kde November 2020

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Release criteria proposal: networking requirements
by Adam Williamson 01 Mar '22

01 Mar '22

Hi folks! So at this week's blocker review meeting, the fact that we don't have explicit networking requirements in the release criteria really started to bite us. In the past we have squeezed networking-related issues in under other criteria, but for some issues that's really difficult, notably VPN issues. So, we agreed we should draft some explicit networking criteria. This turns out to be a big area and quite hard to cover (who'd've thought!), but here is at least a first draft for us to start from. My proposal would be to add this to the Basic criteria. I have left out some wikitext stuff from the proposal for clarity; I'd add it back in on actually applying the proposed changes. It's just formatting stuff, nothing that'd change the meaning. Anyone have thoughts, complaints, alternative approaches, supplements? Thanks! === Network requirements === Each of these requirements apply to both installer and installed system environments. For any given installer environment, the 'default network configuration tools' are considered to be those the installer documents as supported ways to configure networking (e.g. for anaconda-based environments, configuration via kernel command line options, a kickstart, or interactively in anaconda itself are included). ==== Basic networking ==== It must be possible to establish both IPv4 and IPv6 network connections using DHCP and static addressing. The default network configuration tools for the console and for release-blocking desktops must work well enough to allow typical network connection configuration operations without major workarounds. Standard network functions such as address resolution and connections with common protocols such as ping, HTTP and ssh must work as expected. Footnote titled "Supported hardware": Supported network hardware is hardware for which the Fedora kernel includes drivers and, where necessary, for which a firmware package is available. If support for a commonly-used piece or type of network hardware that would usually be present is omitted, that may constitute a violation of this criterion, after consideration of the [[Blocker_Bug_FAQ|hardware-dependent- issues|normal factors for hardware-dependent issues]]. Similarly, violations of this criteria that are hardware or configuration dependent are, as usual, subject to consideration of those factors when determining whether they are release-blocking ==== VPN connections ==== Using the default network configuration tools for the console and for release-blocking desktops, it must be possible to establish a working connection to common OpenVPN, openconnect-supported and vpnc-supported VNC servers with typical configurations. Footnote title "Supported servers and configurations": As there are many different VPN server applications and configurations, blocker reviewers must use their best judgment in determining whether violations of this criterion are likely to be encountered commonly enough to block a release, and if so, at which milestone. As a general principle, the more people are likely to use affected servers and the less complicated the configuration required to hit the bug, the more likely it is to be a blocker. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net

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How to set default session type to Plasma for sddm
by Roderick Johnstone 29 Oct '21

29 Oct '21

Hi How do I set the default session type for sddm to offer to be Plasma? I'm currently getting Gnome Classic? This is F22. Thanks Roderick Johnstone

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Virtual desktops panel
by Patrick O'Callaghan 30 Nov '20

30 Nov '20

I'm using the latest Plasma and am generally quite pleased with it, especially with one long-standing bugbear that has now been sorted out: when using Save Session, Plasma now correctly remembers which desktop all the windows should be on, even those belonging to non-KDE apps (though it still doesn't get the actual window positioning right, even for Plasma apps). Anyway, on the same subject of virtual desktops, I find the panel to be rather visually confusing, so I'd like to show only the name of each desktop without the tiny wire-frame copies of each window inside it. I'm pretty sure this used to be possible but can't seem to find the right incantation. The rectangles representing each desktop are also too wide, which looks like an actual bug. Can anyone confirm this? poc

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Hold Plasma version
by Mikhail Ramendik 29 Nov '20

29 Nov '20

Hello, The situation with the big Plasma version update in KDE has been discussed a lot. For me, the mid-release-cycle major version update caused significant issues before. So I have a question: is it possible to just hold the Plasma version in Fedora, entirely preventing updates of any Plasma packages? I would enter such a freeze a few days before the new Plasma hits, then unfreeze a month or two after, hoping that any glitches in the fedora Fedora were ironed out in the meantime. I would not want to freeze all other updates though. So I would very much appreciate it if people could tell me how to do this. Is there a list of packages I need to use "dnf versionlock" on? -- Yours, Mikhail Ramendik Unless explicitly stated, all opinions in my mail are my own and do not reflect the views of any organization

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[Fedocal] Reminder meeting : KDE SIG
by ngompa＠fedoraproject.org 29 Nov '20

29 Nov '20

Dear all, You are kindly invited to the meeting: KDE SIG on 2020-11-30 from 18:00:00 to 19:00:00 UTC At https://meet.kde.org/b/ale-swq-39j The meeting will be about: Regular meeting for the KDE SIG Current Topics: https://pagure.io/fedora-kde/SIG/issues?status=Open&tags=meeting More information available at: [https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/KDE](https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIG… Source: https://apps.fedoraproject.org/calendar/meeting/9837/

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[Fedocal] Reminder meeting : KDE SIG
by ngompa＠fedoraproject.org 22 Nov '20

22 Nov '20

Dear all, You are kindly invited to the meeting: KDE SIG on 2020-11-23 from 18:00:00 to 19:00:00 UTC At https://meet.kde.org/b/ale-swq-39j The meeting will be about: Regular meeting for the KDE SIG Current Topics: https://pagure.io/fedora-kde/SIG/issues?status=Open&tags=meeting More information available at: [https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/KDE](https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIG… Source: https://apps.fedoraproject.org/calendar/meeting/9837/

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Display resolution changing
by Patrick O'Callaghan 18 Nov '20

18 Nov '20

I'm having a strange problem with my display resolution. This doesn't happen with Gnome, so I assume it's KDE-related in some way. Briefly, I have an HP Pavilion 23xi monitor connected via HDMI to an HDMI switch, which in turns connect to two GPUs. One of these is an Intel 915 on the motherboard and is what I normally use for Linux. The other is an Nvidia GTX1050 which I use only for Windows gaming using a KVM/QEMU VM with VFIO passthrough. What this means is that the Nvidia card is masked (blacklisted) from Linux and is only visible to the VM. In fact neither of the Nvidia nor Nouveau kernel modules are even loaded. I now find that when I switch the monitor inputs from the Nvidia to the i915, my display resolution is being reset to 1280x720 instead of its normal 1920x1080. This happens *even when I'm not running the VM*. I have to manually reconfigure the resolution using the KDE Settings widget. This never used to happen, and I can see no reason for it to be happening now, but it has started since I updated to Plasma 5.20. Even if I'm running the Windows VM, the display is always set to the same 1920x1080, so I don't know where the lower resolution is even coming from. Any thoughts on this would be welcome. poc

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keyboard language in rawhide
by Mattia Verga 18 Nov '20

18 Nov '20

I'm running Fedora rawhide (plasma-wayland) in a libvirt VM and I see the keyboard language setting is always English even if I set an other language in the IBus language changer in the tray. I wonder whether to report this bug against IBus or some other plasma or KDE component...

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[Fedocal] Reminder meeting : KDE SIG
by ngompa＠fedoraproject.org 15 Nov '20

15 Nov '20

Dear all, You are kindly invited to the meeting: KDE SIG on 2020-11-16 from 18:00:00 to 19:00:00 UTC At https://meet.kde.org/b/ale-swq-39j The meeting will be about: Regular meeting for the KDE SIG Current Topics: https://pagure.io/fedora-kde/SIG/issues?status=Open&tags=meeting More information available at: [https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/KDE](https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIG… Source: https://apps.fedoraproject.org/calendar/meeting/9837/

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firefox-wayland not recognizing kde dolphin as file manager
by Gerald B. Cox 11 Nov '20

11 Nov '20

Trying to get ahead of the curve and do some wayland testing. Noticed this: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1892527 Has anyone else experienced this. While great improvements have been made with Wayland, there are still quite a few annoying quirks and bugs that IMHO should keep Wayland from being the Plasma default.

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