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KDE 5_1501
==========

This is going to be KDE 5 for Slackware-current, composed of Frameworks 5.6.0,
Plasma 5.2.0 and Applications 14.12.1.

Compared to Applications 14.12.0, the Applications 14.12.1 adds LTS releases of
kdelibs, kdepimlibs, kdepim-runtime, kdepim and kde-workspace.
I am going to skip kde-workspace because its contents largely collide with
the plasma-workspace and we want to have a Plasma Workspace.

Plasma 5.2.0 has many improvements to the previous 5.1.2, and comes with
several new packages (some of which I originally had in plasma-extra but have
now found their rightful place): (lib)bluedevil, ksshaskpass, muon,
sddm-kcm-module, kscreen2, polkit-framework, kde-gtk-config, kdecoration.
And unfortunately, in order to be able to compile KWin, I had to add wayland
to the "deps/" for this release of Plasma.

Note that there is still a lot of KDE 4 stuff in here, which is necessary to
support all the Applications that have not yet been ported to KDE Frameworks 5.
The Applications 15.04 (march 2015) release should offer a lot more KF5 ports.


CURRENT RUNTIME ISSUES:
=======================

These are issues I ran into while testing on my Virtual machine. Not tested yet
if they occur on real hardware.

- plasmashell crashes a lot, with error message "the x11 connection broke: unsupported extension used (code 2)".
  Symptom: the desktop disappears and leaves a black screen. If you happen to
  have a konsole window open, you can type "plasmashell" to get the desktop
  back and watch the errors when it crashes again.

- any action in systemsettings5 which requires admin credentials does not work.
  Examples: date/time changes; SDDM configuration changes.
  What *should* happen is that polkit pops up a window where you can enter
  admin credentials. What happens is that no popup appears and the user
  interface of systemsettings freezes (the app continues running, for instance
  the clock keeps working)


COMPILING IT ALL:
=================

Preliminary build procedure:
----------------------------

- (crude) get rid of Slackware's KDE:
  # removepkg /var/log/packages/*-4.10.5-*
  # removepkg libkscreen
  # removepkg kscreen
  # removepkg networkmanagement
  # removepkg polkit-kde-agent-1
  # removepkg polkit-kde-kcmodules-1
  # removepkg polkit-qt-1
- build all the deps using "updates.SlackBuild" script in the "deps/" directory
  - note that extra-cmake-modules is required here as well as when building the
    frameworks, so I just copied it from frameworks to deps.
  - I removed akonadi-qt5 from the built deps because it won't be used until
    there is a kdepimlibs-framework, and currently it causes kdepimlibs-4.14
    to pick up Qt5 dependencies making its build fail
- logoff/login to activate Qt5 profile script.
- build all the KDE 4 stuff in the "kde/" directory, using "./KDE.SlackBuild kde libs kdebase:nepomuk-core kdepimlibs kdebase kdebindings kdepim extragear"
- check that everything built correctly
- build the remaining KDE 5 stuff in the "kde/" directory, using "./KDE.SlackBui
ld frameworks plasma plasma-extra polkit-kde applications"
- check that everything built correctly
- (optionally) build kdei
- If you want to use SDDM as your graphical login manager, use the following
  patch to /etc/rc.d/rc.4:

# -------- 8< --------------------------------------
--- /etc/rc.d/rc.4.orig 2015-01-23 13:26:43.273394439 +0100
+++ /etc/rc.d/rc.4      2015-01-23 10:01:12.189036253 +0100
@@ -28,6 +28,8 @@
 # Not there?  OK, try to use KDE's kdm session manager:
 if [ -x /opt/kde/bin/kdm ]; then
   exec /opt/kde/bin/kdm -nodaemon
+elif [ -x /usr/bin/sddm ]; then
+  exec /usr/bin/sddm
 elif [ -x /usr/bin/kdm ]; then
   exec /usr/bin/kdm -nodaemon
 fi
# -------- 8< --------------------------------------



BUILD LOG FOR PLASMA:
=====================

DONE: Need to recompile everything making sure that Qt4 is not picked up by accident, or else set "export QT_QPA_PLATFORM_PLUGIN_PATH=path/to/qt/plugins" to get rid of the start-time error:
    Failed to load platform plugin "xcb". Available platforms are:
    linuxfb minimal offscreen xcb
    Aborted
    >> The fix was to rebuild the qt5 package, not all of the rest :-) 
SKIP: change "qtpaths" to "qtpaths-qt5" in /usr/bin/startkde
   (not needed for Slackware, because /etc/profile.d/qt5.sh expands $PATH)
SKIP: change "qdbus" to "qdbus-qt5" in /usr/bin/startkde
   (not needed for Slackware, because /etc/profile.d/qt5.sh expands $PATH)
SKIP: rename /usr/bin/startkde to /usr/bin/startkde5 because it clashes with the script from kde-workspace. Also update the plasma*desktop scripts to call startkde5 instead of startkde.
   (I removed kde-workspace instead, we do not need that anyway)
DONE: Remove kde5-plasma*.desktop because plasma-workspace now includes its own plasma.desktop


BUILD LOG FOR PLASMA-EXTRA:
===========================

DONE: sddm-qt5 (no longer adds an /etc/sddm.conf so we need to generate one in its doinst.sh)


BUILD LOG FOR APPLICATIONS:
===========================

DONE: kdoctools (needs a fix for its CMake search for path to "/usr/share/xml/docbook/xml-dtd-4.5/docbookx.dtd", which causes a build error in kde-dev-scripts later on)
DONE: kde-dev-scripts (needs a fixed "/usr/share/kf5/kdoctools/customization/dtd/kdex.dtd" in kdoctools)
SKIP: libkface (needs opencv, so this will get skipped due to my reservations with it)
DONE: kdeartwork (missed kde-workspace, will be fixed in the next iteration)
DONE: kdewebdev (seems like tidy added the KDE.SlackBuild parameter to the path of its header file)
DONE: kalgebra (needs patch to link properly to ncurses)
DONE: kanagram (needed libkeduvocdocument, was missing due to build order issue)
DONE: khangman (needed libkeduvocdocument, was missing due to build order issue)
DONE: parley (needed libkeduvocdocument, was missing due to build order issue)
DONE: okular (needed libkscreen removed)
DONE: kalgebra (needed a refreshed curses patch)
SKIP: step (don't understand where the compilation error comes from)

==============================================================================
                     Eric Hameleers / alien at slackware dot com / 23-jan-2015