MX-21 KDE/plasma beta 2 feedback thread

[dolphin_oracle]

you can change libreoffice's theme in the libreoffice settings. it should default to breeze on KDE. LO tries to do something automatic with its theme selection but I've noticed it doesn't always make the right decision.

[Gerson]

In LibreOffice I use the Hicontrast icon theme and for dark themes I use BeatyLine, Oxy R3 Classic, Oieicons or Sweet-Rainbow, the problem is not in MX 21 KDE.

[asqwerth]

Under MX Dark theme (on MX KDE beta 2, from KDE setings -> Global Theme) , LibreOffice and nomacs (and probably many more apps) have poorly visibile icons (Black icons on a Grey background).

In nomacs, I could fix this by nomacs' Dark Theme (from nomacs Settings).

But, I couldn't fix it in LibreOffice.

I think the icons should be more visible by default.

The problem with some apps is that they have their own internal theme. Like nomacs. So if you change your system theme from light to dark, you'll need to manually change nomacs' as well.

For LO, they have their own icon choices that are not governed by system settings: go to Options, View, and choose your icon set. Try Tango or Sifr dark. To be honest, I always change the icons in LO from default.

It's not possible to always cover all appearance changes. If the default system look is a light theme, the user may have to make some manual changes in some apps if he or she then switches to a dark system theme.

[TimothySimon]

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Thank you.

I am now using the Options -> View -> Breeze dark theme in LibreOffice (no SVG).

I wish such apps' internal themes were changed when I change the Global Theme.

[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

Fix was only temporary, shutdown and reboot icons missing from the Applications menu again.

I don't know what triggered this, but there were only two things I did in the last couple of days - applying updates and replacing existing LibreOffice for 7.2

[SwampRabbit]

… and replacing existing LibreOffice for 7.2

Care to share the method you used to do this so someone can try to replicate it and see if that’s the issue?

[davemx]

Now this is really weird. I have the MX21ß2-KDE testing version installed, and another Linux using KDE5.22. On both installs, I have the same version of Vivaldi (4.2.2406.44). I have exactly the same extensions on both. Following my recent re-install of MX21ß2-KDE (see previous posts why I did it), there's something not quite right about Vivaldi. Not only does it not use the KDE Load/Save dialogs (and the native Vivaldi ones are painful to use), but there is a massive keyboard delay when I type something into Facebook and on no other site, but only on the MX install, not on the other one which works perfectly. I am at a real loss to understand why this is. I wonder if this and the KDE Load/Save issue are connected. I am having trouble finding the setting to force Vivaldi to use the desktop settings for Load/Save rather than its own. Just really strange. I might have to re-install yet again from scratch to see if that makes a difference!

[richb]

Not sure what you mean by Load/Save dialog. I use Vivaldi in MX 21 B2 as well, and would like to check your issue. I have Vivaldi version 4.2.2406.48. I think that is the latest stable version.

[markol]

… and replacing existing LibreOffice for 7.2

Care to share the method you used to do this so someone can try to replicate it and see if that’s the issue?

Sure :)

I downloaded debs from https://www.libreoffice.org/download/download/ and extracted archive to a folder

Removed existing with

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sudo apt remove libreoffice*

Then opened terminal in a mentioned folder and ran

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sudo dpkg -i *.deb

[SwampRabbit]

@markol I noticed this issue goes back awhile for you, is that right?

You did a fresh install of MX-21 Beta 2 not an upgrade from Beta 1 right?

In a stock but updated MX-21 KDE Beta 2 VM, I have always had all the icons in the Applications menu.

To try and replicate that manually updating Libreoffice does or does not cause this problem, I...

- downloaded 7.2.1 from the site
- installed all the .debs, BUT did not remove anything prior

Libreoffice 7.2.1 starts fine and still have all the icons in the Applications menu.

I don't think regular updates or manually updating Libreoffice caused this, I think something is wrong with your initial installation. Going back through the thread I see it was mentioned this should not be an issue anymore. So hopefully when you install again (another Beta, RC, or Final) you won't have this issue.