PA4

[Marco Martin]

Hi all,
at Akademy i promised we would have talked about pa4 after akademy and here it 
is ;)

so, i just tried an image i generated with the sdk and tried the x86 version 
on a couple of devices: an exopc and a lenovo s10 3-t

on the lenovo works pretty good, on the exopc is reliably broken.
i think the problem is the drivers of the exopc ssd in that particular kernel 
version

when running on the thumbdrive it works fine, when installed has issues

an installed image either doesn't boot or lacks a lot of files (most of 
artwork seems, plasma themes folders are empty for instance, even tough the 
desktoptheme package is installed)
since sebas had a very similar problem recently on a wetab that at first was 
blamed to the ssd wearing out, i think is too much of a coincidence that mine 
is wearing out at the same moment (and received some other comments as well 
regarding pa4 images not booting after installed)

one thing that may be tried is to try to change the installer from btrfs to 
ext4 to see if it helps a bit, otherwise exopc/wetab support may have to be 
removed...

on other things, at akademy during the bof something that was suggested is to 
disable the recommendations panel and the location applet
 http://community.kde.org/Plasma/Active/PA4

 sincedoesn't seem much usable and has only one plugin...
personally, on one part I don't like removing features we had, on the other 
part i'm all for simplification (especially when it can save some megabyte of 
ram) but I'm keeping opinions for myself so far, so let's discuss it.

another thing may be the video, that i'm not sure if still ok or should be 
changed, if we still want an introductory video.

other than that, modulo proximity blindness, it looks fine for me on devices 
!= wetab

Cheers,
Marco Martin