Progress on Unity under Arch Linux!

chenxiaolong · 2012-09-01 20:34:47

b9anders wrote:

chenxiaolong wrote:
It may also be an issue with this Compiz release as Ubuntu deprecated the following plugins: animationaddon, blur, colorfilter, cubeaddon, gears, group, loginout, reflex, stackswitch, thumbnail, trip, and wallpaper.
What the.... Why would they do that?
Compiz is more than just what Ubuntu needs for Unity.

It's actually not because of that reason this time AFAIK, they removed those plugins because they were not compatible with openGLES (only openGL), which they need for Compiz to run on both ARM and Intel devices.

pekmop1024 · 2012-09-01 20:57:42

chenxiaolong wrote:

For the shadow issue: do you have nautilus running? Usually the shadow disappears if it's not running. It may also be an issue with this Compiz release as Ubuntu deprecated the following plugins: animationaddon, blur, colorfilter, cubeaddon, gears, group, loginout, reflex, stackswitch, thumbnail, trip, and wallpaper.

Yes, it is used for desktop shortcuts. I've also tried to disable and re-enable this with Ubuntu Tweak (btw, actual version is 0.7.3) with no luck. Then I tried to create a clean profile to use it for Unity and there was still no shadow. May be I missed something when wrote PKGBUILDs, I'll wait for yours and try it again. Anyway, it's best compiz release I've seen ever for many years, Ubuntu guys made great work for performance optimizations.

BTW, don't forget to update qt to 4.8.2. 4.8.1 have problems with some apps, qutim, for example didn't display animated smiles...

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chenxiaolong · 2012-09-01 23:46:42

pekmop1024 wrote:

chenxiaolong wrote:
For the shadow issue: do you have nautilus running? Usually the shadow disappears if it's not running. It may also be an issue with this Compiz release as Ubuntu deprecated the following plugins: animationaddon, blur, colorfilter, cubeaddon, gears, group, loginout, reflex, stackswitch, thumbnail, trip, and wallpaper.
Yes, it is used for desktop shortcuts. I've also tried to disable and re-enable this with Ubuntu Tweak (btw, actual version is 0.7.3) with no luck. Then I tried to create a clean profile to use it for Unity and there was still no shadow. May be I missed something when wrote PKGBUILDs, I'll wait for yours and try it again. Anyway, it's best compiz release I've seen ever for many years, Ubuntu guys made great work for performance optimizations.
BTW, don't forget to update qt to 4.8.2. 4.8.1 have problems with some apps, qutim, for example didn't display animated smiles...

I'm getting the same shadow problem I have to agree that this is the best Compiz release I've used. I can finally enable wobbly windows in Unity without Compiz crashing

For Qt-ubuntu, I'm going to drop the package. It was only needed for Unity 2D, which doesn't work anymore.

pekmop1024 · 2012-09-01 23:49:42

chenxiaolong wrote:

For Qt-ubuntu, I'm going to drop the package. It was only needed for Unity 2D, which doesn't work anymore.

That's... sounds good. More and more Arch vanilla packages to be used with Unity. Are there no deps on qt-ubuntu in appmenu features or in sni-qt?

EDIT: Appmenu is working, sni-qt is not

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chenxiaolong · 2012-09-02 00:12:02

pekmop1024 wrote:

chenxiaolong wrote:
For Qt-ubuntu, I'm going to drop the package. It was only needed for Unity 2D, which doesn't work anymore.
That's... sounds good. More and more Arch vanilla packages to be used with Unity. Are there no deps on qt-ubuntu in appmenu features or in sni-qt?
EDIT: Appmenu is working, sni-qt is not

Yeah, you're right. I looked in the patches and it seems that sni-qt needs kubuntu_14_systemtrayicon.diff I'm not sure why it's not merged upstream. The copyright in the patch says Nokia Corporation, not Canonical.

Do you think we should make the package more vanilla by just applying kubuntu_14_systemtrayicon.diff?

pekmop1024 · 2012-09-02 00:22:01

chenxiaolong wrote:

Do you think we should make the package more vanilla by just applying kubuntu_14_systemtrayicon.diff?

I think we must use Ubuntu sources while patches wasn't merged to upstream, there is some other qt-dependent things, so if we drop qt-ubuntu, we might ran into compatibility hell this needs deep testing, but I don't think that it is really needed, while we can use already tested Ubuntu sources, and while there is no incompatibility with Arch's Qt.

I'm not sure why it's not merged upstream. The copyright in the patch says Nokia Corporation, not Canonical.

Nokia have problems, Qt is sold to Digia... I think, there is some kind of chaos

EDIT: I have found 'orphan' package at github, that is not listed in README - unity-scope-video-remote

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chenxiaolong · 2012-09-02 00:25:44

pekmop1024 wrote:

chenxiaolong wrote:
Do you think we should make the package more vanilla by just applying kubuntu_14_systemtrayicon.diff?
I think we must use Ubuntu sources while patches wasn't merged to upstream, there is some other qt-dependent things, so if we drop qt-ubuntu, we might ran into compatibility hell this needs deep testing, but I don't think that it is really needed, while we can use already tested Ubuntu sources, and while there is no incompatibility with Arch's Qt.

Good point. I'll update to 4.8.2-0ubuntu6 then

pekmop1024 wrote:

I'm not sure why it's not merged upstream. The copyright in the patch says Nokia Corporation, not Canonical.
Nokia have problems, Qt is sold to Digia... I think, there is some kind of chaos

Hopefully, all this chaos won't affect Qt development

oi_wtf · 2012-09-02 00:30:32

Well, I've never installed qt-ubuntu and didn't run into any major problems so far...
//EDIT: Oh, but here's some minor issue with compiz:

==> Validating source files with sha512sums...
    compiz_0.9.8.0.orig.tar.gz ... Passed
    compiz_0.9.8.0-0ubuntu1.diff.gz ... Passed
    compiz.reset ... Passed
    0002_Fix_cmake_install_dir.patch ... FAILED
    0003_Fix_python_install_command.patch ... Passed
    0004_Use_python2.patch ... Passed
    compiz-migrate-to-dconf.desktop ... Passed
==> ERROR: One or more files did not pass the validity check!

$ git log | head -1
commit 2b9f9d7baa9c77b5b1b07c06cf56e4de321c6e0c

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pekmop1024 · 2012-09-02 00:38:31

I have some thoughts about Unity-for-Arch-Extra:
- may be move plasma-widget-menubar and xfce4-indicator-plugin to Extra because that packages have DE dependencies?
- also it will be good to add libreoffice-extension-menubar to Extra. I have PKGBUILD that works with Arch's LO 3.5.x.
- globalmenu extensions for thunderbird and firefox seems to be broken, as for me. Anyone have working globalmenu in thunderbird?
And I want to create separate repo for extras to simplify initial Unity installation.

oi_wtf wrote:

Well, I've never installed qt-ubuntu and didn't run into any major problems so far...

Good, but let there be option - to install qt-ubuntu or not to install.
For example, I like the way of sni-qt which isn't working with Arch vanilla Qt. May be there is not working something else, as I said, this needs testing.

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oi_wtf · 2012-09-02 00:50:25

Seems like I don't use any QT-Apps which make use of sni, since I didn't notice...
If you'd tell me an example of a Qt-App that can use sni I could do some testing...

pekmop1024 · 2012-09-02 00:53:06

Any app that uses system tray. Qutim, QBittorrent, VLC, etc.
sni-qt transforms any classic systray icon of Qt app to indicator.

EDIT: BTW, I'm not too familiar with launchpad, but how to get fresh translations for Unity?! Is it possible? If so, it's like alien logic in the launchpad interface...

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chenxiaolong · 2012-09-02 01:01:11

oi_wtf wrote:

Well, I've never installed qt-ubuntu and didn't run into any major problems so far...
//EDIT: Oh, but here's some minor issue with compiz:

==> Validating source files with sha512sums...
    compiz_0.9.8.0.orig.tar.gz ... Passed
    compiz_0.9.8.0-0ubuntu1.diff.gz ... Passed
    compiz.reset ... Passed
    0002_Fix_cmake_install_dir.patch ... FAILED
    0003_Fix_python_install_command.patch ... Passed
    0004_Use_python2.patch ... Passed
    compiz-migrate-to-dconf.desktop ... Passed
==> ERROR: One or more files did not pass the validity check!

$ git log | head -1
commit 2b9f9d7baa9c77b5b1b07c06cf56e4de321c6e0c

Thanks, I'll fix that right now.

chenxiaolong · 2012-09-02 01:14:28

pekmop1024 wrote:

I have some thoughts about Unity-for-Arch-Extra:
- may be move plasma-widget-menubar and xfce4-indicator-plugin to Extra because that packages have DE dependencies?

Done and done.

pekmop1024 wrote:

- also it will be good to add libreoffice-extension-menubar to Extra. I have PKGBUILD that works with Arch's LO 3.5.x.

Okay, I'll add your PKGBUILD tomorrow

pekmop1024 wrote:

- globalmenu extensions for thunderbird and firefox seems to be broken, as for me. Anyone have working globalmenu in thunderbird?
And I want to create separate repo for extras to simplify initial Unity installation.

It needs to be recompiled for every Firefox or Thunderbird update.

pekmop1024 wrote:

oi_wtf wrote:
Well, I've never installed qt-ubuntu and didn't run into any major problems so far...
Good, but let there be option - to install qt-ubuntu or not to install.
For example, I like the way of sni-qt which isn't working with Arch vanilla Qt. May be there is not working something else, as I said, this needs testing.

pekmop1024 · 2012-09-02 01:18:47

chenxiaolong wrote:

Done and done.

Thanks

chenxiaolong wrote:

It needs to be recompiled for every Firefox or Thunderbird update.

I've tried this, both 3.2.6 from your PKGBUILD and 3.2.7 from AUR - no luck it's not working nor with my profile, nor clean profile.

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chenxiaolong · 2012-09-02 01:21:54

pekmop1024 wrote:

Any app that uses system tray. Qutim, QBittorrent, VLC, etc.
sni-qt transforms any classic systray icon of Qt app to indicator.
EDIT: BTW, I'm not too familiar with launchpad, but how to get fresh translations for Unity?! Is it possible? If so, it's like alien logic in the launchpad interface...

Haha, I'll do it Launchpad is very annoying...

In case you want to know: you have to create a Launchpad account, go to the Unity page, click the translations tab, click "Ubuntu Quantal", click "View template & all languages", click "download translation tarballs", check the "Everything" box, choose the PO format, click "Request Download", and then 10 minutes later, you'll receive an email with the translations. Then you'll have to upload the tarball somewhere, so the PKGBUILD can download it.

Way too complicated, right?

pekmop1024 · 2012-09-02 01:27:00

chenxiaolong wrote:

Then you'll have to upload the tarball somewhere, so the PKGBUILD can download it

I'll put it on my server with repos. May be we need to move other files here, but I'm too lazy to check all PKGBUILDs for unhosted downloads

chenxiaolong wrote:

Way too complicated, right? big_smile

Eh.. aliens is there, I think. It's not human logic

chenxiaolong · 2012-09-02 01:38:51

pekmop1024 wrote:

chenxiaolong wrote:
It needs to be recompiled for every Firefox or Thunderbird update.
I've tried this, both 3.2.6 from your PKGBUILD and 3.2.7 from AUR - no luck it's not working nor with my profile, nor clean profile.

I think I found the issue: the xulrunner and Firefox/Thunderbird versions are mismatched. When xulrunner is updated to 15.0, globalmenu-extension should work again.

pekmop1024 wrote:

chenxiaolong wrote:
Then you'll have to upload the tarball somewhere, so the PKGBUILD can download it
I'll put it on my server with repos. May be we need to move other files here, but I'm too lazy to check all PKGBUILDs for unhosted downloads

Awesome! You can download the tarball from the ompldr link the PKGBUILD. I don't think there's any other package that needs downloads to be hosted.

pekmop1024 wrote:

chenxiaolong wrote:
Way too complicated, right? big_smile
Eh.. aliens is there, I think. It's not human logic

pekmop1024 · 2012-09-02 01:40:19

Fresh translations is here

chenxiaolong wrote:

I think I found the issue: the xulrunner and Firefox/Thunderbird versions are mismatched. When xulrunner is updated to 15.0, globalmenu-extension should work again.

I'll try to build xulrunner 15 manually later and test it, thanks for good idea.

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chenxiaolong · 2012-09-02 01:43:49

pekmop1024 wrote:

Fresh translations is here

PKGBUILD updated

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pekmop1024 · 2012-09-02 01:47:08

chenxiaolong wrote:

PKGBUILD updated

Let me know if you need to host something else for Unity@Arch or any other distro

chenxiaolong · 2012-09-02 01:51:07

pekmop1024 wrote:

chenxiaolong wrote:
PKGBUILD updated
Let me know if you need to host something else for Unity@Arch or any other distro

I don't think there's anything else to host for Unity-for-Arch. Files for Unity-for-Fedora and Unity-for-openSUSE are hosted at http://build.opensuse.org/.

Thanks a lot for the offer, though! I really appreciate it

pekmop1024 · 2012-09-02 01:55:57

chenxiaolong wrote:

Thanks a lot for the offer, though! I really appreciate it

You are welcome. and again thanks for you work on PKGBUILDs!

oi_wtf · 2012-09-02 02:36:37

I wrote this little Qt-App for testing that sni-thingy properly without having to launch a full app... http://pastebin.com/6A7tizsg
Well, I used the simple QSystemTrayIcon from Qt itself (left) and KStatusNotifierItem from KDE (right), they look like this...

It seems like the KDE Icon gets fully converted to an indicator,
while the QSystemTrayIcon gets treated like GTK2 Icons...

EDIT: Also I get this error when compiling unity

Scanning dependencies of target dash
[ 58%] Building CXX object dash/CMakeFiles/dash.dir/StandaloneDash.cpp.o
Linking CXX executable dash
/usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.7.1/../../../libnux-core-3.0.so: undefined reference to symbol 'pthread_create@@GLIBC_2.1'
/usr/bin/ld: note: 'pthread_create@@GLIBC_2.1' is defined in DSO /usr/lib/libpthread.so.0 so try adding it to the linker command line
/usr/lib/libpthread.so.0: could not read symbols: Invalid operation

It seems like CMake didn't find and link pthread correctly...
Temporarily solved it by adding 'LDFLAGS=-lpthread' to the PKGBUILD.

Last edited by oi_wtf (2012-09-02 04:37:37)

pekmop1024 · 2012-09-02 04:25:05

libunity-webapps is missed packagekit dep.

UPD. Repo is updated. Extras (including emerald) now in separate repo unity-extra, please add to /etc/pacman.conf

[unity-extra]
Server = http://unity.xe-xe.org/extra/$arch

Last edited by pekmop1024 (2012-09-02 07:02:00)

qiuwei · 2012-09-02 13:15:02

Hi, I'm still experiencing performance regression problem with unity 6.4 and also the decoration problem.
X and compiz used up 60% cpu for each.

I tried to reinstall all of the unity packages but there is no help. Also tried to run compiz.reset. Everything seems right after that but after I log in the system, all of the problems occurred again.

Arch Linux

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