Testing Plasma 6 (Beta) on Endeavour OS - is this approach any good?

Desktop Environments Plasma
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Just ran yay again:

30  core-testing/dbus                   1.14.10-1          -> 1.14.10-2
29  core-testing/hwdata                 0.377-1            -> 0.378-1
28  core-testing/linux                  6.6.9.arch1-1      -> 6.6.10.arch1-1
27  core-testing/linux-headers          6.6.9.arch1-1      -> 6.6.10.arch1-1
26  core-testing/systemd                255.2-1            -> 255.2-2
25  core-testing/systemd-libs           255.2-1            -> 255.2-2
24  core-testing/systemd-resolvconf     255.2-1            -> 255.2-2
23  core-testing/systemd-sysvcompat     255.2-1            -> 255.2-2
22  extra-testing/qt5-base              5.15.11+kde+r148-1 -> 5.15.12+kde+r147-1
21  extra-testing/qt5-connectivity      5.15.11+kde+r6-1   -> 5.15.12+kde+r6-1
20  extra-testing/qt5-declarative       5.15.11+kde+r32-1  -> 5.15.12+kde+r31-1
19  extra-testing/qt5-graphicaleffects  5.15.11-1          -> 5.15.12-1
18  extra-testing/qt5-imageformats      5.15.11+kde+r12-1  -> 5.15.12+kde+r10-1
17  extra-testing/qt5-location          5.15.11+kde+r5-2   -> 5.15.12+kde+r6-1
16  extra-testing/qt5-multimedia        5.15.11+kde+r2-1   -> 5.15.12+kde+r2-1
15  extra-testing/qt5-quickcontrols     5.15.11-1          -> 5.15.12-1
14  extra-testing/qt5-quickcontrols2    5.15.11+kde+r5-1   -> 5.15.12+kde+r5-1
13  extra-testing/qt5-sensors           5.15.11-1          -> 5.15.12-1
12  extra-testing/qt5-speech            5.15.11+kde+r1-1   -> 5.15.12+kde+r1-1
11  extra-testing/qt5-svg               5.15.11+kde+r6-1   -> 5.15.12+kde+r6-1
10  extra-testing/qt5-tools             5.15.11+kde+r4-1   -> 5.15.12+kde+r4-1
 9  extra-testing/qt5-translations      5.15.11-1          -> 5.15.12-1
 8  extra-testing/qt5-wayland           5.15.11+kde+r60-1  -> 5.15.12+kde+r61-1
 7  extra-testing/qt5-webchannel        5.15.11+kde+r3-1   -> 5.15.12+kde+r3-1
 6  extra-testing/qt5-webengine         5.15.16-1          -> 5.15.16-2
 5  extra-testing/qt5-x11extras         5.15.11-1          -> 5.15.12-1

No unstable updates, only core/extra testing updates.

383

According to the release schedule tomorrow, 10th of January, Release Candidate 1 of Plasma 6 will be released.
I expect the people over at arch need some time to do their thing, so a couple of days after the 10th RC1 may start rolling our way.

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384

is it currently useable as a daily driver?

385

I have been using it and for most things it works perfectly well. However there are large sections of the “System Settings” manager that are not accessible (I include a picture of the section from the “Energy Saving” tab here). Also I have found that the Sleep/Suspend does not work for me. Finally I have a python script that writes to the clipboard (using pyperclip library) and that is not working with the Plasma 6 Beta.

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386

I concur - I use it daily and everything that I want to do works. I’m a “light” end user (browser, spreadsheet, text editor, mail mostly) though.

387

Here is some more info about issues:

https://community.kde.org/Plasma/Plasma_6

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388

I may be reading it wrong, but the prior mega-release was released by KDE on 12/20 (https://community.kde.org/Schedules/Plasma_6), and based on the date of the Arch KDE-unstable releases, it looks it got rolled out on 12/21 (https://archlinux.org/packages/?repo=KDE-Unstable&sort=-last_update). So looks like delay was only 1 day for the last one.

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Yes, you may well be right. I remember deployment for arch and eos took some time back then.

What I learned from that was that a KDE/plasma release on the 10th doesn’t mean that EOS will get the updates on the same day.

I’ve also learned to be aware that one can get a partial update, when one runs yay when not all packages have landed in the repo yet.

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390

Release Candidate 1 on schedule: https://kde.org/announcements/megarelease/6/rc1/

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391

This update killed wayland sessions for me. kicks me back to login. X11 works, but spams errors like crazy. “This application failed to start because no Qt platform plugin could be initialized.”. System is very unstable right now. perhaps not all packages are updated in the repo yet?

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The update kicks me back to the login screen.

393

Same here.

X11 works - but some things seem broken (yakuake for one). Can’ t start Konsole.
Perhaps we have a partial update and need to wait a bit and see if more updates start rolling in?

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394

Confirmed; same here.

395

That’s my hypothesis as well at the moment.

396

@Metz Welcome to the EOS forum. :slight_smile: Thanks for chiming in.

397

Thanks :slight_smile:
And yes, partial update sounds logical. I’m sure it will be solved very quickly.

398

Looking at the KDE-Unstable Package repo some packages have not been update/rebuilt since the last December.

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400

Todays update indeed fixed it :+1:

edit: was meant as answer to the thread. this forum software is weird.

The known System Settings problem is still there unfortunately (“Error loading QML file”) so the known workaround is still necessary.

konsole seems to be broken. It does not open. Could not find other problems yet.

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widgets are broken too. unable to add new ones.

401

Thanks for reporting this.

I’ll update tonight.