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Update plan for the KDE unstable repositories
by Christophe Marin 15 Nov '23

15 Nov '23

Hello, The first frameworks 6 / plasma 6 releases will be out in a couple months. The initial release schedule was posted a couple days ago: https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-devel/2023-September/002008.html Let's take a tour of the incoming changes to the KDE unstable repositories [1] 1- KDE:Unstable:Frameworks Currently, this repository provides: - KDE Frameworks 5 snapshots based on the 'kf5' branch - Plasma 5 snapshots based on the '5.27' branch Soon, the repository will provide: - KDE Frameworks 5 snapshots (kf5 branch) - KDE Frameworks 6 snapshots (master branch) - Plasma 5 snapshots (5.27 branch) - Plasma 6 snapshots (master branch) 2- KDE:Unstable:Applications This repository provides snapshots of applications released with the 'release gear' bundle. Applications that are already ported upstream will be updated automatically. 3- KDE:Unstable:Extra The repository provides snapshots for some of the applications present in KDE:Extra. Important: KDE Frameworks 5 and 6 are co-installable, but Plasma 5 and 6 can't coexist on the same system. yast and zypper will require your attention the first time you install plasma 6 packages. Mini Q/A: 1 - What should be reported to openSUSE / Upstream? Most issues you will encounter have to be reported to https://bugs.kde.org if no report exists yet. Issues we're interested in: - Unresolvable installation issues. (e.g: 'nothing provides 'qt6qmlimport(QtQuick.Dialogs.1) >= 3' needed by the to be installed kdeplasma6-addons [...]' ). Some of these installation problems can be fixed in our packages, some are caused by upstream issues (like the message above). - Conflicting files - Non-KDE packages that would be uninstalled due to missing dependency. Either fill a bug report on https://bugzilla.opensuse.org for these cases or drop a message on the #opensuse-kde IRC channel [2] Even if you don't get an immediate answer, that doesn't mean your message won't be read. 2 - Will plasma 6 be available for Leap? The unstable repositories currently build for Leap 15.4 and 15.5. We try to keep most packages building for these versions but it's not always possible. Note that Leap 15.4 will reach EOL in 2 months. [3] Adding the Qt 6 repository will be required for Leap users. Even if you decide to stick with Plasma 5 for the moment, packages from KDE:Unstable:Applications will use Frameworks 6 / Qt 6. [4] The wiki page will be updated. That's all for now, don't forget to make backup of your data before updating to the next major version. [1] https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:KDE_repositories [2] https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Communication_channels#Instant_chat [3] https://en.opensuse.org/Lifetime#openSUSE_Leap [4] https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:KDE_repositories#Qt6

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heic thumbnails
by Giacomo Comes 04 May '23

04 May '23

Hi, I have a question about thumbnails of heic images. In Leap 15.4 in order to have heic support in plasma you need to install libheif from packman and following what is written here: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=444976 and here: https://invent.kde.org/network/kio-extras/-/commit/667f8dd3ee884192602a9242… it is necessary to put in /usr/share/kservices5/imagethumbnail.desktop MimeType=image/*;video/x-mng; With that in place dolphin is able to show thumbnail preview of heic images. Now I'm testing Leap 15.5. thumbnail preview of heic images still does not work and the file /usr/share/kservices5/imagethumbnail.desktop does not exist anymore. Any suggestion about how to make dolphin show thumbnails of heic images in Leap 15.5 (and tumbleweed as well)? Regards, Giacomo

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Disable Anti-Aliasing for just one font or application?
by John Magolske 14 Apr '23

14 Apr '23

Hi, I'm on Tumbleweed, KDE, and am trying to get set up where my urxvt terminal is displaying a bitmap font without anti-aliasing. In the "Fonts - System Settings" panel Anti-Aliasing is enabled. If I un-check this box to disable, the fonts will no longer be anti-aliased in the urxvt terminal, but everywhere else as well -- which is not what I want. Is there a way to selectively disable anti-aliasing for just urxvt or just the font I'm using there? This would be the PragmataPro font, which does have nice bitmaps. But I'm not finding a way to selectively turn off anti-aliasing for it. In ~/.Xresources I have: URxvt.font: xft:PragmataPro:pixelsize=34:antialias=false:hinting=1:hintstyle=hintmedium In ~/.config/fontconfig/rendering-options.conf I see:   <match target="pattern" > <edit name="force_bw_monospace" mode="assign"> <bool>true</bool> </edit> </match> ...but not sure if anything can be done with that, as this is a DO NOT EDIT generated file, which points to /etc/sysconfig/fonts-config ... so I tried editing that file, changing the following option from "no" to "yes" : # Force black and white rendering. Fonts will not get smoothed with # the benefit of high contrast betwen font and background. # #FORCE_BW="no" FORCE_BW="yes" and then ran the fonts-config command, but this made no difference. Any suggestions re how to selectively turn off anti-aliasing? Thanks for any help, John -- John Magolske http://b79.net/contact

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Skanlite crashes on start up
by Javier Llorente 11 Apr '23

11 Apr '23

Hello everyone! Skanlite doesn't start unless I remove ~/.local/share/skanlite/ skanlitestaterc. Otherwise, it crashes :-( As a workaroud I'm using XSane. Skanlite on Fedora 37 works fine. Any suggestions, comments, ...? :-) KDE Plasma 5.27.3 KDE Frameworks 5.104.0 KDE Gear 22.12.3 sane-backends: 1.1.1; same issue with 1.2.1 and 1.0.32 (Leap 15.4) sane backend: net Qt 5.15.8 OS: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20230404 Stack trace of thread 11381: #0 0x00007f605dc94d7c __pthread_kill_implementation (libc.so. 6 + 0x8fd7c) #1 0x00007f605dc43356 raise (libc.so.6 + 0x3e356) #2 0x00007f605ef47d3a _ZN6KCrash19defaultCrashHandlerEi (libKF5Crash.so.5 + 0x7d3a) #3 0x00007f605dc43420 __restore_rt (libc.so.6 + 0x3e420) #4 0x00007f605dd6cb5d __strlen_avx2 (libc.so.6 + 0x167b5d) #5 0x00007f6049dd542a n/a (libsane-net.so.1 + 0x842a) #6 0x00007f6049dd82ad sane_net_control_option (libsane- net.so.1 + 0xb2ad) #7 0x00007f605f8357ad n/a (libKSaneCore.so.1 + 0x1a7ad) #8 0x00007f606005666f _ZN10KSaneIface11KSaneWidget10openDeviceERK7QString (libKF5Sane.so.5 + 0x2b66f) #9 0x000055a2cc2b25fb n/a (skanlite + 0x115fb) #10 0x00007f605dc2cbb0 __libc_start_call_main (libc.so.6 + 0x27bb0) #11 0x00007f605dc2cc79 __libc_start_main@@GLIBC_2.34 (libc.so. 6 + 0x27c79) #12 0x000055a2cc2b36a5 n/a (skanlite + 0x126a5) Stack trace of thread 11385: #0 0x00007f6049df248d avahi_simple_poll_dispatch (libavahi- common.so.3 + 0x748d) #1 0x00007f6049df277d avahi_simple_poll_loop (libavahi- common.so.3 + 0x777d) #2 0x00007f6049df27f7 n/a (libavahi-common.so.3 + 0x77f7) #3 0x00007f605dc92f24 start_thread (libc.so.6 + 0x8df24) #4 0x00007f605dd19f50 __clone3 (libc.so.6 + 0x114f50) Stack trace of thread 11393: #0 0x00007f605dd0c08f __poll (libc.so.6 + 0x10708f) #1 0x00007f605ef47108 n/a (libKF5Crash.so.5 + 0x7108) #2 0x00007f605ef47cdd _ZN6KCrash19defaultCrashHandlerEi (libKF5Crash.so.5 + 0x7cdd) #3 0x00007f605dc43420 __restore_rt (libc.so.6 + 0x3e420) #4 0x00007f6049dd7019 sane_net_get_devices (libsane-net.so.1 + 0xa019) #5 0x00007f605cca88d0 sane_dll_get_devices (libsane.so.1 + 0x98d0) #6 0x00007f605f82c523 n/a (libKSaneCore.so.1 + 0x11523) #7 0x00007f605e303b4d _ZN14QThreadPrivate5startEPv (libQt5Core.so.5 + 0x103b4d) #8 0x00007f605dc92f24 start_thread (libc.so.6 + 0x8df24) #9 0x00007f605dd19f50 __clone3 (libc.so.6 + 0x114f50) Stack trace of thread 11383: #0 0x00007f605dd0c08f __poll (libc.so.6 + 0x10708f) #1 0x00007f605c88387a n/a (libxcb.so.1 + 0xe87a) #2 0x00007f605c88513c xcb_wait_for_event (libxcb.so.1 + 0x1013c) #3 0x00007f60593191a0 _ZN14QXcbEventQueue3runEv (libQt5XcbQpa.so.5 + 0x6b1a0) #4 0x00007f605e303b4d _ZN14QThreadPrivate5startEPv (libQt5Core.so.5 + 0x103b4d) #5 0x00007f605dc92f24 start_thread (libc.so.6 + 0x8df24) #6 0x00007f605dd19f50 __clone3 (libc.so.6 + 0x114f50) Stack trace of thread 11382: #0 0x00007f605dd0c08f __poll (libc.so.6 + 0x10708f) #1 0x00007f605cd172ce n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x5e2ce) #2 0x00007f605cd173ec g_main_context_iteration (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x5e3ec) #3 0x00007f605e5460b6 _ZN20QEventDispatcherGlib13processEventsE6QFlagsIN10QEventLoop17ProcessEventsFlagEE (libQt5Core.so.5 + 0x3460b6) #4 0x00007f605e4eb5cb _ZN10QEventLoop4execE6QFlagsINS_17ProcessEventsFlagEE (libQt5Core.so.5 + 0x2eb5cb) #5 0x00007f605e30297e _ZN7QThread4execEv (libQt5Core.so.5 + 0x10297e) #6 0x00007f605fa24257 n/a (libQt5DBus.so.5 + 0x1a257) #7 0x00007f605e303b4d _ZN14QThreadPrivate5startEPv (libQt5Core.so.5 + 0x103b4d) #8 0x00007f605dc92f24 start_thread (libc.so.6 + 0x8df24) #9 0x00007f605dd19f50 __clone3 (libc.so.6 + 0x114f50) ELF object binary architecture: AMD x86-64 Greetings, -- Javier Llorente

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[KDE][TW] plasma5-bigscreen
by Felix Miata 11 Mar '23

11 Mar '23

Is it normal for the onscreen keyboard to intercept all mouse clicks attempting to actually use open apps in an X11-bigscreen session? Is there a known bug with a workaround to keep the onscreen keyboard from popping up except on explicit request? -- Evolution as taught in public schools is, like religion, based on faith, not based on science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata

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Action required: KDE repo key change, KDE:Unstable will contain Plasma 5.27
by Fabian Vogt 28 Feb '23

28 Feb '23

Hello, The OBS project keys for the KDE:* (but not KDE:Extra!) and KDE:Unstable:* projects still use DSA1024 as algorithm and need to be recreated using RSA4096. This means that if you use e.g. KDE:Qt5, KDE:Frameworks5, KDE:Applications or KDE:Unstable:Qt, KDE:Unstable:Frameworks, KDE:Unstable:Applications, KDE:Unstable:Extra, you will have to accept the new sign keys. Due to the design of OBS we can't provide the fingerprints in advance. After the switch, they will be visible on these pages: https://build.opensuse.org/project/keys_and_certificates/KDE https://build.opensuse.org/project/keys_and_certificates/KDE:Unstable When zypper asks whether you trust the new keys, you can compare the fingerprints with the ones on those pages. Only import the keys if they compare equal. Upstream Plasma is moving towards Qt 6 in the master branch [1] and thus a large disruption is expected for some time. We have switched Plasma 5 packages in KDE:Unstable:Frameworks to build the Plasma/5.27 branch. Users of this repo will see downgrades of those packages which also means that some smaller features which were only present in the master branch will disappear. Once ready, KDE Frameworks 6 and Plasma 6 packages will be delivered by this repo next to the existing Qt 5 based versions. KDE:Unstable:Applications is not affected for the time being, those still track the master branch. [1] https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/plasma-devel/2023-February/122972.html Have a lot of fun, the openSUSE KDE maintainers

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plasma-discover: Setting a different language (locales) as default de_DE
by Sedat Dilek 14 Jan '23

14 Jan '23

Happy new 2023 Debian and openSUSE KDE teams, This issue is about plasma-discover and locale/language settings and hope this is not Debian-specific. I fixed up my plasma-discover and it starts now, again on Debian/unstable AMD64 with KDE/Plasma version 5.26.5 and fetches updates. Normally, I do not use plasma-discover for upgrading packages but it's nice to have graphical frontend to check what is available. All my swcatalog caches (Debian DEP-11 metadata) were updated via: root# appstreamcli refresh --force root# LC_ALL=en_EN LANG=en_EN appstreamcli refresh --force Now I see: root# LC_ALL=C ll /var/cache/swcatalog/cache/ total 21M drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Jan 14 10:59 . drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4.0K Feb 25 2022 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.3M Jan 14 03:25 de_DE-local-metainfo.xb -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9.7M Jan 14 10:59 de_DE-os-catalog.xb -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 998K Jan 14 10:13 en_EN-local-metainfo.xb -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8.8M Jan 14 10:13 en_EN-os-catalog.xb (Re)Moved all user's appstream + discover caches before: user$ mv ~/.cache/appstream ~/.cache/appstream.old user$ mv ~/.cache/discover ~/.cache/discover.old Renewed APT packages repository via: root# apt-get update As you can see I have both de_DE and en_EN swcatalogs. If I run from Start > Apps > Discover or from konsole... user$ plasma-discover ...I always have de_DE software-catalogs visible. With en_EN locales... user$ LC_ALL=en_EN LANG=en_EN plasma-discover ...works fine. Is there a place where I can set locales/language for plasma-discover? I found: $ cat ~/.config/discoverrc [Window] geometry=0,0,1366,695 visibility=4 Cannot say if this is the correct config file as I have something like discover (hardware-info) tool also installed. $ man discover discover(1) General Commands Manual discover(1) NAME discover — hardware detection utility Thanks for any hints. Best regards, -Sedat-

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unsubscribing
by Mark Hounschell 10 Jan '23

10 Jan '23

How does one unsubscribe from this list? Thanks Mark

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Desktop Cube
by Robin Klitscher 02 Dec '22

02 Dec '22

It seems that the KDE folk upstream have made available a replacement for the desktop cube effect. I'm told it's at https://github.com/zzag/kwin-effects-cube.git, but building it for openSUSE is beyond my skills. Is there any chance that it might be packaged and distributed for Leap and Tumbleweed as an add-on?? -- Robin K Wellington "Harbour City" New Zealand

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OpenSUSE Leap 15.3 support ends in a couple days
by Christophe Giboudeaux 27 Nov '22

27 Nov '22

Hello, Please note: Unless further notice, openSUSE Leap 15.3 support will end in a few days. [1] If you're using packages from the KDE repositories (KDE:Frameworks5, KDE:Extra, etc...), you have a few days left to upgrade to Leap 15.4. Christophe [1] https://en.opensuse.org/Lifetime

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