Release of KDE 5_15.09_02 for Slackware.KDE-5_15.09_02

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 KDE5
 ====
 
-Here is KDE 5_15.09 for Slackware, consisting of the KDE Frameworks 5.13.0,
-Plasma 5.4.0 and Applications 15.08.0.
-
-This is an intrusive update if you currently have my KDE 5_15.07 packages
-installed. Consider this to be beta-quality because there may be some usability
-issues - and read the "BUILD NOTES" below very carefully before you decide
-to upgrade. I need testers to iron out some annoying regressions.
+Here is KDE 5_15.09_02 for Slackware, consisting of the KDE Frameworks 5.14.0,
+Plasma 5.4.1 and Applications 15.08.1.
 
+Upgrading from the previous 5_15.09 should be an easy ride.
 KDE-5_15.09 is meant only to be installed on top of Slackware -current and
 it will *replace* any version of KDE 4 you might have installed!
 
-BUILD NOTES:
-
-In random order, this is what I ran into while working on this set of updates.
-* Qt5 fails to compile if an older version of Qt5 is already installed.
-* frameworks:kwallet should be built against applications:gpgmepp,
-  therefore I adapted the build order in KDE.SlackBuild slightly.
-* Several Applications packages could not be configured using cmake,
-  because of a missing line in their CMakeFiles.txt. These files needed a line
-  "cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.8.9)". Instead of creating 17 patches I
-  decided to modify cmake/applications and cake/applications5 instead, and
-  fixed the omission with a sed substitution.
-* kde-runtime needs the kdelibs-4 based kdepimlibs. Since KDEPIM has now been
-  ported to KDE Frameworks 5 (KF5) I had to add a compatibility package
-  "kdepimlibs4" containing the relevant bits of the old kdepimlibs.
-* and... kdepimlibs4 needs the old akonadi-1.13 release. Therefore a "akonadi4"
-  package was added alongside "kdepimlibs4" in the kde/kde4/ directory.
-* kdepimlibs4 will fail to compile in the presence of akonadi (kf5 edition),
-  it wants only akonadi4 to be present. I hope I fixed this.
-* Compilation errors in okteta required a patch to qca-qt5.
-* I took the opportunity to rebuild some packages with library linking issues
-  caused by recent slackware-current updates: phonon-vlc, pykde4, qtruby,
-  korundum, smokekde, perlqt, smokeqt, baloo.
-* rocs will emit an internal compiler error unless you increase the RAM to
-  well beyond 3GB (use a big swap file if needed).
-* Into the breeze package I have built Qt4 support in addition to the default
-  Qt5 support. This will allow the KDE4 based applications to blend in
-  with the Plasma 5 Breeze theme better.
-* I updated the SDDM login manager (sddm-qt5 package) with a git snapshot
-  which supposedly supports the session management of ConsoleKit2. However
-  the 'passwd' authentication backend was broken and it took a while before
-  someone came up with a patch.
-* Several "deps" packages were removed:
-  - grantlee-qt5 (nothing uses the old grantlee anymore I hope, so I just
-    replaced it with the new grantlee-5)
-  - pairs and kgamma (no longer part of KDE Applications)
-  - ConsoleKit (has been replaced by ConsoleKit2 which is a fork of the
-    no longer maintained ConsoleKit and has several fixes and enhancements)
-* A problematic package is baloo because its file content partially overlaps
-  with baloo5, and I do not know what I can do about it. Nor do I know if
-  this has any negative impact on Plasma 5 Workspace.
-* libkface requires opencv as a dependency. I almost wanted to add opencv to
-  make the process of adding digikam easier (since digikam needs both libkface
-  and opencv) but after discussing with willysr and ponce, SBo admins,
-  I decided to skip this because the new opencv-3 has to much impact on the
-  slackbuilds.org content. 
-
-All in all I am pretty unhappy with the effort which was required to get this
-latest batch of updates to compile and work together.
-And even then, with a finished set of packages, there are a few annoying issues
-for which I have no explanation nor do I have a solution because I do not know
-whether they are caused by Plasma 5 or by the recent slackware-current updates.
-
-Annoyance #1:
-Logging out is delayed:
-* Try to open the Plasma Kicker startmenu and move your mouse over the
-  "Leave" tab. It will then take a minute to display the tab's content,
-  and in the meantime, the Plasma workspace is frozen. Any open application
-  windows are still responsive and you can work with them.
-* Try to use the logout/shutdown widget in the system tray if you added that.
-  Clicking the widget will also cause a one to two minute delay before the
-  logoff dialog appears.
-* Try logging out from the commandline using this qdbus commmand in an X term:
-  $ qdbus org.kde.ksmserver /KSMServer logout 0 0 0
-  You will notice that this command just sits there for the same one to two
-  minutes, and then it kicks into action and you'll be logged off.
-Something is amiss with the communication over dbus. Ideas anyone?
-
-Annoyance #2:
-Whenever the power saver kicks in and I am not paying attention, the screen
-of my Lenovo T400 laptop (Intel graphics) turns black and will not revive.
-I have to Ctrl-Alt-F1 to get to my Linux console, press the backlight button until I can read again what's on screen, and then back to X using Alt-F7.
-
-Annoyance #3:
-In my 32-bit virtual machine I cannot even login, because there is a flood of
-re-spawning screensaver processes that prevent access. This can be caused by
-something in the virtual machine, but I did not do extensive troubleshooting.
-
-=== END OF BUILD NOTES ===
-
-Having said all that, it is still an impressive release with lots of changes
-and improvements. I hope that we get the quirks solved so we can focus on
-what's good.
-
-Highlights of KDE-5_15.09:
-- Qt5 has been updated to 5.5.0
-- ConsoleKit (unmaintained) gets replaced by ConsoleKit2 (well-maintained fork)
-  which could open up a path to a systemd-free Slackware that is compatible to
-  a large extent with systemd requirements.
-- I added LoginKit also for that purpose. LoginKit in its present form does not
-  do much (if anything at all) but I want to have it in for those who want to
-  play test this.
-- Several of the other deps were added, updated, rebuilt or removed as well: 
-  LibRaw (update for the Slackware package),
-  PyQt5 (updated),
-  qca-qt5 (patched),
-  grantlee (update for the Slackware package)
-  lmdb (new)
-  grantlee-qt5 (renamed to grantlee thereby replacing the Slackware version)
-- Removed deps (we can use the original Slackware packages now) are:
-  PyQt, sip and libepoxy
-- Frameworks 5.13.0 is an enhancement release, lots of fixes are documented on
-  https://www.kde.org/announcements/kde-frameworks-5.13.0.php
-- Plasma 5.4.0 is a feature release, you can read all the details in
-  https://www.kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.4.0.php
-  Important is that the krunner has a command history again, and lots of new
-  icons were added for non-Plasma5 applications, which helps to give the
-  Plasma 5 desktop a uniform look and feel;
-  Not so important for Slackware is the Wayland Tech Preview and some system
-  tool improvements using PAM (kwallet-pam) or pulseaudio (audio volume applet).
-- Applications 15.08.0 is bringing more KF5 ports: 107 applications in total.
-  Most noticeable are the KF5 ports of Dolphin (the file manager), KDEPIM (the
-  Kontact Suite as it is called now) and Ark (archive tool). I am a bit worried
-  about the Kontact development toward the KDE Frameworks 5. Lots of struggles
-  were discussed in the mailing lists and the resulting KF5 based Kontact Suite
-  is still considered BETA quality. 
-  The move to KF5 exposed several older KDE4 based applications that have
-  a dependency on the KDE4 based PIM libraries.
-  Therefore I had to add a compatibility layer of packages containing that
-  KDE4 code: akonadi4 and kdepimlibs4 (similar to what I had to do earlier
-  with libkmahjongg4, libkdegames4, konsolepart4 and katepart4).
+There is a couple of bugs left that really nag me:
+Both these issues are most likely caused by the Intel driver in
+Slackware-current, not by the KDE packages.
+- Whenever the power saver kicks in and I am not paying attention, the screen
+  of my Lenovo T400 laptop (Intel graphics) turns black (backlight stays off?).
+  I have to Ctrl-Alt-F1 to get to my Linux console, press the brightness button
+  until I can read again what's on screen, and then back to X using Alt-F7.
+- If the screenlocker was activated during powersave, and I have to run the
+  above sequence to get my X display visible again, the screenlocker is
+  seemingly not responding to my typing. But in fact the display is simply not
+  refreshing. After typing my password and hitting ENTER (thus unlocking my
+  session) the screen seems unchanged until I press Alt-TAB and the screen
+  suddenly refreshes, showing my unlocked desktop.
+
+Noteworthy NEWS for this batch of updates:
+- One "deps" package was removed:
+  LoginKit - it did not add anything that ConsoleKit2 does not do already
+  (offer the same API as systemd-logind) and in fact having it installed
+  was the cause of minute-log delays in displaying the "Leave" menu or
+  responding to clicks on the Logout widget. One annoyance less!
+- One "deps" packages was added:
+  libproxy - this is a recompilation of the package that is already
+  part of Slackware. I rebuilt it without support for KDE 4, which will
+  help preventing crashes in KDE Frameworks 5 (KF5) based applications
+  that call libproxy's functions which in turn would load KDE 4 libraries.
+- Frameworks 5.14.0 is an enhancement release, lots of fixes are documented on
+  https://www.kde.org/announcements/kde-frameworks-5.14.0.php
+- Plasma 5.4.1 is a bugfix release, you can read all the details in
+  https://www.kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.4.1.php
+- Applications 15.08.1 is a bugfix release as well, mainly for the total of
+  107 applications that have been ported to KF5.
 
 Further points of interest that are unchanged since the previous releases:
+- ConsoleKit2 replaces Slackware's ConsoleKit. Now we have something again
+  which is properly maintained and well on its way to implementing the
+  necessary parts of the systemd-logind API (so that we can ignore systemd).
 - kde/kde4-extragear packages should be taken from slackware-current (calligra,
   k3b, kaudiocreator, kplayer, kwebkitpart, oxygen-gtk2, kdevplatform,
   kdevelop-pg-qt, kdevelop, kdev-python, kdevelop-php, kdevelop-php-docs,
@@ -150,6 +60,8 @@ Further points of interest that are unchanged since the previous releases:
 - kdeconnect4 was added; this stripped-down version of the KDE4 based
   kdeconnect-kde allows you to access your Android device with the
   (also still KDE4 based) Dolphin filemanager
+- akonadi4 and kdepimlibs4 were added to support KDE 4 applications that call
+  PIM functionality.
 - sddm-theme-breeze was removed, the theme is now part of plasma-workspace
 - Lots of packages in the 'deps' department which are completely new to
   Slackware. Since KDE 5 is built on Qt5 (KDE 4 had Qt4 as its base) you'll
@@ -158,14 +70,14 @@ Further points of interest that are unchanged since the previous releases:
   needed. So, apart from updates to regular Slackware packages, these are the
   new ones:
   OpenAL, PyQT5, cfitsio, json-glib, libappindicator, libdbusmenu-gtk,
-  libdbusmenu-qt5, libindicator, polkit-qt5-1, qca-qt5, qt-gstreamer, qt5,
-  sni-qt, wayland and xapian-core.
+  libdbusmenu-qt5, libindicator, lmdb, polkit-qt5-1, qca-qt5, qt-gstreamer,
+  qt5, sni-qt, wayland and xapian-core.
 - Note for users of multilib Slackware64 and also using Skype: you will have to
   grab the 32-bit version of sni-qt and run 'convertpkg-compat32' on it,
   or else Skype won't be able to dock its icon in the systray.
 - A bit sneakily, I built phonon-vlc for you.  You will also need a VLC package
   to be able to use this package though.
-- Several source tarballs in Plasma 5.4.0 have not been compiled to Slackware
+- Several source tarballs in Plasma 5.4.x have not been compiled to Slackware
   packages: libbluedevil and bluedevil (they need BlueZ 5 which is not part of
   Slackware), muon (a debian/ubuntu package manager), libkface (needs opencv
   which I was not willing to add as a dependency), user-manager and kwallet-pam
@@ -173,8 +85,7 @@ Further points of interest that are unchanged since the previous releases:
 - One dependency which you'll probably find curious, is wayland. It is required
   in order to *compile* KWin's X11 driver, but it is apparently not needed at
   *runtime*. Nevertheless, I left the package in, just in case you want or need
-  to recompile kwin (actually, it does not seem required any longer, but that
-  issue will be revisited on next Plasma update).
+  to recompile kwin.
 - Graphical login: KDM has been replaced with SDDM. Slackware-current supports
   it already.  Select "Plasma" from the SDDM session dropdown.
   Alternatively, if you prefer good old runlevel 3, you can type (at your own
@@ -273,6 +184,11 @@ If you have Slackware-current's default KDE 4.14.3 installed:
   # removepkg polkit-kde-kcmodules-1
   # removepkg kdeconnect-kde
 
+If you have my 'ktown' set of KDE 5_15.09 installed:
+- Upgrade to KDE-5_15.09_02 and then remove the packages
+  that no longer exist in KDE 5_15.09_02:
+  * removepkg LoginKit
+
 If you have my 'ktown' set of KDE 5_15.07 installed:
 - Upgrade to KDE-5_15.09 and then remove the packages
   that no longer exist in KDE 5_15.09:
@@ -383,4 +299,4 @@ renamed or integrated and that is the reason for the 'removepkg' lines):
 Then reboot your system.
 
 ==============================================================================
-                     Eric Hameleers / alien at slackware dot com / 03-sep-2015
+                     Eric Hameleers / alien at slackware dot com / 14-sep-2015