Testers needed for plasma 6.2 beta

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The Arch KDE-Unstable repo has just been updated, for those who are brave enough - https://archlinux.org/packages/?repo=KDE-Unstable

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Note: Love=Beta :smiley:

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It’s raining bugs, let’s report all of them!

:saluting_face:

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(Starship Troopers)

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It burns, burns, burns :fire:

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I found one! I found one!

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=493031

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I’m always down to test plasma in beta. Gotta get a spare drive ready.

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I’m here for the Cinnamon love…oh wait
:slight_smile:

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That’s how you help the plasma community. :+1:t4:

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You always get to be a Cinnamon beta tester with Arch Linux :wink:

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Well, so far I’m not sure I would recommend beta testing on Arch. The kde unstable repos also include Qt 6.8 beta and I’m certain that that is causing all kinds of issues compared to just the 6.2 update.

I’ll report back with more info on this as I move my testing setup over to something else. It really is good to test one change at a time.

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Ah, yes, that complicates matters considerably. Good to know.
I’m planning on getting a test setup running this weekend.

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@SemLraug, good to hear from you again. I believe we had the same problem, but not as bad with plasma 6 and qt 6.7 beta.

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Ah, yes, the good old times when plasma 6 was all new and shiny and broken and unstable. :smiley:
How time flies when one uses EOS. :wink:

Good to know you, and others, are testing.

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I can’t help it. I like the new and shiny.

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Installed opensuse tumbleweed with krypton repos and can definitely say it has less problems with plasma 6.2 compiled with Qt 6.7 rather than Qt 6.8 which is being used on Arch.

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Hmm, in that case I may well decide to get tumbleweed running in a VM to test 6.2.
I’ll have a look.

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A few problems that only happen with plasma 6.2 compiled with Qt 6.8

  1. Blurry icons everywhere and blurry text in many other places, but not as prevalent as the blurry icons.
  2. The network manager applet in the systray has ghost entries. A.K.A busted entries that don’t have a name and for some reason have a disconnect button next to them. Also these entries shouldn’t exist in the first place since I don’t have wifi.
  3. Random couldn’t load qml dialog on startup.

I filed bugs for 1 and 2 anyways, before moving to openSUSE for the testing.

  1. has already been confirmed and is something they need to work on in the migration to 6.8.
  2. was actually an upstream issue and there is an open bug report on the Qt bug tracker and as such not a kde bug.

I didn’t report number 3 because usually this is caused by a packaging issue.

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