Apps 14.12 release aftermath / Running KF5 apps in KDE 4

[Jeremy Whiting]

Eike,

Thanks for looking into this and notifying us also. I heard some vague
reports but nothing concrete like this.

On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 8:58 AM, Eike Hein <hein at kde.org> wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> it's becoming increasingly clear from feedback that we didn't
> think the decision to ship KF5 apps in 14.12 through very well.
>
> Distros are currently rolling it out as an upgrade to KDE 4
> systems over the last 4.x apps, and users are running into the
> following problems:
>
> * KF5-based apps don't pick up visual settings from KDE 4 and
>   can't be configured because System Settings 5 is usually not
>   co-installable.
>
>   I believe this needs to be addressed in the QPA plugin we
>   ship with Frameworks and have added a new BKO product for
>   the plugin as well as opened a ticket:
>
>   https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=343336
>
> * Some apps apparently don't use the support class to migrate
>   the app config file to the fd.o location, which means from
>   the user POV they lose all settings for the app.
>

I know kns3 isn't using this support class to migrate it's registry of
what's been installed to the new locations it uses. Just curious, what
"support class" are you referring to here?
I know kanagram/khangman also don't use this, but that's probably not as
important, since they don't have many settings anyway.

>
>   Here we need to go through every app and check and fix it,
>   and make sure we don't ship anything without that QA check
>   again on future ports.
>
> I cross-posted this to k-c-d and r-t for visibility - I suggest
> we discuss the Frameworks side on k-c-d and the release QA side
> on r-t.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Eike
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