KDE Frameworks 5 repo update

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On 02/18/2014 12:48 AM, Loïc Yhuel wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
>
> I'm trying to use your updated packages, but I have several issues.
> I updated from the older January version (which was crashing in a loop),
> and removed $HOME/.*5, so I assume I'm starting from a clean configuration.
>
> I first had to modify /opt/kde5/bin/startkde as it wants to launch
> /opt/kde5/libexec/start_kdeinit_wrapper instead of
> /usr/libexec/start_kdeinit_wrapper from kf5-kinit package.
>
> Then, starting the "KDE Plasma Workspace 2" session from kdm, I get the
> splash screen, then the desktop background, then a black screen (with
> mouse).
>
> I noticed plasma wasn't started, and the use of /usr/etc in a few kf5-*
> packages looks strange, so I copied :
>    - /usr/etc/xdg/* to /opt/kde5/etc/xdg
>    - /usr/etc/dbus-1/* to /etc/dbus-1
>
> Now plasma-shell starts, but it crashes immediately, and I still have a
> black screen after the splash screen.
> The crash is in ShellManager::updateShell(), qFatal("We have no shell
> handlers installed").
> It looks for /usr/share/plasma/shells/*/contents/loader.qml, but the
> files from kde5-workspace package are in /opt/kde5.
> Since it's CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX, I think kf5-* and kde5-* packages
> should have the same prefix.

you might consider removing the copy files and then linking them.

this way you will not have to recopy them when you run updates.
that is unless there is a number change.


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