Today, the KDE team officially announced the first release candidate for KDE Software Compilation 4.9. That is less than a day after the source tarballs were posted on the private area where packagers have access. The new KDE release manager is giving “us packagers” a hard time – it was probably done as a penalty for the fact that several of the “big distros” were releasing packages long before the KDE team officially announced them. This was seen by the KDE release team as abusing a privileged position. After all, the sources are released in advance so that packages can be ready when a new release is announced… but those packages should stay under wraps as long as the release team has not given a go-ahead. The discussions on the (private) kde-packager and releaseteam mailing lists were not always friendly.
But. of course compiling the KDE packages is trivial using the modular KDE.SlackBuild script, and I have the packages ready for you – compiled for Slackware-current. The upgrade from Slackware’s KDE 4.8.4 to the 4.9-rc1 release (the version number is 4.8.95) should be trivial. There are three updated dependencies (akonadi, soprano and shared-desktop-ontologies). The new akonadi is a requiremnt for RC1. The RC1 packages also fix the incompatibilities with Slackware-current’s new attica and python packages (the previous Beta2 packages needed some tweaking to work with the latest slackware-current).
Like with the previous betas, I did not bother with anything from “extragear”. Pat Volkerding updated many of those when he added KDE 4.8.4 to Slackware-current. Speaking of 4.8.4 – that is the version which will ship with Slackware 14 unless KDE releases an unplanned bugfix 4.8.5. DO NOT expect KDE 4.9 in the next Slackware. We have a winner with 4.8.4 and we do not want to risk introducing new bugs with a 4.9 zero release when we are basically cleaning up the loose ends in slackware-current.
Enough chatter, back to reality now. While you good folk are waiting for your KDE download, I will continue my fight with VLC dependencies in another Virtual Machine… those are currently giving me headaches, and VLC 2..0.2 has been tagged so I expect an official source tarball any moment.
Get my KDE packages in any of the following locations (the master repository at alien.slackbook.org is severely restricted in bandwidth so using a mirror is always advised):
- http://alien.slackbook.org/ktown/current/4.8.95/ (the master repository), rsync URI: rsync://alien.slackbook.org/alien/ktown/current/4.8.95/
- http://taper.alienbase.nl/mirrors/alien-kde/current/4.8.95/ (my fast mirror), rsync URI: rsync://taper.alienbase.nl/mirrors/alien-kde/current/4.8.95/
- http://repo.ukdw.ac.id/alien-kde/current/4.8.95/ (willysr’s Indonesian mirror), rsync URI: rsync://repo.ukdw.ac.id/alien-kde/current/4.8.95/
- http://www.slackware.org.uk/people/alien-kde/current/4.8.95/ (Darren Austin’s fast UK mirror), rsync URI: rsync://rsync.slackware.org.uk/people/alien-kde/current/4.8.95/
- http://scw.net.br/alien-ktown/ (a mirror maintained by Herbert Alexander Faleiros), rsync URI: rsync://rsync.scw.net.br/alien-ktown/
The accompanying README file contains detailed installation/upgrade instructions.
As you may have noticed when inspecting the above URLs, I have re-arranged my “ktown” repository. People were confused about what version would work with Slackware -current and what would work for 13.37. Also, some people have asked for sources of older releases for which I no longer host the packages.
I moved all the sources out of the package trees, you will now find a “source” directory right at the top level of the repository. Below that will be the sources of all package sets which I currently have in my repository (KDE 4.6.5, 4.7.4, 4.8.4 and 4.8.95, including all the dependencies you may want for compiling it on Slackware 13.37). The packages will be available below a toplevel directory equal to the Slackware version they were compiled for (at the moment those are “13.37” and “current“). Below that you will find the actual KDE versions and further down, the 32-bit and 64-bit packages.
Have fun! Eric
Thanks Eric! I can now get rid of the older attica 🙂
Thank you! 🙂
The NetworkManager widget doesn’t see any wired or wireless connection. Does anyone else have that issue?
Anybody else noticed that konsole profiles are gone from krunner? Damn I use those a lot as all my remote servers are defined as konsole profiles.
@escaflown
I installed the RC1 onto my desktop but NM shows the wired network there. I can plug in a USB wireless stick when I get home tonight to see what wireless connections do, but my hunch is that the problem is local to your computer.
Eric
Hi silviu
How would I test this? I never use konsole profiles and I have no idea what to look for in krunner.
Eric
well apparently the leak of memory has gone on 4.8.4, prior to this version after several days of keep KDE up, the system will consume a large amount of memory. As you say, I think we have a winner here 🙂
Thanks Eric, and I’ll be waiting the VLC packages.
have fun.
@escaflown
on my laptop it shows both wired and wireless connections just fine
@alienbob
thanks for the answer.
In konsole go to Settings->manager profiles Since you don’t use them you should only have the default there. Create a new one, name it set a command (this is executed on launching the profile and I use it to ssh some.server.com …. but echo “Hello World” should also work 🙂 )
On the older kde’s (I don’t remember when krunner was introduced) I could then ALT+F2 and type the first letters of the profile name and it would show up. Also when going to ALT+F2, click on the settings icon I would see “konsole profiles” among the plugins Kde 4.8.4 still had it, now it’s gone. I tried locating a changelog for krunner but until now I came up empty.
Thank you very much Eric!
@escaflown
All is ok here with NetworkManager widget.
Thank you Eric! So far it’s working like a charm.
Thanks again Eric! Just finished the upgrade and all is well. Also removed attica-0.3.0
Spoke too soon. I can only launch konsole from a terminal emulator or urxvt. Well, also krunner. The icon in my tray no longer works and konsole is nowhere to be found in kmenu. I’ll just use kmenuedit and recreate it!
Trying to run konsole from krunner produces this error: Service ‘/usr/share/applications/kde4/konsole.desktop’ is malformatted.
I got the same issue with konsole on my desktop. Also checking krunner in kde 4.8.4 before updating showed a lot more plugins than in krunner 4.9. I didn’t make a list but I would say that more than half are gone.
> We have a winner with 4.8.4
From your previous post I got the impression that 4.8.4 was a regression over 4.8.3 (which runs great on my 13.37) and I see that the gwenview bug is still open.
Thanks all for your feedback. I still have the same issue. When I ran nm-tool from Konsole I got:
#############################
NetworkManager Tool
State: connected (global)
– Device: eth0 [Wired connection 1] ——————————————-
Type: Wired
Driver: r8169
State: connected
Default: yes
HW Address: xxxxxxxxxxxx
Capabilities:
Carrier Detect: yes
Speed: 100 Mb/s
Wired Properties
Carrier: on
IPv4 Settings:
Address: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Prefix: xx(xxx.xxx.xxx.x)
Gateway: xxx.xxx.xx.x
DNS: xxx.xx.x.x
DNS: xxx.xx.x.x
DNS: x.x.x.x
– Device: wlan0 —————————————————————-
Type: 802.11 WiFi
Driver: rtl8192ce
State: disconnected
Default: no
HW Address: xxxxxxxxx
Capabilities:
Wireless Properties
WEP Encryption: yes
WPA Encryption: yes
WPA2 Encryption: yes
Wireless Access Points
xxxxx: Infra, xxxxxxxxxx, Freq 2427 MHz, Rate 54 Mb/s, Strength 75 WPA2
xxxxxxx: Infra, xxxxxxxxxx, Freq 2412 MHz, Rate 54 Mb/s, Strength 72
xxxxxxx: Infra, xxxxxxxxx, Freq 2412 MHz, Rate 54 Mb/s, Strength 74
xxxxxx: Infra, xxxxxxxxx, Freq 2412 MHz, Rate 54 Mb/s, Strength 74
xxxxx: Infra, xxxxxxxxx, Freq 2412 MHz, Rate 54 Mb/s, Strength 74
xxxxx: Infra, xxxxxxxxxxxx, Freq 2412 MHz, Rate 54 Mb/s, Strength 74
xxxxxxxxx: Ad-Hoc, xxxxxxxxxxx, Freq 2457 MHz, Rate 11 Mb/s, Strength 75 WEP
######################
which means I’m connected through eth0 but the networkmager widget keeps saying “No network interface”
@fgcl2k,
I am running Slackware-current, with KDE 4.8.4 on this laptop, and the gwenview bug does not manifest itself. The bug report on bugs.de.org has not been closed, but that is not really my call, since new reports (from other distros) still keep get added.
As far as I am concerned, KDE 4.8.4 works very well.
Eric
@b & silviu
I can start krunner and konsole just fine. All I get when I run krunner from a commandline are these two lines, which seem to come with almost every program:
$ krunner
QDBusConnection: session D-Bus connection created before QCoreApplication. Application may misbehave.
QDBusConnection: session D-Bus connection created before QCoreApplication. Application may misbehave.
But nothing else, and works OK.
Eric
@escaflown,
I am running KDE 4.9-rc1 on this desktop with slackware64-current. I do not have wireless card, but NetworkManager manages my wired connection just fine.
I assume you failed an upgrade to -current and/or KDE 4.9-rc1 somewhere along the path.
You _are_ referring to the KDE networkmanagement widget, are you?
Eric
@Eric: yes I’m referring to the KDE networkmanagement widget. I just noticed that I have NetworkManager-0.9.2.0 and networkmaagement-0.9.0. Could version number mismatch be an issue?
Hi escaflown,
I have these same versions installed – they are the slackware-current official packages.
Eric
@Eric: i will keep digging then.
@alienbob
Yes both run fine but after upgrading the konsole icon was gone from kmenu – I had to create a new shortcut
Krunner works fine, just that after the update more than half it’s plugins (start krunner, click on the settings icon [gears] ) There were a lot more there in all previous versions.
@Eric: I finally fixed it but I did it the hard way 🙂 I did a slackpkg clean-system with SBO and alien blacklisted then slackpkg reinstall a ap d e f installer k kde kdei l local n t tcl x xap y and finally slackpkg install-new without installing ksecrets.
It’s the hard way but it got it done 🙂
@escaflown…
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It must have been some package which you forgot to install or upgrade. Glad you sorted it out.
Eric
@Eric: by the way, any chance we get kde-telepathy slackbuilds from you?
Hi escaflown
I looked at the requirements for telepathy when I started with the KDE 4.8.x SlackBuild and decided that it requires too many dependencies to make it into Slackware itself
I might try and find some time to build a set of telepathy related packages, but don’t hold your breath!
Eric
@alienbob When you start konsole through krunner, is it using the .desktop file or just running the executable /usr/bin/konsole? Both .desktop and executables in your path are valid sources for krunner. It still seems as though my konsole.desktop has a problem with 4.9 rc1.
Hi Eric,
if I try to use NetworkManager to connect to OpenVPN Server, I receive this error: “The VPN service ‘org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.openvpn’ was not installed.”
I was not able to find “network-manager-openvpn-kde” which seems to solve the problem.
Have you ever faced this issue?
I noticed a little crash with the rc1. If you go in System Settings, then Workspace Appearance, the system settings always crash. It is a repeatable crash on all my boxes. This is the error collected from konsole:
QDBusConnection: session D-Bus connection created before QCoreApplication. Application may misbehave.
QDBusConnection: session D-Bus connection created before QCoreApplication. Application may misbehave.
elom@Freemind3:~/Documents$ couldn’t create image from “/home/diau/overlay.png”
systemsettings(3268)/kwin KDecorationPlugins::loadPlugin: kwin : path “/usr/lib/kde4/kwin3_b2.so” for “kwin3_b2”
systemsettings(3268)/kwin KDecorationPlugins::loadPlugin: kwin : path “/usr/lib/kde4/kwin3_kde2.so” for “kwin3_kde2”
systemsettings(3268)/kwin KDecorationPlugins::loadPlugin: “******
The library /usr/lib/kde4/kwin3_kde2.so has no API version
Please use the KWIN_DECORATION or future versions of kwin will no longer load this decoration!
*******”
systemsettings(3268)/kwin KDecorationPlugins::loadPlugin: kwin : path “/usr/lib/kde4/kwin3_keramik.so” for “kwin3_keramik”
systemsettings(3268)/kwin KDecorationPlugins::loadPlugin: “******
The library /usr/lib/kde4/kwin3_keramik.so has no API version
Please use the KWIN_DECORATION or future versions of kwin will no longer load this decoration!
*******”
systemsettings(3268)/kwin KDecorationPlugins::loadPlugin: kwin : path “/usr/lib/kde4/kwin3_laptop.so” for “kwin3_laptop”
systemsettings(3268)/kwin KDecorationPlugins::loadPlugin: kwin : path “/usr/lib/kde4/kwin3_modernsys.so” for “kwin3_modernsys”
systemsettings(3268)/kwin KDecorationPlugins::loadPlugin: “******
The library /usr/lib/kde4/kwin3_modernsys.so has no API version
Please use the KWIN_DECORATION or future versions of kwin will no longer load this decoration!
*******”
systemsettings(3268)/kwin KDecorationPlugins::loadPlugin: kwin : path “/usr/lib/kde4/kwin3_oxygen.so” for “kwin3_oxygen”
systemsettings(3268)/kwin KDecorationPlugins::loadPlugin: kwin : path “/usr/lib/kde4/kwin3_plastik.so” for “kwin3_plastik”
systemsettings(3268)/kwin KDecorationPlugins::loadPlugin: kwin : path “/usr/lib/kde4/kwin3_qtcurve.so” for “kwin3_qtcurve”
systemsettings(3268)/kwin KDecorationPlugins::loadPlugin: “******
The library /usr/lib/kde4/kwin3_qtcurve.so has no API version
Please use the KWIN_DECORATION or future versions of kwin will no longer load this decoration!
*******”
X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3
Major opcode: 20 (X_GetProperty)
Resource id: 0x0
systemsettings: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/kde4/kwin3_qtcurve.so: undefined symbol: _ZNK25KCommonDecorationUnstable16clientGroupItemsEv
Could anyone else confirm this?
@escaflown
No crash here, sorry 😉
Anybody had any luck finding out where/why half the krunner plugins are gone? I couldn’t find anything online…
@David: Thanks for the information!
The NetworkManager widget doesn’t see any wired or wireless connection. Does anyone else have that issue?
Matt.
Matt, perhaps you are missing some new package (i.e. added to Slackware after the 13.37 release)?
Eric
Thanks Eric.
rc2 on the way … 🙂
Yes I know, KDE 4.9-RC2 is on the way, Libre Office 3.5.5 was just released, and I will not have time to create packages in the next two weeks… you are all on your own, people!
I just hope that Pat will not release new glibc or gcc packages in the next two weeks, or you’ll have to wait for multilib versions of those!
Eric
Well, for KDE, your slackbuild scripts already point us in the right dicrection 🙂