KDE On FreeBSD

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# KDE on FreeBSD

Adriaan de Groot
February 2nd, 2020

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# KDE is a Community

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# KDE is a Community

- Makes KDE Frameworks
 - .. and KDE Plasma
 - .. and KDE Applications
 
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# KDE is a Community

- Makes KDE Frameworks
 - .. and KDE Plasma
 - .. and KDE Applications
 
There is **no** KDE5

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# KDE is a Community

- Makes KDE Frameworks
 - .. and KDE Plasma
 - .. and KDE Applications
 
There is **no** KDE5
.. except `x11/kde5`

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# KDE runs everywhere

- Linux on the desktop
 - Linux on laptops
 - Linux on phones
 - Linux on tablets
 
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# KDE runs everywhere

- Linux on the desktop
 - Linux on laptops
 - Linux on phones
 - Linux on tablets
 - Windows (applications)
 - MacOS (applications)
 
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# KDE runs everywhere

- Linux on the desktop
 - FreeBSD on the desktop
 
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# KDE FreeBSD team

## Main

- tcberner
 - adridg
 - kai
 
## And also

- arrowd
 - loise
 - rakuko
 - swills
 - desktop@
 - gnome@

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# KDE FreeBSD stack
 
 - CMake
 - eigen
 - ninja
 - Qt
 - poppler
 - KDE Frameworks, Plasma, Applications
 
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# KDE as a desktop

- Can *you* see the difference?
 
![Plasma](plasma1.png)

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# KDE as a desktop

- Everything works (except)
 
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# KDE as a desktop

- Everything works (except)
 - .. user management
 - .. power management
 - .. login.conf
 - .. removable devices
 - .. ejecting CDs

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# Hardware Bits

- *Solid* is a KDE Framework
 - All about hardware detection
 - Abstraction layer
 
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# Hardware Bits

- HAL backend removed entirely on Linux
- Mostly removed in FreeBSD
- Not even a direct dependency for KDE bits, but ..
- Ejecting a CD from the desktop needs HAL

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# Hardware Bits

- Most disks management via `sysutils/bsdisks`
- Needs work done in that port
- **Then** we can drop HAL from the KDE stack
- **Then** we can drop HAL support code from KDE upstream

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# The last 5%

> Last 20% of the work takes 80% of the time

But it's worse than that,

> **Finding** the last 5% of the work ..

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# Connections

- GNOME shares most of the same infrastructure
- desktop@ to unify efforts
- Wayland is coming

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# Questions?

Adriaan de Groot
February 2nd, 2020

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