Apps 14.12 release aftermath / Running KF5 apps in KDE 4

[Mathias Kraus]

Am Montag, 26. Januar 2015, 22:11:40 schrieb 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.

Is there also somewhere an example for Kdelibs4Migration, to migrate application data from $KDEHOME/share/apps?

> 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
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > release-team mailing list
> > > release-team at kde.org
> > > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/release-team
> 
> _______________________________________________
> release-team mailing list
> release-team at kde.org
> https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/release-team
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/release-team/attachments/20150126/1b0e4ada/attachment-0001.html>