I have released more core24 snaps to –edge for your testing pleasure. If you find any bugs please report them at bugs.kde.org and assign them to me. Thanks!
I hate asking but I am unemployable with this broken arm fiasco and 6 hours a day hospital runs for treatment. If you could spare anything it would be appreciated! https://gofund.me/573cc38e
I hate asking but I am unemployable with this broken arm fiasco and 6 hours a day hospital runs for treatment. If you could spare anything it would be appreciated! https://gofund.me/573cc38e
I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday! Your present from me is shiny new application snaps! There are several new qt6 ports in this release. Please visit https://snapcraft.io/store?q=kde
I have also fixed the Krita snap unable to open/save bug. Please test –edge!
I am continuing work on core24 support and hope to be done before next release.
I do look forward to 2025! Begone 2024!
If you can help with gas, I still have 3 weeks of treatments to go. Thank you for your continued support.
Another loss last week of a friend. I am staying strong and working through it. A big thank you to all of you that have donated to my car fund, I still have a long way to go. I am not above getting a cheap old car, but we live in sand dunes so it must be a cheap old car with 4×4 to get to my property. A vehicle is necessary as we are 50 miles away from staples such as food and water. We also have 2 funerals to attend. Please consider a donation if my work is useful to you. https://gofund.me/1e784e74 All of my work is currently unpaid work, as I am between contracts. Thank you for your consideration. Now onto the good stuff, last weeks work. It was another very busy week with Qt6 packaging in Debian/Kubuntu and KDE snaps. I also have many SRUs for Kubuntu Noble .1 release that needs their verification done.
Kubuntu:
See Debian for the qt6 Plasma / applications work.
Thankfully no tragedies to report this week! I thank each and everyone of you that has donated to my car fund. I still have a ways to go and could use some more help so that we can go to the funeral. https://gofund.me/033eb25d I am between contracts and work packages, so all of my work is currently for free. Thanks for your consideration.
Another very busy week getting qt6 updates in Debian, Kubuntu, and KDE snaps.
Kubuntu:
Merkuro and Neochat SRUs have made progress.
See Debian for the qt6 Plasma / applications work.
Debian:
qtmpv – in NEW
arianna – in NEW
kamera – experimental
libkdegames – experimental
kdenetwork-filesharing – experimental
xwaylandvideobridge – NEW
futuresql – NEW
kpat WIP
Tokodon – Done, but needs qtmpv to pass NEW
Gwenview – WIP needs kamera, kio-extras
kio-extras – Blocked on kdsoap in which the maintainer is not responding to bug reports or emails. Will likely fork in Kubuntu as our freeze quickly approaches.
KDE Snaps:
Updated QT to 6.7.2 which required a rebuild of all our snaps. Also found an issue with mismatched ffmpeg libraries, we have to bundle them for now until versioning issues are resolved.
Made new theme snaps for KDE breeze: gtk-theme-breeze, icon-theme-breeze so if you use the plasma theme breeze please install these and run
for PLUG in $(snap connections | grep gtk-common-themes:icon-themes | awk '{print $2}'); do sudo snap connect ${PLUG} icon-theme-breeze:icon-themes; done
for PLUG in $(snap connections | grep gtk-common-themes:gtk-3-themes | awk '{print $2}'); do sudo snap connect ${PLUG} gtk-theme-breeze:gtk-3-themes; done
for PLUG in $(snap connections | grep gtk-common-themes:gtk-2-themes | awk '{print $2}'); do sudo snap connect ${PLUG} gtk-theme-breeze:gtk-2-themes; done
This should resolve most theming issues. We are still waiting for kdeglobals to be merged in snapd to fix colorscheme issues, it is set for next release. I am still working on qt6 themes and working out how to implement them in snaps as they are more complex than gtk themes with shared libraries and file structures.
Please note: Please help test the –edge snaps so I can promote them to stable.
This week our family suffered another loss with my brother in-law. We will miss him dearly. On our way down to Phoenix to console our nephew that just lost his dad our car blew up. Last week we were in a roll over accident that totaled our truck and left me with a broken arm. We are now in great need of a new vehicle. Please consider donating to this fund: https://gofund.me/033eb25d . Kubuntu is out of money and I am between work packages with the ‘project’. We are 50 miles away from the closest town for supplies, essentials such as water requires a vehicle.
I have had bad years before ( covid ) in which I lost my beloved job at Blue Systems. I made a vow to myself to never let my personal life affect my work again. I have so far kept that promise to myself and without further ado I present to you my work.
Kubuntu:
Many SRUs awaiting verification stage including the massive apparmor policy bug.
sddm fix for the black screen on second boot has passed verification and should make .1 release.
See Debian for the qt6 Plasma / applications work.
Debian:
qtmpv – in NEW
arianna – in NEW
kamera – uploading today
kcharselect – Experimental
Tokodon – Done, but needs qtmpv to pass NEW
Gwenview – WIP needs kamera, kio-extras
kio-extras – WIP
KDE Snaps:
Please note: for the most part the Qt6 snaps are in –edge except the few in the ‘project’ that are heavily tested. Please help test the –edge snaps so I can promote them.
Elisa
Okular
Konsole ( please note this is a confined terminal for the ‘project’ and not very useful except to ssh to the host system )
Kwrite
Gwenview
Kate ( –classic )
Gcompris
Alligator
Ark
Blinken
Bomber
Bovo
Calindori
Digikam
Dragon
Falkon
Filelight
WIP Snaps or MR’s made
KSpacedual
Ksquares
KSudoku
KTuberling
Kubrick
lskat
Palapeli
Kajongg
Kalzium
Kanagram
Kapman
Katomic
KBlackBox
KBlocks
KBounce
KBreakOut
KBruch
Please note that 95% of the snaps are free-time work. The project covers 5. I am going as fast as I can between Kubuntu/Debian and the project commitments. Not to mention I have only one arm! My GSOC student is also helping which you can read all about here: https://soumyadghosh.github.io/website/interns/gsoc-2024/gsoc-week-3-week-7/
There is still much work to do in Kubuntu to be Plasma 6 ready for Oracular and they are out of funds. I will still continue my work regardless, but please consider donating until we can procure a consistent flow of funding : https://kubuntu.org/donate/
I am still here, busy as ever, I just haven’t found the inspiration to blog. So soon after the loss of my son, I have lost my only brother a couple weeks ago. It has been a tough year for our family. Thank you everyone for you love and support during this difficult time. I will do my best in re-capping my work, there has been quite a bit as I am “keeping busy with work” so I don’t dwell to much on the sadness.
KDE Snaps:
Trying to debug the unable to save files breakage in the latest Krita builds without luck.
KisOpenGLCanvas Renderer::reportFailedShaderCompilation\[0m: Shad er Compilation Failure: "Failed to add vertex sh ader source from file: matrix_transform.vert - Ca use: "
I have implemented everything from https://snapcraft.io/docs/gpu-support , it has worked for years and now suddenly it just stopped. I have had to put it on hold for now, it is unpaid work and I simply don’t have time.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tellico/+bug/2065915 Several applications no longer work on architectures that are not amd64 due to hard coded paths. All fixed in git. Several uploaded to oracular, several sponsorship has been requested. Noble updates rejected despite SRU, going to retry.
It has been a very busy couple of weeks as we worked against some major transitions and a security fix that required a rebuild of the $world. I am happy to report that against all odds we have a beta release! You can read all about it here: https://kubuntu.org/news/kubuntu-24-04-beta-released/ Post beta freeze I have already begun pushing our fixes for known issues today. A big one being our new branding! Very exciting times in the Kubuntu world.
In the snap world I will be using my free time to start knocking out KDE applications ( not covered by the project ). I have also recruited some help, so you should start seeing these pop up in the edge channel very soon!
Now that we are nearing the release of Noble Numbat, my contract is coming to an end with Kubuntu. If you would like to see Plasma 6 in the next release and in a PPA for Noble, please consider donating to extend my contract at https://kubuntu.org/donate !
As many of you know, I lost my beloved son March 9th. This has hit me really hard, but I am staying strong and holding on to all the wonderful memories I have. He grew up to be an amazing man, devoted christian and wonderful father. He was loved by everyone who knew him and will be truly missed by us all. I have had folks ask me how they can help. He left behind his 7 year old son Mason. Mason was Billy’s world and I would like to make sure Mason is taken care of. I have set up a gofundme for Mason and all proceeds will go to the future care of him.
You will see the activity in this ramp back up as the KDEneon Core project is finally a go! I will participate in the project with part time status and get everyone in the Enokia team up to speed with my snap knowledge, help prepare the qt6/kf6 transition, package plasma, and most importantly I will focus on documentation for future contributors.
I have created the ( now split ) qt6 with KDE patchset support and KDE frameworks 6 SDK and runtime snaps. I have made the kde-neon-6 extension and the PR is in: https://github.com/canonical/snapcraft/pull/4698 . Future work on the extension will include multiple versions track support and core24 support.
I have successfully created our first qt6/kf6 snap ark. They will show showing up in the store once all the required bits have been merged and published.
