Plasma-5.4.0 ebuilds now in portage, unmasked for ~

wrc1944

Plasma-5.4.0 ebuilds now in portage, unmasked for ~.

Anybody tried it yet and have any feedbak?

I'm thinking of doing it tonight or tomorrow using the KDE/Plasma 5 upgrade guide.

Is this going to be the official recommended method? https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/KDE/Plasma_5_upgrade
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davidm · Guru Joined: 26 Apr 2009 Posts: 557 Location: US

I'm installing it now but I'm coming from live -9999 packages from the kde-overlay. The live packages seem to have a regression with some memory leaks which were pretty bad. It'll be interesting to see if those were fixed since the release. I doubt it but I guess I'll find out. Things were pretty good with plasma 5.3 where they got rid of the bad leaks so I'm hoping it isn't the case where it is bad again.

Based on using the live plasma packages though it is pretty usable and without crashes here. QT4 apps now work with restoring sessions on the proper virtual desktop and activity although qt5 apps still largely don't. On Nvidia NV8x hardware (eg 8400 GS and Quadro FX 570 era) you might see some graphics corruption on plasmashell with nouveau relating to vram memory exhaustion issues. But these can usually be worked around. Other than that it should be good. I think your real experience is more determined by which applications you choose to install. For example stay with qt4 Dolphin or go with the qt5 Dolphin with the 15.08 release.

wrc1944 · Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2015 9:44 pm Post subject:

davidm,
Thanks for the informative comments- guess I'll go with the full kde5 move on this little systemd 32 bit spare Gentoo partition and see how it goes.
I've been playing with the Kaos and Kubuntu kde5 so I pretty much know what to expect.
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Atmmac · Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2015 5:41 pm Post subject:

Just finished upgrading to 5.4. The upgrade was quite uneventful. Haven't yet noticed the changes. I am hoping things improve for DPI Scaling with my 4k display.

davidm · Guru Joined: 26 Apr 2009 Posts: 557 Location: US

Unfortunately it does appear the memory leak is back within Plasma 5.4. Plasmashell is currently using ~750 MB of ram after being open less than 24 hours. It could be related to one of the apps in my system tray as well...

alexcortes · Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2015 6:51 pm Post subject:

Hi,

I am failing to find the "New Audio Volume Applet" here. Is it not included yet?

Thanks!

kensington · Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2015 7:25 pm Post subject:

DaggyStyle · Watchman Joined: 22 Mar 2006 Posts: 5909

I see that kde is going hard the pa way, maybe it is time to leave kde...
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asturm · Developer Joined: 05 Apr 2007 Posts: 8936

why, when you can just disable it? :roll:

davidm · Guru Joined: 26 Apr 2009 Posts: 557 Location: US

Yes, kmix works just as well. In fact I have pulseaudio and I still prefer kmix.

alexcortes · Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2015 7:39 pm Post subject:

Atmmac · Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2015 7:50 pm Post subject:

Pulseaudio definitely sucks. Im sticking with kmix as well.

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alexcortes · Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2015 11:44 pm Post subject:

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Tae_kyon · n00b Joined: 19 Apr 2006 Posts: 71

I moved to plasma 5.4 rather uneventfully: changed profile, emerge -Du --with-bdeps=y --newuse @world followed by emerge plasma-meta.

I had a few blockers which I got around without much difficulty.

There are only two problems now:

1) plasma-mediacenter is installed by plasma-meta, I didn't really want it, trying to run it crashes everything, so I uninstalled it

2) have cruft left behind, for example: dolphin-4.14.3 is installed instead of dolphin-15.08.0 I would like to upgrade all these packages. I'm sure there is a simple and elegant oneliner to do this with but for the moment I'm doing it by hand
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alexcortes · Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2015 4:20 pm Post subject:

I think, in my case, Konsole had not be updated due to Yakuake depends on konsole-4.14.x. The other ones had been updated seamless by portage.

Would be nice if plasma-mediacenter was not installed by default on plasma-meta.

Tae_kyon · n00b Joined: 19 Apr 2006 Posts: 71

I just noticed a problem is that many kde4 meta packages were still installed, they were blocking the upgrade of various apps.

I would have thought installing plasma-meta should have taken care of this. OTOH some kde meta packages have been upgraded to 5. So situation is still developing quickly I guess.
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asturm · Developer Joined: 05 Apr 2007 Posts: 8936

plasma-meta does only install plasma-5 related files, kde-applications are not touched as long as they do not collide. That means your kde4-based meta packages stay.

alexcortes · Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2015 6:51 am Post subject:

kde-apps/ffmpegthumbs-15.08.0 do nothing here and kde-apps/mplayerthumbs-15.08.0 either. Could that be because I am using vlc backend?

asturm · Developer Joined: 05 Apr 2007 Posts: 8936

Both are :4 based, so they do not work with dolphin:5. Don't ask why, upstream released it like that.

Havin_it · Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2015 1:19 pm Post subject:

I'm also wondering about video thumbs in Dolphin. I note there is also media-video/kffmpegthumbnailer but I've not yet tried it out (nor do I know its status as it is not under KDE umbrella).

Apart from that I'm very impressed; resource usage is anecdotally much better (says my not-so-hot lap!) and most things just work so far, even desktop effects using EGL on an r600-based APU.

plasma-nm is asking me for a root pw every time I connect to a different (saved) wifi or VPN, though; that's quite annoying. (That was a bit broken before anyway mind you, just in a slightly different way.)

alexcortes · Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2015 5:17 pm Post subject:

IIRC i had media-video/kffmpegthumbnailer still installed after dolphin was been updated and doesn't work too. I simple masked the 15.08.00 of dolphin and I am using the v4.14.3 for now.

What ever had really bother me on KDE/Dolphin is the lack of "Album Art/Cover" support.

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Havin_it · Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2015 5:00 pm Post subject:

Thumbnail conundrum illuminated here.