Desired updates to -current (20150422)

ryanpcmcquen · 05-05-2015, 12:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by xflow7

Any chance of a bump to kernel 3.18.12? This fixes several issues with trackpoint buttons on 2015 Lenovo laptops. See the 17APR2015 commits here:

https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/ke...h=linux-3.18.y

Thanks!

Dave

I would be surprised if we didn't see a few more kernel updates before the next release. :-)

gmgf · 05-06-2015, 02:43 AM

Thunar-1.6.8, is ready,

https://mail.xfce.org/pipermail/xfce...ay/000414.html

Thom1b · 05-06-2015, 08:50 PM

tmux-2.0 is released.
http://tmux.sourceforge.net/
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/tmux/tmux-2.0.tar.gz

zakame · 05-09-2015, 09:07 PM

Terminus font got updated to 4.39, should be convenient for Powerline users now:

Quote:

Version 4.39:

Added ballot, checkmark, heavy ballot and heavy checkmark.
Changed HT, LF etc. in sizes 14 and 18-hi2 to be proportional to the letter height, not the matrix height.
Added the powerline characters E0A0..E0A2 and E0B0..E0B3.
Added diameter (2300) - same gluph as empty set (2205).
Small improvements in size 32.

Didier Spaier · 05-09-2015, 10:15 PM

Powerline characters:

E0A0 
E0A1 
E0A2 
E0B0 ë
E0B1 
E0B2 
E0B3 

liberalchrist · 05-10-2015, 08:40 PM

Probably get no traction for this one, but I honestly think we could have a simpler Slacking experience without KDE. There are plenty of good smaller options to provide a default working desktop. It would make everyone's life easier. KDE is nice enough, but flies in the face of Slackware philosophy, just like Gnome does. Anyway, that's my two cents.

ReaperX7 · 05-11-2015, 01:23 AM

Many of us use a lot of the KDE apps with other desktops, so no. Plus KDE is a professional grade DE whereas Xfce is more power-user.

sbolokanov · 05-11-2015, 01:31 AM

I'm yet to see KDE getting in my way, even when I opt not to install it at all.
And there are people that actually use it, so given that I see no need for it's removal.

dugan · 05-11-2015, 09:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by liberalchrist

Probably get no traction for this one, but I honestly think we could have a simpler Slacking experience without KDE. There are plenty of good smaller options to provide a default working desktop. It would make everyone's life easier. KDE is nice enough, but flies in the face of Slackware philosophy, just like Gnome does. Anyway, that's my two cents.

Slackware already includes a number of other WMs and desktops, so I'm not sure if I understand your reasoning.

Also, GNOME wasn't dropped because it "flies in the face of Slackware philosophy". It was dropped because it became too difficult for Pat to maintain builds of it.

mlslk31 · 05-11-2015, 10:29 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by liberalchrist

Probably get no traction for this one, but I honestly think we could have a simpler Slacking experience without KDE. There are plenty of good smaller options to provide a default working desktop. It would make everyone's life easier. KDE is nice enough, but flies in the face of Slackware philosophy, just like Gnome does. Anyway, that's my two cents.

I'm OK with the current setup. I'd really love a "KDE apps for people that don't use KDE" metapackage, but the current situation is acceptable. My only request might be to kick the libraries really meant for KDE out of l/ and put them into kde/ instead. It would save me a 10-minute pktool session. A polite complaint E-mail to Pat would also take 10 minutes, so I end up with the pkgtool session and keep the complaint in my back pocket. Overall, no problem.

The KDE in -current is acceptably fast and solid on an old x86_64 Pentium 4 that I have at home, and I've been switched away from Xfce on that PC. Load time still sucks, though.

hitest · 05-11-2015, 10:37 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by liberalchrist

Probably get no traction for this one, but I honestly think we could have a simpler Slacking experience without KDE. There are plenty of good smaller options to provide a default working desktop. It would make everyone's life easier. KDE is nice enough, but flies in the face of Slackware philosophy, just like Gnome does. Anyway, that's my two cents.

I don't agree. Although I am a XFCE user I think that KDE adds a lot of excellent functionality to Slackware. I happily use k3b, kwrite, ksnapshot, etc. when I'm running XFCE. Removing KDE would be a mistake as it is an excellent DE.

Didier Spaier · 05-11-2015, 10:55 AM

KDE will obviously be included in next stable Slackware release. Move on to suggestions that have a chance to be accepted.

Didier Spaier · 05-12-2015, 05:21 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by zakame

Terminus font got updated to 4.39, should be convenient for Powerline users now:

You got it

Code:

Tue May 12 07:17:33 UTC 2015
...
ap/terminus-font-4.39-noarch-1.txz:  Upgraded.

Qury · 05-12-2015, 11:00 AM

sbopkg in /extra

Didier Spaier · 05-12-2015, 01:13 PM

Not sure this belongs here, I came across this "proposal to enable stateless persistant (sic) network interface names".

Just wondering: as the author states inconveniences of the so-called [mac] way (also used by Slackware, i.e. we do use the udev rule /lib/udev/rules.d/75-persistent-net-generator.rules ), does these inconveniences actually occur for some of us? And will that change if we upgrade to a later version of udev extracted from systemd?

Just curious.