[deleted] Ah sorry, I see my post could be interpreted as if I had a problem. I don't. My dock is set to autohide and I have nothing on the desktop. Unless I open an application or hover my mouse over the dock, it's just a background image. It's the way I configured it. So it would be pretty boring if I posted a picture. 
Plasma 6 Megathread
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Honestly, I'm really pleased with the freshening up of plasma, which benefits solus as well. Bravo to the team for offering us what is, in my eyes, one of the best distro/DE out there.
With all these good vibrations, I've decided to rethink the way I use my desktop, and among other things, set dolphin as a dual-panel files browser.
Hello everyone,
I've been a LINUX user for nearly 14 years. I started slowly with "Puppy Linux", then XUBUNTU, LINUX MINT, FEDORA, then with my new computer, I enjoyed KUBUNTU then I wanted to try KDE NEON. After several months, several bugs appeared which I tried to follow up, but to no avail. For example, as a user of DOLPHIN as a file explorer, it would bug whenever I removed an external disk. The relevant tab would go into error. Despite several reminders, this was never corrected.
Then, after 14 months of use, the "pseudo-fabulous giga-update" of February 2024 created numerous bugs. Several KDE-specific software programs no longer functioned correctly or were unstable.
With all the patience one must have and the good will one must deliver, I'm still fascinated that a new version of an environment is released without taking all the necessary precautions, and that we wait for user feedback to correct the defects. Maybe it's silly of me, but I find it disrespectful.
After several weeks of research and attempts at correction, I decided to switch to a version of Linux that would allow me to stop reinstalling a new version of the environment every two years.
So I decided to switch to SOLUS 8 days ago. And I was very surprised at how light, fast and stable it was. The only bug I found was the night-time brightness, which didn't activate automatically each time I started up.
Today, after the March 29, 2024 update, I'm confronted with the bugs I wanted to escape: the information center crashes, the explorer asks me to make a new manipulation just to create a new folder (before: F10, now: ctrl+shift+N)!!!! And I fear the worst... And that's without mentioning the visual tricks like the floating panel, whose technical uselessness appalls me. The developers' ability to make people believe they've reinvented the wheel is fascinating!
Like everyone else, I find criticism easy, but what's disarming is to see that other distributions like yours apply the KDE community's updates too early. But that's just my point of view. However, the list of bugs I observe tells me that I'm not far from the truth. This isn't virulence on my part, it's just an expression of my disappointment.
Nevertheless, I still think that the work you're doing to build a distribution from scratch is extraordinary, and I can only encourage you to continue, despite these few remarks I wanted to make at least once. I'm going to continue my discovery of SOLUS and wish you all the best!
Congrats for the release of Plasma 6, sofar nothing broke for me (besides the panels were reset and not centred as I have it) btw did you remove the Solus startmenu icon or was that an hick-up from the update? 
Reg Tiling, Plasma as an inbuilt tiling editor since a while and which works fine for me (System Settings” -> “Workspace Behavior” -> “Desktop Effects)
Here for @ReillyBrogan top is always over any window and is sticked to the border and the bottom dissapears and is floating
Everything is fine with Plasma 6. The only issue is SDDM. If Ichange the theme it will always show an old SDDM screen which has nothing to do with the theme I select. Only Breeze theme works. I downloaded one from the "Get new" that was for Plasma 6 but it's not working. Any fix for that?
I had a little issue, it's silly, but I'll post it here just in case. I couldn't open images in webp format with Gwenview, and I'm positive I could before the Plasma update. I found this solution on the Endeavour forum:
https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/webp-support-in-gwenview/11399
Do you have qt5-imageformats installed?So, I installed qt6-imageformats (6, not 5), and now I can open webp images again.
joluveba I'll add that as a rundep of kf6-kimageformats so that it gets pulled in automatically
andiskufi Everything is fine with Plasma 6. The only issue is SDDM.
I've seen this bug on my system as well. I've opened an issue on our tracker so we can investigate.
cristobal-angel
Agreed.
I installed KDE Neon a couple of weeks ago, starting with Wayland. That lasted only a couple of hours, during which I encountered many issues, including the lock screen crashing. I switched to X11 which was much better, but still came across many bugs. So I uninstalled it after only a day.
I was hoping Solus would postpone the v.6 update at least a couple of months, seeing how buggy the initial release was, but here we are. Fingers crossed that this works out significantly better than the Neon experience.
Neon screwed up their initial packaging of Plasma 6, so who knows if they have resolved all their issues.
Personally I have been running Plasma 6 with wayland on Solus since the beginning of February and its been uneventful.
rincor Fingers crossed that this works out significantly better than the Neon experience
It was explained to us on Wednesday that we should expect some issues, but that there were good reasons why it would be released now. The beta had been going well. And the version we have now is even better. I've now updated three Plasma laptops, a Plasma workstation, a Plasma server, and a Plasma VM, and not encountered any problems with any of them.
We were warned that this release might not be perfect, but I'll settle for "excellent," which appears to be what we got. Thanks to everyone who helped to make this release possible, and best of luck as you work towards perfect, going forward.
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I'm not sure if I should post this here or in the Sync Updates thread. It makes more sense to post it here though.
Things are great! Plasma is beautiful, it runs great and the Solus team did really good in how they brought it to us!
I am experiencing a somewhat annoying bug with qBittorrent though. It's not a Solus bug, maybe not even a qBittorrent one but a Plasma bug. When I add a new torrent, if I change download settings the app crashes. It has been reported several times on the qBittorrent GitHub Issues page. I guess I'll just wait and see what happens in the future while downloading to only the current download location for now.
Anyway, Thank You Solus team for a great update!
I'm not a Plasma user in itself, but I do use some KDE applications. Is there a way to make them less white in Qt6?
Qt5 applications tried to mimic the gnome theme. I don't need that, but I'd just like to have a dark theme available.
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Ok finally updated. Neofetch shows me using about double the ram I had been using previously on startup (1.3gb vs 750mb). Not a big deal since I've got 32gb of system ram available, but I thought I'd check it out and see where the new bloat was. Went to fire up ksysguard only to find out it's gone. Is that coming back? Any replacement that's a nice GUI like ksysguard (not interested in the command line top stuff). Memory: 1378MiB / 32013MiB (4%)
Edit: Found that it was replaced with System Monitor which needed installed manually.
FWIW I changed my global and SDDM theme to just plain Breeze Dark prior to updating and I had no theming issues on restart.
Thanks!
Noticed Konsole no longer has a transparent background. Figured it just got turned off so went to turn it on and got the message "your desktop doesn't support" transparent backgrounds?
TraceyC Yep just updated this morning.
Operating System: Solus 4.5
KDE Plasma Version: 6.0.3
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.0.0
Qt Version: 6.6.3
Kernel Version: 6.6.22-281.current (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 24 × AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core Processor
Memory: 31.3 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060/PCIe/SSE2
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Okular....I had a problem with the previous version of Okular that wouldn't open sound annotation, now, with the same pdf the new Okular version crash, this is the problem (kde-bugs?) : https://www.mail-archive.com/kde-bugs-dist@kde.org/msg907592.html
Application: Okular (okular), signal: Segmentation fault
[New LWP 22450]
[New LWP 22454]
[New LWP 22455]
[New LWP 22457]
[New LWP 22459]
[New LWP 22458]
[New LWP 22452]
[New LWP 22456]
[New LWP 22451]
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
Using host libthread_db library "/usr/lib64/libthread_db.so.1".
Core was generated by `/usr/bin/okular
/home/fabio/Documenti/62b96c2f3d4d4239bfc7709e420541d4.pdf'.
Program terminated with signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
#0 0x00007fac7689b0bb in pthread_kill () from
/usr/lib/glibc-hwcaps/x86-64-v3/libc.so.6
[Current thread is 1 (Thread 0x7fac72a4be80 (LWP 22450))]
Cannot QML trace cores :(
[Current thread is 1 (Thread 0x7fac72a4be80 (LWP 22450))]
Thread 9 (Thread 0x7fac725cf6c0 (LWP 22451)):
#0 0x00007fac76912dcf in poll () at /usr/lib/glibc-hwcaps/x86-64-v3/libc.so.6
#1 0x00007fac7646ae57 in ??? () at /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#2 0x00007fac7646b571 in g_main_context_iteration () at
/usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#3 0x00007fac775d37b2 in
QEventDispatcherGlib::processEvents(QFlags<QEventLoop::ProcessEventsFlag>) ()
at /usr/lib/libQt6Core.so.6
#4 0x00007fac772fad8a in
QEventLoop::exec(QFlags<QEventLoop::ProcessEventsFlag>) () at
/usr/lib/libQt6Core.so.6
#5 0x00007fac7740a656 in QThread::exec() () at /usr/lib/libQt6Core.so.6
#6 0x00007fac7878e45a in ??? () at /usr/lib/libQt6DBus.so.6
#7 0x00007fac774b2d9f in ??? () at /usr/lib/libQt6Core.so.6
#8 0x00007fac7689927e in ??? () at /usr/lib/glibc-hwcaps/x86-64-v3/libc.so.6
#9 0x00007fac769200ec in ??? () at /usr/lib/glibc-hwcaps/x86-64-v3/libc.so.6
Thread 8 (Thread 0x7fac5f5fd6c0 (LWP 22456)):
#0 0x00007fac76895776 in ??? () at /usr/lib/glibc-hwcaps/x86-64-v3/libc.so.6
#1 0x00007fac76898515 in pthread_cond_timedwait () at
/usr/lib/glibc-hwcaps/x86-64-v3/libc.so.6
#2 0x00007fac774bed2c in ??? () at /usr/lib/libQt6Core.so.6
#3 0x00007fac774bebda in QWaitCondition::wait(QMutex*, QDeadlineTimer) () at
/usr/lib/libQt6Core.so.6
#4 0x00007fac774b6f09 in ??? () at /usr/lib/libQt6Core.so.6
#5 0x00007fac774b2d9f in ??? () at /usr/lib/libQt6Core.so.6
#6 0x00007fac7689927e in ??? () at /usr/lib/glibc-hwcaps/x86-64-v3/libc.so.6
#7 0x00007fac769200ec in ??? () at /usr/lib/glibc-hwcaps/x86-64-v3/libc.so.6
Thread 7 (Thread 0x7fac71dce6c0 (LWP 22452)):
#0 0x00007fac76912dcf in poll () at /usr/lib/glibc-hwcaps/x86-64-v3/libc.so.6
#1 0x00007fac76b0d773 in ??? () at /usr/lib/libxcb.so.1
#2 0x00007fac76b101eb in xcb_wait_for_event () at /usr/lib/libxcb.so.1
#3 0x00007fac729b407f in ??? () at
/usr/lib64/qt6/plugins/platforms/../../../libQt6XcbQpa.so.6
#4 0x00007fac774b2d9f in ??? () at /usr/lib/libQt6Core.so.6
#5 0x00007fac7689927e in ??? () at /usr/lib/glibc-hwcaps/x86-64-v3/libc.so.6
#6 0x00007fac769200ec in ??? () at /usr/lib/glibc-hwcaps/x86-64-v3/libc.so.6
Thread 6 (Thread 0x7fac5e5fb6c0 (LWP 22458)):
#0 0x00007fac76895776 in ??? () at /usr/lib/glibc-hwcaps/x86-64-v3/libc.so.6
#1 0x00007fac76898515 in pthread_cond_timedwait () at
/usr/lib/glibc-hwcaps/x86-64-v3/libc.so.6
#2 0x00007fac774bed2c in ??? () at /usr/lib/libQt6Core.so.6
#3 0x00007fac774bebda in QWaitCondition::wait(QMutex*, QDeadlineTimer) () at
/usr/lib/libQt6Core.so.6
#4 0x00007fac774b6f09 in ??? () at /usr/lib/libQt6Core.so.6
#5 0x00007fac774b2d9f in ??? () at /usr/lib/libQt6Core.so.6
#6 0x00007fac7689927e in ??? () at /usr/lib/glibc-hwcaps/x86-64-v3/libc.so.6
#7 0x00007fac769200ec in ??? () at /usr/lib/glibc-hwcaps/x86-64-v3/libc.so.6
Thread 5 (Thread 0x7fac5ddfa6c0 (LWP 22459)):
#0 0x00007fac76895776 in ??? () at /usr/lib/glibc-hwcaps/x86-64-v3/libc.so.6
#1 0x00007fac76898515 in pthread_cond_timedwait () at
/usr/lib/glibc-hwcaps/x86-64-v3/libc.so.6
#2 0x00007fac774bed2c in ??? () at /usr/lib/libQt6Core.so.6
#3 0x00007fac774bebda in QWaitCondition::wait(QMutex*, QDeadlineTimer) () at
/usr/lib/libQt6Core.so.6
#4 0x00007fac774b6f09 in ??? () at /usr/lib/libQt6Core.so.6
#5 0x00007fac774b2d9f in ??? () at /usr/lib/libQt6Core.so.6
#6 0x00007fac7689927e in ??? () at /usr/lib/glibc-hwcaps/x86-64-v3/libc.so.6
#7 0x00007fac769200ec in ??? () at /usr/lib/glibc-hwcaps/x86-64-v3/libc.so.6
Thread 4 (Thread 0x7fac5edfc6c0 (LWP 22457)):
#0 0x00007fac76895776 in ??? () at /usr/lib/glibc-hwcaps/x86-64-v3/libc.so.6
#1 0x00007fac76898515 in pthread_cond_timedwait () at
/usr/lib/glibc-hwcaps/x86-64-v3/libc.so.6
#2 0x00007fac774bed2c in ??? () at /usr/lib/libQt6Core.so.6
#3 0x00007fac774bebda in QWaitCondition::wait(QMutex*, QDeadlineTimer) () at
/usr/lib/libQt6Core.so.6
#4 0x00007fac774b6f09 in ??? () at /usr/lib/libQt6Core.so.6
#5 0x00007fac774b2d9f in ??? () at /usr/lib/libQt6Core.so.6
#6 0x00007fac7689927e in ??? () at /usr/lib/glibc-hwcaps/x86-64-v3/libc.so.6
#7 0x00007fac769200ec in ??? () at /usr/lib/glibc-hwcaps/x86-64-v3/libc.so.6
Thread 3 (Thread 0x7fac5fdfe6c0 (LWP 22455)):
#0 0x00007fac76895776 in ??? () at /usr/lib/glibc-hwcaps/x86-64-v3/libc.so.6
#1 0x00007fac76898515 in pthread_cond_timedwait () at
/usr/lib/glibc-hwcaps/x86-64-v3/libc.so.6
#2 0x00007fac774bed2c in ??? () at /usr/lib/libQt6Core.so.6
#3 0x00007fac774bebda in QWaitCondition::wait(QMutex*, QDeadlineTimer) () at
/usr/lib/libQt6Core.so.6
#4 0x00007fac774b6f09 in ??? () at /usr/lib/libQt6Core.so.6
#5 0x00007fac774b2d9f in ??? () at /usr/lib/libQt6Core.so.6
#6 0x00007fac7689927e in ??? () at /usr/lib/glibc-hwcaps/x86-64-v3/libc.so.6
#7 0x00007fac769200ec in ??? () at /usr/lib/glibc-hwcaps/x86-64-v3/libc.so.6
Thread 2 (Thread 0x7fac605ff6c0 (LWP 22454)):
#0 0x00007fac76895776 in ??? () at /usr/lib/glibc-hwcaps/x86-64-v3/libc.so.6
#1 0x00007fac76898515 in pthread_cond_timedwait () at
/usr/lib/glibc-hwcaps/x86-64-v3/libc.so.6
#2 0x00007fac774bed2c in ??? () at /usr/lib/libQt6Core.so.6
#3 0x00007fac774bebda in QWaitCondition::wait(QMutex*, QDeadlineTimer) () at
/usr/lib/libQt6Core.so.6
#4 0x00007fac774b6f09 in ??? () at /usr/lib/libQt6Core.so.6
#5 0x00007fac774b2d9f in ??? () at /usr/lib/libQt6Core.so.6
#6 0x00007fac7689927e in ??? () at /usr/lib/glibc-hwcaps/x86-64-v3/libc.so.6
#7 0x00007fac769200ec in ??? () at /usr/lib/glibc-hwcaps/x86-64-v3/libc.so.6
Thread 1 (Thread 0x7fac72a4be80 (LWP 22450)):
[KCrash Handler]
#4 0x00007fac6129cc45 in Poppler::SoundObject::data() const () at
/usr/lib/libpoppler-qt6.so.3
#5 0x00007fac6131354a in ??? () at
/usr/lib64/qt6/plugins/okular_generators/okularGenerator_poppler.so
#6 0x00007fac6132ac96 in ??? () at
/usr/lib64/qt6/plugins/okular_generators/okularGenerator_poppler.so
#7 0x00007fac61315cc8 in ??? () at
/usr/lib64/qt6/plugins/okular_generators/okularGenerator_poppler.so
#8 0x00007fac6131545a in ??? () at
/usr/lib64/qt6/plugins/okular_generators/okularGenerator_poppler.so
#9 0x00007fac69678a7b in ??? () at /usr/lib/libOkular6Core.so.1
#10 0x00007fac6968a2a5 in Okular::Document::openDocument(QString const&, QUrl
const&, QMimeType const&, QString const&) () at /usr/lib/libOkular6Core.so.1
#11 0x00007fac69831449 in Okular::Part::doOpenFile(QMimeType const&, QString
const&, bool*) () at /usr/lib64/qt6/plugins/kf6/parts/okularpart.so
#12 0x00007fac6983280b in Okular::Part::openFile() () at
/usr/lib64/qt6/plugins/kf6/parts/okularpart.so
#13 0x00007fac79085f62 in ??? () at /usr/lib/libKF6Parts.so.6
#14 0x00007fac79085cad in KParts::ReadOnlyPart::openUrl(QUrl const&) () at
/usr/lib/libKF6Parts.so.6
#15 0x00007fac6983406e in Okular::Part::openUrl(QUrl const&, bool) () at
/usr/lib64/qt6/plugins/kf6/parts/okularpart.so
#16 0x0000560087bb00d1 in ??? ()
#17 0x0000560087baff0e in ??? ()
#18 0x0000560087baa7df in ??? ()
#19 0x0000560087ba88e5 in ??? ()
#20 0x00007fac7682a30e in ??? () at /usr/lib/glibc-hwcaps/x86-64-v3/libc.so.6
#21 0x00007fac7682a3c9 in __libc_start_main () at
/usr/lib/glibc-hwcaps/x86-64-v3/libc.so.6
#22 0x0000560087ba3e05 in ??? ()