Crashes
by Steve Grubb
Hello,
I was curious about something. KDE has its own crash handling system.
How does this community track any metrics around code stability if
upstream gets reports? Kontact has segfaulted 20 times on me today.
Each time it says it cannot generate a bug report. Abrtd does not seem
to pick up anything. Shouldn't it? How does this community track
when a recent update suddenly starts making things crash? Kontact was
fine 3 weeks ago. I updated today (3 weeks of patches) and its crashing
all the time to the point its unusable. It won't generate a bug report,
abrtd seems not to notice either.
-Steve
1 year, 9 months
nntp (aka, usenet) client in kde?
by Gene Smith
I currently use t-bird with an nntp account pointing to gmane to read
this list and sereral others. Does kde have an nntp client program of
any sort? I don't see it as a possible new account type in kmail. Also,
search with kpackagekit yields nothing with "usenet" or "nntp" that is
kde specific.
-gene
2 years, 3 months
KDE EPEL8 plan
by Troy Dawson
My apologies for not listening to others about KDE on EPEL8. As
promised, this will be an open discussion. What I propose will just
be a suggestion.
People have correctly pointed out that it would be best if we do not
have the main KDE in epel8 be a module. It would make things more
stable and compatible if we used the QT5 packages from RHEL8 as our
basis, and go from there.
With that in mind, these are the things that I think are good ideas.
* No kde4 or kde3
* Follow the KDE LTS branches as much as possible.
** qt5
*** There are about 10 packages that have to stay at 5.11 due to
RHEL's packages. The rest get built with 5.12.x
*** If RHEL8 updates their qt5, adjust with them.
*** https://download.qt.io/official_releases/qt/5.12/
** plasma
*** Follow the same LTS stream as qt5 (currently 5.12)
*** https://download.kde.org/stable/plasma/5.12.9/
** kf5
*** Pick a stream and stick with it ??
*** I don't know of kf5 having an LTS stream.
*** Try to keep all the kf5 packages at the same stream
*** https://download.kde.org/stable/frameworks/
** KDE apps
*** Let the version be the decision of each app maintainer ???
* For qt5, plasma and kf5, have a group be the the maintainer.
* For the apps, let it be maintained by either a group or individual.
Depending on the app.
What do people think?
Troy
2 years, 3 months
GTK apps not shown in pager
by Ian Pilcher
Not sure when this started, but I've noticed that some(?) GTK
application windows are not shown in my plasma pager. Thus far, I've
seen this with Firefox, Thunderbird, and virt-manager.
These windows *are* listed in the pager's tooltip, so it seems to be
aware that the windows exist. For some reason, however, it's not
showing the window outlines.
Anyone else?
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2 years, 5 months
KDE and GDM
by mario futire
I've been a KDE user for many years and have just recently switched to GNOME, for what is basically a single reason: GDM.
GDM in my opinion offers a fantastic user experience with a super simple "user switch" feature.
In family we all use the same PC so people are constantly switching user.
What happens when I run KDE in GDM or in its own login manager is something like this:
1) switch user
2) end up in a screen with various (dubious) icons, with "user name", a "+", a "create new session" button, an "unused" session??
3) press some of them a bit randomly till I finally go back to the GDM login
In GNOME this is super slick as the step 2) is completely removed.
"Switch user" takes you immediately to the user list.
Can this be achieved in KDE?
2 years, 5 months
Konsole and X11 operands
by George R Goffe
Hi,
"my" Konsole (konsole5-19.08.3-1.fc32.x86_64) doesn't seem to understand X11 operands... Didn't it sort of obey them in earlier releases? I seem to recall a discussion on what the units of measure for "-geometry".
Did this capability get removed or is this a bug/feature?
Thanks,
George...
2 years, 5 months
KDE EPEL8 module plan
by Troy Dawson
Hi,
As the final bugs of modularity in EPEL 8 get worked out, I'm working
on the plan for the kde modules. Right now, I'm leaning towards a
great big kde module with all the kde packages in it. There would be
two streams. rawhide and stable.
rawhide would follow the fedora master dist-git branch. It would get
updated at least once a month, or faster. No quicker than ever two
weeks, because that's how long it takes for things to go through
bodhi. I'm leaning towards once a month.
stable would follow the stable Fxx branch, and get updated every three
months, or when security and/or major bugs happen.
The modules would have *all* the qt5 packages in them, including those
that are in RHEL8. Because of this, we will not be able to mark them
as "default". People will have to enable them to use them.
I am currently working my way through all the packages, making sure
they build and making fixes in rawhide/master when they don't. I
think there should only be about 15 to 20 packages that need tweaking.
Thoughts and/or comments?
Troy Dawson
2 years, 5 months
