Week 48 Sync Pushed Back

EbonJaeger

Heya folks! A new kernel and Mesalib have landed in Unstable (spoilers!), and we're pushing the sync back a few days to allow further testing. This concludes the announcement.

penny-farthing

In France, there is a saying that says: "Prudence est mère de sûreté", which in English could be translated by: "Caution is the mother of safety". 🐵
We can not say it better.

WetGeek

penny-farthing

I remembered enough of my high-school French to read that without your translation. Those lessons ended about 60 years ago, so I was quite surprised. 😆 And I agree with your comment. A few days wait to be quite sure about the update is nothing compared with what we went through with Solus about a year ago.

plutuplutu

penny-farthing

In English it's "better safe than sorry."

Solarmass

I read this announcement.

joluveba

Thank you for informing us.

Kai99x

Hello just wanted to ask is it somehow possible to add Waydroid support in a future update of Solus (Plasma) ? That would be really awesome.

alfisya

Kai99x https://github.com/getsolus/packages/issues/156

User_007

Hi 8-)
Just want to describe my workaround with the horrible looking qt5-app theming on budgie.
I just installed kvantum manager, choose the KvArc theme(KvQogir can be picked at gnome-look, which is also nice) and selected kvantum in qt5ct. Furthermore edited the ~/.profile with export QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=qt5ct and thats it.

I have no delay at start and tray icons are wirking too. (qbittorrent). I know this dosen't make the qt-apps follow the system theme but it's not a big deal for me.

Kuuchuu

User_007 Thank you for this. I had yet to bother trying to track down the issue with qt5 app themes when I stumbled upon your fix. My tray icon for qbit was fine before this fix though, and now it shows up as a settings cog, ~~but that's likely because I chose a different theme that matched my Budgie theme~~ (KvArc theme still had the cog tray icon), and is a small price to pay for usable qt5 apps.

Solarmass

User_007 Just want to describe my workaround with the horrible looking qt5-app theming on budgie.
I just installed kvantum manager, choose the KvArc theme(KvQogir can be picked at gnome-look, which is also nice) and selected kvantum in qt5ct. Furthermore edited the ~/.profile with export QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=qt5ct and thats it.

I never heard about kvantum manager.
My workaround for qbittorrent is alias in .bashrc:

alias qb='QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=qt5ct qbittorrent 2>/dev/null &'

So now I am launching qbittorrent from the terminal. With light theme, but at least it's usable. No proper tray icon here.

I was trying to create a launcher with MenuLibre but without success..

User_007

What happens, if you set a icon theme like papirus in qt5ct? Still no right tray icon?

ReillyBrogan

Qt5 theming should be significantly improved after the next sync.