| Summary: | multiple partition managers installed | ||
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| Product: | [Applications] partitionmanager | Reporter: | illumilore <illumilore> |
| Component: | general | Assignee: | Volker Lanz <vl> |
| Status: | RESOLVED DOWNSTREAM | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | cfeck, sitter |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | Other | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
| Sentry Crash Report: | |||
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Description
illumilore
2013-03-05 20:02:02 UTC
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/ 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. Excuse me, what KCM? Upstream partitionmanager does not install a KCM. 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 The KCM was removed 3 years ago: http://websvn.kde.org/?revision=1095115&view=revision 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? Oo Curious, will have a look. 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 ^^)
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. The KCM is no longer part of Kubuntu 13.04. |