Hello all, I figured we could use a Plasma 6 megathread as a central place to share pain points, missing features, workarounds, and just maybe even some sweet pictures of your newly updated desktop.

As a reminder, latte dock and bismuth have both been removed from the repository. Both are incompatible with Plasma 6 and are no longer maintained upstream. The recommended alternative for latte dock is to create a new floating Plasma panel with a task manager and set it to hide automatically. For bismuth I recommend polonium which is available in the KDE store (though it's not a drop in replacement for Bismuth, it's slightly different).

Also, fwiw I hate the new floating panels and disable them immediately. I respect people who like them though, maybe someone will post a picture where they look so good that I change my mind on them.

    For window tiling, I wanted to mention here that the Mudeer plugin to do tiling on ultrawide monitors exists. They are working on Plasma6 compatibility, but it isn't ready yet.

    For anyone interested in the full details of everything in the update to Plasma 6 upstream, check out the Plasma/Plasma6 page in the KDE community wiki.

    In particular, here is the upstream list of removals. Check it out if you think something might be missing on your system.

    Here are some issues we've seen so far on Plasma 6 in Solus (more can be found in the KDE wiki linked above):

    • VS Code dialogs open behind the main window
    • Bluetooth devices do not reconnect when waking from sleep or hibernation
    • Touchpad says "No touchpad found" - caused when xorg-driver-input-synaptics is installed. Remove that package to fix.
    • Rotation does not work on all devices
    • Sometimes if one bluetooth device is connected (like headphones), the system is unable to connect to or add another bluetooth device (like a keyboard)
    • Display Settings behaving incorrectly if there are external monitors connected, and the refresh rate is set on one higher than Plasma can handle
    • Not all SDDM themes work with Plasma 6. If you had a custom theme or install a new theme that does not support qt6, you can apply it but you will see the default SDDM theme on the login screen.

    [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. 😉

      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.

        sangheeta among other things, set dolphin as a dual-panel files browser.

        That's an interesting idea. Did you do it with drag 'n' drop in mind?

            WetGeek
            yes, I realized that I was using dual-pane more and more.
            And clicking on the little house gives us access to all our favorite folders and locations. Favorites can be hidden folders also.

              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. 🙂

                    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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                          • Post #18

                          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.

                            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!