Re: stretch/KDE5: icons disappeared from system tray
On Tuesday, 24 January 2017 14:02:26 CET solitone wrote:
> Hi Andy, and thanks for your feedback!
>
> On Tuesday, January 24, 2017 9:23:37 AM CET Andy G Wood wrote:
> > I have seen this in recent days on Debian testing. It was caused by
> > updating my system part way through the very recent large KDE update. In
> > other words, some packages were at the old version and some at the new.
>
> Yes, that would be the only possible explanation. Although my last update
> was on 20th January, and since then I rebooted my system several times, but
> I noticed the issue only yesterday (23rd January). So I didn't relate the
> issue with that update, but perhaps I simply didn't notice it?
You probably did not notice it or you did some partial updates on the way.
>
> > It took a few days for all the necessary package updates to flow though
> > into testing. As of yesterday (23rd January), an up to date Debian
> > testing
> > does not exhibit this any more ... for me.
>
> Few hours ago I got a notification showing I've got 293 packages upgradable
> (wow!), many of which are related to KDE. For instance, just to mention
> three KDE packages, it proposes to upgrade kde5 from 5.27.0-1 to 5.28.0-1,
> and plasma-desktop and plasma-widgets-addons from 4:5.8.2-1 to 4:5.8.4-1.
> What versions do you have of these packages? I'm a bit worried and I
> haven't yet confirmed this huge update!
>
Yes, pieces of both Frameworks and Plasma ("kde5" does not map any existing
artifact, so please don't use it) landed asynchronously in the last day (the
last ones two days ago). The libraries part of Frameworks should be upgraded
together, and probably most pieces part of Plasma should be upgraded together.
Now testing has Frameworks 5.28, and mostly Plasma 5.8.4.
--
Luigi
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