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asqwerth wrote: Mon Jun 29, 2020 9:18 am Like richb said, one issue might be that it does not appear to be possible on buster base to have a newer plasma version than 5.14. Certain improvements in plasma or its related apps were introduced in later versions.

Latest and greatest should take a back seat to stability.

uncle mark wrote: Mon Jun 29, 2020 1:05 pm

asqwerth wrote: Mon Jun 29, 2020 9:18 am Like richb said, one issue might be that it does not appear to be possible on buster base to have a newer plasma version than 5.14. Certain improvements in plasma or its related apps were introduced in later versions.

Latest and greatest should take a back seat to stability.

Not in the DNA for MX Devs to do otherwise.

asqwerth wrote: Mon Jun 29, 2020 12:35 pm

andyprough wrote: Mon Jun 29, 2020 10:26 am Norbert Preining released the KDE 5.19.2 packages for Debian a few days ago: https://www.preining.info/blog/2020/06/ ... or-debian/

I'll upgrade my MX19.2, see if anything is broken. Could anyone tell me which MX qt apps will not work with the newer version of qt? I couldn't find any of the MX tools not working last time.

Could you test nomacs, ksnip, featherpad, virtualbox, clementine as well after you upgrade? I believe those are all Qt apps.

We have to consider other Qt-using programs in Stable repo, not just the MX apps themselves.

KDE upgraded from 5.18.5 to 5.19.2 successfully with no apparent breakage. I've attached the apt history log for that upgrade.
I then disabled Norbert's KDE repos and the Sid repo (which I had used to support the install of Norbert's packages), and checked on nomacs, ksnip, featherpad, virtualbox, and clementine:
1. nomacs - the installed version is 3.14.2+dfsg-0.1~mx19+1. Worked well - opened any pictures I pointed it at.
2. ksnip - I did not have that installed previously. MX installed version 1.6.2-1mx19+1 from the MX repo. Also worked fine - I was able to take a snip of a region of the screen and save it.
3. featherpad - the installed version is 0.14.2-0.1~mx19+1. This worked great, extremely fast. I was able to create a new text document and save it.
4. virtualbox - this will not install from the MX Package Installer or from Synaptic (either vbox versions 6.1.2, 6.1.6, or 6.1.10), complaining that the python3 version is too high at 3.8.2-3, and requiring a python3 version that is less than 3.8. When I try to force a downgrade to python3 version 3.7.3-1 in Debian stable, apt requires the removal of mx-apps, mx-idevice-mounter, along with the removal of the following:
apt-xapian-index, blueman, catfish, dh-python, gdebi, gdebi-core, gufw, hplip, lightdm-gtk-greeter-mx19, lightdm-gtk-greeter-settings, mugshot, onboard, onboard-data, pdfarranger, pdfshuffler, python3-apt, python3-cairo, python3-cups, python3-cupshelpers, python3dbus, python3-distutils, python3-gi, python3-gi-cairo, python3-lib2to3, python3-pil, python3-pyqt5, python3-reportlab, python3-reportlab-accel, python3-sip, python3-smbc, python3-xapian, system-config-printer, system-config-printer-common, system-config-printer-udev, touchpad-indicator.
5. clementine - the installed version is 1.3.1+git609-g623a53681+dfsg-1. It works like normal, plays my music.

Yeah...now you have a FrankenSystem. I hope you either backed up first, or that is just an experimental install that can be sacrificed.

Stevo wrote: Tue Jun 30, 2020 12:16 am Yeah...now you have a FrankenSystem. I hope you either backed up first, or that is just an experimental install that can be sacrificed.

Experimental in a vm - not a problem at all. I was expecting to break it at some point, just wanted to see how far it would go. Getting this far and only losing vbox is not bad, and I would hope that vbox might work with this more recent version of python3 soon.

Just installed MX KDE today, switched from Mint, for daily R&D work and play in home.
MX KDE is surprisely perfect till now.

This is not the official KDE thread. This is a user made one.

viewtopic.php?f=94&t=59297

This link leads to where you need to be.

Stevo wrote: Tue Jun 23, 2020 1:34 am Some of us know! But there are absolutely no plans to drop the XFCE version. KDE would be an addition to the MX line.

Phew! Glad to hear that!

Patiently waiting for KDE rc1...

XFCE is cool but KDE behaves best on my laptop.

Vrrm vrrmm!!

danielson wrote: Tue Jul 28, 2020 5:41 pm Patiently waiting for KDE rc1...

XFCE is cool but KDE behaves best on my laptop.

Vrrm vrrmm!!

Is that the sound of the fan?