Bug 15184 - installing plasma5 overrides the kdm mageia settings forever
Summary: installing plasma5 overrides the kdm mageia settings forever
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Mageia
Classification: Unclassified
Component: RPM Packages (show other bugs)
Version: Cauldron
Hardware: x86_64 Linux
Priority: Normal normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Nicolas Lécureuil
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Reported: 2015-02-02 10:39 CET by Chris Denice
Modified: 2015-05-15 02:20 CEST (History)
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Source RPM: task-plasma5-5.1.2-3.mga5.src.rpm
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Description Chris Denice 2015-02-02 10:39:15 CET 
Description of problem:

This week-end at Fosdem, we tried more or less all window managers at the stand and someone requested kde5. On install of the meta package task-plasma5, the kdm login screen is defaulted to something which is no longer mageia (background screen is lost and login windows changed).

It seems that plasma overrides one of these package:
mageia-kde4-config-common
Default-kde4-config

Moreover, reverting to kde4 does not restore the default mageia settings and the kdm login windows remain as for plasma even though kde4 is reinstalled.

Cheers,
Chris.

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Comment 1 David Walser 2015-02-02 15:25:50 CET 
KDE4 and Plasma5 are known to not be co-installable, although maybe there should be some explicit conflict preventing what you experienced.

If you delete the files in /var/lib/mageia/kde4-profiles/*/share/config/kdm and reinstall your Default-kde4-config package you should be OK again.

CC: (none) => lmenut
Assignee: bugsquad => mageia

Comment 2 Manuel Hiebel 2015-02-08 12:42:23 CET 
As per above comment, Luc, Nicolas, Plasma is available in the desktop choice, it should be removed no ?
Comment 3 Sander Lepik 2015-02-08 13:51:44 CET 
Why is KDM's conf installed at all? Plasma 5 should use sddm, not KDM.

CC: (none) => mageia

Comment 4 Nicolas Lécureuil 2015-05-03 21:31:15 CEST 
plasma shouldn't be a choice anymore. 

Can anyone confirm this ?
Comment 5 Samuel Verschelde 2015-05-03 21:34:14 CEST 
It was in netinstall last time I tested (a month ago?), but only there.
Comment 6 Samuel Verschelde 2015-05-03 21:35:00 CEST 
This should be mentioned in Release Notes too, if not done already.
Comment 7 Rémi Verschelde 2015-05-03 21:36:04 CEST 
I can confirm that Plasma is not proposed by the classical installer anymore.

Does that fix this issue, or can the issue arise when one installs KDE4 first and the task-plasma5?
Comment 8 Nicolas Lécureuil 2015-05-03 21:37:43 CEST 
no need as this is removed :

http://svnweb.mageia.org/packages?view=revision&revision=819905

we will work harder on plasma5 for mga6

I look for the kdm issue now
Comment 9 Jüri Ivask 2015-05-07 13:54:10 CEST 
(In reply to Rémi Verschelde from comment #7)
> ...or can the issue arise when one installs KDE4 first and then task-plasma5?

Yes, that seems to be the case. Just tested yesterday on a fresh Mageia5rc KDE4 install. Installing task-plasma5 removes certain KDE4 packages and as a result KDM switches it's theme to Elarun (KDE default theme for KDM?) but otherwise retains it's functionality. When Plasma5 is removed and KDE4 restored eg by installing task-kde4-minimal, then the KDM theme remains Elarun and could be switched back to Mageia's using KDE System Settings application.
So maybe it is not a bug at all?

CC: (none) => jyri2000

Comment 10 Nicolas Lécureuil 2015-05-15 02:20:34 CEST 
does not seems a bug for me.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED
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