Ok, here's been my experience thus far.
Installing plasma-meta didn't pull in plasma-desktop, kwin, or
plasma-workspace packages so I didn't get a working DE just from that.
Installing plasma-desktop pulled the other 2 in and I could get it. I had
already switched to sddm (it was pulled in via
On my system all those packages actually were installed and they are part
of the meta as well.
http://gpo.zugaina.org/kde-plasma/plasma-meta/Dep#ptabs
On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 9:22 PM, Stuart Rose stupot+saba...@gmail.com
wrote:
Ok, here's been my experience thus far.
Installing plasma-meta
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
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
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
Ahh, I realize that everything will be lost. I meant more from a technical
point of view, seeing entropy remove and replace what it should. For
instance, it's my understanding that KDM isn't up to the task and SDDM is
the preferred DM for Plasma 5. I'm also aware that some apps are still the
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 =