[Bug 1141191] Re: multiple partition managers installed

Tue Mar 12 11:58:14 UTC 2013

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On 2013-03-05T20:02:02+00:00 ill wrote:

in kubuntu 12.04, when opening the app menu and then typing in
partition, two partition managers are shown in the results. They both
have the same icon, but one is called "kde partition manager" while the
other just " partition manager". They are the same except for slightly
different UIs. There is no reason to have two PMs installed by default
because it is redundant.

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On 2013-03-05T22:28:08+00:00 Christoph-maxiom wrote:

It is up to the distribution to select default installed applications.
Please report this issue directly to the bug tracker of your
distribution via https://bugs.launchpad.net/

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On 2013-03-06T17:48:34+00:00 Harald Sitter wrote:

Yeah, except the problem is that by default two desktop files are
installed, one for the KCM and one for an application menu entry. To
that extent it would perhaps make sense to simply not show the
application menu entry inside kde workspaces. At any rate not a
downstream issue.

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On 2013-03-06T18:04:54+00:00 Christoph-maxiom wrote:

Excuse me, what KCM? Upstream partitionmanager does not install a KCM.

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On 2013-03-06T18:14:11+00:00 Harald Sitter wrote:

wget
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/partitionman/partitionmanager/1.0.3/partitionmanager-1.0.3.tar.bz2
&& tar -xf partitionmanager-1.0.3.tar.bz2 && ls -lah
partitionmanager-1.0.3/src/kcm

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On 2013-03-06T18:41:47+00:00 Christoph-maxiom wrote:

The KCM was removed 3 years ago:

http://websvn.kde.org/?revision=1095115&view=revision

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On 2013-03-07T15:14:01+00:00 Volker Lanz wrote:

The KCM is still present in the current 1.0.x series but is neither
built nor installed by default (see src/CMakeLists.txt). I was
excpecting to find a patch in the Kubuntu source package modifying this,
but that does not appear to be the case.

Still, I too have the KCM installed on Kubuntu 12.04 (and I agree with
illumilore that the KCM is unnecessary and redundant; it's also giving a
wrong impression of what KDE Partition Manager can do because its UI is
dumbed down).

Harald, why is this? What am I missing?

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On 2013-03-07T15:52:35+00:00 Harald Sitter wrote:

Oo
Curious, will have a look.

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On 2013-03-07T16:03:17+00:00 Harald Sitter wrote:

DEB_CMAKE_CUSTOM_FLAGS := -DPARTMAN_KCM=ON

>From what I understand it was disabled by debian in 1.0rc1

"  * Disable building the partitionmanager kcm, as it
    is requires systemsettings to be running as root and
    it ends up being just confusing and not useful at all."

and got enabled by ubuntu when 1.0.0 was imported from debian

"    - Build the partitionmanager KCM since we can handle root KCMs"

and apparently for 1.0.1 it got changed to not build by default

http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/extragear/sysadmin/partitionmanager/src/CMakeLists.txt?r1=1014082&r2=1014083&pathrev=1043288&

which apparently no one noticed in ubuntu so that it remained enabled
even though it would be disabled by default.

Rather silly chain of events there. As upstream, what will you have me
do? Disable it? (i.e. ubuntu has no actual preference ^^)

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On 2013-03-08T08:58:32+00:00 Volker Lanz wrote:

Thanks for looking into this, Harald. Please disable it, it's not useful
above the application itself and the reportes is right about it being
confusing.

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On 2013-03-08T20:17:50+00:00 Harald Sitter wrote:

The KCM is no longer part of Kubuntu 13.04.

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