Default Plasma install cleanups and improvements

[Aurélien COUDERC]

Hi !

Thanks for all the details.



Le 28 février 2023 21:53:45 GMT+01:00, Pino Toscano <pino at debian.org> a écrit :
>In data sabato 25 febbraio 2023 23:18:11 CET, Aurélien COUDERC ha scritto:

>The idea is that kde-plasma-desktop is the package for the users
>representing "a working Plasma desktop".

OK this makes sense. I had analyzed it as pulling deps that were not purely Plasma, but your explanation is a better.

> This is done for a number of
>reasons:
>1) it is easier to have a meta package different than the binaries
>   provided by the actual sources, so in case they change the
>   "entry point" is still the same
>2) some of the sources have kind-of mutual dependencies: in particular
>   plasma-desktop and plasma-workspace
>3) adding user-level relationships (dependencies, recommends, etc) in
>   "low-level" packages such as plasma-desktop makes it harder to spot

OK.

>Team memebers in the past avoided touching the metapackages of meta-kde,

NACK, I want to feel that I can do that. I'll continue asking for advice when in doubt about my changes, though.

[…]

 
>>     Add packages to kde-plasma-desktop Recommends as per upstream packaging recommendations:
>>         bump kdeconnect from Suggests to Recommends
[…]
>>         power-profiles-daemon: enables the power profile functionality in Plasma
>
>OK, although I don't have experience with the last 3. Considering where
>we are in terms of freeze, I'd be skeptical in pulling them now, not
>enough time to test them properly and make sure they integrate
>correctly.

I'd like to have the 2 above for bookworm.
power-profiles-daelon gives access to the power profiles from the plasma energy/battery applet so it's really useful. And kdeconnect has been there for a long time.

If you could make an upload with these with or without any of the below, that would be highly appreciated.
(That would have to be today to be sure it reaches bookworm before the hard freeze).


>Back to plasma-workspace-wayland: IMHO it feels a bit late to add as
>bit to pull in by default, especially when it wasn't much tested as
>default configuration.

It's been a dep for 5.27.0, I've demoted it to recommends for 5.27.2.

> Also, IMHO this is something to add to
>kde-plasma-desktop, making it as alternative to plasma-workspace
>(primary or secondary, depending on whether we want Wayland by default,
>maybe for trixie).

They are not alternatives, the desktop is broken without plasma-workspace.


>I have the following suggestions:

ACK on all this.
It's a better proposal than mine.

I can leave without any of this for bookworm besides the 2 items above.


Best,
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Aurélien