KDE4 for Windows… for GNU/Linux

Fecha: March 12th, 2008 | Categoría: Linux | No Comments »

I decided to try KDE4. But as my gentoo pc is very old (Pentium III at 500 mhzs and 256 mb ram) I didn’t felt like compiling for three or more hours KDE4. So I thought something weird to do… To use Wine, and download KDE4 for Windows.

* My desktop uses all KDE 3.5.8

* I use Konqueror and Kget (firefox kills my pc when running)

* I never got ALSA to work well with WINE… ignore Alsa errors

* KDEWin’s Installer worked fine.

* I couldn’t create a new folder from the installer. Did that from Konqueror and resumed the installation.

* A thousand “fixme” kept coming out in wine console as I downloaded the packages. “fixme:system:SystemParametersInfoW Unimplemented action: 8202 (SPI_GETFONTSMOOTHINGTYPE)”

* There were also lots of “fixme:dwmapi:DwmIsCompositionEnabled 0×11c7b38″., with the last two digits counting by sixteen… (0×11c7b38, 0×11c7b48, 0×11c7b58, etc…)

* Everything went well so far. MinGW installer ran well.

* The progress bar of the MinGW Downloader/Installer didn’t work with wine. “fixme:shell:SHAutoComplete SHAutoComplete stub” and “fixme:wininet:INET_QueryOptionHelper INTERNET_OPTION_CONNECTED_STATE: semi-stub” were repeated a thousand times…

* The installation ended and that was a moment of glory

* I tried the shiny second version of the best media player, Amarok

* … which didn’t worked…

* Tried Konqueror unsucessfully:

tibix@delirium ~/.wine/drive_c/KDE/bin $ wine konqueror.exe
err:alsa:ALSA_CheckSetVolume Could not find ‘PCM Playback Volume’ element
err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {4955dd33-b159-11d0-8fcf-00aa006bcc59} not registered
err:ole:CoGetClassObject no class object {4955dd33-b159-11d0-8fcf-00aa006bcc59} could be created for context 0×1
fixme:ntdll:find_reg_tz_info Can’t find matching timezone information in the registry for bias 180, std (d/m/y): 16/03/2008, dlt (d/m/y): 5/10/2008
fixme:system:SystemParametersInfoW Unimplemented action: 8202 (SPI_GETFONTSMOOTHINGTYPE)
fixme:system:SystemParametersInfoW Unimplemented action: 8202 (SPI_GETFONTSMOOTHINGTYPE)
err:x11drv:X11DRV_CreateBitmap Trying to make bitmap with planes=1, bpp=32
fixme:system:SystemParametersInfoW Unimplemented action: 8202 (SPI_GETFONTSMOOTHINGTYPE)
fixme:system:SystemParametersInfoW Unimplemented action: 8202 (SPI_GETFONTSMOOTHINGTYPE)
err:x11drv:X11DRV_CreateBitmap Trying to make bitmap with planes=1, bpp=32
err:alsa:ALSA_CheckSetVolume Could not find ‘PCM Playback Volume’ element

* I had to kill this one after five minutes of inactivity without a single screen showing up.

* Kwrite:

tibix@delirium ~/.wine/drive_c/KDE/bin $ wine kwrite.exe
err:alsa:ALSA_CheckSetVolume Could not find ‘PCM Playback Volume’ element
err:alsa:ALSA_CheckSetVolume Could not find ‘PCM Playback Volume’ element
err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {4955dd33-b159-11d0-8fcf-00aa006bcc59} not registered
err:ole:CoGetClassObject no class object {4955dd33-b159-11d0-8fcf-00aa006bcc59} could be created for context 0×1
fixme:ntdll:find_reg_tz_info Can’t find matching timezone information in the registry for bias 180, std (d/m/y): 16/03/2008, dlt (d/m/y): 5/10/2008
fixme:system:SystemParametersInfoW Unimplemented action: 8202 (SPI_GETFONTSMOOTHINGTYPE)
fixme:system:SystemParametersInfoW Unimplemented action: 8202 (SPI_GETFONTSMOOTHINGTYPE)
err:x11drv:X11DRV_CreateBitmap Trying to make bitmap with planes=1, bpp=32
fixme:system:SystemParametersInfoW Unimplemented action: 8202 (SPI_GETFONTSMOOTHINGTYPE)
fixme:system:SystemParametersInfoW Unimplemented action: 8202 (SPI_GETFONTSMOOTHINGTYPE)
err:x11drv:X11DRV_CreateBitmap Trying to make bitmap with planes=1, bpp=32
err:alsa:ALSA_CheckSetVolume Could not find ‘PCM Playback Volume’ element
err:alsa:ALSA_CheckSetVolume Could not find ‘PCM Playback Volume’ element

* Almost without any hope, I tried a random program: KUIViewer… and it worked!

* Pressed open and nothing happened, hehe. Exiting the program, I think I saw the Open Dialog in a flash, appearing and dissapearing in one instant.

* Kiriki worked until I tried a menu.

wine: Unhandled page fault on read access to 0×0000000c at address 0×7e333ee7 (thread 003a), starting debugger…
Unhandled exception: page fault on read access to 0×0000000c in 32-bit code (0×7e333ee7).
Register dump:
CS:0073 SS:007b DS:007b ES:007b FS:0033 GS:003b
EIP:7e333ee7 ESP:0064bce0 EBP:0064bd38 EFLAGS:00210202( – 00 – -RI1)
EAX:00080024 EBX:7e394ff4 ECX:7ebd9100 EDX:7ebd9104
ESI:00000000 EDI:00000094
Stack dump:
0×0064bce0: 00080024 00000001 0064bd28 00000003
0×0064bcf0: 00000080 00000003 0064bd58 6529559c
0×0064bd00: 0064bd18 00000000 00000000 7ee3d891
0×0064bd10: 0020a4b0 00110000 96000000 00000001
0×0064bd20: 00193378 00000002 7e333e0b 7ebbdff4
0×0064bd30: 00000080 ffffffff 0064bd58 7eb7404d
Backtrace:
=>1 0×7e333ee7 X11DRV_GetDCEx+0xe7() in winex11 (0×0064bd38)
2 0×7eb7404d GetDCEx+0×3d() in user32 (0×0064bd58)

* Kfourinline showed a screen, but when I tried anything, it failed.

* Kde4-config didn’t work, at all!

* KSudoku was the first program with some funcionallity…

* I tried KDE4 new navigator: Dolphin… with little success…

* No other program worked…

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