KDE SC 4.8.4 Status

[bailout]

I see that the announcement says "You can get it from the Kubuntu Updates PPA until the packages are available in the official repositories." How long will it take for them to moved to the standard repos?

[OneLine]

Learning from history

(Previous page of the "KDE SC 4.8.4 Status"): "The KDE 4.8.3 testing and transition from the Kubuntu updates PPA to the Ubuntu updates did take about a month..."

The path to the Ubuntu updates is usually:

Kubuntu-ninjas PPA --(closed testing)--> Kubuntu Staging PPA --> Kubuntu updates PPA --(open testing)--> Ubuntu proposed --(open testing)--> Ubuntu updates


SRU

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates

Once an Ubuntu release has been completed and published, updates for it are only released under certain circumstances, and must follow a special procedure called a "stable release update" or SRU...

You could follow the progress of the SRU from the: http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-...nding-sru.html

[ronw]

4.9 Beta is availble as well - dare we?

4.8.90 is working well so far on Precise, but System Settings > Workspace Appearance crashed System Settings until I uninstalled qtcurve; not just de-selected, I had to uninstall it.

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=301646

[NoWorries]

4.8.90 is working well so far on Precise, but System Settings > Workspace Appearance crashed System Settings until I uninstalled qtcurve; not just de-selected, I had to uninstall it.

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=301646

I have also found that 4.8.90 is working well. I checked the system that I installed it on and found that gtcurve was not installed and the problems you experienced did not happen.

So far I have not found a great deal of difference because I do not used it a lot as it is on my wife's computer and she has not complained. The only thing that I did notice was that there was a popping sound which increased in volume as the speaker volume was increased. This is quite useful.

Edit . . . Another change is with the file rename (F2) in Dolphin. This is now done in situ with a blue box around the filename. One change that I consider retrograde is the display of NFS mounts and removable devices in the Places panel of Dolphin. The bar under the device is no longer present to show the device is mounted. There is now a small icon on the left of the device name with a small arrow when the device is mounted.

[SteveRiley]

I happened to grab the 4.8.80 update during the few hours it was briefly in the Kubuntu Backports PPA. It hasn't caused any major problems, but it's obviously been replaced already with 4.8.90 in the beta backports PPA. Sounds like it's working well for you guys, I should probably add the repository and upgrade.

[OneLine]

Proposed

http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2012/06/23...ntu-devel.html

debfx ScottK: I've started uploading KDE 4.8.4 to p-proposed. meta-kde and kde4libs are already in the queue. 21:01

SRU
http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-...nding-sru.html
--> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...e/+bug/1007798

[OneLine]

Updates

http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2012/07/02...ntu-devel.html

ScottK Any objections to me copying 4.8.4 to precise-updates tomorrow? It'll be seven days in the queue. 00:17
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ScottK 4.8.4 -> precise-updates. 14:34

and

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...e/+bug/1007798

Scott Kitterman (kitterman) wrote 1 hour ago: #5

All 4.8.4 packages copied to precise-updates.