Don't see it as an "upgrade" it wasn't designed like that. You in fact "trade in" KDE4 for PLASMA 5 loosing all your customization. This was a choice made by KDE.
On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 4:46 PM, Stuart Rose <stupot+saba...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks, that's kind of what I figured. > > I'll give it a whirl on my desktop this weekend, upgrading from KDE4 and > I'll report any issues I run into along the way. > > On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 9:45 AM, Joost Ruis <joost.r...@sabayon.org> > wrote: > >> It is there for testing purpose. Since we can't simply add it to our >> official build chroot without removing KDE4. Best way to test for now is >> using an external repository. >> >> On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 4:41 PM, Stuart Rose <stupot+saba...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Is this set up with the plan to test it here and eventually move it into >>> limbo/mainline? >>> >>> Or did you just want plasma 5 and didn't feel like waiting? I must >>> admit, I just installed Arch on a laptop because we didn't have plasma 5 >>> yet and I wanted it for better hiDPI support. >>> >>> On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 9:38 AM, mud...@sabayonlinux.org < >>> mud...@sabayonlinux.org> wrote: >>> >>>> I just set up a repo with Plasma 5, if someone feels so brave to test, >>>> read on: >>>> >>>> >>>> Add in /etc/entropy/repositories.conf.d >>>> >>>> the file entropy_plasma5 with the following content: >>>> >>>> [plasma5] >>>> desc = Plasma5 Sabayon repository >>>> repo=https://mirror.spike-pentesting.org/mirrors/spike/plasma5#bz2 >>>> enabled = true >>>> pkg = https://mirror.spike-pentesting.org/mirrors/spike/plasma5 >>>> >>>> Then as usual do an equo up and install the metapackage (equo i >>>> kde-plasma/plasma-meta). >>>> >>>> For network manager you have to install plasma-nm, for having all >>>> systray working correctly you need also dev-libs/sni-qt (available in >>>> sabayon-limbo now). >>>> >>>> Please keep in mind this is still in testing, for any reference: >>>> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/KDE/Plasma_5_upgrade#Missing_systray_icons >>>> and https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:KDE/Frameworks >>>> >>>> Cheers >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >> > > > >
