Plasma 5 packages questions

[Daniel Vratil]

On Wednesday 06 of August 2014 15:12:36 Loïc Yhuel wrote:
> Le 06/08/2014 13:22, Daniel Vratil a écrit :
> >> 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 :)
> 
> The two kcm_input.so are in kde-workspace and plasma-desktop, so
> kcmshell4 (or kcmshell5 when using kde-workspace) won't help.

Ok, I'll try to split some stuff out from kde-workspace.

> 
> >> 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.
> 
> Plasma 5 is still a little too buggy for daily use IMHO, so I try to
> have a nice KDE4 + KF5 environment (so with plasma-oxygen,
> kf5-frameworkintegration for Qt5 apps).



> 
> > We should probably split kwin4 out from kde-workspace.
> 
> According to https://community.kde.org/Plasma/Coinstallability, kwin is
> supposed to be co-installable.
> But it requires at least a different KCFG_INSTALL_DIR.

KWin might be co-installable as a tarball, but it's a bit more complex with 
our packaging ;-) I'll look into it.

Daniel

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