DevelopingKNetworkManager

quick brain dump on how to do upstream work on kde networkmanager applet.

finding your way around

knetworkmanager pieces are split into parts in kdebase/workspace/solid and the plasma-widget playground tree. see "building and running" below how to get those trees.

building and running

  1. Get the following branches:
    • svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/trunk/playground/base/plasma/applets/networkmanager
    • svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/branches/KDE/4.3/kdebase

  2. create build/ directory in both: 

    mkdir networkmanager/build; kdebase/build

  3. install build-depends of plasma-widget-network-manager (or knetworkmanager or whatever) 

    sudo apt-get build-dep plasma-widget-network-manager
    • also ensure that you have kdebase-workspace-bin installed (which is installed if you run kubuntu, but maybe not if you are on gnome)

  4. in the build directories run cmake like: 

    cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/path/to/your/prefix ..
    you can use /usr as prefix, but that will clutter your install; asac used /home/asac/local_knetnm; remember to add whatever dir you use to KDEDIRS environment

  5. to build networkmanager main pieces go to networkmanager/ dir and run: 

    make install

  6. the networkmanager pieces in kdebase are in  kdebase/workspace/solid/networkmanager-0.7  and  kdebase/workspace/libs/solid/ ; so if you changed something in there, cd into the matching build/ dir and run 

    make install
    too.

  7. remember to update the service cache with your KDEDIRS properly set to ensure that you are really using your bits installed outside of /usr 

    kbuildsycoca4 --noincremental

    ; asac's KDEDIRS were set like this: 

    echo $KDEDIRS 
/home/asac/local_knetnm/:/usr/

  8. start knetworkmanager like: 

    ./monolithic/knetworkmanager --nofork

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DevelopingKNetworkManager (last edited 2009-08-12 14:28:35 by e177164247)