KDE 4.2.4 has been committed to ports.

We're happy to announce that KDE-4.2.4 is now available in

the FreeBSD ports tree. KDE-4.2.4 is only a Bugfix release.

A full changelog is available here.

Happy Updating.

KDE 4.2.3 has been committed to ports.

For more information see original announcement and changelog.

New ports:

    devel/kdebindings4:
          Meta port of KDE bindings for C#, Java, PHP, Python and Ruby.
          Currently only Python bindings are supported.

    devel/kdebindings4-python, devel/kdebindings4-python-krosspython,
    devel/kdebindings4-python-pykde4:
          Python bindings for KDE.

    print/kdeutils4-printer-applet:
          printer-applet is a system tray utility. It shows current print jobs,
          shows printer warnings and errors and shows when printers that have
          been plugged in for the first time are being auto-configured by
          hal-cups-utils. It replaces kjobviewer in KDE 3.

    print/system-config-printer-kde
          A port of Gnome system-config-printer to KDE.

Special thanks for help and feedback to Dima Panov, Matt Tosto, Kris Moore and Josh Paetzel.

KDE 4.2.2 has been committed to ports.

We're happy to announce that KDE-4.2.2 is now available in

the FreeBSD ports tree. KDE-4.2.2 is only a Bugfix release.

A full changelog is available here.

Happy Updating.

The area51 repository has moved. This has been done to increase performance and reliability.

area 51 can now be accessed at http://area51.pcbsd.org/

For more information, see the area51 instructions

Our thanks go to Kris and Josh at PC-BSD for providing the hosting for this repository.

Please Note:The old repository has been powered down with immediate effect, due to severe hardware problems. It will not be coming back online at all.

KDE 4.2.1 has been committed to ports.

20090309:
  AFFECTS: users of multimedia/phonon
  AUTHOR: kde@FreeBSD.org

  multimedia/phonon port has been split into phonon itself, phonon-xine
  and phono-gstreamer backends. After updating phonon port you have
  to install at least one backend. phonon-xine backend is recommended
  for KDE.

The KDE FreeBSD team is proud to announce the release of KDE 4.2.0 for FreeBSD. The official KDE 4.2.0 (Codename: "The Answer") release notes can be found at: http://kde.org/announcements/4.2/index.php.

    New ports for KDE 4.2.0:
        arabic/kde4-l10n		Arabic
        misc/kde4-l10n-bn_IN		Bengali (India)
        misc/kde4-l10n-eu		Basque
        misc/kde4-l10n-gu		Gujarati
        hebrew/kde4-l10n		Hebrew
        misc/kde4-l10n-is		Icelandic
        misc/kde4-l10n-kn		Kannada
        misc/kde4-l10n-mai		Maithili
        misc/kde4-l10n-mr		Marathi
        misc/kde4-l10n-ro		Romanian
        misc/kde4-l10n-tg		Tajik
        math/eigen2			Lightweight library for vector and matrix math
	graphics/kipi-plugins-kde4	KDE4 kipi graphics plugins
        sysutils/policykit-kde	PolicyKit manager for KDE

FreeBSD 6.4 support is dropped.

We'd like to say thanks for feedback and help to:

    Matt Tosto, Kris Moore, stickibit, David Johnson, Markus Brueffer,
    David Naylor, Thomas Schlesinger, Warren Liddell, Thomas Abthorpe,
    portmgr for exp-run and repocopies, Diego Depaoli, Mats Andreassen

A few days ago Max made KDE-4.1.3 ready for FreeBSD, We can't commit KDE-4.1.3 to the Ports tree because we are still on the ports slush :(. But I'd like to invite you to test KDE-4.1.3 from area51. Of course feedback is welcome.

Warning:
PLEASE use:

svn co https://kf.athame.co.uk/kde-freebsd/tags/kde_4_1

In the next days we start our work with Qt 4.5 and KDE 4.2.

The official KDE 4.1.3 release notes can be found here.
http://kde.org/announcements/announce-4.1.3.php

The KDE team released KDE-4.1.2 two days later than planned.

We are in a ports slush and can't update KDE until it has ended. If you can't wait to get KDE 4.1.2, you can now download it from our area51 repo. The full KDE changelog can be seen here:
http://www.kde.org/announcements/changelogs/changelog4_1_1to4_1_2.php.

We removed FAM support completely. This gives a bit more speed and the program starts faster. Thanks to Kris Moore (PC-BSD) where tested this patchset, we also removed the KDE debug modues.

And a tweak reported by from Hannes Hauswedell. He experience high CPU-Usage by kded4 and slowdowns with Konqueror as Filebrowser, he recommends you try radically lowering the DirWatch-rate of kded4 by adding the following to your $HOME/.kde4/share/config/kdedrc:

        [DirWatch]
        PollInterval=60000

So, if you want to get the port, please read the following instructions

Note: you also need to first update Qt4 to 4.4.2

Yesterday Qt 4.4.2 was released, area51 is already updated, and I would like some testers before we commit it to the Ports tree after the freeze.

You can find the changelog here:
http://trolltech.com/developer/resources/notes/changes/changes-4.4.2

Note on area51:
You now need subversion to checkout area51,

svn co https://kf.athame.co.uk/kde-freebsd/trunk/area51

The KDE-FreeBSD repository 'area51' has now moved to a new server. Please see https://kf.athame.co.uk/access.php for more details.

The webpages here referring to the old location will be updated soon.

The KDE FreeBSD team is proud to announce the release of KDE 4.1.1 for FreeBSD. The official KDE 4.1.1 release notes can be found at:
http://www.kde.org/announcements/changelogs/changelog4_1to4_1_1.php

KDE Community Ships First Translation and Service Release of the 4.1 Free Desktop, Containing Numerous Bugfixes, Performance Improvements and Translation Updates.

Pretty much all applications have received the developers' attention, resulting in a long list of bugfixes and improvements. The most significant changes are:

• Significant performance, interaction and rendering correctness improvements in KHTML and Konqueror, KDE's web browser
• User interaction, rendering and stability fixes in Plasma, the KDE4 desktop shell
• PDF backend fixes in the document viewer Okular
• Fixes in Gwenview, the image viewer's thumbnailing, more robust retrieval and display of images with broken metadata
• Stability and interaction fixes in KMail

New Ports:

• graphics/kcoloredit - KColorEdit is a palette files editor. It can be used for editing color palettes and for color choosing and naming.
• graphics/kgraphviewer - KGraphViewer is a GraphViz DOT graph viewer for KDE. The GraphViz programs are free-software layout engines for graphs. KGraphViewer displays the graphs in a modern, user-friendly GUI with all the power of a well integrated KDE application.
• graphics/kiconedit - KIconEdit is designed to help create icons for KDE using the standard icon palette.
• graphics/skanlite - Skanlite is a simple image scanning application that does nothing more than scan and save images. Skanlite can open a save dialog for every image scanned or save the images immediately in a specified directory with auto-generated names and format. The user can also choose to show the scanned image before saving.

Hot on the heels of KDE 3.5.9, the KDE/FreeBSD team is proud to announce the release of KDE 3.5.10 for FreeBSD. The official KDE 3.5.10 release notes can be found at:
http://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-3.5.10.php.

While not a very exciting release in terms of features, 3.5.10 brings a couple of nice bugfixes and translation updates to those who choose to stay with KDE 3.5. The fixes are thinly spread across KPDF with a number of crash fixes, KGPG and probably most interesting various fixes in kicker, KDE3's panel:

• Improved visibility on transparent backgrounds
• Themed arrow buttons in applets that were missing them
• Layout and antialiasing fixes in various applets

The KDE FreeBSD team is proud to announce the release of KDE 3.5.9 for FreeBSD. The official KDE 3.5.9 release notes can be found at:
http://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-3.5.9.php.

After the KDE 4.1.0 import the team found time to make KDE 3.5.9 ready for the Ports tree.

KDE 3.5.9 was released six months ago and 3.5.10 is coming soon. We are not sure we have time to get 3.5.10 for FreeBSD 7.1/6.4 release, but we would have minimum 3.5.9 for those people who prefer to stay with KDE3.

Max has spent some time dragging KDE 3.x into shape, and we would like to make it available for test.

Max writes: "KDE 3.5.9 was released six months ago and 3.5.10 is coming soon. I'm not sure we have time to get 3.5.10 for FreeBSD 7.1/6.4 release, but we can do KDE 3.5.9.

KDE 3.5.9 is ready in area51 repo, it builds fine on tinderbox (7.0-release, i386). It will be nice to test it on other platforms and releases. If there is no problem we can update kde3 ports anytime."

area51 was switched to IPv6-only recently. If you have IPv6 connection, you can access area51 via anonymous cvs:

cvs -d:ext:anoncvs@orm.arved.priv.at:/home/kde-freebsd co area51

If you have no IPv6, you can get an area51 checkout snapshot here

Packages are now available for KDE 4.1.0 on the FreeBSD FTP servers. Users who don't wish to build from source can now use these to quickly have a KDE 4.1.0 desktop.

On behalf of the FreeBSD KDE team, it is my great pleasure to announce that KDE4 has been merged into the FreeBSD ports tree. The official KDE 4.1.0 release notes can be found at http://www.kde.org/announcements/4.1/ and FreeBSD users should also refer to the KDE 4.1 on FreeBSD notes.

KDE 4.1.0 is now undergoing final testing in preparation for committing to ports. Already the repo-copy from KDE 3.x has been made, but users should not attempt to install the KDE 4.1.0 ports until a HEADS-UP notification has been posted to the project mailing list and the ports mailing list.

Qt 4.4.1 has been committed to ports. New qt4 modules are available now: qt4-assistant-adp, qt4-phonon, qt4-phonon-gst, qt4-clucene, qt4-help, qt4-help-tools, qt4-webkit, qt4-xmlpatterns, qt4-xmlpatterns-tools.

Detailed list of all changes you may find at:
http://trolltech.com/developer/resources/notes/changes/changes-4.4.0
http://trolltech.com/developer/resources/notes/changes/changes-4.4.1

20080805:
  AFFECTS: Users of devel/qt4
  AUTHOR: kde@FreeBSD.org

  The qt4 has been updated to 4.4.1. With this update several ports specific
  problems have been fixed. Qt4 headers and libraries have been moved to
  include/qt4 and lib/qt4. bsd.qt.mk defines QT_INCDIR and QT_LIBDIR now,
  which could be used in qt4-dependent ports if required. Before you start
  the update of your ports, please force update of qmake4 and qt4-corelib ports:

        portmaster devel/qmake4 devel/qt4-corelib
        portupgrade -f devel/qmake4 devel/qt4-corelib

KDE 4.1.0 porting is progressing.

At the moment, the ports are ready for testing before they are committed to the FreeBSD ports tree. If you want to help test them to speed up the process, visit the FreeBSD wiki and provide feedback.

See a screenshot of the test packages in action

KDE 3.5.8 has been committed to ports.

For more information about KDE 3.5.8, see the KDE 3.5.8 info page.

KDE 3.5.7 has been committed to ports.

20070704:
  AFFECTS: users of x11/kdebase3
  AUTHOR: kde@freebsd.org

  The media kioslave now mounts all filesystems that support charset conversion
  with charset conversion turned on, set to the locale from the user's
  environment (LANG). If you are using a customized kernel configuration, make
  sure all *_iconv kernel modules are available. At the time of writing, these
  are cd9660_iconv, udf_iconv, msdosfs_iconv and ntfs_iconv.

For more information about KDE 3.5.7, see the KDE 3.5.7 info page.

KOffice 1.6.3 has been committed to ports.

For more information, read the official announcement and the changelog.

KDE 3.5.6 has been committed to ports.

20070313:
AFFECTS: users of x11/kdebase3
AUTHOR: kde@freebsd.org

The HAL option has been turned on by default and the fstabbackend
patches which have kept the fstab backend for the media kioslave
at the status quo of KDE 3.5.3 have been removed. This means that

MOUNTING DEVICES THROUGH KDE WILL NO LONGER WORK WITHOUT HAL.

Thus if you wish to use device icons or the media:/ view in konqueror,
make sure to turn on the HAL option in the x11/kdebase3 port and also
read /usr/ports/UPDATING entry 20061219 and
http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html#q19 for more information on
using HAL.

For more information about KDE 3.5.6, see the KDE 3.5.6 info page.

KOffice 1.6.2 has been committed to ports.

For more information, read the official announcement and the changelog.

KDE 3.5.5 has been committed to ports.

AFFECTS: users of x11/kdebase3
AUTHOR: kde@FreeBSD.org

If you choose to enable the HAL backend for the media kioslave,
you should enable dbus, hal and policy kit during system startup.
To do this, add the following lines to /etc/rc.conf:

dbus_enable="YES"
polkitd_enable="YES"
hald_enable="YES"

Notes / known problems about mounting devices in media:/ with HAL enabled:

- Your user must be in group operator in order to be able to mount removable
media.

- Removable media drives (such as CD-ROM drives) *MUST NOT* be listed in
/etc/fstab in order to be mountable.

- If you mount a volume by double-clicking it, it may appear empty. Refresh
the fileview in konqueror to see the files.

- Mounting floppies is currently not supported.

You can still mount them in KDE if ...

- You have an fstab entry for your floppy pointing to a mountpoint
owned by your user (i.e. somewhere in your homedir)
- The vfs.usermount sysctl is set to 1

... by creating a floppy device icon on your KDE desktop and selecting
the above-mentioned fstab entry in the device dropdown list on the
device tab.

- Mounting volumes from fixed drives is prohibited for non-superusers
by default.

For more information about KDE 3.5.5, see the KDE 3.5.5 info page.