly appreciated!


Edit in: FWIW, using the 6.1.24 kernel and the NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-470.182.03.run driver.

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FWIW: This hasn't changed.

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Thanks again.

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As reported in the Kernel thread, I've installed the 6.3-rc7 kernel and all is well, except,
of course, the minor problems already noted.

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Well I can add it in my todo list.

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Well I can't test for now. Until I put a current on one of my machine.

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FWIW: Built the 6.3.0 kernel yesterday and installed it on "up to date" -current, running LuckyCyborg's kde4town packages. It has been just about 32 hours now without a cough, sneeze or hiccup.

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FWIW: Just noticed Gwenview doesn't work.
The error is, This is just for your information. I don't expect it to be chased down and fixed.

This on -current with the 6.3.1, kernel. Jasper-4.0.0, is installed.

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On 15.0 it is l/jasper-2.0.33-x86_64-1.txz

So maybe I can do a deps package with that version of jasper like other dependencies of KDE4.

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I have put a version of jasper 2.0.33 (the one of Slackware 15) here :
https://github.com/BrunoLafleur/pbsl.../deps/jasper20

It can coexist with the jasper package of Slackware current like other dependencies inside the deps directory of kde4.

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