kde November 2018

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libreoffice-kf5 copr
by Rex Dieter 25 Nov '18

25 Nov '18

I was able to get f29/f28 builds going for initial/experimental gtk3-kde5 support built in libreoffice-6.1.x, https:://bugzilla.redhat.com/1647233 here's the fruits of that labor, https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/rdieter/libreoffice-kf5/ My initial testing was good, just verified that kf5-based filepicker shows when saving a file if libreoffice-kf5 package is installed and run from within a plasma session. -- Rex

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f29 plasma-5.14.3 builds queued for stable updates
by Rex Dieter 24 Nov '18

24 Nov '18

Just queued f29's plasma-5.14.3 builds for stable updates, https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-9c500b8e48 Thanks to all for the testing and feedback. -- Rex

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Plasma freezing
by Patrick O'Callaghan 21 Nov '18

21 Nov '18

F29 updated. For the last couple of days I've turned on my monitor in the morning to find Plasma unresponsive, i.e. clicking on the bottom panel does nothing, neither does right-clicking on the background. The machine is left on at night (not suspended or hibernating, just the monitor turned off), and today the clock widget shows a frozen time of 4:55am. Nothing is running overnight except the DE and my backup software (rsnapshot) which does run at around that time though it has been doing that for years without issue and according to the logs completed on time as usual. 'killall -s SIGSEGV plasmashell' (which in the past would kick it into restarting) is ineffective. Maybe the magic incantation has changed, but as none of this stuff is documented in man pages I don't know. 'kill <PID>' does kill it, but how do I run it again without logging out? Simply running plasmashell from the command line does put up the widget panel but it's still frozen, and the command never returns. poc

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FYI - pam-kwallet issue update
by Ed Greshko 20 Nov '18

20 Nov '18

A while back I posted a problem where even though my login and wallet passwords were the same the wallet wasn't opened on login meaning auto connect wifi wasn't working. I was unable to figure out why. So, I moved ~/.local/share/kwalletd out of the way, logged out, logged in. This created a new wallet which I then repopulated and it is working as expected. Magic! -- Right: I dislike the default color scheme Wrong: What idiot picked the default color scheme

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libreoffice qt5 integration, dropping kde4 support
by Rex Dieter 13 Nov '18

13 Nov '18

mgoodwin started a chat in #fedora-kde irc yesterday about libreoffice and some new developments wrt qt5 integration, which led to a feature request at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1647233 "VCL gtk3-kde5 is available with 6.1 and should be enabled with --enable- gtk3-kde5" Part of the comments there raised the possibility of dropping kde4 support, which I assume would need to happen sooner or later. Ultimately, thought it best to discuss it here. Opinions? -- Rex

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Odd statement at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/KDE
by Patrick Boutilier 13 Nov '18

13 Nov '18

Just wondering what is meant by "although most people just use it to open tens of character terminals" at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/KDE

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NVIDIA Optimus on Fedora 29 KDE
by Robbi Nespu 12 Nov '18

12 Nov '18

Hi there, I use Gnome for many years and now move to use KDE. I have laptop that comes with hybrid graphic card and now running F29 KDE spin. $ lspci -vnn | grep '\''[030[02]\]' 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller [8086:0166] (rev 09) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation GK107M [GeForce GT 640M] [10de:0fd2] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) I plan to use and utilize optimus. Does it work on KDE? Please advice. -- Robbi Nespu (CPRE, CTFL) Twitter: @robbinespu | Skype: robbi.nespu | PGP: 0x6EA7B058

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kwayland config files?
by Neal Becker 08 Nov '18

08 Nov '18

After updating to f29, I once again tried plasma on wayland. It seemed to work very poorly, but as a test I tried logging in as a test user. This seemed much better! So I'm wondering what old files I need to clean out. It seems the poor kwayland experience on my normal user account must be due to some old config files. Where are they? Thanks, Neal

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Akregator - F29
by Colin J Thomson 07 Nov '18

07 Nov '18

Hi, I just updated to F29 but excluded Applications 18.08 due to Akregator issues previously posted here. However after the upgrade Akregator would not start throwing up a symbol lookup error: /lib64/libakregatorprivate.so.5 After some bugzilla searching I found that downgrading kf5-syndication-1:5.52.0-1.fc29.x86_64 (I'm testing Plasma 5.52 from bodhi) down to kf5-syndication-18.04.3-1.fc29.x86_64 fixes the issue. FWIW it also happened with Plasma 5.51. Syndication has been moved from Applications to Plasma by the looks of it? Anyone else seeing this. KDE Plasma Version: 5.14.2 Qt Version: 5.11.1 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.52.0 Colin -- Fedora 29 (Twenty Nine) Registered Linux user number #342953

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Red Hat deprecates KDE on RHEL
by Temlakos 06 Nov '18

06 Nov '18

Everyone: /The Register/ carried this article: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/11/02/rhel_deprecates_kde/ saying that Red Hat now /deprecates/ KDE in its Red Hat Enterprise Linux distribution. The article mentions the recent release of Fedora 29, but says not a word about whether /Fedora/ will deprecate KDE as well. I switched to KDE for a reason. GNOME simply /did not show me/ how to switch users, or do any of the things that, on MS Windows, are practically intuitive. And I understand the reason for it. GNOME mimics MacOS, while KDE mimics Windows. I believe that GNOME has come to dominate for one reason only: those who develop distributions, like GNOME and dislike KDE. There's just something about KDE that, while it is /user/-friendly, is not /developer/-friendly--at least, not to the developers of operating systems. (Developers of /applications/ might have a different story to tell.) I suggest to this community that we have arrived at a crisis. In six years, according to /The Register/, Red Hat Enterprise Linux /will not support/ a KDE installation or maintenance. What are the maintainers of KDE going to do about this? Will Fedora's maintainers do the same thing that RHEL maintainers have announced their intention to do? Temlakos

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