baloo kf5 by default

Jonathan Riddell jr at jriddell.org
Mon Jul 14 17:06:39 UTC 2014


On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 11:48:53AM -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> On Monday, July 14, 2014 16:43:35 Jonathan Riddell wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 07, 2014 at 03:55:30PM +0100, Jonathan Riddell wrote:
> > > New trello item
> > > https://trello.com/c/bHts0dQn/71-consider-using-baloo-kf5-by-default
> > > 
> > > Upstream advises using baloo kf5 version even with Plasma 4 and KDE SC 4
> > > Software as it has fewer bugs and is faster, consider if we should do
> > > this
> > All packaging working well, it adds about 9MB to install so probably
> > about the same onto the ISO images.  I'm currently in favour of it as
> > Vishesh says he's making fixes in Frameworks version that doesn't get
> > made to kdelibs version.  Any opinions?
> 
> What Qt5/KF5 modules does it bring onto the images?  Maybe there are other 
> packages we could switch over too if enough of Qt5/KF5 will be there due to 
> this (Quassel comes to mind as a possibility)?

A bunch of them...

  baloo-kf5 libdbusmenu-qt5 libkf5archive5 libkf5attica5 libkf5auth-bin
  libkf5auth-data libkf5auth5 libkf5baloocore5 libkf5baloofiles5
  libkf5balooxapian5 libkf5bookmarks-data libkf5bookmarks5 libkf5codecs-data
  libkf5codecs5 libkf5completion-data libkf5completion5 libkf5config-bin
  libkf5config-data libkf5configcore5 libkf5configgui5
  libkf5configwidgets-data libkf5configwidgets5 libkf5coreaddons5 libkf5crash5
  libkf5dbusaddons-bin libkf5dbusaddons-data libkf5dbusaddons5
  libkf5filemetadata-bin libkf5filemetadata5 libkf5globalaccel-data
  libkf5globalaccel5 libkf5guiaddons5 libkf5i18n-data libkf5i18n5
  libkf5iconthemes-bin libkf5iconthemes-data libkf5iconthemes5 libkf5idletime5
  libkf5itemviews-data libkf5itemviews5 libkf5jobwidgets-data
  libkf5jobwidgets5 libkf5kdelibs4support5 libkf5kdelibs4support5-bin
  libkf5kiocore5 libkf5kiofilewidgets5 libkf5kiowidgets5
  libkf5notifications-data libkf5notifications5 libkf5parts-bin
  libkf5parts-data libkf5parts5 libkf5service-bin libkf5service-data
  libkf5service5 libkf5solid-bin libkf5solid5 libkf5solid5-data
  libkf5sonnet5-data libkf5sonnetcore5 libkf5sonnetui5 libkf5textwidgets-data
  libkf5textwidgets5 libkf5widgetsaddons-data libkf5widgetsaddons5
  libkf5windowsystem-data libkf5windowsystem5 libkf5xmlgui-bin
  libkf5xmlgui-data libkf5xmlgui5 libphonon4qt5-4 libpoppler-qt5-1
  libqt5core5a libqt5dbus5 libqt5gui5 libqt5network5 libqt5printsupport5
  libqt5script5 libqt5sql5 libqt5sql5-sqlite libqt5svg5 libqt5test5
  libqt5widgets5 libqt5x11extras5 libqt5xml5 libxcb-icccm4 libxcb-render-util0
  libxcb-xkb1 libxkbcommon-x11-0 sonnet-plugins

which is actually 16.6 MB of archive.  We're already oversized so it probably means bumping our image size limit to, say, 1100MB

I'm all for adding more Qt5/KF5 bits if they're stable and work well.  GUI stuff like Quassel would need testing with Oxygen theme.

Jonathan



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