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

Wed Mar 28 20:40:49 CEST 2012

John Balcaen <mikala at ...> writes:
+> Le 28 mars 2012 12:40, "David Walser"
+<luigiwalser at yahoo.com> a écrit :
+> > 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.
+
+Then this is definitely wrong.  Those config packages are required even when
+you don't have KDE itself installed, so there's no panel to be broken.  Those
+requires should be elsewhere.
+
+> 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 ?
+
+Yes, in a KDE session.
+
+> > 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).
+
+That's the thing, the message doesn't stay long enough to read it, and I
+don't see anything about it in .xsession-errors.
+
+