I just borked a clean recent vanilla kubuntu (quantal?) system like so:
| % add-apt-repository ppa:efl/trunk
| % apt-get update
| % apt-get upgrade
| % apt-get install e17
I logged out of my KDE/Plasma session, selected enlightenment from the
lightdm menu, logged back in, and ran the e17 wizard making no changes
to the defaults.
That's where I noticed that I was missing my laptop's Wifi led.
I wasn't expecting a notification, so I thought that this was just
a matter of manually configuring the ConnMan (?) applet. So, I clicked
on the icon in the Shelf, checked 'Wifi On', clicked 'Configure'...
This caused a popup to be displayed with an ominous-looking exclamation
mark in a triangle, and the following error message:
| This module wants to execute an external application eConnMan that
| does not exist. Please install EConnMan application."
So, if the message really means what it says, it looks like whatever
package should have installed EConnMan ('ConnMan' prefixed with an 'E')
is missing.. 'optional', perhaps.. not pulled when I installed e17..?
The KDE wifi stuff (network manager, I believe) having been removed by
the e17 install and since I only have wifi internet at this point, I am
stuck. I cannot just reinstall network manager and start over.
Any suggestions how I could work around this..?
If I understand the problem correctly (?), I was thinking I might get
away with manually downloading the missing .deb(s) from the repos at
launchpad.net/efl and (re)installing via ‘dpkg -i’.
Keeping in mind I am not too worried about the long-term integrity of
the apt environment on this particular system, is there any chance that
this might work without wasting too much time over it..?
The question is what package(s).. Just the one that has EConnMan.. other
packages on top of that.. all the e17 packages for my ubuntu release..?
Incidentally, in the event I eventually manage to get this to work under
e17, how am I supposed to switch between Plasma/KDE (or any other
desktop/wm) and e17 thereafter..? Not by installing, removing,
reinstalling.. network manager and ConnMan every time I log in and out,
surely..? Once my wifi connection is up again, should I just forget
about the applets and set up wicd..?
While I'm at it, here are a couple of other problems I've run into:
1. The 'applications' menu is empty - hence I cannot even as much as
launch an xterm (worked around that by creating a Favorites menu with
Uxterm + a couple of other things)..
2. The 'navigate' menu appears to be populated by entries with the names
of a bunch of well-known screensavers.. antmaze, antinspect, etc.
Hum.. Maybe I did screw up when running the wizard after all ;-)
3. I can no longer Ctrl+Alt+Fx to fall back to a linux console.. All
I get is a black screen. I have to log out and use lightdm's 'log to
console' option. This doesn't happen with plasma/KDE. I'm running
a framebuffer console and the nvidia proprietary blob-—rather than
nouveau.
4. KDE applications such as Konsole, calibre, etc. appear to crash at
startup. I didn't bother writing down any of the numerous cryptic
messages & investigating at this point..
Likely most of these other symptoms are unrelated to the wifi issue, but
then again they might provide a clue..
But apart from the system being unusable at this point, everything else
looks good to me..!!
A quick note about where I'm coming from. I have been keeping an eye on
e16/e17 for close to 12 years, and recently contemplating a switch from
my ageing Window Maker to enlightenment but I'd rather have a 'real
system' running off of my HD (eventually stock debian rather than one of
the ubuntu's, mint's, bhodi's..). I am not interested in running Elive
either at this point. No rush in any case and this approach should make
it easier to make up my mind when the time comes..
Sorry for the long-winded post and tia for any suggestions.
Thanks,
CJ
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