Plasma 5 is awesome...and some help required with build instructions

[David Edmundson]

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> Any ideas? (attached the output/bt I got from gdb)
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it's an assert in "could not find any theme"

At a guess you XDG_DATA_DIRS are wrong.

cat /proc/PIDOFPLASMASHELL/env will tell you the most



> Thanks :)
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> Bye,
> Bernhard Friedreich
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> 2015-03-28 19:23 GMT+01:00 Siddhartha <sh.siddhartha at gmail.com>:
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>> Hi David,
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>> Thanks a lot for your comments!
>>
>> On 28 March 2015 at 20:23, David Edmundson <david at davidedmundson.co.uk>
>> wrote:
>> > I don't think we should tell people to download's  David Faure's
>> > kdesrc-buildrc file. It has "/d" hardcoded a lot.
>> >
>> > If we make our own we don't need people to change it and can have the
>> same
>> > directories you use for the rest of this.
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>> Good point. I took this section from Frameworks/Building, didn't think
>> too much :P
>> Maybe we should update that page too?
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>> > That's installing to /opt/kde5 but we need to create those directories
>> first
>> > (as root and change permissions)
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>> Instructions already present :)
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>> > If this is about plasma change:
>> >
>> > include extragear/utils/kdesrc-build/kf5-qt5-build-include
>> >
>> > to
>> > include extragear/utils/kdesrc-build/kf5-frameworks-build-include
>> > include extragear/utils/kdesrc-build/kf5-workspace-build-include
>> >
>> > this way you won't build apps and pim
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>> Cool. Changed the whole section.
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>> > export XDG_CACHE_HOME=/home/user/.kde5/cache
>> >
>> > only works if you happen to be called user.
>> > I'm pretty sure you can do export XDG_CACHE_HOME=$HOME/.whatever
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>> Ah right, fixed.
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>> > Personally I wouldn't change the paths, you lose your firefox settings,
>> and
>> > with the .xinitrc hack later you're only going to be loading this
>> session
>> > from now on anyway.
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>> Hmm. I preferred having clean Plasma 5 config paths. These lines are
>> now commented out by default.
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>> > The setup is a bit broken, if you do the login manager way.
>> > yet if you log into your distro session and then start anything dbus
>> > activated it will load from /opt/kde/install which is at best a bit
>> weird.
>>
>> Ah right. But logging in to a Plasma 4 seemed to work fine. Ideally
>> one should remove the dbus config before starting the distro session,
>> yes.
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>> > you need to say login manager way and the .xinit way are mutually
>> exclusive
>> > (well you can do both, but it'd be weird)
>>
>> Done.
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>> > add a line saying to log out and back in.
>>
>> Done
>>
>> Cheers!
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