Re: When will KDE work properly again?

[Gary Dale <gary@extremeground.com>]

On 2024-12-14 13:30, Aurélien COUDERC wrote:

> Le 14 décembre 2024 15:59:16 GMT+01:00, Gary Dale <gary@extremeground.com> a écrit :
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> > Also, I note that gkrellm and FileZilla are being restored to desktop 1 instead of the ones they were open on. And FileZilla is being restored twice, so I have to close one instance.
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> This is <https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=336990>. It has a low priority now that the main target is Wayland.
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> Happy hacking,
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> Aurélien
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Just restarted after this morning's updates. I decided to give Wayland a try again after noting that xwayland was one of the upgraded packages.

Good news:

1. all my programs came up
2. pleased to see that the screen scaling goes in 5% increments - much better than the 25% increments the last time I tried it.  And 140% seems easier to read than the 143% I used on X11.

Bad news:

1. all my programs came up on virtual desktop 1 and were  in the centre of the screen (except for gkrellm - correct position but wrong desktop - and Firefox & Thunderbird which were off-centre toward the position they were at when I rebooted). Not sure if this is because my last session was X11 and/or the different screen scaling (came up at 175% for some reason).
   
2. the KDE wallet password dialogue wasn't at the front like it is in X11.
   
3. still had 2 copies of Filezilla opening - both on desktop 1
4. Spectacle screen recording still doesn't work.

I'm not sure if I'll stay with Wayland or not. There's some muscle memory to adjust in the file open/save dialogues thanks to the re-positioned buttons, which I suppose I'll have to get used to. But the absence of a working screen recorder is a big negative for me.

Still, quite happy with the progress being made.