[kde-unstable] KDE SC 4.9

ilpianista · 2012-06-04 18:40:17

Hi all,
the first beta of the 4.9 series has been released.

As usual, you find the kde packages in the [kde-unstable] repo, which only contains major beta release.
Read install instruction from here.

NOTE: It requires [testing] enabled.

kde-multimedia has been split, so there's no kdemultimedia-kioslave in 4.9, instead you find:
- kdemultimedia-audiocd-kio
- libkcddb
- libkcompactdisc
Packagers should update their deps when 4.9 hits [extra]. In the meantime, this is a list of the packages that need to be rebuilt if you enable [kde-unstable]:

- k3b (replace kioslave with libkcddb to depends)
- audex (replace kioslave with libkcddb, libkcompactdisc to depends)
- kaudiocreator (replace kioslave with libkcddb, libkcompactdisc to depends)
- soundkonverter (replace kioslave with libkcddb to depends)
- tellico (replace kioslave with libkcddb to depends)

Also, there are:
- a new kdebase-runtime dependence: nepomuk-core
- a new game in kdeedu: kdeedu-pairs
- a new kdebase-workspace dependence: kde-base-artwork
- a new runner: kdeplasma-addons-runners-bing

kdesdk-kdeaccounts-plugin, kdesdk-kdepalettes, kdeutils-ksecrets have been removed from the KDE SC.

Please report any bug to our bug tracker[4] for any packaging bug.
KDE bugs go in the upstream bug tracker.

Have a nice update and testing!

Known Issues

Box0 · 2012-06-04 19:09:24

I was waiting for this thread

After the upgrade the battery plasmoid in the system tray says "battery: not present" even if I have a battery and it is present.
On the other hand, the status of the AC adapter is correctly reported.

I already tried to:

- remove the plasmoid and add a new one,
- remove the powermanagement config files,
- remove the .kde4 folder completely.

but still the plasmoid says that I don't have a battery.
Any idea?

mmm.ai · 2012-06-04 19:09:35

Hi,
thanks for the beta! I've been running it for a couple of days without any issues.

The only flaw I've encountered is with "battery applet" (or how is it called, the icon for powermanager). It shows ''Battery: Not present', whilst acpi -V shows correct values. Could it be related to udev-> systemd-tools move?

Many thanks, Mark

mmm.ai · 2012-06-04 19:11:31

Box0 wrote:

I was waiting for this thread

..same here. But you were faster this time

Box0 · 2012-06-04 19:17:15

mmm.ai wrote:

Hi,
Could it be related to udev-> systemd-tools move?

I believe it's not, I upgraded to beta1 a couple of days before the udev move (I forgot I still had the unstable repository enabled from the 4.8 beta cycle ) and the issue was already there.
Maybe something related to the rewrite of the plasmoid in qml?

mmm.ai wrote:

..same here. But you were faster this time wink

9 secs faster, that's a lot

Last edited by Box0 (2012-06-04 19:23:03)

ilpianista · 2012-06-04 19:23:45

mmm.ai wrote:

The only flaw I've encountered is with "battery applet" (or how is it called, the icon for powermanager). It shows ''Battery: Not present', whilst acpi -V shows correct values.

Hi, unfortunately this is a known bug in this release:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=301033

willy9 · 2012-06-04 19:42:10

Installed a few minutes ago, and (aside from the battery plasmoid issue) first thing I notice is that kwin feels extremely fast ... I even switched to "slow" animations, "normal" just didn't feel right anymore.

arojas · 2012-06-04 20:17:03

Thanks for the fast packaging!

There are some new runners available in kdeplasma-addons 4.9 but they are not packaged: bing, duckduckgo, youtube

ilpianista · 2012-06-04 20:29:27

arojas wrote:

There are some new runners available in kdeplasma-addons 4.9 but they are not packaged: bing, duckduckgo, youtube

Whoops, thanks. Re-building kdeplasma-addons to add those.

willy9 · 2012-06-04 20:48:24

Hmm, I can see some strange things in the new activity manager... I use 4 activities, and 4 virtual desktops.
* I setup some icons per activity, but they've been lost when upgrading to 4.8.80
* If I set an icon again, it will not be retained
* More annoying : the state of the activity can be wrong : I have a "django" activity that is shown as "not running" in the activity manager, but that is indeed running. The "meta + tab" shortcut will not include this activity while looping.
* I can't seem to be able to close the "administration" activity

The visual nature of this behaviour makes it difficult to report on bugs.kde.org... A screencast would be more appropriate, I guess.

Anyone else having issues with activities ?

ilpianista · 2012-06-04 20:50:46

willy9 wrote:

* I setup some icons per activity, but they've been lost when upgrading to 4.8.80
* If I set an icon again, it will not be retained
* More annoying : the state of the activity can be wrong : I have a "django" activity that is shown as "not running" in the activity manager, but that is indeed running. The "meta + tab" shortcut will not include this activity while looping.
* I can't seem to be able to close the "administration" activity

I had the first one too and I had to re-set icons, but activities work fine here.

pepedopolous · 2012-06-04 21:40:19

Had to install xfce to post this message!

KDE crashes in the middle of Ksplash. xfce and xmbc start fine.

I'm using nvidia drivers so I wonder if kwin and nvidia have something to do with this...

Anyone else with the same problem?

Cheers,

P

pepedopolous · 2012-06-04 21:44:53

Having just pointed out kwin. I ran kwin--replace in xfce and it's running fine.

Cheers,

P

Box0 · 2012-06-04 22:04:14

pepedopolous wrote:

I'm using nvidia drivers so I wonder if kwin and nvidia have something to do with this...

I have a nvidia card too with the proprietary driver and it works fine.
Have you enabled [testing] repo? When i first updated I forgot that [testing] was needed and the workspace crashed at startup.

Teho · 2012-06-04 22:25:41

If someone is using the oxygen-transparent-git package from AUR it's important to upgrade to the git master version instead of the stable as otherwise KWin will crash everytime you open a window.

pepedopolous · 2012-06-04 22:30:49

Nevermind. Problem was with oxygen.so causing segfaults to ksmserver. I deleted all oxygen.so files and reinstalled kdebase-workspace. Bingo!

Last edited by pepedopolous (2012-06-04 23:00:49)

caskale13c · 2012-06-04 23:56:54

I have not been able to open "Workspace Appearance" in system settings since installing the 4.9 beta. When I click it, System Settings just disappears. Anyone else?

ilpianista · 2012-06-05 04:59:30

caskale13c wrote:

I have not been able to open "Workspace Appearance" in system settings since installing the 4.9 beta. When I click it, System Settings just disappears. Anyone else?

Works for me.

no_originality · 2012-06-05 06:49:59

caskale13c wrote:

I have not been able to open "Workspace Appearance" in system settings since installing the 4.9 beta. When I click it, System Settings just disappears. Anyone else?

Do you have multi lib qtcurve installed? I removed this and got it working whenever the repo opened.

pepedopolous · 2012-06-05 08:03:18

Edit: damn again! deleted from pacman cache and reinstalled. Works fine.

#Hi again.

#Is nepomuk/strigi working for you in 4.9? Mine isn't.

#Cheers,

#P

Last edited by pepedopolous (2012-06-05 10:17:14)

masteryod · 2012-06-05 09:31:45

no_originality wrote:

caskale13c wrote:
I have not been able to open "Workspace Appearance" in system settings since installing the 4.9 beta. When I click it, System Settings just disappears. Anyone else?
Do you have multi lib qtcurve installed? I removed this and got it working whenever the repo opened.

Confirmed: "Workspace Appearance" in system settings crushing if qtcurve-kde4 is installed. I don't understand what's that multi lib is all about though - qtcurve is in community repo.

PS Other than that I can't believe it's just beta1, it's working extremely well, wow! 4.9 is going to be outstanding release.

Last edited by masteryod (2012-06-05 10:23:43)

mmm.ai · 2012-06-05 10:21:25

masteryod wrote:

no_originality wrote:
caskale13c wrote:
I have not been able to open "Workspace Appearance" in system settings since installing the 4.9 beta. When I click it, System Settings just disappears. Anyone else?
Do you have multi lib qtcurve installed? I removed this and got it working whenever the repo opened.
Confirmed: "Workspace Appearance" in system settings crushing if qtcurve-kde4 is installed. I don't understand what's that multi lib is all about though - qtcurve is in community repo.

yep, same here, thanks for finding out!
Maybe you should report it to bugs.kde.org ?

Last edited by mmm.ai (2012-06-05 10:22:50)

mmm.ai · 2012-06-05 10:32:56

Another issues I found:

#1 Cant edit user's details in systemsettings:
it fails on asking me for password with some "chfn" err.; see:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=301201

#2 OpenGL detection failure
I'm not so sure about this one, after first time installing this kde release, i restarted X to load the new, but it crashed during startup. Second time it started ok, but now i realized compositing/desktop effects were turned off (OpenGL; I think automatically after the crash at the first start). In systemsettings > Workspace Appearance > Desktop Effects in Advanced tab i selected OpenGL and clicked "Re-enable compositing detection" (or how was it) and it works! (transparency, etc)
Happened to anyone, should it be reported?

masteryod · 2012-06-05 11:35:46

mmm.ai wrote:

Maybe you should report it to bugs.kde.org ?

Done: Bug 301209 - "Workspace appearance" crush if qtcurve-kde4 is installed

ilpianista · 2012-06-05 11:40:33

masteryod wrote:

Done: Bug 301209 - "Workspace appearance" crush if qtcurve-kde4 is installed

Did you try to rebuild qtcurve-kde4 first?

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