As long as plasma is still in the beta phase, not everything can work yet. The developers depend on people like you to report bugs
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Did you include the testing repositories in /etc/pacman.conf? There’s a new appstream package in extra-testing that fixed it here.
PS: Looking in from the virtual-machine sideline to see how things are going at the moment only though.
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Thanks! I know. I’m in the process of learning to find my way in the bug-tracker. I have some experience with launchpad, bugzilla and some other platforms, but bugs.kde.org is new for me.
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No, I didn’t. Should I?
Would adding the testing repositories perhaps invalidate my testing results, or at least my test baseline?
Puuh, don’t ask me for the source, but afair it is somewhatish recommended to include the testing repos. Yes, it may shake up the test baseline to include all of the testing packages overall. But something big like an DE update sometimes requires an up-to-date third party dependency, which is then first available in a different testing repository. That seems to be the case here.
I’ll stick with just kde-unstable for now, but will try to find out more about adding testing repos.
Can´t find any definite info about that just yet [1].
I’ll first try to find/report the kickoff-crash for now and then call it a day.
Thanks for all your help and suggestions.
[1] Only found this so far: https://forum.garudalinux.org/t/kde-6-repository-testing/31442
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Hey, you’re doing the Lord’s work here, testing it for all of us at the moment. 
When it comes to an official quote that’s probably it:
If you enable core-testing, you must also enable extra-testing, and vice versa. If you enable any other testing repository listed in the following subsections, you must also enable both core-testing and extra-testing.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Official_repositories#Testing_repositories
Thank you! Will have a look.
I am a simple end user and need some help reporting a Plasma6 bug.
Trying to report a bug with the KDE/Plasma 6 start menu. By start menu I mean:
I need to report the bug against the right “application” of widget, and I need to find the name in this list (I think):
https://bugs.kde.org/enter_bug.cgi?classification=Plasma
The error is:
file:///usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.kickoff/contents/ui/main.qml:20:1: Kan bibliotheek /usr/lib/qt6/qml/org/kde/plasma/private/kicker/libkickerplugin.so niet laden: (libAppStreamQt.so.3: kan gedeeld objectbestand niet openen: Bestand of map bestaat niet)
I’ve searched for kicker and kickoff, but can’t find either.
Anyone know what the name is?
Iif i’m not completely wrong, it’s called Plasma-Launcher or Application Launcher
EDIT: It’s called Application-Launcher
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There isn’t a category for every small thing. I would probably open it against “plasmashell”. They will move it if it belongs somewhere else.
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Thanks all. I just submitted my first bug report for Plasma 6/QT6.
I tried to find duplicates but couldn’t find any.
I’m afraid I couldn’t fill in all the information they needed.
The last three or four days I’ve solely used this Plasma6 setup. Many of the common things work (office suite, mail client, browser), some don’t. I’ve experienced a few plasma-crashes, I’ve seen some minor glitches, but all in all I’m surprised at the usability of this setup.
Even forum.endeavouros.com works without a problem… 
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i tested wayland and tried a session, but i was stuck with a 640px resolution i think and very blurry video. not sure if it’s related to nvidia or not, still pretty much new to this so i switched back to x11
I’m on Wayland… No problems at my end. I’m not on Nvidia.
Will Plasma 6 come with a normal YAY update, or will it be required to add some repo?
Plasma 6 will be available from February 2024. Once it is in the Arch repositories, it will be available as a normal update
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To be able to test before the release date I added the kde-unstable repository.
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Well, I was wrong, and my bug report has been marked as a duplicate of:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=476910#c2
That bug report links to the arch site and the arch testing repositories.
So I believe the suggestion is that @Schlaefer was right: I do need to add the testing repositories.
Not sure yet, I’ve not had time to really read the info.
Still, onwards and upwards…
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i just tried installing plasma-wayland-session, i havent installed plasma 6 yet maybe that’s it
Can’t say, I’m sorry.
I’m on Plasma 5x.x on my main install and running Wayland - no problems there either.
I hope you get things sorted.
Fortunately X11 is still around. 