Package: kaboom Version: 1.1.2 Severity: normal I have a KDE 3.5.10 Lenny desktop. I also have a Sid virtual machine running KDE 4.3.2 as of today. I mounted my 3.5.10 $HOME in the Sid VM underneath an aufs overlay. I wanted to see if KDE 4.3 2 is ready for what I need it for.
My use case here is "an existing KDE3 user wants to upgrade to KDE4, and to have her desktop, with its applications and short cuts, immediately available for use, without needing to wholly recreate it by hand". First time I logged into the VM as myself, it was essentially an upgrade from Lenny 3.5.10 to Sid 4.3.2. I found that there were a number of features of my desktop which were not present after conversion. First off I have read the thread about desktop migration and am satisfied with having my ~/Desktop shown as a transparent folder. I can work with that and no doubt will find even better ways to arrange it in due course. However, 1. My wallpaper was not setup under KDE4 by kaboom. It is a simple jpg underneath my $HOME but kaboom discarded this setting. 2. My kicker buttons were largely forgotten. http://www.leverton.org/images/Software/kde-359-toolbar.png is my KDE3 kicker main panel. Buttons and pplets on it are (left to right): K Menu Show desktop button Konsole profiles button Kfmclient shortcut with filebrowsing profile in $HOME Kfmclient shortcut with webbrowsing profile Kbookmarks menu button Kcontrol menu button Application shortcut to mutt Application shortcut to trn Application shortcut to /usr/bin/eject Application shortcut to virt-manager Taskbar Klipper Applet System Monitor Applet System Tray Applet Lock/Logout Applet Clock Applet The following from the above were nowhere on my taskbar or even my desktop after kaboom ran: http://www.leverton.org/images/Software/kde-431-toolbar-after-conversion-from-359.png Konsole profiles button Konqui shortcut to to $HOME with filebrowsing profile Konqui shortcut with default (webbrowsing) profile Kcontrol menu button Application shortcut to mutt Application shortcut to trn Application shortcut to /usr/bin/eject Application shortcut to virt-manager System Load Viewer applet (direct replacement for old System Monitor) Lock/Logout applet A number of my other resident and autostarted applets, visible in the KDE3 system tray, also did not start under KDE4. But I will do more testing on that and open a separate bug with specifics. 3. My window shortcuts were wholly forgotten. My custom KDE3 kwin shortcut scheme is based on the KDE 3-modifier scheme with some additions: Win+up = maximise vertically Win+right = maximise horizontally Win+M = minimimise Win+S = shade Win+V = move I hoped that these at least would have been translated across since I use them many times per day. My xbb mappings were also not applied. In KDE3 I have "enable keyboard layouts" turned off (since my xorg.conf specifies the keyboard layout) but I have "enable xkb options" turned on, in order that I can use the right win-key for "Compose". In KDE4 it seems that I cannot have xkb enabled at all unless I also set up a keyboard layout overriding the default. Happily, my Compose key setting *was* translated, but just not enabled. It seems that my national keyboard layout and my compose key are not applied even after being setup by hand, but I'll raise that on debian-kde since it is not apparently related to kaboom. I can't see kaboom in KDE bugzilla so I haven't been able to check if any of these are known bugs - they're not in Debian BTS though AFAICS. Apols if any of them are due to aufs but I can't afford any downtime at all on my main desktop. However since I can wipe the aufs overlay I can re-run any tests if needed. Aufs is used in Debian Live systems so I hope it is a fair test. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-2-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages kaboom depends on: ii libc6 2.9-27 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libgcc1 1:4.4.1-6 GCC support library ii libqtcore4 4:4.5.3-2 Qt 4 core module ii libqtgui4 4:4.5.3-2 Qt 4 GUI module ii libstdc++6 4.4.1-6 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 kaboom recommends no packages. kaboom suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-qt-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
