Re: New to KDE on Debian
Dear Robert,
Le 15 août 2025 19:14:50 GMT+02:00, "Robert B. Carleton" <rbc@rbcarleton.net> a écrit :
>Over last weekend, I installed Debian 13 with KDE as a clean install. I had
>been using KDE on OpenSUSE and thought I might try Debian's take. Overall it's
>been a good experience. I don't know why I hadn't tried KDE on Debian before.
>There are some comments/questions however.
Nice, welcome here ! 🙂
>I've become a devoted Kontact user. One thing I noticed moving over to Debian
>was the PIM Data Exporter not importing. It would let me select an import file,
>then select what I wanted to import. The Exporter complained that it couldn't
>find the file on the next step. I gave up and setup Kontact from scratch
>importing PIM data one application at a time. That did the job, but it took a
>little longer than I would have liked. Any chance that the PIM Data Exporter
>should be importing, or will support imports in the future?
I don't think it is known to not work. Could you manage to get some logs or any kind of message from it that would help diagnose the issue ?
>The other question I have is about Falkon. It works well enough to do most of
>the non-commercial browsing I do, plus some news sites. I was curious how well
>its keeping up with security patching. I'm trying to get away from Chromium
>and Firefox when possible. Any caveats about using it?
Falkon is using Qt's WebEngine module.
For bookworm we had an LTS of Qt so it was easy to ship patch releases (it currently has 5.15.18 and not 5.15.15 from the initial release).
Not sure yet what will happen with Qt6 (I'm not the Qt maintainer, working mostly on the KDE side of things). Security fixes are supposed to be public but not the complete LTS releases from the Qt company, so shipping thesr that would require a lot of backporting.
And btw Qt WebEngine is embedding a snapshot of the chomium code so I'm not sure falkon is the right candidate for your goal…
>Anyway, thanks to the Debian community for a terrific distribution. It's really
>terrific.
Thanks, hope to see you around !
(And although the packaging work is real, somewhat thankless and never ending I'd still say we ship something terrific first and foremost thanks to the excellent job done by upstream KDE !)
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Aurélien
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