Duncan posted on Tue, 08 Sep 2015 04:13:57 +0000 as excerpted: > I'll post back when I see whether I can actually run plasma5, now, and > then, presuming you're either switched or attempting to switch as well, > we can compare notes on the kde-frameworks/plasma5 side.
Well, I'm back... on kde4 again, for now. I DID (sort-of) get a plasma5 desktop this time, including the very pretty wallpaper[1], the stacked-line "toolbox", and a panel, but all the (multi-monitor so multi-activity-area) activity-areas had a single message about a missing layout.js file or some such, as did the panel, and while I could get the add-plasmoids (aka widgets) dialog from the toolbox, trying to add anything failed, probably for the same reason the default plasmoids didn't show up. I had moved out my user kde dir before the test, but apparently the kde4 kactivitymanager stuff put files in the newer XDG location, so I had at least by name my old plasma4 activities. It's possible the interplay between plasma4 and plasma5 there was what was screwing the plasmoids up -- why it couldn't find that file it mentioned. I could have fiddled with it some more but after spending much of the day on it, I decided to roll-back to the kde4 side of the blockers instead. At least with only a handful of blockers between the two now, I can test again pretty quickly, and hopefully that missing files thing won't be too hard to resolve.. And the switch back to kde4 was as I expected real fast, with just the few blockers. I did have a hitch with konsole as I had set USE=minimal on the kde4 package to avoid conflicts/blockers with the plasma5 version. As a result I didn't have the actual kde4 konsole executable, tho I could start it from the konsole-profile launcher which showed up as an option in krunner when I typed konsole. However, once I remembered that and reverted, I got the konsole4 executable back again, and all was fine. Meanwhile, the kactivities4 package is similarly set to minimal, with the kde-frameworks/kactivities5 package still installed. Pleasant surprise, something about the interaction there seems to be clearing up a long-term bug I had with kactvities4, where plasma wouldn't see my configured activities, apparently due to some sort of kde startup race, until I aborted and restarted plasma-desktop. There's a kde bug filed, with a lot of other people seeing it too. It would sometimes go away for a few kde starts, however, perhaps having to do with the timing of inet plasmoid data or something, so I won't know for sure whether it's gone for good for at least a few days. But it's definitely nice to have plasma actually starting up with its configured activities again, instead of having to have a startup script kill and restart plasma-desktop, to get them back. Hope the bug stays banished! =:^) If so I can update the bug with this pleasant news. Not that I suppose too many will be running plasma4 for long, now that support is drying up, but whatever. --- [1] WOW! Colorful! I LIKE it! So much for drab and dreary! Too bad the panel and windows were drab gray/white, tho of course that should be changeable when things are working properly, and it /could/ actually be a result of the same problem triggering the missing plasmoids, and thus get prettier when that's fixed. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde-linux mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-linux. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
