Requests for current-next (15.0-->15.1)

marav · Yesterday, 11:41 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sombragris

Well, about my request to switch to Plasma 6, I still think it's appropriate. I know that Pat intended to have 15.1 with Plasma 5, but I think criterion was set under the vague expectation of a release date that would have been closer to 15.0 release than it is now.

I'm in no hurry to see any release at all, but I would have liked to have Slackware stable shipped with a reasonably current, mature and stable version of the Plasma desktop.

I support whatever Pat decides on the matter; but if (for example) we get a LTS Plasma 6 version before the next Slackware stable release, I think switching to Plasma 6 would be best.

About Plasma 6 LTS:

Code:

No scheduled LTS releases yet. 
If distributions find LTS releases useful, 
we will schedule those in close cooperation 
with the corresponding distributions.

https://community.kde.org/Schedules/Plasma_6

glennmcc · Yesterday, 03:10 PM

Patrick,

Just a heads-up for if and when you decide to upgrade gFTP to the current code at
https://github.com/masneyb/gftp be it built for GTK+2 or GTK+3

The configuration files are now being placed in ~/.config/gftp

Therefore, to continue using ~/.gftp, one line of code needs to be changed in lib/misc.c

Code:

/*  BASE_CONF_DIR = g_build_filename (g_get_user_config_dir(), "gftp", NULL);*/
  BASE_CONF_DIR = g_build_filename (g_get_home_dir(), ".gftp", NULL);

In addition, the ignore_pasv_address= configuration option no-longer exists in the new code.

Therefore, each user will need to remove or at-least comment-out this section in their ~/.gftp/gftprc file.

Code:

# If this is enabled, then the remote FTP server's PASV IP address field will
# be ignored and the host's IP address will be used instead. This is often
# needed for routers giving their internal rather then their external IP
# address in a PASV reply.
ignore_pasv_address=0

And of-course to build for GTK+3 instead of GTK+2
simply add 2 more configuration options to the slackbuild script.

Code:

--disable-gtk2 \
--enable-gtk3 \

After making those changes, the new code works 100% perfectly on -current
and it retains the previous configuration from before the upgrade.