Just grabbed both libktorrent and ktorrent 4.0rc1. First one compiles with no issues, but second one errors out. I have all of the requirements installed

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[ 84%] Building CXX object ktorrent/CMakeFiles/ktorrent_app.dir/gui.o
In file included from /home/neutrino/ktorrent/ktorrent/gui.cpp:61:
/home/neutrino/ktorrent/ktorrent/trayicon.h:26:31: error: KStatusNotifierItem: No such file or directory
In file included from /home/neutrino/ktorrent/ktorrent/gui.cpp:61:
/home/neutrino/ktorrent/ktorrent/trayicon.h:153: error: ISO C++ forbids declaration of ‘KStatusNotifierItem’ with no type
/home/neutrino/ktorrent/ktorrent/trayicon.h:153: error: expected ‘;’ before ‘*’ token
/home/neutrino/ktorrent/ktorrent/gui.cpp: In member function ‘void kt::GUI::setupActions()’:
/home/neutrino/ktorrent/ktorrent/gui.cpp:390: warning: unused variable ‘pref_action’
make[2]: *** [ktorrent/CMakeFiles/ktorrent_app.dir/gui.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [ktorrent/CMakeFiles/ktorrent_app.dir/all] Error 2
make: *** [all] Error 2

The file KStatusNotifierItem which is missing was added in KDE 4.4, so you need at least that version of KDE.

George wrote:The file KStatusNotifierItem which is missing was added in KDE 4.4, so you need at least that version of KDE.

wow, so you basically force a whole upgrade of the desktop just so one can use the new version of ktorrent? I'd say that's pretty unacceptable behavior. Is there really no workaround for that? If not, guess I'll just keep using beta1 until sometime I upgrade to kde 4.4 when my distro provides it by default

microchip8 wrote:

George wrote:The file KStatusNotifierItem which is missing was added in KDE 4.4, so you need at least that version of KDE.

wow, so you basically force a whole upgrade of the desktop just so one can use the new version of ktorrent? I'd say that's pretty unacceptable behavior. Is there really no workaround for that? If not, guess I'll just keep using beta1 until sometime I upgrade to kde 4.4 when my distro provides it by default

The trouble with backwards compatibility is that it leads to ugly hacks, I'm still considering whether to be backwards compatible with KDE 4.3.