Plasma 5.21 is out

Mines running.

[ricklinux@eos-plasma ~]$ balooctl status
Baloo File Indexer is running
Indexer state: Idle
Total files indexed: 83
Files waiting for content indexing: 0
Files failed to index: 0
Current size of index is 416.00 KiB
[ricklinux@eos-plasma ~]$ 
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I had no issues with baloo since last year…

❯ balooctl status
Baloo File Indexer is running
Indexer state: Idle
Total files indexed: 8,000
Files waiting for content indexing: 0
Files failed to index: 0
Current size of index is 133.12 MiB
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For these errors …

kwin_xkbcommon: XKB: Couldn't process include statement for ...

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=263764

~/.config/kxkbrc
...
VariantList=basic

Just be aware that Plasma might clobber this setting after manual change.

I found the padding changes in 5.21 (and collapsed padding for menu separators) jarring in context menus. I took a different approach by rebuilding the breeze package locally and changing the variables in build():

  sed -i 's/MenuItem_SeparatorPadding = 0/MenuItem_SeparatorPadding = 3/g' $pkgname-$pkgver/kstyle/breezemetrics.h
  sed -i 's/MenuItem_MarginWidth = 8/MenuItem_MarginWidth = 5/g' $pkgname-$pkgver/kstyle/breezemetrics.h
  sed -i 's/MenuItem_MarginHeight = 4/MenuItem_MarginHeight = 3/g' $pkgname-$pkgver/kstyle/breezemetrics.h

Screenshot_20210302_152800

(Left: Stock | Right: Patched)

Not sure if it’s my system or breeze-gtk, but Firefox and Thunderbird had some really huge paddings on the menu bar, I just downgraded breeze-gtk=5.20 for the time being.

Other then that, it’s been a smooth update (literally - the KWin optimisations are really nice!)

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Hi,
I just installed KDE Plasma on one of my machines as a gnome replacement and I really feel like my machine is more responsive. Congratulations to the KDE developers, they do a great job!

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Just got another raft of KDE updates.

Are you on KDE-unstable, there seems to be a qt6 beta! :open_mouth:

Nope… :slightly_smiling_face:

Edit: You try?

Haven’t shown up on my mirrors yet. I’ll give it a try for the lulz, but expect a hard rollback.

There it is, KDE apps 20.12.3 just dropped here too.

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The QT6 packages should be in KDE-unstable(?) since the 2nd, but they aren’t picked up here, which seems unusual. KDE-unstable is enabled in /etc/pacman.conf. :thinking:

I assume because the whole plasma desktop is still build and depending on QT5 there’s no chance to pick them up without forgoing plasma - which isn’t a viable option.