Ktown becomes Vtown

Settimana ricca di annunci!

Finalmente è arrivato su slackware current (per ora in testing) l’aggiornamento di KDE a Plasma:

Tue Nov 3 22:32:22 UTC 2020
Welcome to vtown, volkerdi's friendly takeover of alienBOB's ktown Plasma 5
packages! Enormous thanks are due to alienBOB for maintaining and leading
testing of Plasma 5 on the side, even as I wore out his patience (and likely
others as well). But now this has made it into /testing and it won't be all
that long before it'll hit the main tree, so test it out and let me know if
anything broke. Several packages have been given back their upstream names
since there's no real reason to do otherwise unless we were going to support
installing KDE4 at the same time, and we aren't. Qt4 won't even be sticking
around, but probably slackbuilds.org will take it up. I dropped kaudiocreator
(won't build), ktuberling and klettres (rather bloated for the probably limited
appeal), user-manager (seems to have been dropped by upstream), kdelibs (KDE4
library, not going to support that), kwebkitpart, and kpat (not adding three
new dependencies only used for a solitaire game). In addition, it's probable
that digikam and its dependencies will be dropped. It's a great program, but
in my opinion it's just a little too big (especially the source) to ship by
default. To install the vtown packages, first you'll want to remove any KDE4
packages (the KDE and KDEI series in the main tree), any previous ktown packages
from alienBOB, and then install all of the packages in vtown/deps and vtown/kde
using upgradepkg --install-new. The previous advice on ConsoleKit2 was to remove
it since we've switched to elogind, but if you've got the latest rc.M it
shouldn't matter since ConsoleKit2 will not be started if elogind is installed.
Speaking of elogind, you'll probably notice that once elogind is installed X
or Wayland sessions will launch in the current console rather than on console 7.
Regarding the build numbers, the one before _vtown_ is the build number that
will be used when the merge to the main tree happens, and the one after _vtown_
is used in case any rebuilds need to happen while vtown is in /testing. That's
about it for the notes on this one. Thanks again to alienBOB, and to my friends
in the US - don't forget to vote. :-)

Ormai la pagina di changelog di current è così grande che si fa fatica a caricarla sul browser 🙂

Il passaggio sembra non banale come raccontato da alienBob e anche su linuxquestions, quindi forse aspetto che arrivi in current prima di installarlo.

Una delle prime cose da sistemare sarà aggiungere uno slackbuild per Digikam che sta arrivando alla versione 7.2.0 e che su intenzioni di Patrick non verrà incluso nella distribuzione ufficiale perchè il pacchetto è troppo grande.

FlightGear 2020.3.2

Mentre Microsoft ha rilasciato il nuovo gioco Flight Simulator 2020 che porta la simulazione di volo a livelli mai visti, il progetto opensource FlightGear continua per la sua strada con livelli di realismo ben inferiori, ma sempre degni di nota. Mi sono accorto che la lista degli aerei era ferma al 2018, da cui alcuni problemi nel gioco, ora sono passato al nuovo archivio.

Ho aggiornato anche lo script terrasync per l’allineamento degli scenari anche se in questo caso il mio mirror era allineato a quello ufficiale.

GIMP 2.99.2

Anche GIMP ha fatto un passo avanti annunciando la prima beta ufficiale della version 3.0. Aspetto di provarla quando sarà rilasciata la versione stabile, ma il supporto per GTK3 e i monitor ad alta risoluzione sembra molto promettente.