Sync Updates for Weeks 12 and 13, 2024

WetGeek

My installation (300+ upgrades) went fine for my main laptop. A few minutes to get rid of the stupid floating panels, and to create the dock, and I'm all set. I'd also found nothing wrong with Wayland, although it's obviously still early.

murbert

WetGeek Did you know the floating panels automagically 'unfloat' if you bring a window near them? They do not functionally take extra screen real estate.

ReillyBrogan

Gwen Yes, but that would require a change to eopkg. A change that would only take effect on updates AFTER the update that updated eopkg, which means that there's no way to really avoid breaking since Plasma 6 would still update at the same time.

EbonJaeger

Gwen This usually isn't an issue; pretty much only during major desktop upgrades. That said, "offline updates" will eliminate the problem entirely, as noted in the Offline Updates section of the update post. Hopefully that can be accomplished sooner rather than later. 🙂

ReillyBrogan

EbonJaeger Well, it won't fix the weird graphical issues on reboots or the Plasma migrations potentially having issues, but it'll fix the "don't let the computer lock during updates" thingy

Zenurik

I have been eagerly waiting for the KDE 6 update, thank you!

EDIT: Btw, I did have some issues when updating; most of my customization wasn't working due to not being updated to Plasma 6 yet so I had to spend some time reconfiguring everything. At least I found out about a cool new tiling WM, Karousel.

CorvusRuber

Latte dock has been deprecated/removed from the repo, by chance ? Compatibility issues with Plasma 6 ?

ReillyBrogan

CorvusRuber Yeah it's dead, Jim. Upstream maintainer for it stopped supporting it a while ago but it was kept limping along by someone occasionally contributing a fix. However nobody stepped up to port it to Plasma 6 and as it's completely broken and unusable it had to be removed.

You can sort of mimic a dock like it with the built-in Plasma panel tools, see if Wetgeek will show you how he did his.

Bismuth was another casualty of the update as it was also not updated (and is unlikely to ever be).

brent

thanks from budgie-land 👍️

alfisya

Side side note, I added warpinator and xfce4-weather-plugin to the repo this time around for anyone interested.

Solarmass

alfisya thanks, warpinator is a great tool 👍️

flanier

ReillyBrogan

I installed Polonium for window tiling on Plasma 6, when I updated EndeavourOS on my laptop to Plasma 6 a little while back. It is compatible with Wayland. IMHO it isn't as polished as Bismuth was, nor does it have all the features that Bismuth did. If anyone knows of another window tiling plug-in/program for Plasma 6, I'd certainly be willing to try it, and see how well it works.

Polonium - KDE Store

Polonium - Github

[deleted]

Dropped into a black screen with a cursor in the middle of the update. I made sure from a TTY that nothing's going on and rebooted from there. I ended up with missing panel icons and menu entries. usysconf run -f fixed that, but I noticed my icon task lisk is not working at all and the show desktop applet doesn't work. I checked for broken packages and when it didn't yield any, I decided to reboot again. Now it seems to work as it should.

penny-farthing

ReillyBrogan

172 Solus updates (1,07 GiB) treated today.

Working on Budgie Desktop, I'm less concerned by the impressive work you've done on Plasma Desktop, which must delight its users.

I wanted (humbly) to just make a suggestion (if it's possible) concerning this sensitive plasma update which requires preventing the screen from standing during the update.

In Budgie Control Center, it's possible to modify the "Energy" settings to prevent this.
Is there a similar way in Plasma Desktop?

ReillyBrogan

penny-farthing Of course there's a way to inhibit it or disable the lock screen. But the thing is that any mechanism that Solus developers could use to make sure the system automatically does that during the update would also have to be deployed as an update. And updating to that fixed version of eopkg would also bring in the Plasma 6 updates. We can make it so that future updates don't lock the screen, but we can't make it so that this update doesn't lock the screen. Does that make sense?

penny-farthing

ReillyBrogan

Thanks for your feedback.
You are absolutely right, this locking mechanism must be sustainable for any system update.
It was just a suggestion, given the importance of this update, while waiting for the Solus developers to find a solution for the future.

joluveba

I noticed that ksysguard has been deprecated. Well, I kind of expected it.

JTCPingas

Updated and everything went smooth. I know it's probably too soon to ask, but what is the game plan for GNOME 46?

Harvey

JTCPingas what is the game plan for GNOME 46?

We usually wait for a .1 at least. But as you can see Joey is already working on it: https://github.com/getsolus/packages/pull/1950

SmileyBMM

Updated and all my applications are no longer being detected by Plasma. The application menu is blank and trying to open any file doesn't work (because it can't find an application to open it with). The programs weren't removed or corrupted, they launch from Konsole (which I used the hotkey for) just fine. Not sure what exactly broke, but all my files seem intact. Will update if I'm able to solve this myself.
If you notice your applications are missing, run usysconf run -f as root and reboot to fix it. Thanks to @brent for the suggestion.

brent

SmileyBMM run usysconf run -f then reboot.

**abridged from @[deleted] 's reply above

FAb7D

SmileyBMM I have had the same problem and I have solved it in the same way.

brent

I did screenshot this during update but nothing is broken and all works fine. just an FYI more than anything.

Harvey

brent did screenshot this during update but nothing is broken and all works fine.

Its fine, just a warning that there is a file conflict. But as it notes it resolves itself once all updates are applied

python-object gets replaced by python2-gobject

Simply the package that owns those files being changed.