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author | tpearson <tpearson@283d02a7-25f6-0310-bc7c-ecb5cbfe19da> | 2010-09-09 20:27:19 +0000 |
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committer | tpearson <tpearson@283d02a7-25f6-0310-bc7c-ecb5cbfe19da> | 2010-09-09 20:27:19 +0000 |
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* Added kgtk-qt3
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@@ -0,0 +1,124 @@ +Introduction +------------ + +KGtk is a quick-n-dirty hack to allow some Gtk2, Qt3, and Qt4 +applications to use KDE3 or KDE4 file dialogs. + +KGtk is composed of the following pieces: + +1. An application called kdialogd. In this archive there are + two varieties of this - a KDE3 version, and a KDE4 version. +2. LD_PRELOAD libraries that are used to override the Gtk2, Qt3, + and Qt4 file dialogs. + +If you start an application using the following command: + kgtk-wrapper gimp + +...the the following occurs: + +1. kgtk-wrapper determines whether the application is a Gtk2, Qt3, + or Qt4 application. It then sets the LD_PRELOAD environment + variable to point to the approriate KGtk library. +2. When the application now starts, it checks for the + KDE_SESSION_VERSION environment variable. If this is not set, + or is less than 4, then the KDE3 version of kdialogd is started, + else the KDE4 version is started. +3. When 'gimp' now tries to open a file dialog, the KGtk library + intercepts this, and asks kdialogd to open a file dialog instead. + +There will only ever be one instance of kdialogd, and all apps communicate with the same +instance - and it termiantes itself 30 seconds after the last Gtk/Qt app has +disconnected. This timeout can be changed by editing kdialogdrc and setting/changing + + [General] + Timeout=10 + + +Installation +------------ +As of v0.9.1, kgtk uses CMake in place of autotools. + +Because KGtk includes code for Qt3/KDE3 and Qt4/KDE4, you need +to specify when building which variants you would like to build. +This is accomplished as follows: + +1. mkdir build +2. cd build +3. cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr +4. make +5. sudo make install + +* -DKGTK_KDE3=true instructs CMake to create makefiles for the KDE3 + version of KDialogD. Defaults to "true", use -DKGTK_KDE3=false + to turn off. Turning this on, sets -DKGTK_KDE4=false and + -DKGTK_QT4=false + +* -DKGTK_KDE4=true would instruct CMake to create makefiles for + the KDE4 version of KDialogD. Defaults to "false". + +* -DKGTK_GTK2=true instructs CMake to create makefiles for the Gtk2 + version of the LD_PRELOAD library. Defaults to "true", use + -DKGTK_GTK2=false to turn off. + +* -DKGTK_QT3=true instructs CMake to create makefiles for the Qt3 + version of the LD_PRELOAD library. Defaults to "true", use + -DKGTK_QT3=false to turn off. Turning this on, sets + -DKGTK_KDE4=false and -DKGTK_QT4=false + +* -DKGTK_QT4=true instructs CMake to create makefiles for the Qt4 + version of the LD_PRELOAD library. Defaults to "false". + +* For 64 bit systems, also append -DLIB_SUFFIX=64 + +Mixing '-DKGTK_KDE3=true' and '-DKGTK_KDE4=true' wont work, so compile the Qt3/KDE3, +and Qt4/KDE4 variants separately. Also, the 'build' folder *must* be cleaned before +switching to/from Qt3/KDE3 from/to Qt4/KDE4 + + +So, to compile everything I suggest the following: + + 1. mkdir build3 + 2. cd build3 + 3. cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr + [ This will build KDialogD for KDE3, and create the LD_PRELOAD libraries for + Qt3 and Gtk2 ] + 4. make + 5. sudo make install + + 6. set up Qt4/KDE4 env variables + 7. clean build folder + + 8. mkdir build4 + 9. cd build4 +10. cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr -DKGTK_KDE4=true -DKGTK_QT4=true -DKGTK_GTK2=false +11. make +12. sudo make install + +NOTE: If you have both KDE3 and KDE4 installed, when calling cmake for KDE3, set KDEDIR to be empty. + e.g. + KDEDIR= cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr -DKGTK_KDE4=false -DKGTK_QT4=false + +Notes +----- + +The library has been tested with the following applications: + +Reported to work: + + 1. Firefox (1.5.x only, not 1.0.x) + 2. Inkscape + 3. GIMP + 4. Kino + 5. Eclipse + 6. Azureus + 7. Galde-2 + 8. Streamtuner + 9. Avidemux2 + 10. Scribus + 11. QComcBook + 12. Planner 0.14: works, but asks twice for open file + +Reported *not* working: + + 1. AbiWord + |