moz-plasma team PPA

[ronw]

This was news to me:

The blue shell folks are switching to a moz-plasma PPA.

https://answers.launchpad.net/launch...uestion/260611

Packages for Vivid already. KDE file dialogs again. Happy, happy, joy, joy.

Where do I vote for Rohan Garg as President of the Internet?

[Feathers McGraw]

Thanks ronw, I've switched over

[jlittle]

I've still got the pin in /etc/apt/preferences.d:

Package: *
Pin: release o=LP-PPA-blue-shell-firefox-kde
Pin-Priority: 1001

Should I change the second line to

Pin: release o=LP-PPA-moz-plasma-builds

?

[ronw]

I assume we will need to pin at some point, unless the package does it for us:

The firefox-plasma package should install patched firefox version and firefox-kde-support helper package automatically and keep them pinned.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:moz-plasma/releases
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install firefox-plasma thunderbird-plasma

I didn't notice that before. I can't install firefox-plasma on Vivid, because it depends on firefox-kde-support, which isn't available. I could probably grab the Utopic version from the blue shell PPA.

I still have firefox from the PPA and some (maybe all) of the Plasma integration without firefox-plasma or pinning:

~ $ apt-cache policy firefox
firefox:
  Installed: 1000~35.0+build3-0ubuntu1~20150119.1522
  Candidate: 1000~35.0+build3-0ubuntu1~20150119.1522
  Version table:
 *** 1000~35.0+build3-0ubuntu1~20150119.1522 0
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/moz-plasma/releases/ubuntu/ vivid/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     34.0+build2-0ubuntu2 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ vivid/main amd64 Packages

[jlittle]

sudo apt-get install firefox-plasma

Oops, didn't notice that. Just ran it, and mozilla-kde-support replaced firefox-kde-support.

A worse problem is that the first time I invoke the file picker, (Open File...) after starting firefox it doesn't work well. It hangs with an unresponsive window, the cursor not blinking. Attempts to close the window are ignored. Double-clicking works after a delay (with no GUI feedback), after which the file picker behaves normally. Starting firefox in a konsole shows nothing. This problem occurred before installing firefox-plasma, after adding the moz-plasma PPA,

I've just this morning dist-upgraded to Utopic; firefox gave me a Gnomish file picker before I added the new repository.

[jlittle]

I've tracked down my hanging problem a bit, I don't think it's anything to do with the new repository. kmozillahelper goes CPU bound if it opens a directory with many entries, and balloons to 500 KB in virtual size. The problem has been reported previously by an OpenSUSE user a couple of years ago. kmozillahelper reopens the last directory used, and if I navigate away from that directory then the next time firefox starts and I open the file picker there's no trouble.

I can reproduce the behaviour, so I'd like to file a bug against kmozillahelper.

[shadeslayer]

Quick note, you shouldn't need to manually write the apt preferences file since we version the package so high ( at 1000 ).

[shadeslayer]

Sorry about the vivid muck up, will be fixed with v36

[ronw]

Sorry about the vivid muck up, will be fixed with v36

Excellent.

And no problem. I'm impressed and pleased you already have Vivid in the PPA. You are fast.