KDE 4.3 is now unmasked for amd64

tampakrap · Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2009 8:01 pm Post subject: KDE 4.3 is now unmasked for amd64

Since all packages were keyworded properly and bug 280312 doesn't affect amd64 architecture, we unmasked it for amd64. Thanks to the amd64 Arch Team for permitting us.
Also the Gentoo KDE Guide is properly updated with installation/upgrade steps, and upgrade troubleshooting tips.

onelove · Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2009 8:51 pm Post subject:

kudos!

d2_racing · Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2009 8:52 pm Post subject:

Nice

I'm going to test that one at work

platojones · Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2009 8:57 pm Post subject:

Outstanding work! Here goes...

d2_racing · Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2009 8:58 pm Post subject:

Kde 4.3 is a little bit faster then Kde 4.2.4 as far as I know

Nice work guys !!!

Mike Hunt · Watchman Joined: 19 Jul 2009 Posts: 5287

It's very nice. I nuked my ~/.kde4 folder and started fresh. Lots of new eye candy in there.

Kingoftherings · Guru Joined: 04 May 2008 Posts: 328

Emerging it right now.

Amd64 wins again.

onelove · Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2009 1:16 am Post subject:

all went fine, but imho dolphin doesn't feel that snappy (like in 4.2.x)... any1 else?

epsilon72 · Guru Joined: 20 Sep 2007 Posts: 568

Great!

Also, which version is the kde team going to work on getting stable eventually? 4.2.4, 4.3.*, or to be determined?

forkboy · Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2009 4:31 pm Post subject:

A fresh sync and I still had to add

d2_racing · Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2009 7:09 pm Post subject:

I hope that Kde 4.3 will hit the stable tree.

Veldrin · Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2009 7:25 pm Post subject:

bekkra · n00b Joined: 13 Sep 2004 Posts: 57

I am genuinely impressed. The update installed 116 packages and uninstalled quite a few on my system. Everything merged without the slightest glitch.

Nice work, KDE team, really well done !

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Mike Hunt · Watchman Joined: 19 Jul 2009 Posts: 5287

platojones · Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2009 8:47 pm Post subject:

pholthau · Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 8:20 am Post subject:

awesome! thanks very much.
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evolvedix69 · n00b Joined: 10 Aug 2009 Posts: 1

The Gentoo KDE Guide is appropriately adapted with installation/upgrade steps, and advancement troubleshooting tips.

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bandreabis · Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 9:17 am Post subject:

Is it right that xorg-x11 is not dependency of kde4.3.0?
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Veldrin · Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 11:44 am Post subject:

well, xorg-x11 was replace by some split packages... the core package being xorg-server.

So it does depend on X.

Gh0str1d3r · Guru Joined: 27 May 2008 Posts: 411

even though it looks nice and has some features I like very much, there are still some obvious bugs I, e.g. no superuser-button in the control center (in the login-section it is not possible to change anything) and the apply-button is still disabled when changing the theme in the control center. Found 2 bugs when using it for 5 minutes. I am wondering why nobody fixes these.

Veldrin · Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 1:12 pm Post subject:

I would have to check about the apply button, but IIRC it worked quite well.

As for the missing admin button, you can always - with this release easily - run systemsettings as root.

But you are correct, that some part still need improvement.
BTW, noone forbids you to send in a patch, fixing those issues.

bekkra · n00b Joined: 13 Sep 2004 Posts: 57

Actually, Veldrin, now that you bring the subject up ... can you please outline that easy method to run SystemSettings ? There is no such trivial method in my custom installation, which is basically a kdebase-meta with some extra packages. root is not allowed to log in and there is no GUI for running system settings as root.

I am very curious how I (the user) am expected to do this. The way I did was to find the name of the binary, then try to run the app from a root login. This is a non-trivial operation, since the term "System Settings" is not represented in the file system, so it can only be found by some kind of heuristics.

Gentoo could easily help this by adding a "System-wide settings" button to the System menu.

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gkmac · Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 10:35 pm Post subject:

To run systemsettings as root, login to KDE as a normal user, then just type...

joefish · Guru Joined: 27 Jan 2004 Posts: 316 Location: New Zealand

Can someone please gvie me a working link to the kde-4.3 sets? I tried http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/kde.git;a=tree;f=sets but that's not working.

Or am I doing something completely wrong? I had kde 4.2.4 installed (originally with sets), thought I had upgraded everything to 4.3, but now am finding a lot of 4.2.4 stuff on my system. I didn't use sets to emerge the upgrade, so I'm guessing I need to.

P.S gkmac, enjoyed your sig.

joefish · Guru Joined: 27 Jan 2004 Posts: 316 Location: New Zealand

It seems I've answered my own question. Got the sets snapshot now (link is working again), and looking at emerge output, emerging with the kde-4.3 sets seem like it will fix my problem. Looks like I need to use the specific versioned sets (@kdebase-4.3) rather than @kdebase.