Plasma 5 packages questions

[Daniel Vratil]

On Wednesday 06 of August 2014 03:50:19 Loïc Yhuel wrote:
> Hi,

Hi!

> 
> I looked at the plasma-5 copr, and I have several questions :
> 
> - Is it still planned to make co-installable packages (in /opt) ?

Nope (at least not officially) - Plasma 5 is an update to KDE 4, not an 
alternative.

> 
> - How can the user adjust settings, as systemsettings isn't officially
> co-installable ?

You can run kcmshell4 manually (see kcmshell4 --list). We could solve co-
installability of the systemsettings binaries, but that would just lead to big 
confusion in the UI.

> Settings which should ideally be common are saved in different files :
> for example mouse settings (SingleClick, WheelScrollLines,
> DoubleClickInterval, ...) are in ~/.kde/share/config/kdeglobals for KDE4
> and in ~/.config/kdeglobals for KF5.

In Plasma 5/KF5, the .kde folder is abandoned in favor of the XDG-standardized 
folders ~/.config and ~/.local, so KDE 4 configuration is not affecting Plasma 
5 apps and vice-versa.

> So currently you can only configure the applications which are using the
> same Qt version as the workspace, for the other you have to edit the
> configuration files manually

Use kcmshell4 :)

> > .
> Even with only one workspace (Plasma 5 or KDE4), the available widget
> styles could be different for Qt4 and Qt5 applications.
> 
> - I wanted to install plasma-oxygen for the Qt5 widget style, but it
> fails since it depends on kwin, which has file conflicts with kde-workspace.
> file /usr/share/config.kcfg/kwin.kcfg from install of
> kwin-5.0.0-2.fc20.x86_64 conflicts with file from package
> kde-workspace-4.11.11-2.fc20.1.x86_64
> Perhaps the decoration and widget style should be split in two different
> packages.

The upgrade path is not yet 100% polished. The current idea is that you 
install the whole Plasma 5 from the Copr, including plasma-desktop and plasma-
workspace, which replace kde-workspace, so no conflict occurs.

We should probably split kwin4 out from kde-workspace.

Regards,
Daniel

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