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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    =?iso-8859-1?Q?Building_some_KDE_packages_for_RULE?=
From:       "=?iso-8859-1?Q?Marco_Fioretti?=" <m.fioretti () inwind ! it>
Date:       2003-02-28 8:42:40
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Greetings

As some of you may know, I am the current coordinator of the RULE
project
(http://www.rule-project.org/en/ ).

One of the things we aim to do is to find, package as RPM if needed,
and list to our users the most efficient applications (in terms of CPU
speed, RAM needs, etc..) in every area.

Recently, I have heard several people saying that KDE 3.1 is much
faster than previous releases, and have partially seen it myself. For
this reason, and also because I'm personally curious to know a bit
more about KDE, I'd like to try to make RPM packages for Red Hat 8.0
of the following KDE 3.1 components and *NOTHING* else:

   Qt
   Konqueror
   Kmail
   KOffice
   (maybe) Quanta

These applications should be packaged to give the maximum possible
performance sacrificing appearance to real functionality. In other
words,

I want to keep:

       support via xft2/fontconfig for Asian languages
       HTML 4.x, https, JavaScript, IMAP, SMTP/POP3, GPG...
       image thumbnails in Konqueror when used as a file manager
       no other applications packaged/placed on the system

I want to remove

       eye candy: I don't care if the result is not themeable, 16
       colors icons are OK, if visual effects are removed, if there is
       no sound when windows are opened, all this kind of things

       things like man:// urls, which can be done almost with the same
       functionality and output from the command line

       everything else?? (maybe some configuration option?)

and then, I want to see what the result looks like, and if and how
much it is smaller/faster than the default version. I also need to
rebuild all that stuff, starting from Qt, in some local directory, so
it cannot mess up the default KDE/Red Hat installation, and I can
compare the two versions on the same machine.

Now the real questions: I plan to download the source RPMs from
kde-redhat.sourceforge.net, because they have been already used on RH
8.0, so a lot of work has been done. 

     Wh
ted?

     How should I modify the Makefiles and/or the spec files? Ideas, anybody?
  (include in this an installation side by side, from Qt upwards, with
  "standard" KDE on RH, see above)
    
Let me repeat that right now this is just a pet project, an excuse to
start knowing KDE structure. Point out firmly but kindly, please, any
idiocy I might have said/assumed here.

Thank you in advance for any feedback,

      Marco Fioretti

-- Marco Fioretti m.fioretti, at the server inwind.it Red Hat for low memory
http://www.rule-project.org/en/ 

 
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