On Sunday 12 of October 2014 21:19:09 Stanislav Baiduzhyi wrote:
I've tried to install kate5 from unstable KF5 repository, and something went wrong... So if there is some special procedure to install it, please tell me.
1. I cannot get systemsettings5 to show style and color configuration. I've already installed all possible packages from the repository which do not conflict with KDE4, still nothing. Right now kate5 looks so alien that I have to return back to kate 4. Style & color KCM's are contained in plasma5-desktop package.
2. I've tried neon5 and I see that it stores kdeglobals in ~/.project-neon5- kde/config and second copy in ~/.project-neon5-kde/share/config, but my local install creates all k* configs in ~/.config, which I do not want. Is that normal, or I'm missing something here? It is normal that settings are stored in ~/.config and ~/.local/share, as these are standard XDG variables. You can override these, but that will take effect for other non-KDE apps that use the standard.
3. I've installed openSUSE 13.1 KDE on VirtualBox, then installed plasma5- session and all the dependencies it wanted, uninstalling kde4 completely. Changed displaymanager to sddm. After rebooting I see plain white screen instead of DM. Autologin was enable, it did not worked, so that's not only graphics issue.
4. Tried to install kdm back - it wants some parts of KDE, again conflicting with plasma5. And I thought that DM should not be environment-specific... There has been a few adjustements in how kde-workspace is package, so in Factory and 13.2, one can keep much more of KDE4 than with plain 13.1 (IOW you can have Plasma5 and KDM on the same system co-installed)
5. Installed lightdm. This time Plasma5 showed me loading progress bar, and after that showed me default wallpaper with mouse cursor. That's it. No panels, no shortcuts, no reaction to mouse click.
On the internet everyone says that it is possible to have KDE4 and use some kf5-based apps, but I was not able to find a way to do it, so unless there is some magic way to do it which I missed - will have to stay with KDE4.