KDEWIN installer release 0.9.4 available

Hi,

today a new release of the the kdewin installer is available. You can download it from http://www.winkde.org/pub/kde/ports/win32/installer/kdewin-installer-gui-latest.exe

new features
- migrated developer mode into a more clean package manager mode
- added support to display more than one category in end user mode - this is used for the newly available
aspell packages 

from the changelog

0.9.4-1 (r904133)
-----------------
- installer-gui:   
                - show long temp path name (Christian Ehrlicher)
                - removed all double slashes in urls (Christian Ehrlicher)

- packager:    
                - fixed 7zip unpack problems (Christian Ehrlicher)

0.9.4-0 (r902722)
-----------------

- installer-gui:   
                - in end user mode is it now possible to display packages from more than one package category (Ralf Habacker)
                - migrated developer mode into a more clean package manager mode (Ralf Habacker)
                - some fixes to local install mode (Ralf Habacker)
                - fixed issues for installer self update (Ralf Habacker)
                - added patch level to window title (Ralf Habacker)

aspell spelling packages available

Hi,

along with the new kdewin installer release 0.9.4-1 is is now possible 
to install several aspell packages (exaclty 77) with KDE on windows. The 
packages are based on recent unix rpm packages and could be used in KDE 
applications supporting spelling. The following list shows the supported 
languages:

aspell-af Afrikaans spelling package
aspell-am Amharic spelling package
aspell-ar Arabic spelling package
aspell-az Azerbaijani spelling package
aspell-be Belarusian spelling package
aspell-bg Bulgarian spelling package
aspell-bn Bengali spelling package
aspell-br Breton spelling package
aspell-ca Catalan spelling package
aspell-csb Kashubian spelling package
aspell-cs Czech spelling package
aspell-cy Welsh spelling package
aspell-da Danish spelling package
aspell-de German spelling package
aspell-el Greek spelling package
aspell-en English spelling package
aspell-eo Esperanto spelling package
aspell-es Spanish spelling package
aspell-et Estonian spelling package
aspell-fa Farsi spelling package
aspell-fi Finnish spelling package
aspell-fo Faroese spelling package

Including Krusader in the KDEWIN installer

Hi,

we have succeeded to compile Krusader on the
installation of KDEwin using the developer mode using mingw,
and there is already even a windows binary (but only compiled using MinGw 
yet). It is already quite stable on Windows, even when not all the 
functionality works yet.
 See the screenshot and the download link here:
http://groups.google.com/group/krusader-news/browse_thread/thread/c95f20f6053fead5

The source code is on:
http://krusader.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/krusader/trunk/krusader_kde4
or for the latest released beta:
http://krusader.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/krusader/tags/krusader-2.0.0-beta2/

The process, how we compile is described here:
http://krusader.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/krusader/trunk/krusader_kde4/INSTALL?revision=6173&view=markup#l_248

Would it be possible to include Krusader in the KDEwin installer as well, 
please?
Are there some things we should change in order it to be possible?
Of course, since you have more experience with porting to windows, any 
feedback is welcome.

Thanks,

Regards,
Václav Jůza

Re: Including Krusader in the KDEWIN installer

Václav Ju*za schrieb:
> Hi,
> 
> we have succeeded to compile Krusader on the
> installation of KDEwin using the developer mode using mingw,
> and there is already even a windows binary (but only compiled using MinGw 
> yet). It is already quite stable on Windows, even when not all the 
> functionality works yet.
>  See the screenshot and the download link here:
> http://groups.google.com/group/krusader-news/browse_thread/thread/c95f20f6053fead5
> 
> The source code is on:
> http://krusader.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/krusader/trunk/krusader_kde4
> or for the latest released beta:
> http://krusader.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/krusader/tags/krusader-2.0.0-beta2/
> 
> The process, how we compile is described here:
> http://krusader.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/krusader/trunk/krusader_kde4/INSTALL?revision=6173&view=markup#l_248
> 
> Would it be possible to include Krusader in the KDEwin installer as well, 
> please?
Yes, of course.
I think we can look in the coming days how to add a redirection to your
binary download on sourceforge I think. For that you should build
krusader and package it and upload it.

krusader can now be build as many other KDE apps on windows:
http://techbase.kde.org/Getting_Started/Build/KDE4/Windows/emerge
(be aware that this tool is not really identical to the gentoo one!)

kdelibs kstandarddirs_win.cpp wrong and useless ?

Hi,

I just had a look at kdelibs/kdecore/kernel/kstandarddirs_win.cpp, it contains 
only one function, which is 
QString KStandardDirs::installPath(const char *type);

This is what you see if you execute "kde4-config --install lib" or something 
else instead "lib".

Why are the directories hardcoded ? Isn't this wrong if they are set to 
something else ? I think kstandarddirs_unix.cpp should be just fine also for 
Windows.

Can somebody please check ?

Alex

Re: kdelibs kstandarddirs_win.cpp wrong and useless ?

Alexander Neundorf schrieb:
> Hi,
> 
> I just had a look at kdelibs/kdecore/kernel/kstandarddirs_win.cpp, it contains 
> only one function, which is 
> QString KStandardDirs::installPath(const char *type);
> 
> This is what you see if you execute "kde4-config --install lib" or something 
> else instead "lib".
> 
> Why are the directories hardcoded ? Isn't this wrong if they are set to 
> something else ? I think kstandarddirs_unix.cpp should be just fine also for 
> Windows.
> 
> Can somebody please check ?
> 
What do you think is hardcoded there? It's hardcoded in 
kstandarddirs_unix.cpp but kstandarddirs_win.cpp is using 
getKde4Prefix() to get the correct kde install location.

Christian

Re: kdelibs kstandarddirs_win.cpp wrong and useless ?

On Sunday 04 January 2009, you wrote:
> Alexander Neundorf schrieb:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I just had a look at kdelibs/kdecore/kernel/kstandarddirs_win.cpp, it
> > contains only one function, which is
> > QString KStandardDirs::installPath(const char *type);
> >
> > This is what you see if you execute "kde4-config --install lib" or
> > something else instead "lib".
> >
> > Why are the directories hardcoded ? Isn't this wrong if they are set to
> > something else ? I think kstandarddirs_unix.cpp should be just fine also
> > for Windows.
> >
> > Can somebody please check ?
>
> What do you think is hardcoded there? 

Not the install prefix, but the subdir:

        case 'e':
            if (strcmp("exe", type) == 0)
                return prefix() + QLatin1String("bin/");
            break;

instead of using BIN_INSTALL_DIR from config.h. 
Could be instead:

// small helper function

Re: kdelibs kstandarddirs_win.cpp wrong and useless ?

Alexander Neundorf schrieb:
> On Sunday 04 January 2009, you wrote:
>> Alexander Neundorf schrieb:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I just had a look at kdelibs/kdecore/kernel/kstandarddirs_win.cpp, it
>>> contains only one function, which is
>>> QString KStandardDirs::installPath(const char *type);
>>>
>>> This is what you see if you execute "kde4-config --install lib" or
>>> something else instead "lib".
>>>
>>> Why are the directories hardcoded ? Isn't this wrong if they are set to
>>> something else ? I think kstandarddirs_unix.cpp should be just fine also
>>> for Windows.
>>>
>>> Can somebody please check ?
>> What do you think is hardcoded there? 
> 
> Not the install prefix, but the subdir:
> 
>         case 'e':
>             if (strcmp("exe", type) == 0)
>                 return prefix() + QLatin1String("bin/");
>             break;
> 
> instead of using BIN_INSTALL_DIR from config.h. 
> Could be instead:
> 
> // small helper function

Re: Kontact

On Dienstag, 30. Dezember 2008, Rob Raines wrote:
> How do I change the language from german to english?

Use a text editor to change the locale settings in kdeglobals,
I've just tried 
  Country=en
  Language=en_US
and restart all KDE processes (esp. logout, login).
You'll find this file usually under the installed directory
in Kontact\share\config (e.g. c:\Program 
Files\Kontact\share\config\kdeglobals).

Thanks for the question, we'll add this to the wiki page (and the readme)
and the next generation installers.

> --- On Mon, 12/29/08, Bernhard Reiter <bernhard@...> wrote:
>
> Big-fat-for-betatesting is available since a few weeks
> http://files.kolab.org/clients/kontact-enterprise4/windows/beta-huge-debug/
> (Hint: Read the README first and then only download _one_ of the
> installers.)

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Re: KDEWIN installer release 0.9.4 available

Ralf, Christian,
thanks for the update!
And a happy new year to you!

On Donnerstag, 1. Januar 2009, Ralf Habacker wrote:
> packed with tar (Christian Ehrlicher)        
>                 - added md5sum generating for all executables (Ralf
> Habacker)

Just a side hint, md5sum is really outdated,
it is quite easy to create two files that are different,
but have the same md5sum. For Background and entertainment see

http://www.win.tue.nl/hashclash/Nostradamus/
http://www.win.tue.nl/hashclash/TargetCollidingCertificates/

Bernhard

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