Re: kde fully broken in debian/testing
Am Donnerstag, 30. Juli 2015, 22:34:55 schrieb Gabriel Corona:
> Hi,
Hello,
yeah, I am still trying to fix it. The problem is, that many version 5 packages
are still not in testing. Instead of this, the repo-maintainers removed many
version-4-packages, so you cannot go back. Sigh! I hope, they will put it
back, as at the moment, KDE is fully unusable. I tried to install from sid,
but the same problem here: packages missing, bad versions, same pita.
Somebody told, to use the repo from aptosid, these shall run.
Hope this will be fixed soon.
Best
Hans
>
> In fact, I did the update yesterday. It was quite painful but it's now
> working OK-ish:
>
> * You need to move all the plasma packages to the version 5 (I'm
> using testing so I had to force the packar manager to use them).
>
> * Check that you have powerdevil, plasma-desktop, kdeartwork, etc in
> version 5.
>
> * Purge the old plasma packages.
>
> * You need to restart the session (otheriwse it's compltely broken);
>
> * I added a `kwin` script in my path (doing 'exec kwin_init "$@").
> It's probably not needed if you have updated all your packages but
> at some point I did not have window decoration and adding this
> fixed it. It was probably because I was still using some Plasma 4
> packages.
>
> * I had to manually launch kbuildsycoca5 (otherwise systemsettings
> wouldn't display any configuration panel).
>
> Some remaining issues:
>
> * systemsettings segaults sometimes but it's mostly working.
>
> * There is not support for XEmbed systray by design: xchat, hexchat,
> nm-applet, etc. are quite broken. We're supposed to fill a lot of
> bugs in a log of packages in order to have SNI support in the
> applications. I used trayer [1] in order to have a systray.
>
> Good luck!
>
> [1] http://www.gabriel.urdhr.fr/2015/07/29/i-can-has-systray/
>
> --
> Gabriel
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