Re: New to KDE on Debian
On Friday, August 15, 2025 3:37:19 PM Central Daylight Time Aurélien COUDERC
wrote:
> 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 ?
I'll try to turn up some debugging and recreate the situation. It was a clean
home directory created by the installer. I didn't try to start with my
OpenSUSE home directory.
> >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…
I'm okay with the chromium core. I'd rather send KDE telemetry than Google any
day, if I send any at all.
> >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 !)
>
> --
> Aurélien
I'll see you guys around. I think I'm going to be using Trixie for a while.
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