Re: kde fully broken in debian/testing
I have been upgrading from Sid.
So far, what I have is working with some deficiencies. But working.
> 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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