On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 11:16 AM Norbert Preining <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi > > > excited as I know the kwayland-integration now supports the > > "middle-mouse-paste" feature. > > Actually, it seems that this is still problematic from what I read. >
Hmm, I do not see Plasma/wayland as an option in SDDM login-manager. So, I cannot report. > > As said, my "base" system is Debian/testing where I have given > > packages from Debian/unstable and others an APT prio of 99. > > That sounds like a great recipe for chaos! Be prepared for cleaning up a > big mess yourself. > Thanks for the helpful informations and friendly warnings. The upgrade worked here on Debian/testing. Not as described in my 2nd email, it needed some APT-shell-kungfu. > > The following packages will be REMOVED: > > ... > > user-manager (4:5.19.5-3) > > > > This seems to be the only KDE package which will be removed. > > My user-management is done via shell-commands, so I can live with that. > > user-manager is superseeded by a kcms plugin, and is not needed anymore, > but the functionality is still there. > OK, a plugin for KConfig module (KCM). [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/KDE#KCM > > More important is *kdeconnect* for me. > > Will it work within KDE/Plasma 5.20 and KF 5.77? > > Try it ... I don't use it. > I was able to connect to my smartphone via WLAN and kdeconnect. Controlling VLC via kdeconnect is cool and playing muzak. > > So, I saw some packages still have version "20.08.3" not "20.12.x". > > Dunno, if there exist a 20.12.x version for kdeconnect. > > That is not a problem. The KDE/Apps can be updated *mostly* independent, > and most of them have anyway hardly any changes between 20.08 and 20.12. > OK. > > Is there any magic to just upgrade KDE/Plasma 5.20 and KF 5.77 > > packages within a Debian/testing system? > > Yes, there is great perfect unbeatable magic, it is called > WAITING > ;-) Wait until the packages arrive in testing, and it will (hopefully) > automatically work. > When I played with KDE/GNOME & Wayland I knew how to check the desktop environment via shell. In KInfoCenter I see the upgraded versions of KDE/Plasma to v5.20.4 and KDE/Framework to v5.77.0. dpkg lists no more old versions of KDE/Plasma & KDE/Framework. Thanks, Best greetings, - Sedat - - Sedat - > Best > > Norbert > > -- > PREINING Norbert https://www.preining.info > Accelia Inc. + IFMGA ProGuide + TU Wien + JAIST + TeX Live + Debian Dev > GPG: 0x860CDC13 fp: F7D8 A928 26E3 16A1 9FA0 ACF0 6CAC A448 860C DC13
