[lubuntu-devel] Cosmic Lu - NEXT 18.10 -- bug reports filed

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On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 08:38:22AM -0700, Fritz Hudnut wrote:
> Hence the name "testing" . . . just taking one on the chin for the team . .

Yeah, but in a sense it's sort of pointless. Lubuntu Next is a
prototype. Not meant for production use. We don't support it in any way
at all. If anyone is using it, I would highly advise against them doing
so, because we can't really offer much in the way of support for its
inevitable quirks, which you are clearly experiencing.

> . .  So, hard to know what's this about, this "flash" on the screen of the
> panel opening and then moving up on the display wasn't happening in the "Lu
> Next 18.04" install . . . but, is now happening in the next version of
> lubuntu.

Well, that's not entirely correct. It's not happening on a fresh install
of the "next" version of Lubuntu, 18.10. It seems to be affecting only
upgraded systems based on the Lubuntu Next prototype.

> Alrighty, how would I find the version of the panel?

Consult your package manager of choice. I like using the command line
and so would generally do:

  apt-cache policy lxqt-panel

Often times apps have a way of showing their version internally but this
is only the version of the upstream release and does not identify the
changes made by Debian and/or Ubuntu.

> I would not have been able to come up with
> "lxqt-panel" for describing the problem 

I have now added an (albeit incomplete) list of packages to the bugs
page, so you won't have this problem anymore. At least as long as
"taskbar" makes sense. Admittedly the language used there is consistent
with standard nomenclature describing components of all desktop
environments in Linux.

> . . . I don't even know if apport
> has been installed in my Lubuntu install . . . .

Check your package manager. 

> rifling around on the bug
> report didn't seem to show any place where it could be removed or deleted?
> I can just post a comment saying "problem is gone" and the bug report will
> drift slowly into the depths of the following bug reports . . . ????

That's right.

> There is/was also the splash window saying "ubuntu 18.10" rather than
> "lubuntu 18.10" problem which I piggy-backed onto the bug report . . . .

And I believe this also falls under the problem of upgrading from the
prototype. No problem exists in a fresh install, nor an upgraded
standard LXDE 18.04 system.

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