New UI: Plasma desktop
Well... "New". Basically one extra package to our already existing KDE/Plasma base.
It boots into Wayland mode (I don't really care for X11 on postmarketOS), but if an user installs just plasma-desktop
and not postmarketos-ui-plasma-desktop
, they can always run it in X11 instead if they'd like too.
Booting in Qemu is a bit slow so after the loading circle disappears on the splash screen, give it a few seconds and it will show the desktop.
From my testing there are 3 issues so far:
- The
startplasmacompositor
script that's used for launching the desktop, does calls toqdbus
. However, that binary is calledqdbus-qt5
in the upstream packaging. Either the user has to manually replace the calls in this script or we will have to find a solution with upstream to resolve this - Fonts in konsole (and possibly other applications) are messed up (see screenshot). Note that I added no spaces after that sentence. It seems there is an incorrect amount of space between each character, even making commands unreadable if short like
ls
, because they appear inside the prompt. -
systemsettings
doesn't launch.
qemu-amd64:~$ systemsettings5 -platform wayland
QCoreApplication::arguments: Please instantiate the QApplication object first
"Session bus not found\nTo circumvent this problem try the following command (with Linux and bash)\nexport $(dbus-launch)"
Installing dbus-x11
and then running export $(dbus-launch)
does indeed fix this, but I prefer not doing this every boot. I'm not entirely sure how to fix this.
Edited by Administrator