We just did a little mini-sync to get a quick branding change in before spinning ISOs 👀

The branding change affects Budgie and XFCE. It changes the default archive manager from File Roller to Engrampa. We decided to do this because since File Roller was recently ported to GTK4/libadwaita, drag-and-drop no longer works with it and GTK3 applications; the drag-and-drop API changed between GTK 3 and 4 and are not compatible.

Included in this mini-sync is a bugfix update to libcairo.

    Qt5 libraries have been deprecated

    How long till these are removed completely. I build apps at the moment for QT5 so if they go, I will have to try to manually install them.

      EbonJaeger The branding change affects Budgie and XFCE. It changes the default archive manager from File Roller to Engrampa. We decided to do this because since File Roller was recently ported to GTK4/libadwaita, drag-and-drop no longer works with it and GTK3 applications; the drag-and-drop API changed between GTK 3 and 4 and are not compatible.

      Engrampa is ok, not a good-looking extract window at all when I've tried it elsewhere, but its reliable. Sorry file-roller became unusable but se la vie. Forward progress is all good. Thanks for the heads up.

        mouse_AUS

        Not really no. Not without packaging it yourself with a different package name.

            Harvey
            is that hard to do? I really dont want to move away from Solus as for me it seems to work the best, but what I am working on /developing for is QT5. I need that to stay. I however do not require KF5.

                mouse_AUS
                You would have to judge that yourself: https://help.getsol.us/docs/packaging howeverqt5-base / qt5-base-devel is likely to remain for a while; So if that is all you need you need not worry yet but Qt5 is a dead end, it has no long term future anywhere.

                  It seems the "Email link to this button" in Firefox is suddenly broken. When I click it, I get a message box with the error:

                  "Thunderbird is already running, but is not responding. To use Thunderbird, you must first close the existing Thunderbird process, restart your device, or use a different profile."

                  Yes, Thunderbird is already running. On my machine, it's always running, and always has. That never was a problem before. Also, I can without problem enter xdg-open mailto:<some email address> in a shell and a mail window opens. I conclude therefore it has something to do with Firefox itself. I already searched the interwebs for this error with Firefox, with no luck. Maybe it's just on my machine. I'd appreciate it if someone could try that out on their machine and tell me how it went. Thx a lot.

                    mouse_AUS Which libraries do you need specifically? Most of the commonly used ones are likely to stick around for a year plus since there's likely to be a significant tail for applications adopting Qt6. The upstream EOL of Qt5 is May of next year so that's really the earliest that we could realistically remove it is then. Some of the less commonly used Qt5 libraries will probably be removed before that point once their revdeps are all updated to Qt6.

                        Harvey Slight correction, we never attempted the usr-merge for /lib* so if there's a symlink for those it does mean that the usr-merge script ran.

                          pillmuncher

                          I couldn't get ff to work from a mailto link just kept asking which application to open when thunderbird was highlighted. Had TB running and not running no new mail window. Works fine in Chromium, opens new message to write and send. Looks like a FF bug. Tell Mozilla.

                              I'm pretty sure I've found the root cause of my hibernation problem. Over time, I've occasionnally added new tabs to my current Vivaldi session. Examples are when I've been referred to a new doctor, or subscribed to a new streaming service or racing championship. But I had absolutely no idea how those tabs added up. I'm sure that a good many are duplicates, just added at different times.

                              58 tabs in one window eventually became 332 tabs in 17 windows!

                              So little by little, hibernating this laptop became more and more of a job, culminating in my recent issues. Since all these tabs are available on my start page anyway, I've now gone back to my June working set, and will simply grab those less important tabs from the start page if I need to connect with them. The convenience of having them immediately available in the current session just isn't worth the performance hit.

                                WetGeek 58 tabs in one window eventually became 332 tabs in 17 windows!

                                So little by little, hibernating this laptop became more and more of a job

                                great troubleshooting! so the browser considered tabs, open or not, as an active connection?

                                    The upgrade of onedrive caused some issues for me, as the gui client "onedrive-gui" was not upgraded at the same time, so I am currently unable to use the gui to sync onedrive. I am uninstalling the onedrive-gui and using the AppImage as a temporary workaround.

                                    ReillyBrogan I would have to check, definitely the core Qt5 and QT5-devel. I know its EOL but when working on Industrial to update everything to QT6 is doable but ATM its not ideal esp when Plasma 6 is not mature enough for 24/7 operation. When Plasma does mature however then updating to QT6 will be fine. There is however other apps that rely on Qt5 libraries so it would be good if they hung around for a while.

                                      brent so the browser considered tabs, open or not, as an active connection?

                                      Must have. I can't find any way to delete those bloated sessions, either. There's nothing obvious in the context menu, or the Files menu. Gonna look through the hidden files in my /home directory now.

                                          WetGeek I can't find any way to delete those bloated sessions

                                          Fixed that. I deleted vivaldi-stable, and the Vivaldi .config folder in my /home directory, then re-installed the app,
                                          After a little configuration, and creation of new tab stacks, that list of sessions now looks like this.

                                          Vivaldi is now squeaky-clean, lightning fast, and there's no problem with hibernation.