Plasma 6 observations

[Schwarzer Kater]

Had a big update this morning. It now says Plasma 6.02. No issues so far.
The login screen delay from 20-30 seconds is solved!

That is good to hear! Although I sometimes sound frustated lately (especially with the visual bugs that I encounter in Plasma 6, most of them in connection with the floating Plasma Panel or the "GNOMEish" look of the Overview/Grid View…) I appreciate the continual work of the developers!
For me the delays were already solved with the first 6.0.0 updates in neon and the 6.0.1 update in Arch.

[Goeroeboeroe]

Had a big update this morning. It now says Plasma 6.02. No issues so far.
The login screen delay from 20-30 seconds is solved!

[oshunluvr]

Wait, WHAT!?! Friday the 13th I'm sure that release will be totally bug free...

...ROFL

Honestly, I've worked through most of the issues I've had except the Dolphin group permissions bug. Hopefully they'll fix that soon.

The other noticeable but inconsequential thing I encounter occasionally is the desktop will load twice. As in; boot, log in, KDE gears spin, primary screen loads background, there's a pause, then the gears return on both screens and spin for 10-15 seconds, then finally both monitors and the desktop loads correctly. This hasn't happened when waking up the screens, just at reboot-log in, and not all the time.

[Schwarzer Kater]

The bug you linked for "Open Terminal here fails to open Konsole" says to be fixed in Frameworks 6.1 which is scheduled to be released Friday, April 13, 2024.

The "vanishing panels bug" in Dolphin is said to be fixed in Gear 24.02.1, scheduled to be relased Thursday, March 21, 20232024 - though Arch has already published a dolphin 24.02.0-2 which fixes this bug.

[Snowhog]

Dolphin 'Open Terminal' et al

According to the Bug report, it's been RESOLVED FIXED, but it doesn't say when the fixed Dolphin will be available.

Just saw an update. Status was raised from NOR (Normal) to HI (High). Maybe the fixed Dolphin will be pushed out much sooner than anticipated, given it affects so many users?

[MoonRise]

Could be one of those little bugs.
Try removing ~/.config/plasma-welcomerc and choose another method of quiting it next time you log in or if this does not work try adding ShouldShow=false to ~/.config/plasma-welcomerc and see it that helps…

Thanks! Neither worked but I did find the development page for that and it lead me to find where it resides which is here --> /etc/xdg/autostart/

I just deleted the desktop file there and it is now gone.

[Schwarzer Kater]

Could be one of those little bugs.
Try removing ~/.config/plasma-welcomerc and choose another method of quiting it next time you log in or if this does not work try adding ShouldShow=false to ~/.config/plasma-welcomerc and see it that helps…

[MoonRise]

Anyone else have the Welcome Center show at every log-in? How do you disable that!?

[claydoh]

I don't see it on my other installs.

So this is specific to KDE neon

Yes, it is what neon created to flash the message when specifically running apt upgrade
(part of neon-settings-2)
Harald Sitter is one of the neon devs

[Snowhog]

So this is specific to KDE neon. I've seen the warn messages on occasion.

[oshunluvr]

I don't see it on my other installs.

[oshunluvr]

stuart@office:/usr/sbin$ ll |grep apt
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     11 Mar  1 19:14 apt -> apt-overlay*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     11 Mar  1 19:14 apt-get -> apt-overlay*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   1.2K Mar  1 19:14 apt-overlay*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   3.5K Mar 27  2020 update-apt-xapian-index*
stuart@office:/usr/sbin$

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[oshunluvr]

What is this? I can find absolutely nothing on the 'Net about apt-overlay.

I can't recall where it came from.

stuart@office:/etc/apt$ cat /usr/sbin/apt-overlay
#!/usr/bin/env ruby
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-only OR LicenseRef-KDE-Accepted-GPL
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2019 Harald Sitter <sitter@kde.org>

# Intercept apt calls and inform the user that upgrade is not a valid argument
# on neon.

# Apt is a CLI tool. I don't think this is worth faffing about with translations
# for, so we just use verbatim strings here without any l10n rigging.

# When in batch mode let 'upgrade' through all the same. Batch mode is when
# no tty is attached to stdout. This is in line with how apt's interface
# stability warning works.
# This is specifically to prevent scripts from breaking. e.g. ubiquity
# will attempt to run upgrade but should generally qualify as !tty.
if ARGV.include?('upgrade') && STDOUT.isatty
warn 'On KDE neon you should use `pkcon update` to install updates.'
warn 'If you absolutely must use apt you do have to use dist-upgrade or' \
' full-upgrade in place of the upgrade command.'
warn ' https://neon.kde.org/faq#command-to-update'

abort 'Abort.' unless ARGV.include?('-y') || ARGV.include?('--yes')
end

basename = File.basename(__FILE__)
exec("/usr/bin/#{basename}", *ARGV)
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[Snowhog]

/usr/sbin/apt-overlay

What is this? I can find absolutely nothing on the 'Net about apt-overlay.

[Snowhog]

/usr/sbin/apt-get,/usr/sbin/apt

/usr/sbin. I’ll correct my file. Thanks.

Well, /usr/sbin for KDE neon. /usr/bin for Kubuntu 23.10. That's what happens when I assume.