MX-21 KDE/plasma beta 2 feedback thread

[markol]

Installed beta2 in VirtualBox, everything went smooth except I only have logout icon in Applications menu. No shutdown or restart.
Icons were present in the previous beta.

Switching from Applications menu to alternative (I tried Launcher and Dashboard) and then back fixes this issue

[uncle mark]

Installed beta2 in VirtualBox, everything went smooth except I only have logout icon in Applications menu. No shutdown or restart.
Icons were present in the previous beta.

I had the same anomaly in B1. Am installing B2 as we speak to see if that (and a couple other niggles) had changed.

[uncle mark]

My B1 had three issues:

-- Dolphin crashing -- that's fixed
-- Only had logout button in menu -- that's fixed
-- Wifi did not connect automagically on bootup -- that's half fixed, but I have found the full fix

After first installing and setting up the network connection, on subsequent boots I still had to manually connect to my wifi network, but just had to bring it up and click Connect. I did not have to re-enter the password. In B1, I had to re-enter the password as well.

However, once I went into the configuration for that network and ticked "All users..." it fully connects automagically. This is with a single user account and with the one user having permission to use that network.

[chrispop99]

guvcview is still installed.

Chris

[Adrian]

guvcview is still installed.

Chris

Should I remove it?

We have Webcamoid instead and guvcview has been removed from Xfce version.

Chris

[Adrian]

- booting in systemd mode complains about missing /etc/machine-id (another user suggested a work-around in the beta1 thread)

It should be fixed in the new installer version that will come at some point through the repo (so new Beta or RC should have this fixed)

[uncle mark]

It should be fixed in the new installer version that will come at some point through the repo (so new Beta or RC should have this fixed)

So another Beta or RC is in the offing? Good to know. I don't want to get too heavily invested in an install that I'll end up discarding.

[Adrian]

There were few fixes between B1 and B2, I think they will be even less for the next build so I'm pretty sure it's going to be a Release Candidate. Technically, if there are no major problems with the RC that should be renamed "Final" or "MX-21" Release, so probably not even needed to re-release, it maybe only to change the version strings -- personally I think a RC1 should not even have "RC" listed anywhere so once is considered "OK" we can just say "This is the release"

[uncle mark]

There were few fixes between B1 and B2, I think they will be even less for the next build so I'm pretty sure it's going to be a Release Candidate. Technically, if there are no major problems with the RC that should be renamed "Final" or "MX-21" Release, so probably not even needed to re-release, it maybe only to change the version strings -- personally I think a RC1 should not even have "RC" listed anywhere so once is considered "OK" we can just say "This is the release"

Fair enough. This is an install on a test bed laptop that only gets used on occasion, so I'm not concerned one way or the other.

On a separate note, is the consensus to stick with Discover as the updater? Since I'm old and cranky and set in my ways my preference is using the MX notifier tied to synaptic, but it's not a deal breaker by any means.

[danielson]

Minimize, maximize and close icons on Firefox still an issue.
They appear as expected with Breeze Dark.

Fail to appear (or slightly) with MX global themes.