On Sat, Nov 23, 2024 at 01:14:40PM +0100, Aurélien COUDERC wrote: > after some months living in experimental and lots of positive feedback, we're > about to upload Plasma 6 to unstable.
After having mostly good experiences in a test VM, I finally took the plunge for my daily driver. I have some issues: (1) I did apt update, apt upgrade first, that worked so far, but left a couple hundred packages unupdated. The following apt full-upgrade wanted to remove most of them including plasma-workspace, I didn't let apt do that and instead did apt install plasma-workspace explicitly, which did the update alright and only left a few things undone that could be solved by some additional rounds of apt autoremove, apt upgrade, apt full-upgrade. (2) After rebooting (the upgrade also brought a new kernel), I was able to log in, and found myself in KDE Plasma on Wayland. I used X11 before since Plasma 5 on Wayland hat a bunch of nasty issues that were so annoying that I eventually switched back to X11. I am currently still on Wayland to give it a chance. (2a) My desktop scaling was put to 125 % (which might be okayish for Full HD on a 14 Inch, but I decided to put it back to 100 % like it was before. (3) The panel looks quite different. The new default style has the Panel hover over the lower screen edge which wastes a couple of pixels. I turned that off. (3a) How would i move widgets in the panel? Neither "Add or manage widgets" nor "Show Panel Configuration" allows me to move a widget or to delete one. (3b) The place of the Panel that used to show my open apps is empty. I can choose Alternatives "Window List", "Icons and Text Window Manager" and "Icons only Window Manager". "Window List just shows one entry "Plasma Desktop", while the two "Window Manager" entries just display nothing. (3) The Virtual Desktop Pager does not show Window Outlines and Window Icons even if the corresponding check boxes are checked. (4) Taking Screenshots with Spectacle doesn't work. The Error Message shown is "An error occurred while taking a screenshot. KWin screenshot request failed: The process is not authorized to take a screenshot Potentially relevant information: - Method: CaptureScreen - Method specific arguments: "eDP-1"" Summarizing, Plasma 6 on Debian unstable is usable, but has quite a few regressions that some users might find crippling. I hope that we can work together to solve these issues. Greetings Marc -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Leimen, Germany | lose things." Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 6224 1600402 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 6224 1600421 -- https://alioth-lists.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-kde-talk
