Apps 14.12 release aftermath / Running KF5 apps in KDE 4

[Albert Astals Cid]

El Dilluns, 26 de gener de 2015, a les 11:13:57, Jeremy Whiting va escriure:
> 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.

Kdelibs4ConfigMigrator see 
http://quickgit.kde.org/?p=kgeography.git&a=blob&h=12b104f1f99ebd3cc55933df26229c2f47111a9d&hb=9f6c8f4bb518ea8e1ecc4b9dd56bead796426d03&f=src%2Fmain.cpp 
for an example on how to use it.

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> >   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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