missing components

[Hadmut Danisch]

Hi,

I've just upgraded a regular ubuntu notebook to maverick RC1, and installed kubuntu-netbook just to give it a try. I experienced two problems, which might both be related to incomplete dependencies

a) I got a regular (or what I believe was regular) KDE desktop, not a netbook desktop. There should be different gdm session entry, like gnome and gnome netbook. Maybe the session descriptor file is missing?

b) when starting kde there was a lot of widgets and taskbar symbols with red error messages, telling that something couldn't be found. Looks like missing dependencies.

regards

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: kubuntu-netbook 1.205
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.33-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Oct 5 11:56:18 2010
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/usr/bin/tcsh
SourcePackage: kubuntu-meta

[Felix Geyer (debfx)]

You can switch between Desktop and Netbook in System Settings -> Workspace.

What error messages do the widgets display?

[Hadmut Danisch (hadmut)]

Four big boxes with an error button with white "x" on red ground, and the text

Unknown Widget
This object could not be created for the following reason:
Could not find requested component: xxx

where xxx is news, opendesktop, weather, knowledgebase

Wanna screendump?

regards

[Felix Geyer (debfx)]

Is the package plasma-widgets-addons installed?

[Hadmut Danisch (hadmut)]

No...

[Felix Geyer (debfx)]

The package contains all those widgets.

Have you had them on your desktop before the upgrade?

[Hadmut Danisch (hadmut)]

No.

I just upgraded my machine to 10.10 beta and then installed the kubuntu-desktop and ubuntu-netbook packages to give them a try.

But I've set my system (synaptic) to not treat recommendations as dependencies, since too many ubuntu packages do recommend to many unnecessary or annoying packages.

plasma-widgets-addons is just in the recommendations list of kubuntu-desktop, so it was not pulled in automatically.

If it is such important that it causes plenty of error messages if missing then it should either be in the dependencies, or kubuntu should not open these widgets by default if absent.

[Harald Sitter (apachelogger)]

http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#s-binarydeps

The addons do not qualify as dependency. The functionality in a Plasma shell scope is taskmanagement etc. Which are covered by a dependency on plasma-widgets-workspace. Whether plasma-netbook should show them silly error widgets instead of just not initializing the missing widgets on first start is however arguable. If you feel it should not please report a bug at bugs.kde.org to address by the Plasma developers.