From: Michael <confabulate@kintzios.com>
To: Gentoo User <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] KDE update causes bizarre behaviour
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2021 09:06:15 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5431126.DvuYhMxLoT@lenovo.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YA/KVdTOAUsy49T8@ca.inter.net>
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On Tuesday, 26 January 2021 07:52:53 GMT Philip Webb wrote:
> I manhandled a huge update of Qt + KDE last weekend
> & am now using Qt-5.15.2 Frameworks-5.77.0 Plasma-5.20.5 .
> It was necessary to unmerge the whole of Qt & remerge it
> & ditto part of Frameworks : otherwise there were dependency conflicts.
> Portage seems incapable of handling such situations by itself.
I did not encounter any such conflicts here, on a stable system. Portage
updated Qt and KDE/Plasma unassisted by me.
> The digital clock has disappeared from the panel.
> I tried "add widgets" & can drag it to the panel, but it doesn't stay.
> I tried another widget (simple calculator) as a test & can't remove it.
> The icon for the clock in the "add widgets" menu has a small number
> attached, which has now reached "10", suggesting that I've added 10
> versions, but none of them is viewable ; there is an invisible icon in the
> panel which when R-clicked shows the display for editing the digital clock,
> but when L-clicked shows a different widget.
>
> Gwenview now presents my ~/pix/ directory as "Pictures",
> though its name remains the same in my file system.
>
> Has anyone else encountered these or other strange phenomena ?
> Does anyone have a suggestion how to get back to normalcy ?
Some packages have been updated again to later versions, e.g. dev-qt/
qtgui-5.15.2-r1, kde-plasma/plasma-workspace-5.20.5. Perhaps you caught
portage on the hop at your last re-sync? I suggest you resync again and
update @world.
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2021-01-26 7:52 [gentoo-user] KDE update causes bizarre behaviour Philip Webb
2021-01-26 9:06 ` Michael [this message]
2021-01-26 23:15 ` [gentoo-user] KDE update causes bizarre behaviour : solved Philip Webb
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