Re: First KF5 / Plasma 5 experiences
Am Samstag, 4. Juli 2015, 18:35:57 schrieb tv.debian@googlemail.com:
> On 04/07/2015 12:03, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > With todays updates and running kbuildsycoca5 --noincremental manually I
> > now have four modules available in systemsettings. Application style,
> > Choose login design, SSL certificates and a broken display settings, no
> > monitors yet displayed. I don't know whether it is the update or the
> > kbuildsycoca5 run which made systemsettings non empty.
> >
> > Still of course right now the Debian Sid Plasma Workspace is somewhat
> > between version 4 and 5 and some things are currently not working. So if
> > you want to avoid breaking for desktop temporarily it may be good to
> > wait a bit before next update. Testing may also be affected after some
> > time.
> >
> >
> > Issues I found so far including temporary workarounds:
> >
> > 1) network manager applet not working, so no WLAN selectable.
> >
> > Workaround: use nmtui / nmtui-connect
> >
> > 2) kscreen not working, neither applet nor automatic configuration.
> >
> > Workaround:
> >
> > martin@merkaba:~> cat bin/monitor-homeoffice.sh
> > #!/bin/sh
> >
> > xrandr --output DP2 --mode 1920x1080 --right-of LVDS1
> >
> > (adjust according to your xrandr output and preferences)
[…]
> We experience all of the above, plus:
>
> _the "Globe" (Marble) desktop background broken, so the desktop
> background is empty grey.
marble as application still works here, but yeah Plasma desktop is a mix of
4/5 packages at the moment.
> _The "smooth task", "frame" and several other plasma widgets are broken.
I think this is related to some widget packages already 5.x versions while
core plasma desktop is still 4.x version.
> More subjectively, the "Breeze" icons theme is confusing, several items
> have the same icon (a blue slider for various preferences, Kate and
> Kwrite just to name a few), the Trash is a folder (instead of an actual
> trash bin of some sort), some well established icons are substituted for
> unintuitive ones (VLC, Gimp, Konsole, to a lesser extent Inkscape for
> those I noticed). Overall it feels like an underwhelming version of
> Android 5 icons.
I am not sure whether I am using this already, but if Plasma / KDE 4 stuff is
told to use Breeze icon theme, well I don't know. Icons should have standard
names.
> Keeping in mind that this is unstable and early transition, so this is
> not a rant, but I will wait before using (as opposed to testing) this.
Sure.
> Cheers, and thanks to everyone working on this Debian KDE transition.
kate 15.10 from experimental kind of works, but the file select dialog stays
empty.
Some core libraries / technology seems to be missing still.
Thanks,
--
Martin
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