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I have recently started using virtual machines for trying out development versions.
Whenever I build any kde4 application(tried kdevelop and basket) on a vm, the configure window is blank. (And in the case of kdevelop, a few menus did not come up.) Both the desktop and the vm has the same version of kde(4.10.5) and tools (gcc 4.81) installed, so I have no idea what package is missing. Any help troubleshooting and narrowing it down? Would it be a good idea to build the latest version of kde in that vm too, to avoid such problems?
Manasij Mukherjee @ Arch Linux | gcc-4.9.2 | Plasma 5.2
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KDE applications usually use a number of plugins and dynamic interface files (XMLGUI) to construct themselves.
To locate these, it is necessary for a newly compiled application to be installed into an appropriate prefix which KDE looks in. One can alter where KDE looks by setting the KDEDIRS environment variable, although you may find it helpful to set PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH as well. Please note that your main installation prefix (provided by your distribution) should always be included in KDEDIRS if you are manually setting it.
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I have them installed in /usr/local/bin and have set KDEDIRS to include /usr/local/ .
Same problem remains. Btw, I found that KDEDIRS was blank before, is that normal ?
Manasij Mukherjee @ Arch Linux | gcc-4.9.2 | Plasma 5.2
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It is not necessary for KDEDIRS to be set usually - if it is not then KDE will include the compiled in prefix.
Did you run "kbuildsycoca4 --noincremental" after setting (and exporting) the KDEDIRS variable?
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Thank you very much, I forgot that.
Anyway, I find that the basket project is more or less dormant. (last `master` commit 10 months ago, and no new features(only porting, it seems ) since kde3) I'll see if the design makes enough sense to me to try picking it up. (I have been actively using it for some time...and it is much better than similar applications available to me)
Manasij Mukherjee @ Arch Linux | gcc-4.9.2 | Plasma 5.2
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