MX-19.2 KDE Beta 2 Feedback Thread

[dolphin_oracle]

One thing I noticed now that I installed the beta to hard drive is that /boot/efi is not 'locked', like in any other distro I've seen. Is this intentional? And funnily the 'changed' and 'opened' dates are set to 1/1/1970

what do you mean "locked".?

its a fat32 partition.

[tony37]

One thing I noticed now that I installed the beta to hard drive is that /boot/efi is not 'locked', like in any other distro I've seen. Is this intentional? And funnily the 'changed' and 'opened' dates are set to 1/1/1970

what do you mean "locked".?

its a fat32 partition.

I mean the lock you see in Dolphin like on /root or /lost+found
In my fstab I have

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UUID=6E90-22EA /boot/efi vfat defaults,noatime,dmask=0002,fmask=0113 0 0

Normally I have umask=0077 there

[fehlix]

In my fstab I have

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UUID=6E90-22EA /boot/efi vfat defaults,noatime,dmask=0002,fmask=0113 0 0

Normally I have umask=0077 there

It's read-only for the user, that's "locked" enough and it helps for troubleshooting.

[asqwerth]

The login molecule splash (Quark) has reverted back to the standard kde plasma logo splash.

I think it is due to the MX Look and Feel global theme's internal default configs for the things that aren't specifically set. I applied the global theme to test it, and that's where the change happened.

I've messed around with a lot of themes, and haven't seen this.

but it very possible. if a look-and-feel theme doesn't have something defined, then that thing doesn't change. asqwerth educated us on that with the icons.

OK, comparing with the Sweet global theme, it would appear that you need to have the splash folder dropped into the ...../plasma/look-and-feel/themename/contents subfolder. Not sure if you need to do more, like amend the .js file in the layouts subfolder or something.

[kangburra]

I just did a fresh install and asked it to rename the home directory.
It did rename the home directory but then created a file with the username not a directory. This resulted in being unable to login from the GUI and I had to create the home directory manually.

[sunrat]

Discover works fine for updates in my Buster/KDE. It shows a coloured dot in a systray widget when updates are available and clicking on that brings up Discover which asks for authentication when you hit the go button. It's not perfect yet and I don't use it to search/install packages but has worked fine for updates. Never looked at Muon.
Would it be feasible to use it instead of MX-Updater?

[kangburra]

Is there a fix for Kmail? I am guessing it is a known problem and that is why it is not included but it just keeps crashing.

[asqwerth]

I could have sworn someone posted about the Desktop effect>> Flip Switch not working even if you assign a specific keyboard shortcut to it, but I can't find that post anymore.

I can confirm that, although on my MX19.2(xfce)+Plasma Standard install, the Flip Switch effect works with Alt-Tab without me even setting any custom keyboard shortcut at all.

Some kde package may be missing from Beta 2.

[chrispop99]

The Package Installer still has an entry for the KDE desktop. Might attempting to install that cause a disaster? (I can test if needed.)

Chris

[Adrian]

The Package Installer still has an entry for the KDE desktop. Might attempting to install that cause a disaster? (I can test if needed.)

Chris

I think it adds the rest of the KDE applications, I doubt it creates any problems.