<div dir="ltr">Hey devels:<div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 2:50 PM, pointedstick <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pointedstick@zoho.com" target="_blank">pointedstick@zoho.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Howdy everyone! Valorie invited me to join this list and share my list of Kubuntu issues and papercuts, being a full-time user of 17.10. Here's the list:<br>
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Major issues<br>
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- Samba doesn't prompt the user to create a Samba password when first installed, or re-use the existing one<br>
-- <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1700588" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://bugs.launchpad.net/<wbr>bugs/1700588</a><br>
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Wifi passwords asked twice<br>
- <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/1572244" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://bugs.launchpad.net/<wbr>ubuntu/+source/network-<wbr>manager/+bug/1572244</a></blockquote><div><br></div><div>It seems there is active work on the associated KDE bug reports but no "fix released" yet. Perhaps we need to raise this issue on the KDE-Distributions list and see how many other distros are also experiencing this bug. When I encounter it, it is *really* annoying. </div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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Minor issues<br>
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Ubuntu doesn't compile Okular with text-to-speech capabilities<br>
- <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/okular/+bug/1717131" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://bugs.launchpad.net/<wbr>ubuntu/+source/okular/+bug/<wbr>1717131</a></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Looks like this dependency just needs to be added and the package rebuilt.  </div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
kde-thumbnailer-openoffice doesn't work in Plasma 5; no ODF previews<br>
- <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kde-thumbnailer-openoffice/+bug/1711566" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://bugs.launchpad.net/<wbr>ubuntu/+source/kde-<wbr>thumbnailer-openoffice/+bug/<wbr>1711566</a></blockquote><div><br></div><div>"the OpenDocument thumbnailer needs to be compiled as a KF5 version, otherwise Dolphin will not use them.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://store.kde.org/content/show.php?content=110864">https://store.kde.org/content/show.php?content=110864</a> has a patch from an openSUSE developer.</div><div><br></div><div>I suggest to report this issue to the bug tracker of your distribution, asking them to apply that patch."</div><div><br></div><div>So again, including the proper patch in there and rebuilding would fix this in my humble not-a-packager opinion.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
Kubuntu Dolphin package's appstream metadata specifies Nautilus's icon instead of its own<br>
- <a href="https://phabricator.kde.org/T7717" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://phabricator.kde.org/<wbr>T7717</a></blockquote><div><br></div><div>This is just embarrassing! Probably an oversight long ago. </div><div><br></div><div>Out of time for right now, but thank you to Nate Graham for taking the time!</div><div><br></div><div>Valorie</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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Ubuntu doesn't package the Discover Snap backend<br>
- <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/plasma-discover/+bug/1742298" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://bugs.launchpad.net/<wbr>ubuntu/+source/plasma-<wbr>discover/+bug/1742298</a><br>
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Feature requests/nice-to-haves<br>
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- Adopt openSUSE patch that adds high-res icons for Firefox and Thunderbird, so the Large Icons task switcher in KDE Plasma doesn't have ugly icons<br>
-- <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/1715213" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://bugs.launchpad.net/<wbr>ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/<wbr>1715213</a><br>
-- <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mozilla-thunderbird/+bug/1715214" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://bugs.launchpad.net/<wbr>ubuntu/+source/mozilla-<wbr>thunderbird/+bug/1715214</a><br>
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In Kubuntu, plasma-discover-flatpak-<wbr>backend should add flathub repo during installation<br>
- <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/plasma-discover/+bug/1737645" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://bugs.launchpad.net/<wbr>ubuntu/+source/plasma-<wbr>discover/+bug/1737645</a><br>
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Use better font anti-aliasing settings by default<br>
- <a href="https://phabricator.kde.org/T7618" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://phabricator.kde.org/<wbr>T7618</a><br>
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Thanks everyone!<br>
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Nate Graham<br>
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