[kde-unstable] is up again

zephyr · 2010-06-14 13:11:18

Blue Peppers wrote:

Works fine generally for me. 3 problems, 2 that should matter at all. Kwin has been taking up a lot of cpu, to the extent I have to turn compositing off to watch flash videos. I think this might be because of the new blur/translucency algorithm used (which is very nice by the way). Using nvidia propriety driver and xorg 1.8.

Ι use "export QT_NO_GLIB=1" in /etc/profile and cpu load has been ok. It has been added by default in kwin (in trunk, will be in rc1 next week).
However powermizer shows that my nvidia gpu is almost always stuck in the highest performance level with kwin and compositing enabled:/

Blue Peppers wrote:

Desktop activity settings do not seem to be saved at all, this is rather annoying, but I've started to get used to the default activity anyway.
Also kdepim is just not working (tm) but that's probably due to the fact I'm running kdepimlibs from svn and kdepim from extra

This bug is fixed in trunk.

ilpianista · 2010-06-18 19:35:39

akonadi 1.3.85-2 needs boost-libs from [testing] now

EDIT: kdeedu-kig too

Scnd101 · 2010-06-22 03:38:54

I can't get plasma to work, everything else seems to be fine though

[anton@localhost ~]$ plasma-desktop
<unknown program name>(3143)/ kdemain: !!{} STARTUP TIME 20353439 START (line: 48 )
QDBusObjectPath: invalid path ""
link XMLID_34_ hasn't been detected!
link XMLID_34_ hasn't been detected!
link XMLID_36_ hasn't been detected!
QFont::setPointSize: Point size <= 0 (0), must be greater than 0
QFont::setPointSize: Point size <= 0 (0), must be greater than 0
QFont::setPointSize: Point size <= 0 (0), must be greater than 0
QFont::setPointSize: Point size <= 0 (0), must be greater than 0
QWidget::setMinimumSize: (/Plasma::Dialog) Negative sizes (-1,-1) are not possible
Couldn't find node center. Skipping rendering.
plasma-desktop: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/kde4/plasma_engine_calendar.so: undefined symbol: _ZN9KHolidays13HolidayRegion11regionCodesEv
plasma-desktop(3143): Communication problem with "plasma-desktop" , it probably crashed.
Error message was: "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown" : " "The name org.kde.plasma-desktop was not provided by any .service files" "

petelewis · 2010-06-22 10:36:59

Hi,

Thanks for the heads up on boost.

On another issue, I just pulled in the upgrade to Xorg 1.8 yesterday and KWin compositing has stopped working. It just gives me the message of being too slow, then falls back to kwin without compositing. This is probably a problem with the xorg upgrade rather than kwin, but I thought I'd mention it here first, since it's kwin from this repository that's the symtom (and is the unstable package).

I'm using an intel 945GM, and glxinfo reports that direct rendering is on. Indeed, compositing starts briefly, then stops a second or two later due to being really slow. There's nothing out of the ordinary in any of the logs.

Kwin or xorg issue? Anyone seen something similar?

I tried the glib fix above, and that didn't do anything.

Cheers,

Pete.

EDIT: Seems it might be this problem: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=99488

Last edited by petelewis (2010-06-22 11:27:47)

sylvlinux · 2010-06-22 13:14:30

I had the same issue but in .kde4/share/config/kwinrc
i have changed

GLDirect=false

by

GLDirect=true

(before the start of kde)
and know it's working
the option for this in system setting doesn't have the same effect.

petelewis · 2010-06-22 14:25:47

Thanks for the suggestion. It seems I already had GLDirect set to true.

I've just built and installed the git versions of xf86-video-intel and intel-dri, which pulled in a few more -git packages (mesa, libgl etc) and now it's working fine again. I guess not a KDE problem at all.

stavallo · 2010-06-25 12:43:35

4.4.90 (4.5 RC1) tarballs have been uploaded to ftp.kde.org. I hope that Andrea will soon build new packages, as usual... Thanks in advance for your fantastic work!

Labello · 2010-06-26 08:58:03

is there any chance that 4.4.90 will be available soon?

or is there something i am missing?:D

ilpianista · 2010-06-26 13:12:59

KDE 4.5 RC1 in [kde-unstable]

* added conflicts in kdebase-workspace, kdeutils-kremotecontrol, kdeplasma-addons-applets-social-news packages
* changed KDM user home and remove KDM group in post_install()

...I am still building i686 packages...

cebxan · 2010-06-26 16:42:27

I'm not using kde-unstable right now but I'm tracking its progress. Thank you for your patience and hard work

flamelab · 2010-06-27 00:54:18

@all: Please, if you have time, please check the KDE 4.5 wiki page draft I have here

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/User:Flamelab

for any mistakes.

Last edited by flamelab (2010-06-27 00:54:36)

dcrabs · 2010-06-27 11:08:16

I was reading about the blur effect being enabled by default. Which kind of window should be affected? Changing its settings doesn't make any difference.
Everything related to plasma isn't blurred here. Means I cannot read anything in plasma messages or networkmanager when there is an underlying window.
Any ideas?

karoshi · 2010-06-27 20:00:44

Kmix is using a lot CPU (13-15%) on my system (i686). Someone else with the problem, or possible solution? Already deleted kmix files in config/apps, but didnt help...

petelewis · 2010-06-28 07:56:28

Hi Andrea,

Thanks again for getting these built and up so fast.

The current conflicts between packages mean that I can't do 'pacman -S kde':

resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...
error: unresolvable package conflicts detected
error: failed to prepare transaction (conflicting dependencies)
:: kdeplasma-addons-applets-social-news and kdeplasma-addons-applets-opendesktop are in conflict

Is this intentional? I usually just install the whole kde group each time I upgrade to ensure I get any new packages.

Thanks.

sxe · 2010-06-28 10:23:55

hey guys, thx for the packages they are working great (x86_64).

I have only some small glitches and some crashes either but so far its quit usable.

I have only one problem i cannot fix, my run command dialog (krunner) is not transparent and has a strange "fade in" effect when pressing "alt + F2". Has anyone the same problem or can help me with fixing it?

Thx

drsjlazar · 2010-06-28 11:32:22

I am also getting a conflict error... I uninstalled KDE first. 'sudo pacman -Rd kde' And I am running 64bit.

[me@arch ~]$ sudo pacman -S kde
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...
error: unresolvable package conflicts detected
error: failed to prepare transaction (conflicting dependencies)
:: kdebase-workspace and kdebase-kinfocenter are in conflict

drsjlazar · 2010-06-29 00:28:10

I sort of solved the above problem by completely removing all packages associated with KDE and then installing the kde-meta groups I wanted.

I've been using and configuring it for a few hours now. (I completely removed ~/.kde4) KDE 4.5 is usable as it is... but I am unimpressed. Nepomuk search in Dolphin is still useless. There are some annoying regressions in the desktop effects department. All the new fancy blur effects won't work on my integrated Intel graphics... but worse, effects that used to work (genie effect, cover switch, etc) now do not work.

Last edited by drsjlazar (2010-06-29 00:28:50)

Wu · 2010-06-29 13:04:26

drsjlazar wrote:

I've been using and configuring it for a few hours now. (I completely removed ~/.kde4) KDE 4.5 is usable as it is... but I am unimpressed.

Have to say, I have the same feeling. Maybe I misunderstood the "we will focus on polishing" thing from the plasma-devs, but all I'm starting to get annoyed by regressions (the combobox in the add widget dialog has lost focus), lack of polishing (hope they will find an icon for the activity entry in the cashew for 4.5.0) and performance hiccups (the new blur effect is a CPU black-hole) of kde.

Anyway, as in every summer I'm moving to my gaming box, so I'll leave Linux for a couple of months. Hope things will get better by then.

Farewell

ilpianista · 2010-06-29 18:21:34

@petelewis @drsjlazar
if you have KDE 4.4.x on your system, why are you trying to install it using pacman -S kde? You simply have to use pacman -Syu

drsjlazar · 2010-06-30 13:44:42

bash wrote:

@petelewis @drsjlazar
if you have KDE 4.4.x on your system, why are you trying to install it using pacman -S kde? You simply have to use pacman -Syu

I usually customize my desktop heavily... I remove a lot of default apps and packages and use others. So for an upgrade such as this, I prefer starting with a clean slate the way the devs intended it to be. It's as close to a fresh install as possible without a reinstall. Is there something inherently wrong with removing all KDE 4.4 and installing 4.5?

About 4.5, Nepomuk actually works! w00t! I had to let it finish indexing completely, else it was spitting all kinds of errors. It did take a long time to finish indexing (about a full day)... that too after reducing the number of indexed directories to ~60GB. But... it does work and I am getting meaningful results for my searches.

The desktop effects regressions continue and it seems I am not the only one facing them. People with integrated Intel cards which are perfectly capable of running things like Compiz are being left out of a ton of Kwin effects. Not good.

Other things e.g. tiling have a lot of potential but seem to get in the way of doing things sometimes.

ilpianista · 2010-06-30 18:07:58

Well, kdepim 4.5-beta1 is out.
I am building it right now, but I still do not know if it will be in [kde-unstable] or not. Let me test it before.

The first release candidate of kdepim will released with KDE 4.5.0; if it's enough stable I could move it in [extra] with KDE (end of August). Or we wait KDE 4.5.1.

ChemBro · 2010-06-30 21:05:10

bash wrote:

The first release candidate of kdepim will released with KDE 4.5.0; if it's enough stable I could move it in [extra] with KDE (end of August). Or we wait KDE 4.5.1.

I would wait for KDE 4.5.1, but that's just my opinion.

flamelab · 2010-06-30 22:41:12

bash wrote:

Well, kdepim 4.5-beta1 is out.
I am building it right now, but I still do not know if it will be in [kde-unstable] or not. Let me test it before.
The first release candidate of kdepim will released with KDE 4.5.0; if it's enough stable I could move it in [extra] with KDE (end of August). Or we wait KDE 4.5.1.

I think that waiting till 4.5.1 would be for the best..!

ilpianista · 2010-07-01 02:21:01

Yes, I also think so...

However, you can find kdepim* 4.5beta1 packages (x86_64) here
Please, give me some feedback.

Remember to backup config files

EDIT: I am unable to send mails using kmail.

stavallo · 2010-07-02 14:03:19

I installed kdepim 4.5 beta 1 packaged by bash (many thanks, as usual) . Some comments:

- korganizer did not start because libincidenceeditors.so.4.5.0 could not be found. I noticed there is a new subfolder (incidenceeditors) in kdepim, so I thought to add it to kdepim-libkdepim. I modified the PKGBUILD as follows:

@@ -222,7 +35,7 @@
'kdepim-strigi-analyzer' 'kdepim-akonadi')
replaces=('kdepim-icons' 'kdepim-libkleo' 'kdepim-libkpgp'
'kdepim-strigi-analyzer' 'kdepim-akonadi')
- for i in libkdepim libkdepimdbusinterfaces libkleo libkpgp icons \
+ for i in libkdepim libkdepimdbusinterfaces libkleo libkpgp incidenceeditors icons \
messagecomposer messagecore messagelist messageviewer \
akonadi calendarviews plugins/ktexteditor strigi-analyzer templateparser; do
cd $srcdir/build/${i}

and rebuilt. Now korganizer starts successfully

- the kmail component is not included in kontact (don't know why...)

- I used a fresh account and started kmail. I tried to create a disconnected imap account (i.e., I tried to download emails for offline usage) but after a couple of hours it was not yet completed and it was taking a lot of cpu and disk space. So, I gave up :-( (I have to say I have more than 25k emails in inbox occupying around 6GB of disk space)

- Then, I tried to create an online imap account and it was doable. I have to say that the email feeder nepomuk agent slows down things a lot and I ended up disabling nepomuk in system settings.

- Sending emails do work here

I will post my impression after a prolonged testing...

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