On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 3:00 PM, Jascha Geerds <j...@ekby.de> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 29, 2015, at 15:13, Thomas Tuegel wrote: >> To enable KDE 5 in NixOS, simply set: >> >> services.xserver.desktopManager.kde5.enable = true; > > Good job, Thomas! It works pretty well on my machine. There are only > minor issues but I guess that's due to KDE5 (and not your work). I'll > look into it.
That may not be the case. It turns out that many components of KDE make assumptions about paths (FHS-compliance, no symlinks) that aren't true on NixOS. The usual symptom of this is some graphics asset wil fail to load. Random crashes are probably upstream; Plasma is *excellent* at finding graphics driver bugs. Any reproducible problem you can report to me through our GitHub issue tracker. Speaking of paths, I forgot to mention how fundamentally broken Plasma's security model is. The security model for Plasmoids relies on none of the files in a package being symlinked into place. Obviously, that's never going to work for us. I had to disable this check, so Plasmoids can load files through symlinks. You should not install Plasmoids from untrusted sources! (You should not do this anyway; they can execute arbitrary code! I just don't want anyone coming back and saying I crippled security without warning.) -- Thomas Tuegel _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
