f16/kde48 repo

Jim Dean jdean55 at gmail.com
Fri Jan 27 12:23:37 UTC 2012


On 27 January 2012 22:58, Martin Kho <lists.kho at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wednesday 25 January 2012 23:38:19 John5342 wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 22:08, Rex Dieter <rdieter at math.unl.edu> wrote:
> > > With kde-4.8.0 to be officially released any minute/day now, and to
> > > forestall the deluge of questions like
> > > * How do I get kde-4.8.x for f16
> > > * When will kde-4.8.x be released for f16
> > >
> > > and help get things tested, I threw together a (hopefully temporary)
> > > backports repo,
> > > http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/rdieter/kde48/
> > >
> > > similar to what we did with f15/kde47
> > >
> > > It contains just the minimal builds needed to get up and running with
> > > kde-4.8.0 (as opposed to kde-unstable repo that has other stuff like
> > > calligra).
> > >
> > > Hopefully, this will lower the bar and make it easier to use, and get
> more
> > > folks using and testing it.  Oh, and to answer question 2 above, well
> just
> > > have to wait and see how testing goes.  Please do give feedback.
> >
> > Thanks for the great work. Had kde 4.8 installed and running since
> > just before this announcement (updated from 4.7.9x) and all is working
> > great with no problems to report so far.
> >
> > We do however seem to be missing a couple of bits i was hoping to try
> out:
> >  * ksecretsservice (an alternative and eventual successor to kwallet
> > that is desktop agnostic). I haven't looked properly at this but i am
> > guessing it requires a new package.
> >  * kde-telepathy 0.3 was released together with kde 4.8. 0.1 as
> > currently packaged isn't a substitute for kopete for me but 0.3 is
> > sounding much better. Unfortunately they seem to have done a bit of
> > refactoring and renaming upstream so it might be more complicated than
> > a simple bump of each component.
> >
> > If any help is required with regards to packaging and/or reviewing any
> > of the above i have some quiet time next week...
> >
> > Thanks again to all involved for bringing fast efficient updates.
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm running kde-4.8 as part of Rawhide. Everything is very fast. Thanks for
> the great work! There is just one weird issue with Amarok 2.5.0. At the
> bottom
> of the context panel are the buttons (Current Track, Lyrics, Wikipedia and
> Settings) missing. No errors in .xsession-errors. I've tried it with a new
> user with the same result. In Fedora 16 (same Amarok version) the buttons
> are
> there.
>
> Did anyone else have seen this.
>
> Martin Kho
>
> Btw. In Fedora 17 I've still a few 4.7.97 packages: kdebindings-*,
> kdesdk-*,
> and kdenetwork-*.
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I see the same thing on F16 with 4.7.4 / Amarok 2.5

Jim
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