KDE SC 4 to Plasma 5 Tutorial

[AJSlye]

(18th May 2015, 5:39)akdom Wrote: I'm updating now to plasma 5.3... Looks like it's going to take some time

kcm-touchpad-frameworks wasn't found for me too... I'll cross my fingers.

Is there a way to make my rolling release to look like the main edition v16? I installed it yesterday to take a look and I love how it feels... (Except for the fact that it isn't arch - but I do love debian)

kcm-touchpad-frameworks no longer exists in Plasma 5, It's safe to remove this package.
The old kcm system along with the default official kcm's are now integrated into systemsettings. However, systemsettings does still support separate third party kcm plugins.

PS. Netrunner Rolling isn't a Debian based system, it's based on Manjaro which is a derivative of Arch Linux.

[AJSlye]

Tutorial Revised today due to the following updated packages in the stable repository:
Plasma 5.3
KDE Frameworks 5.10
KDE Applications 15.04.1.

[akdom]

Yea sorry what I meant was that I love Debian but I prefer the rolling release due to arch backend
Succesfully upograded, fully functionnal system.. YAYY thanks to you

[flipper]

(18th May 2015, 5:48)AJSlye Wrote: ...
kcm-touchpad-frameworks no longer exists in Plasma 5, It's safe to remove this package.
The old kcm system along with the default official kcm's are now integrated into systemsettings. However, systemsettings does still support separate third party kcm plugins
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Is the new touchpad module working for you? My touchpad works, but can't change settings in the manager, it says in the red bar 'No touchpad found'.
   

[AJSlye]

What brand is your touchpad?

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I didn't notice until you posted this, but your right, the pad is working with the settings from the old kcm, but it says no touchpad found. I'll have to look into this. I did just upgraded my kernel to 4.0 today, I'll check to see if that is the issue or not as well.

[flipper]

(18th May 2015, 8:57)AJSlye Wrote: What brand is your touchpad?
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Code:

╰ ➤ cat /proc/bus/input/devices |grep -i touchpad
N: Name="SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad"

edit: I tried with a live-usb with the latest Manjaro KDE 0.8.13 rc1. same issue there, I think it's something on the Plasma 5 To Do list to get it working for everyone.

[AJSlye]

Strange, I had the red bar 'No touchpad found'. when you mentioned it, but after a reboot it's back to working normally.
I rebooted into 3.14 no red bar 'No touchpad found'.
Then I rebooted back into 4.0 and again no red bar 'No touchpad found'.

I wonder what caused that.

I did install the broadcom-wl driver with the Manjaro Settings Manager > Hardware Devices to see if I got better wifi with it than with the default b43 driver. I wonder If I maybe I hadn't rebooted since I installed it?

[NightShadow89]

Just did the update today, because the GTK config module essentially stopped working in KDE 4. It's mostly nice so far.

Only a few issues:

1. Text in some dialogs seem to be invisible. It's happened to me while using Inkscape: when it crashes, the dialog pops up, but I can't read a word in it, because it seems to be invisible. Happens in system settings as well; the error alerts are completely blank to me.

2. Oxygen Sans makes text look oddly squeezed together. I switched to DejaVu Sans (and its monospace variant) for most things, and it looks much better.

3. I miss Lancelot. I find Kickoff nowhere near as nice, and Kicker is too small for my liking (and it can't be resized too).

4. Is there a QtCurve config module for Plasma 5? When selecting QtCurve as the widget style, the configure button is greyed out. I use Breeze as my main theme, and am using QtCurve for GTK2 to emulate Breeze.

[AJSlye]

The text issue has to do with the colors themes: System Settings > Color
I'm not sure if it is a bug or setting somewhere causing this, but they just don't quite follow the color theme properly, it's worse the darker the theme used is (breeze-dark is worse than breeze, etc.).

For a working qtcurve for KF5, QT5, QT4 and GTK+2, you'll need to install them from the AUR:

Code:

yaourt -S qtcurve qtcurve-gtk

There is however still no qtcurve for GTK+3, especially now that GTK+ 3.18 has dropped theme engines support.

[NightShadow89]

(18th May 2015, 23:10)AJSlye Wrote: The text issue has to do with the colors themes: System Settings > Color
I'm not sure if it is a bug or setting somewhere causing this, but they just don't quite follow the color theme properly, it's worse the darker the theme used is (breeze-dark is worse than breeze, etc.).

For a working qtcurve for KF5, QT5, QT4 and GTK+2, you'll need to install them from the AUR:

Code:

yaourt -S qtcurve qtcurve-gtk

There is however still no qtcurve for GTK+3, especially now that GTK+ 3.18 has dropped theme engines support.

Great, that will at least allowed me to edit the QtCurve theme when I need to.

One more thing, I also noticed icons are sometimes broken, i,e, not Breeze icons will sometimes be used. This happens mostly in GTK applications. I understand why, because the Breeze icon theme isn't complete yet, so it's to be expected from time to time.

The problem is especially bad in Firefox KDE though. When using QtCurve, it doesn't even respect the gtkrc generated by the system settings. For example, I would set the display icons in buttons to off, and the horrible looking icons are still there. This would be less of a problem if I could at least find where the icons are defined and symlink appropriate ones to the right names, but a visual search of /usr/share/icons reveals nothing. The ones I'm mainly talking about are the icons used for the Close Tabs and Cancel button when trying to close multiple tabs. The main menu I can at least avoid most of the time.

Icon mapping also seems broken. Previously, when something tried to look for a dialog-question icon, it used to map to the dialog-information icon. Now, it just uses some dialog-question icon that I can't find in /usr/share/icons.