Muon 2.2.1 and UP, Plasma 5.2.2 news

[AJSlye]

Muon 2.2.1 is currently available in the community repository, it now works properly under Manjaro (Netrunner Rolling) with all the appropriate dependency’s automatically installed and configured as well, with one tinny exception of bash-completion, this will need to be selected or added for installation separately. There is still no AUR, cache management, or sources (repository editing) support however, but the command line, dolphin, kate and/or octopi, octopi-plugins are always good alternatives for these.

The next stable update-pack will pull in Plasma 5.2.2 which brings with it many bug fixes and enhancements to the Plasma 5 desktop including many to Muon:

Muon
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Remove remaining use of muonapt_export and the file itself. Commit.
Remove unneeded dependency. Commit.
Fix build. Commit.
Fix build on ubuntu. Commit.
Fix PackageKit::resourceByPackageName when an appstream package id is provided. Commit.
Reduce cluttering in muon-updater. Commit. Fixes bug #345304
Fix warnings. Commit.
Fix build of muon. Commit.
Fix build of muon. Commit.
Remove second calls to project(). Commit.
Port muon package manager away from KUniqueApplication and K4AboutData. Commit. See bug #344836
Fix compile, reviewed by aleix. Commit.
Hide categories coming from invalid backends. Commit.
Provide a set of plugins for a given Category. Commit.
Properly feed the backend name to the backend. Commit.
Constify. Commit.
Take invalid resources into account. Commit.
If no good categories were found, mark as invalid. Commit.
Store the name within the backend. Commit.
Micro-optimization of the day. Commit.
Add warning if an invalid category was found. Commit.
Make sure the plasmoid categories get mixed. Commit.
Wait to fetch the KNS backend until we have OCS providers. Commit. Fixes bug #344840
KNS Category files were interchanged. Commit.
–verbose. Commit.
If the shown image has a problem, skip to the next one. Commit. Fixes bug #344830
Add back patch for bug 331374. Commit. Fixes bug #331374. Fixes bug #344831
Fix Exec line so muon and muon-updater can be run from the menu. Commit.
Port commented-out code. Commit.
Remove apt-listbugs usage. Commit.
Fix build on older versions of KF5. Commit.
Add warning at least, needs a proper alternative path. Commit.
Support for having multiple packages using the same package name. Commit. Fixes bug #344780
Use xi18n() in case extended tags are being used. Commit. Fixes bug #344709
Fix error message. Commit.
Improve title when filtering by mimetype. Commit.
Resolve conflict. Commit.
Compile-time connects for the notifier. Commit.
Look for all updates to display for the notifier. Commit.
Prefer connecting to updatesChanged to polling. Commit.
Fix launching muon-updater from menu. Commit.
Only look for AppstreamQt 1.1. Commit.
Fix connection. Commit.
Add a reload action for packagekit as well. Commit.
Fix build of packagekit backend on master. Commit.
Use screenshots provided by appstream, if available. Commit.
Explicitly mark as override. Commit.
Fix Breadcrumbs display. Commit.
Add some spacing left and right into the MessageAction. Commit.
Fix build on older versions of KF5. Commit.
Fix build. Commit.
Make sure we don’t get null entries. Commit. Fixes bug #321657
Fix last updates time report in muon-updater. Commit.
Fetch the package before finding the executables. Commit. Fixes bug #319006
Remove muon-installer. Commit.
Make it possible to dig more about the currently selected resource. Commit. Fixes bug #324721
Show the currently installed version together with the changelog. Commit. Fixes bug #323595
Better changelog for dummy resources. Commit.
Introduce a new test within the SourcesTest for APT. Commit.
Simplify filtering code in ResourcesProxyModel. Commit.
Fix glitch when removing message actions. Commit.
Make sure we’re not using the deprecated API. Commit.
Remove unused variable. Commit.
Fix build after the renaming. Commit.
CMake changes around libmuonprivate. Commit. Code review #122037
Remove spacing in the main RowLayout. Commit.
Don’t make kxmlgui deal with the toolbar either. Commit. Fixes bug #326713
Let the layout take care about the size of the SourcesPage delegate. Commit.
Fix crash in MessageActionsModel. Commit.
Use more sensible colors for Discover’s message action. Commit.
Introduce high riority MessageActions. Commit. Fixes bug #341126
Simplify the implementation of the main view. Commit.
Add a dummy action of high importance. Commit.
Introduce message actions on muon discover as well. Commit. Fixes bug #331419
Move the message actions from the updater interface to the backend. Commit.
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Look here for the complete change log for Plasma 5.2.2:

Plasma 5.2.2 complete changelog

[AJSlye]

PS. The muon-updater.desktop file needs to be modified to launch properly under Netrunner Rolling (Manjaro) the -caption option doesn’t work.

To fix this open up /usr/share/applications/muon-updater.destop with Kate or your favorite text editor as root and delete -caption from the exec= line like this:

Exec=muon-updater %i %c

Note: Muon doesn’t seem to have this issue with it’s muon-discover.desktop file.

You also can not save the settings for Muon updater, I’m not quite sure what is causing this atm.
It just needs to be launched manually right now to check for updates.

[Platon91]

Does muon work even if you haven’t changed/upgraded to plasma 5?

Are there any advantages over octopi?

Also I see there is a muon in blueshell and one in the community and they have very different version numbers, are they still the same or different?..

[AJSlye]

No. you would need to be using Plasma 5 as the Muon 5.2.x versions are now a part of plasma desktop releases. I have posted a migration to Plasma 5 thread here: http://forums.netrunner.com/showthread.php?tid=17392

The version in the blueshell repository is older and never worked under Manjaro (Arch), Aleix the Muon developer an Arch user himself and the version available in the community repository was released by the Plasma desktop developers with the official packages maintained by upstream Arch,

Make sure you have moved the blueshell repository to the bottom of the sources list in order to change it’s priority or the older version will be installed by default, I would suggest doing this anyway since a few other applications are also newer upstream in the Manjaro repositories.

I posted the pros and cons of using Muon already, I keep both Octopi and Muon installed for both notification and AUR support. Once I can manage sources in muon-discover, save settings and receive update notifications from muon-updater and find a possible replacement for a AUR GUI application, I may just remove octopi altogether and use them instead.