Suprisingly long time ago I wrote a post about the sorry state of fingerprint authentication on KDE. This post could be summarized as “don’t even bother”. I gave up on this enterprise and actually the situation got even worse later as the fingerprint sensor of my next computer – Dell 7210 – was not even supported by Linux drivers and fprintd.
So after abandoning this topic for some time I got another shot at checking out the topic again very recently.
Recently this error showed up on my Kubuntu 23.10 while trying to run applications using QtQuick, such as QtDesignStudio or just a new QML project with QtCreator. The application either outright does not run or has serious GUI issues.
Turns out this is probably an issue related to software and distributions switching from Qt5 to Qt6.
Continue readingKDE Neon is build on Ubuntu LTS (currently 18.04) with up-to-date Qt and KDE libraries. Updates tend to arrive pretty much every other day and it gets annoying to enter your password every time you launch Discover to install an update.
Continue readingI have recently gotten involved in setting up both latest Gnome (Ubuntu) and KDE (Manjaro) environment on two X230 Thinkpads with fingerprint sensors and the question of how to make them work appeared.
Recently new iso’s with Plasma Mobile were released (no, don’t look at the official website, you can find it on a seemingly random blog). So how to try them out? The post just briefly mentions booting in a virtual machine. You can also find instructions how to use qemu to run Plasma Mobile there, but they describe what seems to be the old way of doing things, now obsolete.
UPDATE 22.1.2018
Some parts of this angry rant still hold true, but Plasma desktop sure improved greatly since this post was originally written. I now run latest KDE software on Manjaro for several months and it sure got good enough for my day-to-day use. New post incoming… maybe when I get around to it.
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First of all, I would like to state that I’m a fan of KDE. Some of their programs and utilities are unmatched by any other. For example file browser Dolphin, text editor Kate, the great PIM suite Kontact, … the list goes on. Also the level of customization is borderline fetishist. KDE desktop lets you do absolutely anything you ever thought possible and more… or it seems so at first. Then, in the moment of awe, the first crash comes. Then you start noticing weirg glitches and somehow missing features.