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KDE: Packaging Recommendations and Multiscreen

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 09, 2023

Packaging recommendations

I'd like to draw attention to a fairly new wiki page that might be of interest to both packagers and users of DIY-style distros like Arch Linux: our Packaging Recommendations. This page is a reference for how Plasma developers would like to see Plasma set up, and it goes over topics like packages to pre-install by default, packages to avoid, and recommended system configuration tweaks.

This data comes from years of experience with distros that didn't ship a complete Plasma experience, not out of malice or neglect, but rather because it's really hard to know the full list of things to do and install! Most of us have had the experience of distro-hopping, only to discover that some issue that was solved in one distro is present in another. Maybe you gained video thumbnails by default after switching, but KDE Connect stopped working, or maybe color Emojis started working but Samba sharing broke. Not fun! This page aims to solve that by providing a reference of how to ship and configure Plasma vis-a-vis these topics for an optimal user experience.

So if you're a KDE packager, please have a look and adjust your packaging if you find that you're currently missing anything!

How to report Multiscreen bugs

As announced previously, Plasma 5.27 will have a significantly reworked multiscreen management, and we want to make sure this will be the best LTS Plasma release we had so far.

Of course, this doesn't mean it will be perfect from day one, and your feedback is really important, as we want to fix any potential issue as fast as they get noticed.

As you know, for our issue tracking we use Bugzilla at this address. We have different products and components that are involved in the multiscreen management.

First, under New bug, chose the "plasma" category.