[Mageia-dev] KDE requires creep and other minimal installation issues

[John Balcaen]

Le 28 mars 2012 12:40, "David Walser" <luigiwalser at yahoo.com> a écrit :
>
> I have a server VM that does not have KDE installed, but it has KDM, ark,
and
> konsole installed.  IceWM is
the default window manager.
>
> I've tested upgrading it to Mageia 2, and all kinds of extra KDE stuff
gets
> pulled in in the upgrade, including task-kde4-minimal, leaving a broken
KDE as
> the default window manager.
>
> I'm not 100% sure, but I think at least some of the reason all kinds of
extra
> stuff gets pulled in is because Default-kde4-config and
> mageia-kde4-config-common both have added dependencies on plasma applets
> (plasma-applet-icontasks and plasma-applet-battery, respectively), which
> certainly seems wrong.
Nop, default config use iconstasks so we'll end up with a broken panel if
it was not pulled.

I don't know if this accounts for all of the extra stuff
> getting pulled in.  If I knew for sure, I'd file a bug.
>
> Also, as I alluded to, KDE installed with task-kde4-minimal is a bit
broken.
> Some issues include no showdesktop widget being installed, and as soon as
you
> log in, an error message:
> Warning: Cannot open ConsoleKit session: Unable to open session: Failed to
> connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus
>
> Not sure if this is related, but when you don't have a sound device, Kmix
in the
> system tray has a missing icon.

Under kde session ? Could you add a screenshot ?

> Finally, even on a workstation installation with full KDE, there is some
error
> message that briefly displays at the top of the screen after you log in,
but not
> long enough to read it.  It looks like something about power management.
>
You should add somewhere thoses logs (bugzilla).
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