kde April 2017

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vertically uncentered clock
by Felix Miata 16 Apr '17

16 Apr '17

http://fm.no-ip.com/SS/KDE/plasmaF594clock.png Is it on purpose in 5.9.4 on F25 & F26 for clock to have more space under than above? It looks to me like somebody screwed up Fedora theming somehow, as clock looks perfectly centered vertically with 5.9.4 on Tumbleweed. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/

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F25 runs wayland by default
by Neal Becker 14 Apr '17

14 Apr '17

I see that F25 will run wayland by default instead of Xorg. Will kde run on wayland?

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F24 5.33.0 digital clock refuses to show only time
by Felix Miata 14 Apr '17

14 Apr '17

Deselecting show local time zone does not get zone off the clock or allow the giant clock digits I want without making the panel height double the size I want. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/

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Slow system boot up these days
by Terry Barnaby 13 Apr '17

13 Apr '17

Just an observation and to discuss the slow booting of Kde/Plasma/Linux these days. On a laptop I have, a Thinkpad T410, i5 4 core 2.6GHz, 4G RAM, Spinning 1 TByte 7200rpm disk (110 MBytes/s sequential reed speed) I get the following rough figures: Windows7 to login screen: 24s Windows7 from login screen to desktop: 10s Windows7 overall: 34s Fedora25/KDE to login screen: 50s (1:46 when updatedb runs) Fedora25/KDE from login screen to desktop: 50s Fedora25/KDE overall: 1:40 (-> 2:36 when updatedb is running) I get similar but slightly faster speeds on desktop i5 systems, again with spinning disks. SSD systems I have are faster (It does seem to be disk bound) but still not that quick. It is starting to get noticeable/an issue these days and getting embarrassing when going to meetings with a Linux Laptop ! Once Fedora25/KDE its running it is quite snappy, unless there is disk activity going on in the background when some things can lockup awaiting disk (why should desktop code be so disk reliant ?) I know disk readahead is no longer present which doesn't help, but it does seem that the code in general, and KDE/Plasma specifically appears to be getting a bit bloated and disk bound. Of the 50s to login screen 23s appears to be due to sddm (not sure on that). Could this be due to more extensive usage of things like QtQuick (QtSlow !) ? Ok, I can buy a SSD, disable updatedb (but why does this start during boot quite often ?), change to a different desktop and/or suspend to mem/disk but really the system shouldn't be this slow and probably power consuming. Oh for the days of KDE 3 :) (An ancient Thinkpad 600E, Mobile Pentium II 363 MHz, 228 MBytes RAM running Fedora6 and KDE 3 system takes 21 s from login screen to KDE 3 desktop (Ok Linux boot to login is a bit slow on that one at about 1:10)). Does anyone in the know think that this performance aspect may improve or get worse as the KDE/Plasma 5 series is developed ? Terry

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update
by Rex Dieter 12 Apr '17

12 Apr '17

Fedora friends, My days @unl.edu are likely coming to an end. I was informed recently my current job/position will be eliminated in ~3 months (last day July 12). An immediate impact is that most of my time will be spent on the transition (and job hunting), and less available for any fedora-related fun. I'll try to post updates as appropriate and time allows. -- Rex

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Print in grayscale does not work
by Mattia Verga 11 Apr '17

11 Apr '17

Seems that in KDE the option "print in grayscale" does not work: I'm using Okular and when I choose file -> print and set in options "color mode" -> grayscale it prints in color. The only way I can print in grayscale is to open printer properties and set "print color as gray" in the advanced parameters. Another user has the same problem with Gwenview: https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=213&t=138834 And I verified it's the same problem, but in Gwenview there are no options in printer settings to print color as gray. Now my question is: since it's a KDE wide problem, not just a single application, what's the best component where I should open a ticket? Thanks Mattia

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Could not locate service type... spam
by Neal Becker 11 Apr '17

11 Apr '17

/var/log/messages is getting heavily spammed with: Apr 11 09:38:47 nbecker2 kwin_x11: kf5.kcoreaddons.desktopparser: Could not locate service type file kservicetypes5/kwin-effect.desktop, tried ("/home/nbecker/.local/share", "/home/nbecker/.local/share/flatpak/exports/share", "/var/lib/flatpak/exports/share", "/usr/local/share", "/usr/share") Any suggestions?

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kde-sig meeting today
by Rex Dieter 11 Apr '17

11 Apr '17

I won't be able to attend the kde-sig meeting today. For those that can, are there any agenda topics to discuss? If not, perhaps best to cancel this week. -- Rex

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questionable dependencies
by Reindl Harald 11 Apr '17

11 Apr '17

on a machine here kf5-* 5.33.0 is in stable upodates but plasma 5.9.x is missing - as we had *often* problems when only a half of this and that made it to repos i think it's time to add versioned dependencies between packages which belongs together and are only testet together

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plasma-5.9.4 for f25
by Rex Dieter 11 Apr '17

11 Apr '17

As hinted, threatened, promised, etc... :) kf5-5.33.0 and plasma-5.9.4 are built and on the way to updates-testing for fedora 25, https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-5f6d1ef660 https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-3f38641f48 respectively. I've put both batches of updates into kde-testing repo for quicker feedback too. Note: plasma-5.9.4 was built against kf5-5.33.0, so you almost certainly need both (not *just* plasma-5.9.4) for proper testing. Enjoy and let us know what breaks. -- Rex

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